Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-06-06
GOVERNMENT WINS
T0BVCC0 CASES
FAMOUS COMBINATION FOUND TO
BE IN VIOLATION OF THE
SHERMAN LAW.
Mr.. HARLAN DISSENTS IN PART
Methods Of DissoIving the Com
bination Within Six Months
English Corporations Involved.

bjnation Within Six Months
English Corporations Involved.
:
Washington, May 3O.-The American
Tobacco company, and its associated
accessory and subordinate corpora
tons and companies. including the
English corporation, were held by the
supreme court of the United States to
be co-operators in combination il.
legal under the Sherman antitrust
act. The court decided as follows:
That the combination in and of it.
self. as much as each and all of the
elements composing it. whether con-
sidered collectively or separately, be
decreed to be in restraint of trade and
an attempt to monopofize and a mon
opoliZarion within the first and second
sections OF the antitrust act.
The court sent the case back to the
lower court with directions to hear
further the parties so as to ascertain
wi1st1er B lew condition cannot be re.
Gr-autei IL harmony with the law.
,I,lMiGs Eilriun cpncurrei in part with
rtlu cu,lrt;: qgiliec and dissented in
DaT-.
s:an,mi. ailiiG tils cnur- below. in or.
ia.r ttr give aife.riNe force TO our de-
Grett IL ttliH ragal',i. Deg directed TO hear
ttlse oar-iuA. by .wi,i.sncs o. otherwise
rs 4 nwat ~ I,4nIna,; gruCsr FOR the
plur,as., nj ;tH:..rrit.niI1is LII. 5ecsruin-
lIi.I mon Enne liail 81 Method OF dis
Ssnri1u; he tnnInniltlun L,tt q rscre-
Gsifny;. dlI II t-lu z.iu,nsuL: C,tv Ctom-
E,.,ssng t. q; lew c.mtlr-Gn which snail
IN tlnlnAsiN II li,."nUnE VIII Ind rot
rn.,nlI!limr n t.lu NV
Hll1lrt. rtliir rtn' ttlH AEGEAN Isl, Z snt
al rtleSh pllrDnHtA. t.i.filis N view The
difficulty GI Tie 4irllurGn. L cs-is3,. o.
81. nnntais II lIit-ve.i from TIE csc-t1s
CT G'lr Mundane. Win LEAVE, h0usrsc,
II tile .uenI ia th= as,trus1- ot -hs
:':,Ir- Below -tts Necessities Of The sit.
Ta.fou rs'yrtrE= 20 extend such period 70
further time not 10 exceed sixty
days
Fourth, that in the event before the
expiration of the period thus fixed
condition of disintesration in harmony
with the law is not brought out, either
as the consequence of the action of the
court in determining an issue on the
subject or on accepting plan agreed
upon, it shall be the duty of the court
either by way of an injunction re-
straining the movement of the prod.
ucts of the combination in the chan
nels of interstate or foreign commerce
or by the appointment Of receiver, to
give effect to the requirements of the
statute.
Pending the bringing about of the
result, directed against the court each
and all of the defendants, individuals
as we'll as corporations, are to be re.
strained from doing any act which
might further extend or enlarge the
power of the combination, by any
means or device whatsoever
Drugs may be labeled as cures for
man and yet be absolutely ineffective
for that purpose without violating the
national pure food and drugs act, ac.
cording to decision by majority Of
the court in the case of DR.. o. A. John.
son.
The court upheld the act of the
Oklahoma legislature, Dec. 16, chang.
ing the state capital from Guthrie to
Oklahoma City. Justice Holmes and
Mckenna dissented from the majority
opinion Of the court.
The state Of Utah lost its suit
against the Montello Salt company in
the supreme court for the title to the
large tracts of saline lands in that
state
Washington. May 3O-"The hours
Of service law for railroad employees"
passed by congress in 1907, was up.
held as constitutional by the supreme
court. This decision was announced
by Justice Hughes in the test suit in.
stttuted by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road Company.
The act made it unlawful for any
common carrier engaged in interstate
commerce to permit any trainman sub.
ject to the act to remain on duty for
q longer period than sixteen consecu.
tive hours, or any telegraph operator
more than nine or thirteen hours, &C.
cordins to the time the telegraph sta
ton was opened for business. The act
also created periods of rest for the
employees.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad com
pany attacked the law as unconstitu
tional, on the ground that it applied to
iDtrastate as well as interstate rail
roads and employees. The order by
which the interstate commerce com.
mission placed the law into operation
was attacked also.