Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. U. S. TO PUSH TRIAL AGAIXST < ON’GR ESS.M A X Buchanan and Others Charged With Conspiracy by Inciting Strikes Among Munition Workers—New Evidence Uncovered. New York, May 15.-—Congressman Frank Buchanan and others, charged with conspiring to violate the Sherman anti-trust law by inciting strikes among munition workers in this country, are to be given an early trial in the federal court, it was asserted here today by a responsible government official after a conference in the offices of United States District Attorney 11. Snowden Marshall.

Today's* announcement is the result, it is understood, of daily conferences between Mr. Marshall and Assistant United States Attorney Raymond H. Sarfaty, who presented the evidence to the grand jury and the special government counsel who are to try the case, Judge I. B. Oeland of this city and John Lord O’Brien, former United States district attorney at Buffalo, N. Y. When Congressman Buchanan preferred impeachment charges against Mr. Marshall some time ago, it was announced that the trial would go over to the fall term. The decision today came as a surprise. The government is that there shall be no further delays in the ease, it was stated, and with this end it’ view it is preparing to hand down superseding indictments, providing that the existing ones are quashed on the motion of the two defendants, submitted last week.

The government, it was declared, is eager to bring the case to trial in view of the fact I hat new and allegedly startling evidence has been uncovered.

A rumor that David Lamar, known as'.the "wolf of Wall street," one of the defendants, may become a government witness in return for clemency, was neither affirmed nor denied by federal officials. It was expected, however, that Lamar might make overtures when lie realized that he fan not. evade serving the two-year sentence given him for impersonating a congressman.