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Ll HUNG’S CONDITION.
China’s Peace Commissioner Is Im-
proving Very Rapidly.
WON’T EXTRACT THE BULLET
The Physicians Decide That It IVill Be
Better to Leave the Missile Where
It Is—A Batch of Interesting
Japanese Information.
- ,SIIIMONOSEKI, March 27.—Li Hung
Chang passed a good night. The surgeons
attending him have decided not to extract
the bullet. -
The assault upon the envoy is likely to
delay the business of the peace commission
only a few days. Profound indignation
prevails throughout Japan at the outrage
upon Li Hung Chang, and the press are
unanimous in their expression of the deep-
est regrets.
The Wound Not New Serious.
LONDON, March 27.—Tho Tokyo corre-
spondent of the Central News telegraphs
that Li Hung Chang’s condition is pro-
gressing favorably. The bullet penetrated
the bone one-third of an inch, but the
wound. the surgeons now say, is not seri-
ous. . '
The parleying in regard' to an armistice
continues. Japan demands Shanhaikwan
and other unoccupied points, and these de-
mands have been conceded.
The Japanese forces succeeded in taking
the Pescadore islands on March 24. The
troops were landed, and they attacked the
forts in the rear, where they were. unde;
fended, and carried them by assault.
A dispatch from Tien-tsin to the Pall
Mall Gazette reports that China has noti-
fied the foreign consuls of her intention to
blockade the Pei-Ho river when the J apa-
nese warships shall appear at its mouth.
The Official Report.
WASHINGTON, March 27.~—Ofiicial de-
tails of the shooting of Li Hung Chang at
Shimonoseki were received at a late hour
at the Japanese legation last night. The
dispatch was written by Mr. Mutsu, the
Japanese minister of foreign affairs. It is
dated on Sunday last and reads as follows:
“Today, about 4 p. m., after the meet-
ing of the plenipotentiaries of Japan and
China had been closed, Li Hung Chang
proceeded to the residence provided for
him by the Japanese government. On the
way a fanatic named Koyama, aged about
21. fired a shot at him from a pistol, strik-
ing him near the cheek bone.
“The bullet has not yet been extracted.
Li Hung Chang was immediately taken
into his residence and placed under treat-
ment by the surgeons of his suit.
“The would be assassin was arrested on
the spot. On learning of the untoward
event Count Ito and myself immediately
called at the viceroy’s residence to inquire
as to his condition. At the same time a
Japanese surgeon was also sent to his resi-
deuce.
” Dr. Sate, the emperor's physician, will
come on from Hiroshima to attend to him.
The opinion of the surgeons at present is
that no danger to the viceroy’s life may be
apprehended. ’ ’
The dispatch closes with arequest to the
Japanese minister here to inform the
American government how deeply the cm-
peror deplores this unhappy event.
An Autitights Bill.
ALBANY, March 27.-—Senator Mullin in-
troduced in the senate today a bill prohibit-
ing any woman from appearing in tights
or in any indecent costume at any place
where male persons are assembled. An
ofl’ense is deemed a misdemeanor and is
punished by imprisonment of not less than
30 days or more than one year for each
oflense.
w. Promiiient People Coming Over. .
LIVERPOOL, March 27.——Among the
passengers sailing for New York tomorrow
on board the Teutonic are Count Zborow-
ski, Harry de Windt and Mr. and Mrs. W.
Butler Duncan.
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OLNEY page DEBS.
The Attorney General’s Argument
Against the Labor Leader.
GOVERNMENT SUSTAINED.
What Was Done at the Time of the Great
Railroad Strike Mr. Olney Declares
Was Fully Warranted by the
Great Urgency of the Case.
WASHINGTON, March 27.—The hearing
on the application of Eugene V. Debs and
others for a writ of habeas corpus for their
release from imprisonment was resumed
promptly on the opening of the supreme
court of the United States at noon today.
Attorney General Olney made the first ar-
gument, speaking in behalf of the govern-
ment in opposition to the application.
Mr. Olney’s Speech.
Mr. Olney said the single question be-
fore the supreme court was whether the
court below hofld jurisdiction of the case
made by the original bill and proceeded to
show that as be viewed the matter it had.
