THE SOLICITOR. 779 



At the beginning of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, casea 

 including 125 alleged violations of the act of March 3, 1905, and 7 

 aUeged violations of the act of May 29, 1884, which had been reported 

 to the Attorney General durmg that and previous fiscal years, re- 

 mained pendhig and undisposed of in the courts; at the end of the 

 fiscal year cases includmg 190 alleged violations of the act of March 

 3, 1905, and no cases including alleged violations of the act of May 

 29, 1884, which had been reported to the Attorney General and in 

 which proceedings had been instituted, remained undisposed of in the 

 courts. These figures include, however, a large number of alleged 

 violations of the act of March 3, 1905, reported to the Attorney Gen- 

 eral for the most part during the two j^receding fiscal years, on the 

 part of certain terminal connecting carriers, in which suits had been 

 withheld but have now been filed and the proceedings continued, 

 awaiting the outcome of a case now pending m the United States 

 Supreme Court, particularly described below. 



During the fiscal year cases charging 90 violations of the act of 

 March 3, 1905, and 10 violations of the act of May 29, 1884, respec- 

 tively, were disposed of in the courts, as against cases including 83 

 violations of the act of March 3, 1905, and 4 violations of the act of 

 May 29, 1884, disposed of during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910. 



In cases including 51 violations of the act of March 3, 1905, and the 

 act of May 29, 1884, ail but 3 of which were charged under the former 

 act, pleas of guilty were entered and fines aggregating $5,580 were 

 imposed, as compared with aggregate fines of $2,970 imposed in 24 

 cases under these acts closed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1910. This sum is exclusive of costs in each case, which amount to 

 a material addition to the penalties. In three of these cases judgment 

 was suspended, after pleas of guilty entered, on the payment of costs, 

 and in another instance judgment imposing a fine of $100 and costs 

 was suspended to allow the defendant to apply for remission of the 

 penalty. 



Verdicts of not guilty were returned in cases including four viola- 

 tions of the acts of March 3, 1905, and May 29, 1884; proceedings 

 were dismissed in 5, and nolle prosequi was entered in 2 instances; 

 grand juries failed to indict in 18 cases; and the defendant died pend- 

 mg prosecution in 1 case. 



The status or disposition of all alleged violations of the act of ^larch 

 3, 1905, and the act of May 29, 1884, respectively, in which proceed- 

 ings were instituted or pending during the past fiscal year, is particu- 

 larly indicated in the table on page 110. The great majority of the 

 violations of the act of March 3, 1905, as may be seen by reference to 

 tliis table, were on the part of railroad companies, and most of these 

 cases involved the failure of the railroads to comply witli the regula- 

 tion made and promulgated under the act permitting the interstate 

 transportation of cattle and siieep from areas quarantined for certain 

 contagious diseases of live stock to recognized slaughtering centers for 

 immediate slaughter, but requiring that placards of a prescribed size 

 and description be placed and maintained during transit on the cai-s 

 containing such shipments, and that the waybills and other shipping 

 memoranda pertaining to such sldpments be annotated in a pre- 

 scribed manner, the j)urpose of this regulation being to insure that 

 sucli live stock shall be considered and handled as infectious during 

 their interstate transportation through territory where such diseases 

 do not exist. The cars and waybills in such instances, when observed 



