Show MITCHELL MUST STAND TRIAL abatement plea of oregon senator turned down by court portland ore without exception every contention made by united states district attorney francis J heney in his argument against the plea in abatement filed by united states senator john H mitchell is supported by judge bellinger of th united states court for the district ot oregon who rendered a decision of about 9 words on the plea ot abatement on tuesday the contention of mr heney that george guistin a member of the fed eral grand jury which indicted sen ator mitchell was duly qualified to serve was supported the defense contended that guistin was not a att ctt izen of the united states judge bel linger holds that mr heney may prove guistin s sh p means of at fi davits the reading of the decision mccu pled three quarters of an hour be sides senator mitchell there were present in the court room a number of attorneys for other defendants in the land fraud cases and a number of prominent attorneys from this and neighboring cities the decision in effect decides all the pleas in abatement filed by the de fend ants and removes all obstacles to the trial on the real issues of the cases |