Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — MOUSE AND LION. [ARTICLE]

MOUSE AND LION.

K. of L. Will Petition for Bn Injunction ■ Restraining Secretary Carlisle from Issuing Bonds. General Master Workman Sovereign ol the K. of L. was interviewed at Des Moines, lowa, Friday, regarding the proposed injunction proceedings against Secretary Carlisle to restrain him from Is<ufng the proposed scries of bonds. He said: It may be a good deal like a mouse tackling a lion, but wo are going to do it. The petition praying lor an injunction to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury ol the United States from issuing bonds in the sum of $50.0(0 0 X) or any other emonnt will be drawn here by Judge Cole, will be sworn to by Mr. Sovereign and sent to Washington to be filed in the United States Circuit Court for the District ol Columbia, the first of next week. It was thought at first that Mr. Carlisle could be enjoined in the Circuit Court here, but It was found too late that the injunction proceedings must begin against the person defendant at his domicile. Washington being the home of Mr. Carlisle the suit has to be brought there.”