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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22
BY j. A. BREcKoNs.

BY j. a, BRECkONS,
Especial Correspondence of the Starr
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE house
has committed itself to thorough in
vestigation of the sugar interests, as
evidenced by the passage of the Hard
wick resolution by the overwhelming
vote. The full text of the resolution
reads:
Resolved, That a committee Of
nine members, to be elected by the
House, be, and is hereby, directed to
make an investigation for the purpose
Of ascertaining whether or not there
have been violations of the antitrust
act of July 2, 1890, and the various
acts supplementary thereto, by the
American Sugar Refining Co., incorp-
orted Jan. 10, 1891, under the laws
Of the State of New Jersey, and the
various corporations controlled there
by or holding stocks or bonds therein
Or whose stocks or bonds are held, in
whole or in part, thereby, and all other
persons or corporations engaged in
manufacturing or refining sugar and
their relations with each other, which
said relations have not been prosecut-
ed by the executive officers of the
Government.
''Said committee is also directed to
investigate the organization and opera
tions of said American Sugar Refining
Co., and it's relations with other per-
sons or corporations engaged in the
business of manufacturing or refining
sugar, and all other persons or cor
porations engaged in manufacturing
or refining sugar and their relations
with each other, and if in connection
Herewith violations of the aforesaid
laws are disclosed, to report the
same to the House.
"Said committee shall also inquire
whether the organization and opera
tions of the American Sugar Refining
Co., and other persons or corporations
having relations with it, and all other
persons or corporations engaged in
manufacturing or refining sugar and
their relations with each other, have
caused or had a tendency to cause
any of the following results:
First. The restriction or destruc-
ton of competition among manufac-
turing or refners of sugar.
"Secand. An increase in price of
refined sugar to the consumer or de-
crease in the price OF sugar cane or
sugar beets to the producer thereof.
"And said committee shall report to
the House all the facts and circum-
stances disclosed by the investigation
alton at cmfw hrdfmcxzfiffffivbgk
herein provided, with such recon-
luendations as it may deem advisable"
In support of the resolution, Rep
resentative Hardwick asserted that the
American Sugar Refining company had
practically admitted it controls more
than so per cent of the output of REIN
cd sugar in the United States of Amer
lea, and indirectly controls portion of
that output ~variously estimated at
f1cm 70 to 80 per cent. Commenting
eli this he said:
1.-THE price of sugar in New York is
Immensely higher than it is in Ham
burg or in Liverpool. The American
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22

of the Sherman antitrust law, it is
interpreted so that reasonable re-
straint of trade is recognized and legal
lied under the decree Of the court. 1t
is unreasonable restraint of trad that
comes under the ban.
Dissolution Is Ordered.
On the facts submitted the Stand
ard Oil Company is adjudged to have
engaged in unreasonable" restraint
of trade. Therefore, the decision of
the lower court is affirmed and the
world-embracing oil trust is ordered
to be dissolved.
Briefly put, the Supreme Court
writes into the Sherman law before
the word restraint the simple word
unreasonable"
Only to this extent is the business
world relieved. There can be reason
able combines under this decision and
unreasonable, good trusts and bad
Standard Oil has been decreed I'M
reasonable and bad and it's dissolution
is therefore ordered.
And, while this decision affords a
general plan of procedure that may be
followed in the prosecution of other
combines and trusts, it lays down no
general precedent.
Each combine proceeded against
must be adjudged upon its merits.
Upon the facts presented the right is
reserved by the court to declare wheth'
er the restraint charged is unreason'
able to the point of warranting dissolu-
ton.
To Act in Six Months.
Six months, instead of the thirty
days time allotted by the lower court
is given to the trust in which to COM
ply with the decree.
So much as to the decision as re-
CARDS the great oil combine, which is
a sweeping and spectacular victory for
the government, hailed with delight
by President Taft, Acknowledgement
Wickersham, and particularly by
Frank B. Kellogg, who instituted the
proceedings against the Standard four
years ago and who has fought it step
by step to the final decision.
In statements issued Immediately
after the decision had been rendered,
both the Acknowledgement and kellogg
claimed for the government victory
upon every material point for which
they had contended.
Sharp divergence of opinion devel-
oped Immediately concerning the moral
effects of the decision. In the ranks Of
the Republican progressives tonight
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22

WASHINGTON, May 15.-By unani-
nous decision the Supreme Court of
the United States today ordered the
dissolution of the Standard Oil trust.
Having first cleared the docket OF
a number of important pending cases,
Chief Justice White, at o'clock, after
the stock market had closed for the
day, began reading before solemn
and silent courtroom the long-awaited
decision, which reduces to its com
ponent parts the gigantic financial
structure reared by the genius of John
D. Rockefeller and carries with it con-
sequences of the most far-reaching
importance to the entire industrial
and financial world
The point of paramount importance
in the decision is this:
For the first time since the passage
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22
(By an Eminent Lawyer
EXaminer.")

