Show ST OIL OL FINE FIE ASSESSED TUnA TODAY Y Chicago Le Fraternity Preparing Pre Pre- paring to Attend Court CourtIn In Great Numbers Number SPECULATION ON PENALTY General Opinion that Big Corporation Corporation Cor Cor- I Will Wil Be Given I the Max Maximum I ICh Ch Chicago Ica o Aug A ug tc 2 When When J Judge Landl Landis n ascends tho the f federal nl district bench tomorrow morning to 10 Impo impose H a afine aline 3 lin line fine of o man many millions milons of or dollars against the he Standard Oil 01 company he lie will ivill face ace a greeter grealer number wi of or lawyer lawyer- them than was v ever r assembled together In Chicago go unless it I w were r at a meeting of ci the tho bar har a n Two hundred extra chairs were ere placed In the tho ennui room tonight for or the tJ accommodation of attorneys who wish to in h be present n when tho the line is named Judge Landl Landis returned from rom a vacation I vaca aca Lion tion lon In Indiana tonight He lie will wi con veno vene nl court at 10 First t ho lie wl will wl hear har the Uw report of the grand jury jur am and will ill wi dl dismiss that thai ho body Then he wl wi turn urn to the case caso calo of oC tho the government I the hr Standard taJ ard Oil 01 company an and mf I announce the rhe amount of f tines lines h he I thinks think that corporation should pa pay fo tor or having violated the the law in th the shipment of over o er cars car of o oil 01 from Whiting Iud Ind to East Eust St. St 81 loul Louis That Tha hat he hC ie will wil assess the tw greatest t trust th tine world has ever pr e known th the heavIest heavies penalty In all ni the history of criminal jurisprudence no one nf doubts doubt tinder the tho law ho he hf cnn can Cn fine the trust trus A Jury has haR found tho the company guilty on n 1 1102 12 coUnts coonts The hp maximum sum lm h he can Ca name name on each ench indictment Is By Ey the tho lm time lime th tIn tl company has hns appealed and a Judgment Judg JUdg- ment men Is f handed down by hy the tho Supreme court of oC tH the States State th the interest that will vilt wi be added to th the original line fino I wi will fix lix fx the sum um at t about n I I District Alone Attorney Sims Sim said I tonight that a L decision from Washington should hould h he had In a year tiou Probable hl Corporations Corporation oln COl Course Neither r John f i. el whose fee cc fP in n inthis this thi case a alone alene WS was vs nor Rosenthal whose bill bil for fOI BO- BO 10 has b been cn patti paid nor A. A D. D th the permanent counsel in Chicago for foi forJohn tot John D. D Rockefeller wilt will wil b be In court ourt Mr r. anti and Mr- Mr l 1 One In Europe Mr Mi IJ I Is at nt Far FarA floe ka wo y A motion for a new neve trial Inn and for t nt or Judgment l will wui 11 b te v ll N r th 1 r bt v r Al J the l t tor or L e oa ea cnE o nU Interpreted h by the bench till tho next ea caso called Th The Io government does doES not noi think that th tho lii Standard Oil Oi company will wi appeal directly to the Supreme court It I will wi go to lh the United States Court of or Appeals There is 11 a remote it I ity tl that l the Court Coull of or Appeals will wl rC reverse r 1 and remain remittAl the tine ca case caso for Cor a anew anew f new trial But th the Supreme me court coUr enters no such findings That judicial body hody passes parses pa R upon the lw constitutionality con of a n suit stilt If I it I should find that lint none non of or the laws law has haR been been violated in th the lie pro prosecution of the lie Landis' Landis fine will vill Standard Oi Oil Judge fn wi stand tand C as imposed John D. D Rockefeller will wi hoar hear heal the the news s of if the lie courts court's lt decision at hl his lole Forest l lull Hill Hi home near Cleveland The report printed primed that h he lie would b be in r I Chicago Jort was untrue At th the home home of his son in Harold humid D D. McCormick It IL was said tonight that Mr 11 Rockefeller Rocke Intention of or comIng com com- onn- onn feller never meyeR had an any IC I ing lug to Chicago at this time Nor or Is IsIt IsIt isIt It so so o the the McCormick family declared t that at Mr 11 Rockefeller I was waH ill ili I and was about to 10 undergo o a surgical ur operation Manner of or Col Collect Collection loin Ion A Assuming that Umi Judge I andis will wil ilI Impose Impo e th the extreme extreme penal penalty permitted b by law la Assistant District Atol Attorney Y asked In what James H. H Wilkinson i n on was manner the tine government Jo would proceed proceed proceed pro pro- to collect a t fine so 10 lar large e as 31 from a n corporation having a capital stock of only as scheduled by th the Standard Oil Oi compan company com coin pany pan of lana h the offending agent Mr on replied that his understanding under under- standing was vas that hat the tine Whiting hid Ind plant was worth But whether or not It Is worth that much he lie continued If IC the tIne courts sustain Judge Landis the Standard Standard Stan Stun dard Oil 01 company I imagine will wi prom promptly ty pa pay what It I is called upon to pay pa pa without evasion e The Time company would b be foolish to re resist The he trial of the Standard Oil 01 company company com corn pany o of Indiana had consumed man ninny many we weeks und and tho the Indictments were contested contested con con- of legal talent that tested by an nn arra array cost the Standard OH Oil 01 more than for Cor that term lem of court court Judge Judge demanded of cOm counsel el the his his- tory of the Standard Oil 01 company ot on Indiana how much related It was wn to Ike Standard Oil 01 company of or New Jersey ey This the attorneys refused to divulge whereupon the court issued subpoenas for Cor John D. D Rockefeller and William Wilam Rockefeller 11 1 II 11 I. I nO Ropers Rogers s 's and oth other officers of or tho tine New e J Jers Jersey ent e CA corporation ra t I o in The flie e f For John 1 n. n After Ar a sen sensational search for John Johr JohnD JohnD D Rockefeller ho finally accepted service ut at Pittsfield ld Mass and then n ume c-ume aim me here on June JuneC C 26 G where Judge Landis had laid him confess conCeR that the Standard Stan Stan- lard dard Oil 01 company of oC Indiana was wa hut but buta huta a a. a branch of or the parent Institution Then titter after other witnesses eK had been beer examined Judge I Landis announces announced that he he would Impose tho ho fines on August 3 3 More than pieces of oC documentary documentary docu docu- evidence e was submitted to the thc court ourt during the six Ix weeks weeks' trial ant an and there nr are now approximately words of oC evidence In Iii the the transcript The rhe argument of or couns counsel l for both the Iho corporation and the government go was short hort and Judge Landis consumed ed ct nt h twenty eight minutes in charging the jury jun and the jury jUI took tool only one I ballot |