| Show I Of SUGAR fRAUDS Government Will wm Sue for Money i i iD Due D ue it I t and an d Punish P Par Participants 1 I i i in Them ThemA i I I 1 A NETWORK I OF CORRUPTION I III II I m Says IS It Is Too rOI Soon 11 m Precise Ex Extent tent of or I Washington Dee Dec 11 That tho tIme de do if IC justice Intends a vigorous prosecution in Iii tho time efforts to recover all nh money mono duo due tho ha government as a re me suit cult of o sugar frauds I at ut New York and to 0 punish nil fill who vimo may have participated ed Ott in thorn th m is 18 shown by the thc annual report of Alty Atty All Gen Con made public today loda After briefly reciting tho facts In tho tIme case which are aro of ot public knowledge ho hc says 8 1 NETWORK OF CORRUPTION I The evidence has hall disclosed a net network I work of ot corruption not confined to tho ho Sugar Refining Henning company extending over ovel a lL period of years af ar both importers and officers of oC the government It Is aa as yet premature to state tho lie precise e extent of or the con eon conspiracy or the lie amount of ot the revenues of oC which the government has been de While It Is 15 foamed feared that limit the statute j of or limitation may have havo run in favor of oC J many of tho ho malefactors who aro are re responsible for C r these frauds yet et no ef effort effort effort fort will wIli bo bl spared to ascertain the precise amount of oC which tho lie govern government government t ment has been defrauded to recover all alt moneys mones duo and to lo punish all alt those who may be found to have participated In any respect In the tho frauds whether i as officers or agents of oC the Importers or as a officials of oC the government I earnestly request a special jt lion ot of to enable this hii Us work to ji J i be effectively prosecuted ll INTERSTATE COMMERCE CO ACT I Further litigation touching the Commodities cases arising rising under tinder the lie interstate Intestate tate commerce law In Is promised by the attorney general genera j j the tho decision of the tue ui i l ourt In those Cases Mr Wickershain says It does docs not necessarily deter d ter Ihl j mine maIne the application of o the tho statute to 10 cases where there the tho commodities trans Hi Hir Hii ported portell are owned by b a corporation rill nil nh or substantially all of at whoso whose wh sQ 1 stock tock Is owned by b the time carrier corpora 4 tion at the time or of transportation and J especially where here the carrier shall shaH 4 have transferred all aU of its Interest In such commodities i to n a corporation formed f for COL the express purpose of t evading e the lie prohibition of tho com corn i clause claus and all or substantial r i ly all mill or of the stock in iii which is owned II f Ill IllIf Illi by b the carrier Those questions will bo ho presented for determination In the lie courts If It the prohibition of the tho statute can cnn bo be successfully sf II evaded by b the lie simple de dO m vice ice of transfer of ownership of tho the I property to a corporation all of or whoso stock shall be owned or controlled by hy the carrier Congress should amend I j the lie statute so 80 as to make mal e It nn an ef o t 1 and not n a merely merel I prohibition or else elso repeal It IL i PUBLIC LAND FRAUDS i In the mutter matter of public land natal fraud prosecution the lie makes clear his lila determination In no respect to abate abato the tue effort ellort to undo so fat far ni l may ma be bl the frauds which have been for or BO so long a time perpetrated In the procuring for or private Individuals In of oi om 4 portions of or time the public domain contrary to the time conditions under tinder which Congro Congress f l has lies authorized these lands to be pa patented p patented tented 1 Important recommendations con tamed In the report Include those for fora R a broadening for tor or the time right of oC appeal If of the I government In iii criminal cases a n repeal of or section of o the lie revised statutes regarding evidence In criminal I J cases the enactment of ofa a general Im Immunity statute to meet the conditions condition 3 J which arise ailse In the endeavor to procure procuro testimony for Co tile the government favor ing a national law Iw providing for In determinate sentences and amid n a modification mo ion tion of oC tho the statute fixing the punish punishment punIshment ment mont for Cor or embezzlement or mIsapplies misapplication h tion of oC the lie funds fund of oC a national bank at tt Imprisonment for COI or fiVe years eam Tho Time l refers to the unsatisfactory sanitary conditions ns a atho at thin the District of Columbia sail Jail which h he says Is a reproach to the national gov government gO emment and amid he earnestly recommends nn nfl appropriation adequate to 10 mate make necessary Improvements i |
