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Show V qp. igi S V V fgi aga V F S V "W tH TWELVE BILLS AGAINST MINERS QUASHED 1 Federal Judge Quashes Twelve Indictments Against Miners and Operators MOTION OF CHARLES E. HUGHES GRANTED- Constitutionality of Lever Act Challenged on Grounds of Alleged Vagueness INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 2C Three sections of the Lever net were held unconstitutional by United States District Judge A. B Anderson, in red; I oral court today, and quashed 12 ofj the IS counts of the indictment j against miners and operators based on these sections 1n ruling on the motion of Charles E. Hughes to quash tho Indictment. In-dictment. Counts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 17, based on section 9 of the Lever law. which the court held ralld, wore declared operative oper-ative and were not quashed by the judge. . " -' The twelvq-'cbuntsjn. tbe.lndlctmc.nt.- 'irr-Gr'T.'srci. -lorii, 12'. 13, na-6-unu'j j 18, based on' sections 4. 26 and nmenu- ' ed section 4 of the Lever act were i j quashed. The motion to quash the Indictment! j was made by Charles Evans Hughes,) former justice of tho supreme couri, ' on behalf of the miners, May 7. Count 15 of the indictment, based ; on section 37 of the criminal code, was; ; also quashed. , j Tho motion by Mr Hughes chal-i I longed the constitutionality of the I Lever act principally on tho ground, that It is vague and Indefinite and J does not contain sufficient penalty provisions. Tho sufficiency of tho Indictment In-dictment also was challenged on tnc ground that the coal business during tho tlmo covered by tho 'indictment was governed by rule3 promulgated j by President Wilson. oo |