Show TELEGRAPHIC a e a A F Y Fi j > Ii t relit St sr Konters r 1 r Washington 27 The star route trisls began this morning Before entering enter-ing pleas defendants counsel proceeded to offer a number ot motions most of them motions to quash based an alleged errors in he apparent on the f co Ingersoll took up the motions in BuccessiDn making a long and exhaustive armament on each of them errick replied re-plied to the argument of Ingersoll quoting quot-ing extensively from authorities The court suggested that as Ingersoll had charged there was no one evert act sufficiently suf-ficiently set out in the indictment it would tend mora to overthrow the argument argu-ment il the prosecution would point out any such overt act Merrick raplied that the acts set out were exactly the same as had been judged sufficient by the court informer in-former cases He would reply to the argument ar-gument however by citing full authorities author-ities at present and when he had an opportunity to more fully examine Inger solls points be would if ha thouliCbt best make a further reply hereafter Judge Wylie gave his views upon the meaning of a conspiracy and that he was of the opinion now as before that a conspiracy was sufficiently eel out Taking up the question of the presentation of overt acts he said it was only recessry to set out one overt act and he thought in a general way clearly in error in claiming the act should be ret out mnutely in the charging charg-ing part of the indictment It was only Ii necessary to set il out as one of the overt acts incident to the conspiracy not as forming parts of the objects of the conspiracy con-spiracy |