The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-05
BONAP ARTE PUTS At
REST SOME RUMORS
Will Be No Rupture Between
Department of State and
Attorney Sims.
REBATE CASE THE ISSUE.
FAILURE TO CALL THE CASE
ABOUT THROUGH SOME NEW
REVELATIONS THAT HAVE
COME TO LIGHT.

Lenox, Mass. Sept. 5.-In a state
ment issued last night Attorney Gen.
eral Bonaparte quiets the rumors of \
threatened rupture between the depart
ment of Justice and District Attorney
Sims at Chicago, over his failure to
bring up the Chicago & Alton rebate
case before the federal grand jury yes
terday.
The reports issued during the day.
credited the department with showing
displeasure at an utter lack of obedi-
ence of orders on the part of the dis
trict attorney According TO the plan
mapped out, Mr.. Simms should have
brought up the question of the roads
immunity in the Standard Oil cases Of
Indiana before Judge Lands yesterday.
This he did not do. Mr.. Bonaparte
says the failure came about through
some new revelations the attorney has
received The statement follows:
ION Aug. ii Judge Lands asked. in
substance, that the department of JUS
tice consider portions of the transcript
of testimony in the case of the United
States against the Standard Oil COM
pany of Indiana in order to determine
whether the Chicago & Alton Railroad
company, it's officers and employees
were entitled to the benefits of an
agreement assuring it and them of i'm
munity against criminal prosecution in
connection with the granting of certain
rebates to the Standard Oil company.
Finds Promise Was Made.
1.-The department in compliance
with the desire of Judge Lands, ex-
amined the above mentioned records
and carefully investigated the entire
subject, and as result of such in
vestigation the attorney general on
Aug. 20, wrote Edwin w. Sims, Unit
ted States attorney at Chicago, in
forming him in substance that the
agreement was shown TO have been
made in June or July, 1906, by c. B.
Morrison, Mr.. Sims predecessor in
Office; that Mr.. Morrison's action ap-
pears to have been duly authorized at
the time by the department; that in
the opinion of the department the ar
rangement had greatly facilitated the
indictment and conviction of the
Standard Oil company, and that,
while certain portions of the evidence
might be fairly open to unfavorable
comment, the department regarded
the government as bound in good
faith and also as a matter of public
policy, to give effect to the agreement.
Sims Fails to Comply
"Mr. Sims was instructed to read
this letter when the grand jury recon-
vened on Sept. AMI to take such
further action to the foregoing end as
might seem to the court and to him.
self appropriate in the premises.
THE department learns that Mr..
Sims did not comply with these in
structions by reason of his having
had called to his attention very re-
Gently certain new, and in his judg-
ment, material facts which he thought
should be submitted to the depart
ment for it's further consideration be-
For this purpose he ask
ed and was granted by the court de-
lay of three weeks.
THE department is not as yet ad-
vised as to what are the facts thus as
certained by Mr.. Sims 1t has great
in his sound Judgment
and devotion to duty and it awaits his
report before taking further action in
he premises. Inasmuch, however, as
he circumstances of the case may be |
liable to misconstruction, it is deemed |
proper to submit now the present |
statement to the public"