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Show j ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S REPORT. 1 1 Fines, Court Expense and Jails 1 Convicts Should Work for j Uncle Sam. WASHiNQTON,'Deoember 9. The Attorney-General Attorney-General in his report says the aggregate amount of fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed during the year in criminal prose cutions, was $431,856, and the amount of these fines, forfeitures and penalties collected col-lected during the year was $62,124,v while $6,187 was realized on fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed in former years. The aggregate amount of OOUBT EXPENSES PAID DURING THE TEAB, . Was $2,874,733. The Attorney-General suggests sug-gests the advisability of building jails at each place in the country where the United States courts are held. The necessity of building a Government penitentiary where all persons convicted of United States offence.s . could be . confined, is strongly urged. Such convicts, he says, could be employed ' in the manufacture or supplies exclusively for the Government, which work would assist in making the institution in-stitution self-supporting. He also suggests the propriety of erecting on the grounds ad- J joining the Department of Justice a proper 1 building for the accommodation of the Supreme Su-preme Court and other proper courts and commissions of the United States. The Attorney-General makes a number of other recommendations, among which are the following: fol-lowing: That . THE FEES OF MABBTTtTJl In Montana, Idaho and Wyoming be doubled; that the salaries of marshals be revised; that the compensation of United States attorneys for New Mexico and Arizona Ari-zona be increased and that the compensation of the clerks of the United States Courts in California be reduced; that attorneys and marshals be required to make returns by fiscal instead of calendar years; that the accounts of the Chief Supervisor of Elections Elec-tions be taxed in ooen court under the in spection of the District .Attorney; that the penalty for the ; . ,;. PUNISHMENT OF PEUSONS RESISTING OFFICBB8 Be made mora severe; that increased provisions pro-visions be made for the protection of. United States witnesses, and that a suitable United States jail be built at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The report oloses with a brief statement of the Union Pacific Railway litigation, and says that a motion will be filed by the Government Gov-ernment in the Supreme Court in a few days to advance the appeals on the docket, in order or-der to have a speedy determination of them. The Attorney-General adds that the motion will doubtless be granted and the matter disposed of at an early day. |
