Show former united states senator will have to don the stripes of convict case of kansas man convicted of ac hepting fees from gra n corn abany has been dragg ng along for years and every legal remedy exhausted washington the supreme court of the united states hag denied the pet alon of former united states senator burton of kansas for a rehearing in the case in which be Is under sn tence of imprisonment and fine under the charge of accepting an attorney s fee in a case in which the government was interested while he was serving as senator the effect of the decision will be the immediate imprisonment of burton unless his attorney s devise some other means of postponing the execution of the sentence there was no formal announcement of the decision in the burton case in open court the chief justice merely handing a brief memorandum to the clerk of the court just before conven ing the case of burton has been before the court since 1903 when be was in dieted in st louis on the charge of accepting a fee for representing the grain company of that city in an effort to debar it from the use of the united states mails he was found guilty and sentenced to serve six months in jail and pay a fine of 2 on appeal to the supreme court the decision was reversed on a technicality and a second trial was ordered the second verdict was identical with the first and it was at firmed by the supreme court the at tas announced just before the close of the court in may last the motion for a rehearing was then filed it was claimed in burton s be halt that the court bad not had the real facts before it in considering the case |