EAdmlueT. J
NEW YORK, May 15.-The Supreme
Court has given to the Standard Oil
Company a great defeat and to the
trusts a great victory.
1t has scathingly denounced the
criminal methods of the oil trust ana
ordered it to dissolve in six months,
but it has pointed the way for lawful
reorganization.
big business" will heave a sigA
of relief and corporation lawyers will
smile, for at last the fangs of the
antitrust law have been drawn. Here.
after no contracts or combinations are
to be deemed in restraint of trade or
unlawful unless the restraint is Gun
reasonable"
Whether it is to be held unreason-
able is to be determined by all the
circumstances of the case.
No Precedent Established.
Every case must stand on its own
bottom. Whether it is to be condemn
ed, is a question to be decided by the
courts 'in the light of reason"
The Supreme Court has read into
the statute the word unreasonable
something, as Justice Harlan observes
that has been unsuccessfully attempt
ed in every Congress since 1897.
The general. result is to extend a
liberal and hospitable hand to combin
alton and definitely and explicitly
adopt the New York rule, under which
with judicial approval the Diamond
Match trust and similar combinations
have been established and still flour
ish.
AS far as the Standard Oil Company
is concerned, it will go on doing bust
ness at the old stand.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22

CONTINUED on page twelve.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-22

Continued on page ten)
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL:
LESS THAN 10000 SHARES.
Saturdays Dealings Were Confinec
Largely to Professional Element.

New York, May 14.-Transactions in
yesterdays brief session on the stock
exchange amounted to less than 7e,oe9
shares and represented thing beyond
the dealings Of an Insignificant profess
slonal element. Price changes were
confined within fractional variations,
with few more net losses than gains
among the prominent issues, the ex-
tent of the days movements being re-
Elected in such changes of 1-2 in I'm
ion Pacific. Is in United States Steel
and 3-S in Reading. The stocks
named supplied more than one-haif
of the total operations. but the deal
ings in them were without Significance,
the dulnsss in issues of. this charae-
ter and the practical stagnation in
other parts Of the fist not being at all
surprising in view Of the expectation
of supreme court decision tomorrow
in the Standard Oil and American To-
beeco cases. Wall street looks for de-
crees in favor of the government. and
although it is prepared for such an
announcement it doubtless will insist
in selling stocks for time.
No one. however, looks for anything
ia the nature of sustained weakness
following the decisions; indeed, in
most quarters, it is believed that with
the elimination of these uncertainties
there will be a forward movement in
stocks discountjng future expansion in
the eountry's Industries. Recent eff
forts to depress stocks have met with
little success, and in the case Of Unit
Ell States Steel common the worse
the news on the steel trade the more
buoyaHt has the stock become. Steel
trade conditions are far from sa It's
factory, but the situation is not as
hopeless as Pittshurg and Chicago
bears on the stock market would like
the AoAers of stock to believe. The
market closed without speck of ae-
tivity.
Rank statement figures showed a
further addition to the reserve of the
clearing house institutions in their ex-
fibit reflectirg actual conditions of
Friday night: also in the average fig
ures. There was noteworthy con-
traction in loans but a large expan-
sion in the same item in the trust
company statement, While actual cash
showed small increase. which, to-
gether with the gain in loans ad-
vanced the reserve above legal re-
auirements to S44.662.525, against an
average reserve of s43,S94,e25. the lat
ter comparing with $T1,104,95e in this
week last year, and S14,617 1875 in 1909.
Reserves are larger than reported at
this time in many years, and from
current Indications they will increase
still further in the course of the next
few weeks, although there are signs
of n better inquiry for funds on this
center at interior points.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
A Good Hotel as an Asset.

