Willmar tribune., 1908-08-05

THAT 70 GOVERNMENT PLAN IN
SUIT AGAINST THE ROOKIE.
TELLER FIRM.
ARGUMENTS MAY BE
SLATED FOR AUGUST
Should Chicago Court Refuse to Re.
open Case, Attorney General Bona.
parte Will Enroll Aid Of Nations
Supreme Tribunal.

Lenox, Mass, July 31.-The conf
dence of government lawyers who have
been prominent in the trial of corpora
ton suits, and especially that against
the Standard Oil Company, broke up
Thursday with the departure of Frank
B. Kellogg for New York and the re-
turn of Attorney General Charles ].
Bonaparte to his cottage among the
hills here. The work of again setting
In motion the legal machinery of the
government in its criminal cases
against the Standard Oil Company will
be at once taken up. District Attorney
Sims Of Chicago, with his assistants
and all five of the lawyers who par.
ticfpated in the conference here, ex.
pressed the utmost confidence of ulti.
mate success.
Arguments Probably in August.
It is expected that motion for q
rehearing will be filed with the circuit
court of appeals in Chicago within the
next few days and that arguments will
be made some time in August. At
that time an effort will be made to
persuade the court of appeals to ad-
judicate and correct what the govern.
ment lawyers claim are grave errors
OF jurisprudence. Should the court of
appeals deny the motion, the assis.
tance of the United States supreme
court will then be sought through
write of certiorari in the hope that the
court will order a change in the
records and an ultimate retrial of the
case against the Standard Oil Com.
pany in the United States circuit
court for the Seventh district.
This is the government line of cam
paign, but the laws necessary delays
are expected to drag the case out for
six or eight months and that it will be
we'll into next year before final action
is reached.
6onaparte Makes a Statement.
The following statement was made
by the attorney general:
'The government will make every
effort in it's power to secure revision
Of the recent decision and opinion of
the circuit court of appeals for the
Seventh circuit in the case of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
either by the court of appeals itself, or
If necessary by the supreme court of
the United States. 0rhe gentlemen
who have been in consultation with
me all unite in my opinion that in the
interest of the impartial and effective
administration of our laws, such ac-
tion on the part of the government is
tmperatively demanded by the cir.
cumstances of the case and the pos
sible consequences if this opinion
should stand as authority without
question by the government. To this
end an application for a reargument
of the case and motion for modifi-
cation of the opinion will be submit
ted to the circuit court of appeals on
behalf of the United States at the
earliest possible moment. Other ap-
propriate steps will be taken after
ward, their character to be determined
by the courts action upon this appli.
cation.
Impetus Given to Move.
"The pending prosecutions in which
the giving or receiving of rebates or
offenses of like character are charged
will be pressed to trial and judgment
by the government with all possible
energy and as promptly as may be
practicable. In the view of the gov
ernment's legal advisors, the reversal
Of the judgment in the case recently
decided in no way affects the merits
of that controversy or the necessity
and duty of bringing to punishment,
If possible, in this and any other
cases, any individual or corporation
shown to have evaded or defied the
laws"