Show LATEST TELEGRAMS Star Route Cases Washington 13 Special Attorney At-torney Gibson assisted Col Bliss today to-day in the prosecution of the star route cases Mrs Cabell wife of the principal defendant was in court because as Col Bliss explained ex-plained she was one of the subscribing sub-scribing witnesses to some of the worthless bonds Iu answer to Col Bliss Judge Snell said that Jackson one of the defendants J had not yet been arrested Wilson opened the days proceedings with a protest against the reception of the evidence presented so far by government He was followed by Col Patten who elaborated the point made yesterday by Wilson that no large contractor could find separate sureties on each and every bond required him and that such is not the meaning of the law He argued that government had so far failed entirely to establish estab-lish the existence of a conspiracy and therefore the evidence was not pertinent and should be thrown out He quoted act 74 which authorizes the postmastergeneral to call for new sureties or bond if he believed those given to be insufficient insuffi-cient and asked why this course had not been pursued by government govern-ment A B Williams made the point that the endorsement of sureties sure-ties by the postmasters was final He I could not go back on this endorsement and the law provided for the punishment of the postmaster post-master who should knowingly endorse insufficient surety therefore there-fore he claimed the court had no discretion this case but must discharge dis-charge the defendants Cook of the prosecution quoted the laws bearing upon conspiracies and said these cases fell within their meaning mean-ing The court thought the bids and bonds submitted were admissable because they bore in a manner upon the case and they were placed in evidence The examination of witnesses was resumed and Gor haaa Webster notaries public of Washington identified the bids and contracts shown by the prosecution About a dozen of papers numbering in all 2000 were thus disposed of the crossexamination witnesses being deferred until the informal offer of papers in evidence Williams Wil-liams inquired whether the bail ofT of-T W Jackson 3000 and of K Armstrong 5000 could not be reduced re-duced to a reasonable figure as was done in Cabells case Judge Snell declined to act upon the matter until un-til the parties are in court Adjourned f |