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Show Judge Who Took Prominent Prom-inent Part Suppress, ing A. R. U. Strike ' Chicago, SepL 19. United States Circuit Judge Peter S. Grosscup today to-day announced that he would retire from tho bench the first week In October. Oc-tober. Judge Grosscup has served nineteen years as a member of the federal judiciary In the northern district of Illinois He attracted rlublic notice when the United States court of appeals, ap-peals, of which he was a membor, reversed re-versed the action of Judge Landls, who had fined the Standard Oil company com-pany $29,000,000. He will sepd his resignation to President Taft shortly after the meeting meet-ing of the United States court of appeals, ap-peals, October 3 A desire to enjoy more freely his freedom as a citizen and resume practice of law are glvon as his reasons for his decision. Judge- Grosscup, in announcing, his -intenrion-of-rotlrlng,vsaldr . "The reason for the resignation coming at this particular time Is that If I go Into the heavy October season sea-son I will have again become a part of the court in cases taken under advisement ad-visement that might prevent resignation resigna-tion for a year. The advisement calendar cal-endar now is unusually clear of pending pend-ing matters. Then, too, under tho new act of congress, my work after Jan. 1 would be exclusively appellate, appel-late, and that, unlike planting a garden and then watching It grow, t Is too much like merely weeding jho garden. gar-den. ' "The reason for my resignation at all, Is that I wish more freedom, not only as an individual, but as a ct-f ct-f lzen. The world politically is trying to catch up with tho world's radically changed economic conditions. The 'formative' period Is approaching. Next year's presidential election, I believe', will be the last one on tho old lines. Tho settlement for tho future will como, not through tho courts of law, but through the court of public opinion. I wish no office expect never again to hold offico but I wish greater freedom than tho bench gives, to do my part in this court of public oplnion-'v. Judge Grosscup- issued the Injunction Injunc-tion against Eugene V. Debs and other officers of tho American Railway Union Un-ion during tho railway strike of 1894 in Chicago, restraining tho labor men from committing acts of violence and later called on the President to send fedoral troops to Chicago to preserve order. |