The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-04-07
NOTION FoN NEW TRIAL IS DENIED
JUDGE ADAMS DECLARES JURYs=
VERDICT WARRANTED BY
THE EVIDENCE.

st, Louis, April 7-United States
Senator j H. Burton OF Kansas has
been sentenced 10 six months impris-
onment In the Iron county Jail and
fined $3.50 for having been convicted
OF using his influence before the post.
Office department In behalf of the
Rialto Grain and Securities company
Of St Louis and having received pay
ment from the company for his serv-
ices.
The case will now be appealed to
peals, the highest tribunal in the mat
ter.
Senator Burton, accompanied by
HIS leading attorney. Judge Chester Il.
krun, came into the United States dis
trict court at II 80 o'clock. A case
was being tried and Judge Adams
granted Il recess in that case to take
|up the Burton case. Judge Adams
summoned linrton to stand UP and then
spoke OF the motions that had been
fled for Il new trial and for arrest OF
Judgment.
The court. after briefly reviewing
the motions, ovetruled them both. The
court then said TO the defendant:
After Il fair and impartial trial, by
a Jury Of exceptional intelligence. you.
have been found guilty OF the offenses
charged in tho Indictment against you.
IA motion for new trial In your
behalf has afforded me an opportunity
to carefully resicW and consider the
evidence Az a result of this IL am
satisfied that The jury reached the Just
and trlic result The evidence abund-
anty warranted their verdict and
find no reason. either in the law gov
erning tlle7ease or in the proceedings
attending the trial. for disturbing Y.
'sYour conviction necessarily results
In your punishment Its Importance
In my opinion, is not confined to It's
effect upon you,
Law Equal to Any Emergency.
"YourS exalted station In life and the
character 5of. your offense give unusual
Significance to your conviction. u
demonstrates that the law OF the land
is equal to any emergency and that
It can be administered regardless Of
the personality and station Of the ac-
cused Ii also demonstrates to all the
people that publis Office cannot be
prostituted to self sersing purposes
and that public office Is not q sure or
safe passport 10 private thrift
"The humiliation attending your
conviction and the statutory disqualt-
fcations resulting therafrom. which,
forever incapacitates you from holding
any Office OF honor. trust or profit un-
der the government of the United
States are In themselves heavy pun
ishncnt for your offenses and leave
but little in the way of severity which
could he added.
at Is neither my pleasure nor my
purpose to impose any unnecessary
punishment
II think the majesty OF the law will
be sufficiently yindicated1 and the pub
He welfare sufficiently safeguarded by
Imposing single sentence, warranted
as II is on any one OF the six counts
OF the Indictment under which you
were convicted
"This sentence VIII be that you be
confined In the Iron county Jail for a
period Of six months aud that you pay
a fine OF $500"
At the conclusion OF the sentence
Senator Burton, who had not taken his
eyes rem the 4court- and who had
| scarcely moved as he supported him-
self by the chair back. turned and sat
tdown, and@with his head bowed and
| his eyes on the floor.
Attorney krum Immediately filed q
blu OF. exceptions In the ease and Of
| fercd Il bond OF $4,000. which was ac-
| captcd Senator Burton and Judge
l7krunI then h,lrried!y departed from
| the courtroom.
In the corridor Senator Burton stop
ped long enough to light cigar and
| then walked to his hotel. He declined
| to discuss the sentence!