Show CONGRESSMAN COMES INTO INfO COURT j Representative Williamson illiamson of Oregon Demurs to Indictments In While His flis Partners Enter Pleas in i J Abatement ORTLAND Ore April 15 In the I PORTLAND P United States district court ourt Ourt today I Congressman J T A Williamson J filed flied demurrers in connection conn tion with the two indictments returned against him himin himin himin I in the recent federal grand jury while his partner Dr Van Gessner G and und ex United States Commissioner Marion R It Biggs entered pleas in abatement All the matters at issue will come Ome up for fora a hearing Monday April 17 One indictment against Mr William Wllliam Williamson I Ison son sou was brought under section of the revised statutes statute It was returned Feb 13 last and accuses him in con I with United States Senator Mitchell Congressman Binger Singer Her Hermann Hermann Hermann mann and ad others of having conspired to defraud the government out of a portion of its public lands In connection connection connection tion with an alleged attempt to secure the establishment of the Blue Moun Mountain tain thin forest reserve in eastern Oregon Williamson demurs on the grounds I that the character of the alleged fraud iff is not specifically stated and und that Indictments failed to describe the lend tanu as to which the fraud is alleged ed to have been perpetrated Practically the same same form of or demur demurrer is employed em Joyed by b Mr lIr Williamson 1 i his reply to the indictment returned Feb 11 accusing him him of or subornation of perjury p Gessner and Biggs in their plea In lii I abatement attack the th qualification ution of the jury which indicted them Williamson together with his part partner partner ner ncr Dr Gessner Gesner GC and Marion D Biggs Bigge former United States commissioner were indicted Feb 11 for subornation of perjury it being charged char ed that th t they induced a number of persons to locate I government lands in behalf of William Williamson son and Gessner who own an immense sheep range in eastern Oregon Biggs took look the affidavits of the alleged fraud fraudulent fraudulent fraudulent I |