The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-07-31
WILL GO AFTER STANDARD
WILL TRY TO SECURE REVISION
OF RECENT DECISION.
NO TIME is SET FOR ACTION

Application for Rearoument OF tho
Case and Motion for Modihe at on
of Opinion viii De Submitted to tho
Court Of Appeals.
LenoX, Mass, July 30.-After an all.
day conference of the leading govern.
ment prosecuting officers and Frank
b. Kellogg OF Minnesota, one OF tho
special counsel for the government in
certain civil suits, II was announced
by Attorney General Bonaparte that
every effort would be made to secure
a revision of the recent decision and
opinion of the United States court Of
appeals in the case of the Standard
on company of Indiana and that an
application for reargument of the
case and Il motion for Il modification
of the opinion would be submitted to
the court Although no time is fixed,
this action will be taken at the earli-
est possible moment, while the pend.
Ing prosecution against the Standard
Oil and all other prosecutions in
which the giving or receiving of re.
bates 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 confer.
ence.
Attorney General Bonaparte called
to the conference Solicitor General II.
Nj. lloyt OF Washington, Edwin NJ.
Sims OF Chicago, United States dis
trict attorney for the northern district
of Illinois; James ii. Wilkerson of
Chicago, Mr.. Sims first assistant, and
Frank b. Kellogg of Minnesota.
After two conferences the following
statement was made by the attorney
general:
THE government will make every
effort in its power to secure a revi-
sion of the recent decision and opin-
ion 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 by the supreme court of the United
States. The gentlemen who have been
in consultation with me all unite in
the opinion that in the interest of the
impartial and effective administration
of our laws such action by the govern.
ment is demanded by the circum.
stances of the case and the possible
consequences If this opinion should
stand as authority by the govern
ment. To this end an application
for reargument and modification OF
the opinion will be submitted to the
circuit court of appeals at the earliest
possible moment. Other appropriate
steps will be taken afterward, their
character to be determined by the
courts action upon this application.
The pending prosecutions in which
the giving or receiving of rebates or
offenses of like character will be
pressed to trial and judgment by the
government with all accessible energy
and as prominently as may be prac-
ticable. In the view of the govern
ment's legal advisers, the reversal of
the judgment in the case recently de-
cided in no way affects the merits of
that controversy or the necessity and
duty Of bringing to punishment if pos
sible in this and any other cases any
individual or corporation shown to
have evaded or defied the laws"
In discussing the case Attorney
General Bonaparte took occasion to
refer to the report published in GER
tain newspapers that w. Parmalee
Prentice the son-in-law of John D.
had given or was to give
a dinner to the attorney general, Mr..
and Judge Grosscup, Mr..
said; 81 have not the pleas.
ure of Mr.. Prentice's acquaintance. I
did not know that Judge GrOsscup
was here until he had left, and the
dinner Is entirely a Pigment OF live
ly imagination. During a political
one must expect stories OF
this character and 1t would be unnec-
essary and perhaps indecorous to
characterize them. Barring
its other merits, the tale Is wholly
free from any faint of truth"