Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-22 | Page 6 | He Will Follow the Law

HE WILL FOLLOW THE LAW boston dec 19 1 I intend to sg nore all customs established by my predecessors the statute fails to give me authority to direct pay moots by the county treasurer custom cannot give me such authority this office IB to be conducted during my administration in accordance with tho laar this declaration by the newly elect ed district attorney john B moran last naghi accompanied an announce meat by him of several radical changes ir conduct of the dis brict attorney office mr moran claiming that his in office have been guilty of authorizing authorising autho rising payments over abich they have no control in his the district attorney declares that he will not because he has not the authority to authorize the bills presented by interpreters terp reters and witnesses in payment for heir appearance before the grand and petit juries he also re chaes to the payment of witnesses traveling expenses beyond the limits of th staff declines lo 10 authorize police officials to draw money from the county treasurer to pay the expenses incident to trl ning to this any offender captured outside the boundaries of the in this lust mr moran is supported by the Attori iny herbert air moran Is that under the statute interpreters and medical witnesses jn the courts are entitled to only ordinary witness fees the medical examiners ju suffolk county receive a year for their services and this mr moran claims is sufficient compensation for the work they do ohp bavi bead accustomed to receive ss for each time they testify before the grand jury and 25 for each a paiit jury