Judge Lamar owes mis- appointment
to the supreme court to the fact that
Augusta, Ga, has a good tourist hotel
and excellent golf links.
There is food for thought here for
those who like to ponder the interreia-
ton of things. There is food for
thought also for practical everyday
business men. President Taft had
scores of names under considerable
for the place which in the end he ten
dered to the eminent Georgia jurist
1t is no disparagement OF Justice La
mars abilities or Of his other quail
fications to sit upon the supreme tent !,
to say that numbers of other lawyers
were doubtless recommended to the
president as highly as he. How, then
did Mr.. Taft come to name Judge
Lamar? The answer is perfectly evil
dent. The president knew Judge La
mar personally, had had opportunity to
Judge for himself of the .Geo,gian's
fitness for the position to which he has
been appointed.
But for the weeks Mr. Tai. spent in
Augusta he would have had no such
opportunity. But for the acc ommodz.-
lions which the Georgia city afforded
him he would not havs gone there
Charleston News and Courier.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
ACADEMY IN TIE
WITH BLACK HALL, 10 TO 10

The Academy nine wound up its
miniature globe trotting tour by play
ing an eight-inning tie game. 10 to
10, at Black Hall on Saturday after
noon, and was home here by the Sis
trolley on Saturday evening. The
game was called at the end of the
eighth to allow the Academy to catch
the train for New London
Having pitched Croker the day be-
fore in the game at Middletown when
the Wesleyan freshmen were SO hand
lily defeated, Coach AuItnlan sent in
Bert Bailey to twirl against Bla elk
Hall, although Bert had a finger that
was damaged in catching a fly in the
Wesleyan game. Bailey had to give
up the attempt to pitch after working
for three innings. Capt. Jimmy MUIR
ray took his place and showed that
he can pitch effectively when called
upon. Standish. with double and
three singles, led the hitters on both
teams.
In the sixth. Black Hall changed
pitchers, sending in one of their in
structors, Haskins. in place of Cham
riop The Coara.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15

IN New London at the z. n. c. A.
on Friday afternoon at ofcJ1Lk there
was q special meeting Of the Easter
CONNECTICUT 1ntersclro1assfo Baee5z<s
association to take action on q psox<s
registered by Buckley school Of fe
from them on April 20 at St0nfn4fo
The protest was on the ground 4.
the umprise did not adhere to the r.. =
agreed upon for the game. thereby -
lowing a ruin to score for Stonirxfstt
which should not have been alIoxed
and through which StoufDRton won the
game by one run.
Present at the meeting were Man-
ager Prince of Bulke1ey school, Assist
Free Academy, Manager Harr1ngfou Of
W1nd1nam High and Manager Shzck1ey
of Stoninston: also the umpire and tire
BuIkeley coach Arguments were mad4
by both sides to ten controversy. and
the decision was left to Manager Hnr :
rington and Assistant Manager Sus1f-
van, who will report ON the matter
Later.
It is stated that the controversy -
on the following play. on which q run
ner scored from first base With =
man on first, q clean hit wss made f.
right field, and the ball when returned
was thrown wild over the home plate.
the man on first circIed the bases and
scored.
In the agreement before the 9an1s &c
was understood that one base-<zss %
be allowed on an overthrow, but an
extra base could be taken II m4As
stopped at third, while Stoaingtor.
claims the runner took second on ~
hit, third on the overthrow and home
as the extra base allowed
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
X. o. BROWN NEXT
FOR JIMMY cLABsY.
Ten Round Match CIinched for May 10
at Hammond.

Jimmy Claabby, the Milwaukee mid
dleweight, and George (Knockout)
Brown have been matched to box ten
rounds before the Hammond A. C. on
May IS. The articles were signed by
Nat Lewis. representing Brown, and
Frank Mulkern, CIAbby's manager. The
fighters will weigh In at I54 pounds at
o'clock and 500 forfeit money will
be placed on Thursday with the match
makers Of the club.
This bout win be the most severe
test of Browns fighting ability since
he started with the padded mitts. The
Chicago Greek has a world of conf
dence. In C1abby he viii meet a box
er who is known for his cleverness
and punching. The bout already is at
tracing a deal of attention in Chfca-
go, and special train will be run to
the scene of the battle. The bout had
been hanging fire for long time.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15

