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Show IMPLIED HI i Atlorney-Gencral Hadiey of Mis-souriSpcaks Mis-souriSpcaks Out About the Standard Oil Case. SAYS JOHN D. AND CROWD ARE REAL OFFENDERS Jurist Who Cannot See This Is Blind to Justice, Is Attorney's Attor-ney's Statement. DENVER. Aug. 20. "The judge who can not sec the Standard Oil company com-pany of New Jersey in the Standard Oil company of Indiana, and who can not see through both of these legal fictions fic-tions to the real owners and tho real offenders, John X. L'oclief oiler, H. 11. "Rogers, John D. Archibald, and others, is cither blinded by prejudice or an unfortunate disposition to obscure the merits of n 'controversy by strained and irrelevant technicalities, '' declared Ai-lorney-Gcneral Herbert S. Hadiey of Missouri todaj-, in his address before the second annual convention of the National Na-tional Association of Attorneys-General, of which he is president. The statement, was made in the course of u review of the reversal of the United States circuit court of appeals of tho $29,000,000 fine which was assessed as-sessed against tho Standard Oil company com-pany of Indiana by Judgo Landis of the United States district court. Corporation Privileges. "To assert that men may, by ihc organization of a puppet corporation. escape the proper measure of puuish-j puuish-j nicnt for their wrong-doing," said Presi-j Presi-j dent Hadlev, is to give to the legal fic- tion of the corporation greater right, I privileges and immunities than those I which belong to natural persons. "This case should serve -is an ini-pressivo ini-pressivo argument as to the necessity of the national and state governments enacting a law to the effect that no judgment in a criminal or civil caso should be reversed unless tho court coujd affirmatively say upon the cut ire record that tho judgment was for the wrong party, and that but for the error complained of a different, judgment would havo been rendered. "Tho results secured, or rather the lack of results secured, " President Hadlc3' further said, "furnish an added demonstration of the ineffectiveness of the present methods of litigation for the suppression or punishment of trusts and monopolies." Largo Representation. Representatives from over half the states of tho Union arc attending tho convention. Tho programme as arranged includes addresses by several atoriie3's-general who havo been prominent in tho fight against lawbreakiug corporations and dishonest municipal and State ofltcials. j Tho meeting will eomo to an end tomorrow to-morrow afternoon with tho election of i oflicers. Several entertainments have been arranged ar-ranged for tho visitinr attorneys-general by William If. Dickson, attorney-general attorney-general of Colorado, assisted by local members of tho bar. "Tho New Question of States' Bights, " was tho subject of a paper read by Thomas W. Martin, assistant attorney-general of Alabama, at tho afternoon af-ternoon session. j States' Rights Issue. Mr, Martin discussed the rights of States in controversies with Tailroads and tho decision of tho United States supreme court in tho case of Edward T. Young, March 23, 390S. against the State of Alabama. lie conteuded that tho supreme court went further in the decision of the great constitutional question there decided than it had ever gone before, and he believed that it would in time reccdo from this position. The opinion, he said, might prevent the State from being represented in its own courts by its own chief law officer upon issues involving the constitutional validity of the Slate's enactment. This would give the federal court jurisdiction jurisdic-tion to enjoin a State's attorney from enforcing any State law. Tho discussion of tho paper was led by W. E. Mullen, atlorncy-goneral of Wvoming. who suggested that a legislative legis-lative reference commission of competent com-petent men bo appointed in each Stato to examine tho draft of all proposed bills and pass upon their constitutionality. constitution-ality. Charles West, altornev-general of Oklahoma, Ok-lahoma, spoke on "Experiments in Government." Gov-ernment." Discussing the constitution of Oklahoma, ho showed that ovcry feature fea-ture of that document is in tho constitution consti-tution or statutory law of some other Stato of the nation. Tho banking guarantee law, he said, was originally known as the "Baltimore "Balti-more law," and the so-called drastic trust law was merely the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law with very slight modifications. modifica-tions. Just before adjournment United States Senator Robert L. Owens of Oklahoma, Ok-lahoma, who was present, made a brief but elocpicnt address, telling how tho Oklahoma constitution was written. |
