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Show BATHTUB TWIST" CASE J COURT DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 1G. Whether the recent Standard Oil decision of the United States supreme court eliminated elim-inated tho criminal feature from the 8herman anti-trust law, was a question ques-tion that arose today in the United States district court here. Arguments were In progress before Judge A. C. Angoll on a motion made In behalf of the Colwoll Lead company com-pany of New York to quash indictments indict-ments in the government's criminal case against the "bathtub trust." Former District Attorney Frank H. Watson, special counsel for the government, gov-ernment, sent a telegram to Washington Wash-ington to summon Edward B. Gros-venor, Gros-venor, special assistant to the attorney attor-ney general, and Mr, Grosvenor is expected to appear before Judge An-gell An-gell Thursday and argue for the government gov-ernment against the motion. There will bo no hearing tomorrow. Likelihood of a postponement of tho trial, which is set for January 30, appeared this afternoon whon Judge Angell received with evident Interest a suggestion from Attorney Henry E. Bodman for the defense that If tho pending motion to quash wero sustained, the government could appeal at once directly to the United States supreme court, while If the ruling wore against tho defense the matter could not reach the supreme court until after an expensive trial "If I dismiss the case, it seems that my ruling could bo reviewed by the supremo court of tho United States," commented Judge Angell, after af-ter "hearing Mr. Bodman's suggestion. Mr. Bodman had argued that If the contentions raised by tho defense were found by Judge Angell to be of sufficient suf-ficient force to justify attention at tho hands of the United States supreme su-preme court it not only would be bettor bet-tor for the two score defendants, who aro scattered all over tho country, but would bo more In harmony with the general principles of justice, as In tho supreme court decision could be obtained before tho defendants and the government had been put to the exnenso of a long trial. President Taft's name was Injected into the case today when Attorney Bodman, arguing In favor of the motion mo-tion to quash, said: "If the Sherman law had been shown to Judge Taft when it was being be-ing drafted, if ho had been asked whether it could be sustained as a criminal act, and if it were so drawn that a person subject to Its provisions provis-ions could not tell until ho had been tried whether ho had violated the act or not, Judge Taft would, In my Judgment, Judg-ment, have advised that such a statute could not be sustained." Mr. Bodman referred to the Sherman Sher-man law under present conditions as a veritable trap, In which a man suddenly sud-denly might find himself liable to imprisonment im-prisonment after having conducted his business carefully with the advice of lawyers. oo |