A Bill Menacing Press Liberty
A bill which menaces the liberty of the press passed the Senate on the 17th of February, requiring all the corporations to appear in "any district of the United States in which a prosecution may be instituted against them, under the penalty of being proceeded against in default of such appearance, with the same force and effect as if they had appeared." It amends no postal laws, but criminal laws. Under its provisions, if it should become a law, a corporation could be prosecuted in any federal district, no matter how remote from the central place of business; and one after another prosecutions could be legalized from ocean to ocean. These facts we gather from the New York World*. The bill should be killed outright.