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Show TRIAL TO BE SPEEDY Cases of Mitchell and Hermann Her-mann to Come Up in April. . X PORTLAND. Or.. Jan. 21. Today's Oregonian contains a statement from Washington to the effect that Senator - Mitchell will return here to insist upon an early trial because information has reached him that the' prosecution is In no hurry to bring him to trial and that an official very closely connected with the prosecution of the land fraud cases is said to have advised friends in this city that Senator Mitchell would not be brought to trial for at least a year. When seen by a representative of the Associated Press regarding the state-1 state-1 ment contained in the Oregonian dis patch, Francis J. Heney, who is prosecuting pros-ecuting the land fraud conspiracy ca&s for the Government, said: "If any person made such a statement state-ment It is utterly without foundation. The prosecution refrained from causing caus-ing the arrest of either Senator Mitch- ell or Congressman Hermann, because both of them expressed anxiety to reach Washington to attend to public business.' busi-ness.' . "The prosecution will urge the trial of their cases at the earliest day the ourt can take them up In the next term commencing April 10, 1905, and no f ' postponement whatever will be asked i for by the Government" |