The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-11
OIL 0CTUPUS
TOO MUCH FOR
UNCLE SAMUEL
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has failed to sustain the allegations in
the indictment against the Standard Oil
/ company. Should this jury find the de-
PENDANT guilty I would set aside such YER
dict instantly, as L know the United States
| court of appeals would
The foreman of the jury then signed
this verdict:
I'VE. the jury, find the defendant not
guilty.
Sims Disappointed.
United States District Attorney Sims
admitted that he was greatly disappoint-
| ed at the outcome of the case. As to
further prosecution of the Standard Oil
company he said.
Il will be unable to make a statement
until / have conferred with the attorney
general at Washington. We made the
/ best tight we could, and hung on until
| the last, but the court ruled against il.
Moritz Rosenthal, counsel for the Stand
ard OIL company, in commenting on the
verdict, said:
THE verdict is intensely satisfactory 10
US. as it shows that a rate of Is cents
was never fixed BY the Chicago & Alton
railroad. 1t shows further that no legal
rate was in existence at the time the al
legged concessions were received by the
Standard oil company. Therefore the
Standard Oil company committed no Ie-
gal or moral wrong in accepting scent
rate.
Morally as well as legally IT is found
not guilty, and that is the most salts
factory verdict that could have been re-
turned
A throng of newspaper men crowded
around Judge Anderson when he left the
court room after the conclusion of the
trial
Il suppose the newspapers will reverse
me-" said he However, / tried TO fol-
low the law and have no statement to
make further than what L have already
said in open court"
Judge Anderson.
Judge \. 3. Anderson. who presided at
TaaT
case, was born in Zionsville, Ind, FEB. 10,
1850 He was graduated from Wabash
college in 1873 and then studied law at
Charlottesville, IND. and Indianapolis. He
was admitted to the bar in 1881 and be
gan the practice of law at CrawfoTds
vile. He was prosecuting attorney for
Montgomery county, Indiana, for three
years and since Dec. Is, 1902, has been
United States district Judge for the Dis
trict of Indiana. His home is in India
napOlis.
Another famous case at which Judge
Anderson presided was that of John =
Walsh, former president Of the Chicago
National bank, who was found guilty Of
misapplying the funds of the bank, and
who was sentenced to serve g five years
term in prison at Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan.
Walsh's case Is now pending in the court
of appeals.
What the Ruling Means
Chicago. March 1O-The federal authori-
ties said tonight Judge Anderson's ruling
viii invalidate class tariffs and make it
impossible to convict a shipper for viola
tons of class tariff regulations.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, who wrote the
opinion of the United States circuit court
of appeals, upon which Judge Anderson
based his action, said.
''The thing for the government to do is
to DO away with classification in the reg
ulation of tariff rates and make the rail-
roads file tariffs that specify the rate on
each commodity without regard to CLASH
fic1tion. This might mean a great cost to
the railroads, but I know nothing of that
Changing of tariffs, however. means par
ticular changes to meet conditions and
means no more of q complete change than
is made i'm different editions Of a teie-
phone directory"
Judge Lands had nothing to say con-
corning the decision