
    No. 701.
    Board of Trade of the City of Chicago et al. v. Charles F. Clyne, United States District Attorney, etc., et al.
    Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
    Motion to advance and for order maintaining status quo submitted November 27, 1922.
    Order entered December 4, 1922.
   Order.;—It is ordered by this Court, the defendants not objecting, that the status quo be preserved while this cause is'pending in this Court and for twenty days thereafter by restraining and. enjoining the appellee, Charles F. Clyne, as United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, from attempting to enforce the act of Congress entitled the Grain Futures Act ” during the pendency of’ this 'cause in this Court and for twenty days thereafter, and also from at any time prosecuting criminally, or otherwise, under said act any member of the Board of Trade of the City of' Chicago, or any customer of any such member, for, or by reason of, any violation by him or. them qf -any provision of said act committed during the- pendency’’of this cause in this Court or twenty days thereafter,, and that- appellee, Arthur C. Lueder, as.postmaster of the City of Chicago, be also restrained and’enjoined from interfering with any of the mail passing between members of said Board of Trade'and customers'of said members during the-pend-ency of this cause in this Court and twenty days thereafter: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall relieve the members of said Board of Trade from severally keeping and preserving, as required by the Grain Futures •Act, their records of their contracts for future delivery during the pendency of this stay.

Mr. Henry S. Robbins for appellants. Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Fred Lees for appellees.  