The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-07-19
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GRAND JURY AT CLEVELAND AID.
JoURNs WITHOUT ACTION.
cue TO LACK OF JURISDICTION
Case Will Be Transferred to Chicago,
Where Proceedings Will Be Insti.
tuted Against Standard Combine
Without Delay.
Cleveland, July 1S.-The federal
grand jury which has been in session
Investigating alleged violations of tire
interstate commerce laws and anti.
railroad rebate laws adjourned with.
out bringing in any indictments. The
investigation was directed particularly
toward the Standard Oil company and
tae Lake Shore Railroad company,
and was the result of testimony OF
witnesses before the interstate COM
merce commission here recently, in
which evidence of alleged Relating by
the Lake Shore in favor of the Stand.
ard Oil company was given. The
failure to return indictments, it is of.
ficially stated, was due to the fact
that the investigation developed the
70 at hot no \,
jurisdiction of the alleged offenses
upon which the testimony was given,
and all of the evidence secured here
is to be transferred to the federal off.
Gals at Chicago, where the cases are
to be prosecuted. Following the dis
charge of the grand jury, which made
no report, District Attorney Sullivan
gave out the following statement:
ION Monday Attorney General
Moody and myself met in the United
States attorneys Office in New York
city and reviewed the evidence
brought before the grand jury rela.
tive to alleged violations of the fed.
eral laws by the Standard Oil com.
pany in connection with the trans
portation and storage OF it's products
by the Lake Shore road We came to
the conclusion that the aforesaid testi.
mony fixed the legal jurisdiction for
indictment and prosecution elsewhere
than in the jurisdiction of the North
ern district of Ohio and Special Coun-
sci Oliver E. Pagin confirms our joint
nnininn in thic
fined the inquiry before the present
grand jury to an investigation of al
legged violations of law as they might
be the subject of prosecution in other
jurisdictions. Evidence valuable to
the government in any prosecution
which may be commenced elsewhere
has been adduced before the grand
jury and will probably be at once
put into force and in the proper juris.
diction, probably Chicago, by the at
torney general.
"The attorney general has directed
that the summing up of the evidence
taken before the present grand Jury,
the preparation of the case and the
conduct of the trial in Chicago be as.
sumed by myself, with the help of a
specially appointed assistant attorney
general and the United States attor.
ney in Chicago.
ut appearing from this statement
that from under the facts as they now
appear, there is no lawful jurisdiction
in this particular judicial district, the
grand jury did not vote upon the juris.
dic'ion of indictments at all, but the
sitt-!.g of that body at the present
time was very important in not only
developing where the prosecution OF
the alleged offenses should be had
but also brought out important testi.
mony that IAN be effectively used al,
along the line. according to the pro
gram adopted by the attorney general
in his earnest and vigorous campaign
against cor crate and individual VIC
lators of the 'Elkins law and the act
to regulate commerce among the
states.'"