Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — MOVE FOR DELAY LOST BY PACKERS [ARTICLE]

MOVE FOR DELAY LOST BY PACKERS

Chief Justice Refers Attorneys to Full Bench. REFUSES TO HALT THE TRIAL Suggests Appeal to Entire Court When It Meets Dec. 4.—Effort to Be Made to Secure Postponement in Chicago. Washington, Nov. 24. A stay he the trial of the Chicago beef packers was refused by Chief Justice White. He referred the attorneys making the application to the entire bench, with the statement that the matter was of too much importance for.him to pass on individually. Attorney John S. Miller announced that such an application to the entirecourt would be made at the first sitting, Dec. 4. Attorneys for the packers indicated that efforts will be made to have Judge Carpenter of the United States district court at Chicago, before whom the indicted packers have been summoned for trial on Monday, grant a further postponement until the supreme court passes on the matter. The application for the stay in the trial was presented to Chief JusticeWhite at his residence by Attorneys Miller and Levy Mayer. The ground for the application was gone over with some detail before the chief justiceannounced his decision to refer the--matter to the full court. The applieation before the court on Dec. 4 will be for a "supersedeas,” the technical term for a stay of proceedings in the lower court.