He devoted but very little time to the dis-
cussion of the government’s technical re-
lation to the mails and the mailbags or
to the provisions of the act of 1890, which
he characterized as “an experimental piece
of legislation, ” and passed immediately to
the consideration of the strike as a viola-
tion of interstate commerce regulations.
The interstate commerce, which is subject
to the regulation of congress, compre-
hends, he said, a great variety of difierent
subjects matter. It is held as respects
some of them that in the absence of posi-
tive action by congress there may be ac-
tion by a state. But it has always and
universally been conceded that the mo-
ment congress does act upon any matter
which is part of interstate commerce from
that moment the jurisdiction of the United
States becomes absolute and excludes all
other authority. Intercourse and trans-
ATTORNEY GENERAL, OL‘NEY.
portation between the states and all the
instrumentalities of either are admittedly
parts of interstate commerce. Transpor—
tation of passengers and freight by rail—
road is of course included. Not only is
that so. but it is also true that interstate
railroad transportation has been taken in
especial charge by congress. Having pow—
er to control it. congress has not permit-
ted the power to lie dormant, but has
freely and decisively exercised it.
He then enumerated many of the fed-
eral statutes bearing on the question of
interstate traffic, including those applying
to the mail service, those relating to the
carrying of live stock and those requiring
the use of certain kinds of brakes, etc.
“ But in this connection and for the
present purpose, ” he continued, “it is‘
more important to note the provisions of
several general statutes which cover the
whole field of interstate railroad transpor-
tation and show most conclusively the
purpose of congress to exclude every other
source and form of relation except its own.
Section 5258 of the Revised Statutes de-
clares as follows: ‘Every railroad company
in the United States whose road is operat-
ed by steam, its successors and assigns, ‘is
hereby authorized to carry upon and over
its road, boats. bridges and ferries any
property on the way from any state to an-
other statc and to receive compensation
therefor and to connect with roads of oth-
er states so as to form continuous lines for
the transportation of the same to the place
of destination.’
The Interstate Commerce Act.
”Having by this legislation made steam
railroads interstate commerce carriers for
both governmental and private purposes.
congress, by the act of 1887 known as the
interstate commerce act, inaugurated
measures more radical and comprehensive
than anything ever before attempted by
virtue of the power to regulate commerce.
By that act the principles in accordance
with which interstate railroad transporta—
tion shall be conducted are laid down and
defined, their violation is inhibited under
severe penalties, and, to crown the whole,
all the interstate commerce railroads of
the country are practically put in charge
of a commission which is to see to it that
their duties as interstate carriers, as pre—
scribed by congress, are faithfully dis—
charged. Finally, recognizing the exist—
ence of an evil of great magnitude, con—
gress, by an act of Oct. 1, 1888, made pro-
vision for the creation of boards of arbi-
tration to settle controversies bet'Ween rail-
road companies and their employees when
such controversies are having the effect of
hindering and interrupting the interstate
transportation of property and passen-
gors.”
Mr. Olney contended that the result was
the same as if there were an express pro-
hibitory statute on the subject and argued
that the prohibition against interference
with interstate railroad transportation
was a prohibition addressed to all persons
in their private capacity.
The attorney general then referred brief-
ly to the gOneral effect of the strike and
contended that as the strike was aimed at
interstate commerce transportation it was
the duty of the government to suppress
the unlawful demonstration and punish
the offenders. He admitted that it was
with certain phases of the ofi‘enses com‘
mitted and said:
“If they had done so promptly and vig-
orously, the interruption of interstate rail-
road transportation might possibly have
ceased, but instead of their doing this they
allowed day after day to pass marked ei-
ther by total inactivity or by effort so ill
directed and inadequate as to aggravate
all the evils of the situation.” .
The Government's Interference.
Hence it became necessary for the gov-
ernment to step in not only in defense of.
individuals, but in obedience to its obliga-
tions to protect interstate commerce, and
because it is the duty of every government
to exercise its functions whenever occasion
requires.
Mr. Olney then passed on to the consid—
eration of the means at the command of
the government for the suppression of the
strike, the principal of which was the
courts, which must be depended upon so
far as practicable to deal with it. Certain-
ly the government could arrest and prose-
cute men for interfering with the mails,
but in dealing with mobs of thousands
that process was inadequate.
