Show ON THE BENCH I Bip B to II t tin til tb ti M Caw I CLAIM OF THE GOVERNMENT GOVER t TULA 07 t THE JUnA n TO ACTION 4 T LOUIS March IS IFor For the th t ST 3 time Ume in the history hl tory of th the United States State and by bJ the authority of a special act of congress co a aP pawed last February P ry lout four Baited States Stat circuit Judges are Fitting together to hear arguments argument in a easel catbe the th cause being the light of the tho t government against 1 to Northern N Securities company C c of ot New Jersey in the celebrated celeb ted merger mener suf aut Sn Under this special act at t the Tipiti ert l i i stes tea tes circuit court for the tile district of 01 Minnesota is holding its lu session een in Louis in the appellate a court room and antS by this arrangement the case can cango cango I go 0 immediately from tram this th court to the supreme court of the United States whereas in the general leral court procedure it would necessarily go co through the circuit court ourt of ot appeals appeal and a delay of or from two to to three years would probably ensue The T hearing of the caMe in St Louis louill i is mostly for the per personal personal 01 convenience of the parties con contern tern ed Four Pour Judges Sitting The four tour judges before whom the merger r Cane tse Is being beine argued ar are Unit United United ed States Statts Circuit Judges Caidwell San Sanborn Sanborn Sanborn born and Van Vau Devanter Judge aldwell presiding The Th attorneys for the government are Assistant Attorneys General James Jarnell M hf Beck and William H Day and Special Special cial Counsel Coun el D T Watson of Pitts Pitta Pittsburg burg burl United States Attorney D P Pt t Dyer of ot St Louis Louil assisting The attorneys attorney for tor the tile Northern Se Sc Securities entitles company ate are former fortner Attorney eral John W Grins Griggs former Judge e ae B Young of ot St Paul Pant U D Ovder general neal attorney for tor the tile Great Northern railroad and E W Bu Bun Buan n general 1 attorney for tor th the Northern Pa ia Pacific Argument rw Most Kot of the days was taken up with the presentation of arguments for the government by Assistant At Attorney Attorney torney tome General Beck After be he had con i eluded late 1 te in tie the afternoon up argument j meat ment for the Northern Securities com company pan pany was wu begun un by Mr Young Toung As Al Assistant Attorney General Beck be began D speaking n soon after afur court convened at atI W Jt I and with the exception of I to tiro hours of recess he spoke poke continuously until 36 p m in The be court room was wu Wa crowded to hear Ms his argument At Attorney Attorney torney torae Beck referred to the Wabash Injunction case which to t I being beiDa tried In the United States district court at atthe attile atthe the tile other end of the saying that the laws la were such u h that em empl m pl of a railroad who did not own one aim cent c t of ot stock toek or 01 one ODe rail of the road nd could be enjoined e from striking and ad thereby interfering with the inter interstate state commerce act by stopping traffic tn but ht that unless this tb court so rules the tile government would be powerless power to pre pro prevent Prevent vent the owners ownen of the roads road them themselves themselves selves from merging preventing pr com corn competition competition petition and thereby interfering with the tM points the Interstate commerce act t to protect of tat th tM s r Beck had Mr XI pp argument al in 11 rebuttal for rn Securities company He Heup HeP Heed ed up P Briefly sketching the build Big g at of the tile ret Great Northern No lIera railroad and anel andAs As lb extension to the Facile coast cout He explained that at the beginning It was almost impossible for the road reid cl to se secure secure cure sufficient trad trado going oln east and aDel that a long Ion time tI was wu spent pent in Lu build building ing iDe up UD the lumber trade for t r traffic east from the coast couto He then thea followed with witha a I summary of the Ute building up and d branching out of the transPacific taM and the enlargement of the rail railroad railroad road interests After Mr Mi Young Toung had bad spoken pokeD for more than half balf an n hour the court coutt at 10 p m in adjourned until morning at t 10 at which time Mr 1 Young Toung YO will continue his argument ar nt |