Show UNCLE SAM AFTER SANTA FE ROAD 1104 Bonaparte Charges President Preside Ripley and Other Officers With Perjury REVIEWS CALIFORNIA CAS CASC CASE f C Declares Course of Officials at atTrial Trial One of Conscious us Guilt t I Washington Jan 4 tr Acting under orders from President ti tho department of justice today hurled a at the At hlson Topeka an and Santo Santa Fo Fe Railroad company in lit which b by Implication at least E. E P. P Ripley the president and other officers g of tho th company aro arc charged d with perjury perjury- and n subornation of oC This attack b by the tho department nt c of or Justice Is In Inline inthe the nature of ot u a report to the President and Is made n n response to a Issued d by by Mr Ripley several w weeks ago alO after his company was convicted and fined In Lo Los Angeles Cal Cat for Cor giving rebates to fa- fa a I I a In III his ImIs statement Mr Ripley criticised Attorney General ral Bonaparte the tha Ii Interstate Commerce commission the till United States attorney general genora who Vil cop conducted the prosecution and United States ates Judge who presided Iri In n th the 1110 trial roundly charging them with prejudice and unfair treatment and nd characterizing tho tue criminal charge chargo as ns Vs frivolous and vexatious V Charges After reviewing tho tue charges mado madu b by V Ripley an and submitting quotations rom from rota the tue testimony during the tho trial to o ci show that from the governments SO standpoint at least they were unwar unwar- ranted anted the atton general proceeds s sto to a make grave charges against ln t Mr 11 In lu which he sa says s 's the tho entire course of the tue officers of or the company compan from rom the beginning of or the tho proceedings s was as ont ono of or conscious guilt It appears appear says saya Mr Ir Bonaparte that the tile defendant corporation was accused b by tine one rie o of It Its whose hOse enmity It laid had hn Incurred by causing caus onus ing mg his prosecution for a criminal of offense of of- ellse use ot of committing a lon long series of violations o of the tue Interstate commerce 1 law aw iv V VV V That Its course couise while these char charges es were vero under Investigation was woJ enlo and und lIu suggestive ge of conscious guilt That It was Indicted IJ by the lic grand grandry jury ury ry for 70 G such violations upon evl- evl do nc nee j obtained from rom It Its records though although h. h according jg to Its Ill statement r and Id the testimony or ot its itu o argo u II purl part or cit the tha record which might further or of Io shown many the thu w had 1101 bo booti burned 00 II ib l 5 p o J Jf h hm tb I Cor t with the Ule n t 01 pla It is In Ita It own bOOkS and arid which imI d to u sustain by cort I roof obtainable train from friendly wH sell not M. M V Convicted eal Ou Qu u E rv 1st C That some of at C the tho td o it ft t offered wt t Indexed ell held heJcl legally rl by r tilt the court but this proof wao wae In fact ct produced and In j the cn- cn t h e th the court Ti Tn fV substance substance- pronounced pronoun pro pro- of or unworthy evidence noun ed cd such cre It That It was c convicted lct II d by u tins the j jon jon- t on oil every count o ot of tIme the in d unu an and I its violations of f the thc law la were wern declared de cia- dared b by the court to LO havo have been In Intentionally Intentionally In- In un and systematically made That It its Its penalty was fixed tJ by the court at on only one fourth of the lOa maximum maxi J- J I mum after a careful consideration of all th the tue attendant circumstances and such Intentional with a view to preventing pre and ancl systematic disregard of the law In the tho future Mr 11 Bonaparte sn 1135 s 's that Imme Immediately latel after aCter Ripley's statement was issued the of United States State attorney Y In charge tile the case cese asked l leave leave- avO to make a Q reply which the department refused reused It has ha been beca the time consistent policy o of the department to discourage and as ns asfar asfar far as possible he says Ir prevent vent newspaper newspaper news news- controversies ersle between subordinates paper they thoy and those whose enmity ates might Incur through tho the faithful dis- dis ls- ls charce charac char e of ther public duties and It Its course coure in this tills Instance has nas been in m III accordance with this policy Deiter o Condemnation But nut I feel Ceel It my dut duty to I say bay a that the charged charge mado made b by the officers and anti tho the coun counsel d of or this corporation a against In connection United States attorney with the matters In the present report to have been beon unfounded an and amid un- un appear and the comments and suggestions sug sug- contained In Mr 11 Ripley's letter letter let let- and und regarding the judge who tried ter re sentenced his itis constitute unwarrantable reflection upon a judicial judicial judi judi- the tho discharge o of cial officer respecting wholly such which are Ills his duties as and substance substance sub sub- Indefensible both in form an and tl deserve serve tho the condemnation stance to protect the tue of all citizens dignity and Independence of our courts court what InT In- In as ns to question To 70 r Ripley's T ro A u ciera thu cue iii- iii in In- In the Santa au u o 6 en ti ve his former In the case casu ha had to violate to conform conform con con- its superiors strict or orders ers from general form Corm of or the law tile the attorney replied replied- and amI on tho the I It is certainly possible probable that the Jury whole seems scorns believed that the clerk clerkin have may not riot orders such strict had any in question and therefore the tho law to conform to which his or orders en tho tim violate did not him had never or given superiors fact tact their belief it In lit If It such was needless for thorn them to was of or course Incentive he speculate as to not what have for might might or believe e tho they did not i lunce n of nf wh which Ich h him gull guilty guilt t |