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Show uu - I SsUu 9 ul Overtures Made to Governments Gov-ernments Compromise Comprom-ise in Prosecutions Washington, Sept 1. Depratment of justice officials suiieS today thai the government has had repeated offers of-fers of compromise from counsel of the Southern Wholesale GVocors" association, as-sociation, whose president J. H Mc-Laurln, Mc-Laurln, declared in Jacksonville, Fla , yesterday, that there are no negotiations negotia-tions pending by which the association associa-tion will submit to the government's terms in the anti-trust suit against the concern. The government's prosecution, which was begun In June, 1910, aci cording to Attorney Genoral Wisker-shams' Wisker-shams' report, is based on evidence Indicating that the members of that association had attempted to control the business of the Southern states In groceries and other ndcessarles of life and to prevent manufacturers from selling to other wholesale grocers than members of the association. |