The first liquor raid since saloons
were licensed in Westerly was made
Saturday night by Chief Bransfield and
Policemen Brown and West. They VS.
tied the residence of Mrs. Virginia
Cato in Tower street and seized q beer
barrel about one third full of ale, but
found no other liquors on the premises.
The beer was taken to the police sta
ton and the owner will be given OPP
portunity to make claim for the prop
erty in the Third district court. s.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
,s1Esn connEcI,cuI LEAGUE sIAnpINe

Eastern League
At Monreal-Jersey City u. Montreal g.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15

tuck to Avoid ouarant Bishop Harkins CONFIRMS
Class Of 80 carpenters Set 1921 as Minimum
Wage Scale Political Speculation Liquor Raid in
Tower Street.

provided. Of course, the nominations
arc made by the town committee (which
seems to take unto itself that preroga~
tive. Just at present, however, the
COMMITTEES is not unanimously in favor
of the denomination of the old board
and there is split. Some of the mem
bers, it is claimed, are in favor of GUST
ing the p1 esident of the board. William
Il. Clarke, and Horace E. Burdick and
William Culley, who served as the
police committee while there is appar-
ent unanim1ty in favor of Maurice w.
Flynn, Albert III Langworthy and
Wayland A. Saunders. C. Clarence
Maxson gives notice that he will not
be in the running and will retire. The
choice Of some of the committeeman
for the new members of the council
are the old-time political worker,
Thomas w. Biddle, Martin II. Spellman
manag er Of the Westerly Light and
Power company and a menaber OF the
town hall building committee, and
Charles Fl. Thomas, a resident Of the
Watch Hill section. 1t is not believed
that Mcssrs. Clarke. Culley and Bur-
dick will be she1ved without scran
at the caucus and may be nominated
ain opposition to the nominees of the
town cofr mittea>
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
Owls oraanizinq for Baseball.

Norwich nest of Owls intends to
have baseball team that will get
into action by Memorial day, probably
playing a series with the New Lon
don nest. which has a nine of dia-
mond stars. With H. Bruckner as
manager. the following men are to be
Norwich nest will be selected: Calk-
ms, Tuttle, Donahue. Hourigan, Busch.
McNulty, Budnieck. Dougherty, DAILY,
ADJUST and Brooks.
The ball team is expected to follow
up the successful season which the
Owls duckrin rollers enjoyed, thus
winning athletic honors FOR the nest in
the national pastime.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
COLLEGE TRACK
AND FIELD SPORTS
Yale, Michigan and Cornell Were the
Winners.

After being beaten by Princeton's
track team a week ago Ya1e's athletes
lowered the colors of Harvard in. the
annual dual meet between the two uni
versities by a score of SO 1-2 to A IL
at New Haven on Saturday afternoon.
At Ithaca, Cornell ran AWAY from
Princeton in the annual dual track and
field meet. and Swaanped the Tigers,
- IT, to 81 1-2e In the field events,
where it had been, e1pectea Princeton
would be especially strong Cornell
proved q surprise, taking first in beth
the s!let and hammer. No records were
breIxen.
Michigan won handily from Syracuse
at Ann Arror in . dual track meet, the
sasterAses scoring only ferty points
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
COTTON.

New York, May 14.-Spot dull; sales
5000 bales, including 2,ee0 made late
yesterday; speculation and export,
800; American, 5000. Imports, 2,oo0:
none American. Middling uplands,
SAID. Futures opened steady. un-
changed; closed quiet, point lower
to point net higher. May SOD:
May-June sos I'D; June-July 1888
lid; July-August 7.s1d; August
September 7.e3d; September October
III lid; October-November 6 81
la. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6.91 1-2d:
Decem ber-January, 6.90d; January
February and February March $50
I'D; March-Apra eSOd
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
Centfa|s We're There With The Stick
Defeat Tri-vilaae T. to Before Big Crowd on cran-
berry Drive Page From the Box -simcox Holds
Visitors Safe.

