| Show SOUTHERN PACIFIC COUNSEL CRITICISE t WICKERSHAM'S Am ACT Declare A Attorney Horney General Genera Generall Course in Oil Land Suit x rUn Unparalleled paralleled I Washington Jan 3 Criticism J. of or th the j course of ot Attorney General sham in lit the Southern Pacific oil land litigation is ma made e by br Maxwell and Henry W W. Clark counsel for th thY Southern Pacific Hall road com company pan li Ill Illa a a. brief inlet filed riled to today n in the supreme court court of or the tho he United States in c defense Cense of ot their thel claim to millions of dollars worth of western oil lands hands It Is said nl that title tithe to worth ot oC oil lands hands d depends de upon tho outcome or of the time tic tion Tho Tim case caM now before the supreme court involves questions as to whether Edmund Burke and amid other private lit hit gants ants have o better claims to the land than the railroad company The Tue government go filed tiled a su sul U seeking to annul patents patents' tl tp the land laud 1 It Jt i Issued to tho time Southern Pacific It It is unparalleled In In the whole hl his history tory of Judicial procedure tho railroads railroad's attorneys s for tOI the time ne noy general of or tho the United States to ti ii p permitted to I Intervene lter as a friend 0 Q a. a tho the court In a case between privat at litigants and then so to use the time lege granted him hlin as JS to tp attempt to ha hay box decided Issues not nov nosy before the soui court and which ma may or Ot ma may not hereafter conic como before it It in a government gO s su suI Just b begun gun against as on ono one of or tho parties parti to th the case at bar lar It certainly Is II un unfair un fair and unjust to the railroad to b b compelled in this c court urt of or last resort not only to defend the present cae bu but t also to defend case attain arising upon entirely different facts which h hnot ii not proceeded bc beyond the time filing tiling of of bill of oC complaint Jo Especially Is timi so o when ihen the great sert seriousness and vas all vas vas' Importance of this matter or not only t t. t ti tho the Southern Pacific railroad but butt but t all lan land grant railroads Is considered ered The attorneys s presented to the co court caul r an nn opinion n Attorney General Wickersham Wicker Wicker- Wickersham Wickersham sham is purported to have rendered thi th secretary of oC the time Interior In iii 1911 in iii which he ho expressed pressed the time belief that th the opinion in the case ho lie Is now how opposing opposing t tIng ing before the supreme court 3 sound r The Time railroad attorneys s 's take tako tho the position po that the patents are conclusive evidence that the lands dro not m moral er oral erah l. l whatever time the they ma may have ben dIscovered dIs covered to be since the patents were Issued A clause clauso in tho time patents which a ex excepted mineral minerai lands from froni the grant grantIs Is hold b by the tho railroad attorneys s 's to to have been ab absolutely h void old The Tho cases will come Collie up for tor oral ar argument are k January 6 G or or a a few tew da days s 's later The governments government's brier brief lice has not been 5 filed |
