The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-30
Government Profits by Past
Errors and Will Push Prose-
cution of Gigantic Trust All
Along Line.
ACTION WILL BE
TAKEN Immediately.
No Time Will Be Lost in Bring
ing Standard Company to
Time - Attorney = General
Makes Statement.

IenOX, Mass, July 3U.-AQiHlttlnS
that glaring mistakes had been made
in the former trial, but determined to
rectify them in actions to be brought
Immediately, the Chicago members or
the conference called by Attorney
General Bonaparte have left here for
home with instructions to begin a
fight all along the line against the
Standard Oil Trust.
ut will now be fight to the fin
ish," said United States Attorney Ed
ward NJ. Sims, of Chicago. I'VE made
mistakes, glaring ones, in the other
trial But now we are at work in
earnest. Nothing will go wrong
this time. You may be sure of that.
L cannot tell what our first action will
be. 1t is for Mr.. Bonaparte to make
that public"
government prosecuting officers and
Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, the
trust buster" who is one of the spec
ial counsel for the government, 1t was
announced by Acknowledgement Bona
parte that every effort would be made
to secure revision of the recent de-
cision and opinion of the United
States circuit court of appeals in the
case of the Standard Oil company of
Indiana and that an application for a
reargument of the case and motion
for modification of the opinion
would be submitted to that court.
"At Earliest Possible Moment"
Although no time is fixed, this &C
ton by the government will be TAX
en- at the earliest possible moment,
while the pending prosecution against
the Standard Oil company and all 9th
er prosecutions in which the giving or
receiving of rebates is charged will be
pressed to trial The decision to take
this action was unanimous on the part
of the five men who participated in
the conference.
The conference held yesterday end
ed with the giving out of statement
by Attorney-Gene Bonaparte as fol-
lows:
THE government will make every
effort in it's power to secure revision
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.
"ImperativeIy Demanded"
The gentlemen who have been in
consultation with me all unite in my
opinion that, in the interest of the
i,l opd offoofiua od nj tro ion
of our laws, such action on the part
of the government is imperatively de-
manded by the circumstances of the
case and the possible consequences If
this opinion should stand as an author
ity without question by the govern
ment.
ITO this end an application for re-
argument of the case and motion for
modification of the opinion will be
submitted to the circuit court of ap-
peals on behalf of the United States
at the earliest possible moment. 9th
er appropriate steps will be taken
afterward, their character to be deter
mined by the courts action upon this
application.
The pending prosecutions against
the Standard Oil company and all 9th.
er 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
governme with all possible energy
and as promptly as may be practi.
cable.
''In the view of the governments
legal advisers the reversals of the
| judgment in the case recently decid
| ed in no wise affects the merits OF
that controversy of the necessity and
duty of bringing to punishment if pos.
sible in this or any other cases any
individual or corporation shown to
have evaded or defied the laws"