In Re Debs
Supreme Court of the United States
On July 2,1894, tbe United States, by Thomas E. Milchrist, district attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, under the direction of Diehard Olney, Attorney General, filed their bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois against these petitioners and others.
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On July 2,1894, tbe United States, by Thomas E. Milchrist, district attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, under the direction of Diehard Olney, Attorney General, filed their bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois against these petitioners and others. This bill set forth, among other things, the following facts: It named twenty-two railroad companies, and it alleged that they were engaged in the business of interstate commerce and subject to the provisions of the act of Congress of February 4,188'T, known as “the Interstate…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The case presented by the bill is this: The United' States,' finding that the interstate transportation of persons and property, as well as the carriage of the mails, is forcibly obstructed, and that a combination and conspiracy exists to subject the control of such transportation to the will of the conspirators, applied to one of their courts,-sitting as a court of equity, for an injunction to restrain such obstruction and prevent carrying into effect such conspiracy. Two questions of importance are presented: First. Are the relations of the general government to interstate commerce and the…
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