“Had the United States any other rem-
edy?” “It had.” he said. “I submit with
great confidence the exact remedy which it
did apply for, and which the courts did,
in fact. furnish. It had the right to go
into its courts of equity, to set out the
facts by proper bill and to ask that upon
these facts the defendants and their con—
federates should be restrained from a
wrongful interruption of interstate rail-
road transportation, which was working
private and public injury of the most wide-
spread and most irreparable character. It
had the right to bring such a bill and to
ask and to get such relief on the most in-
contestable grounds. The sovereign can
always resort to its own courts under cir-
cumstances which authorize private in-
dividuals to resort to them and for the
same purposes. Having no direct property
interest involved, the United States, it is
claimed. could not be plaintiif in such a
bill without express enabling legislation
on the part of congress. But this proposi-
tion is, I submit, neither sound in princi—
ple nor supported by precedent. A trus-
tee’s right and duty to protect by suit the
subject matter of the trust are in ‘nowise
afl'ectcd because he is wit-bout private in-
terest in that subject matter. Yet, as re-
gards interstate railroad transportation,
what is the United States but a. trustee for
all parties and interests concerned—a trus—
tcc bound by its relations to the states as
well as individuals to sun at laW or in
equity whenever such suit will aid in the
discharge of the trust?”
Congress having provided the means, it
remained for the executive to put the law
into execution, and that division of the
government was bound under these laws
to deal with the situation in Chicago in
1894.
The Application Not New.
Mr. Olney then proceeded by quoting
preCedents to show that the application of
these laws to similar cases was not new,
to consider the assertion that the Chicago
afi'air was exceptional, and to controvert
the allegation of errors in the court below,
and in closing said:
_ “ What was done by the government and
its courts at Chicago in the summer of
1894 was done on a conspicuous theater
and dealt with events striking in them-
selves and in the scale 013 which they were
conducted. and which strongly appealed to
the imagination as well as the passions of
men. Its action was denounced from the
outset as novel'and unprecedented, so that
it even became expedient to publicly pro-
claim thc trite and familiar principle that
for the execution of national functions
every foot of every state is national soil
and national property. Since then the
same policy has been persistently pursued,
and the government bill in equity, the in-
junction and the proceedings for contempt
have all been loudly condemned as anom-
alous, extraordinary and revolutionary.
To such charges there could be no more
decisive answer than is furnished by this
debate and by the contentions of the re—
spective parties. Who is compelled to
claim here that the sovereign is not compe—
tent to protect public rights by enjoining
their violation through its own courts of
equity; that acts which threaten property
cannot be arrested by injunction because
they are also crimes; that the court is
helpless as against a contempt because it
is also a crime, and that the jurisdiction
in equity and the power (if every court to
try to punish contempts of its authority
is not as surely provided for by the consti-
tution as the right of trial by jury itself?
It is not the government who is driven to
make these or any other like novel conten-
tions. On the other hand, having to deal
with an extraordinary and unique situa-
tion, it had the good fortune to find that
nothing was needed but the firm and fear:
less application of old and well established
principles, and it applied them and applied
them with a success which is the root of
all the bitterness with which its action has
since been assailed. ”
Brutal Burglars In Hopewell, N. J.
BRIDGETON, N. .1, March 27.-—-’l‘wo
masked burglars entered the residence of
the Misses Eliza and Martha Brown, in
lower Hopewell, and demanded their mon-
ey. The women protested that they had
none. One of the burglars then beat Eliza
inscnsible and covered both with his re-
volver while his pal ransacked the house.
They then left. The injuries, together
with the nervous shook received by Eliza
Brown, are expected to prove fatal.
Heavy Blew For Pennsy’s Team.
PHILADELPHIA, March 27.-—Charles Gel-
‘bert, Pennsylvania’s noted left end on last
fall’s football team, who was a likely can-
didate for the pitcher’s box this spring,
has been refused permission to play base-
ball by the faculty on account of the rule
allowing a man to play upon but one var-
sity team the same year.
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Mr. Geo. A. Mills, of Lebanon, Conn,
says: “I was afilicted with rheumatism in
my back all last winter. It was so severe
at times that I could not stand up straigh
but was drawn over on one side. I trie
different remedies without receiving any
relief until I bought a. bottle of Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm. After using it for three days,
accOrding to directions, my rheumatism was
gone and has not returned since. I have
since recommended it to others and know
they, have been benefited by its use. For
the duty .Of. the state authorities to deal 4
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