Before crowd OF over 1000 people
on the Cranberry, the Centrals gave
the Tri-village champions of the
Eastern league nice beating by the
score of II to 5. hammering one Tri-
Village pitcher out of the box, while
their own twirler. young Tommy Sim
COX, worked in fine form and was Civ
en- sterling support Among the star
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
Amona the acts and resolutions Of
local Interest passed on the last day

Among the acts and resolutions Of
local Interest passed on the last day
of the general assembly, and which
will receive the approval of Governor
Pothier before becoming effective, are
the following:
Act requiring every city and town to
furnish firep1oof receptacle for records.
within six months; to pay the bill Of
the Westerly Savings Fund and Loan
association. 1878, for six months rent
of deputy sheriff office; amending the
fisheries law, providing that no weir
shall be set in Charlestown, QuonOcon-
taug Or Brightman's ponds. and other
specified waters; amending the charter
of the Ashaway and Westerly Street
Railway company, allowing extension
to Mantle; increasing the penalty for
carrying concealed weapons to fine
of $59e or Imprisonment not exceeding
ono year, or both: amending charter
of Watch Hill fire district, extending it's
territory: act providing that lobster
fishermen shall wear at all times, while
fishing, a Eadge issued by the inland
fish commission The governor has
announced that he will give his ap-
prevail to measures in which these arc
included.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
The carpenter. of Westerly who arg

iH6 carpenters OF "SSt0Tly WHO arc
affiliated with the union have nads
formal demand upon master builders
for an advance in nay. The time limit
having expired. there is liable to be a
strike unless the demand IS complied
with or the concession accepted. The
old bill of prices expired last January.
but when demand was made the time
limit WAS fixed as May 1. The en-
plcyers asked that the limit be extend
ed to Aug. 1, as by that time all the
work that had been secured and fig
ured upon the present wage scale
would be completed, but this was re-
jected by the union carpenters.
The present minimum scale is $2.7s
a day, ejslnt hours, and the demand
was for 1925 a day. An offer Of an
increase OF 25 cents day was reject
ed, but the carpenters offered a COM
promise of 1912 1-2 a Gay. The union
carpenters held a special meeting Sat
urday night and their rltimatum will
be given to the employers today (Mon-
day..
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
HOSPITAL S. NORWICH TOWN 2
Town Boys Fail to Take Scalp of
Manager Farrslps Nine.

One more of the local teams was
compelled to acknowledge the super
iority of the Hospital nine when on
Saturday the Norwich Town team
were defeated. to. 2. by the Hos
pitfalls on the diamond at Brewsters
Neck. Pitcher Bill Austin held the
Town boys safe at every stage fam
ning-s and allowing only hits to the
10 that the Hospital secured off Bur-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15

Stated fer CroeM In Sd.
x<Batsd fo- Otey IN 9th-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
Hatch,s Fovrtb m.r.tser.

Sidney Hatch of Chicago, three tins
winner OF the Missouri Athletic clu5's
annual Marathon. won the event eezfrs
Saturday at st. Louis. His time wne
2h. I'm. 56s. OF the "a entrants -
started at Freeburg, Ill. but not more
than 20 managed to finish The heavy
dust caused slow time.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15

WHO Came 20 the RESCUE OF LOSING
Team in the Eighth.
fielding features were a jumping one
hand catch by Tommy Shea at third
and another one-hand grab by Slim
Mcintyre at first.
Tri- Village started with D. Page in
the box, but he had to be derricked
in the fourth, when the Centrals found
his alley and scored runs. Joe La
belle, who had been doing good work
at third, was brought in to pitch and
stopped the smuggling of the Centrals.
He was also there strong with the
willow, pounding out three Dagger,
which was the longest hit of the game.
The score:
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
New WESLEYAN Record.

The Wesleyan track team defeated
Trinity at Hartford Saturday after
noon, III to So. Wright of Wesleyan
won the high jump with 5 feet IL
inches which is one-half inch better
than the university record held by
Wright himself
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15
ON LOCAL DIAMONDS.

In the opening game in the Mill
league on the Cranberry, Saturday, the
Y. NJ. C. A. team was defeated by the
Baltic A. C. 10 to 5.
The Greeneville Independents defeat
ed the baseball team of Troop L, Boy
Scouts, On Saturday 20 to 6.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-15

The annual election of the town Of
Westerly will take place next month.
If present plans prevail. the democrats
will enter full list of candidates in
the running, contrary to the usual Gus
tom, although it is a recognized fact
that there are hardly three hundred
real democrats in the town. and their
only hope of election of a. member Of
the council being that disruption in the
republican ranks that never comes at
very long intervals. 1t has been the
custom. in Westerly to continue rep,l'r
lican members of the council in office
just as long as they desire to serve.