Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-01
COMMERCE COURT
IS REVERSED
Interstate Commission May
Pry Into Intra State
Rates
PATENT MONOPOLY CASE AGAIN
United States Supreme Court
Upholds Missouri Anti q"
Trust Law.

| (By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Washington, d. c., April IA vic
! tory was won today by the Interstate
Commerce Commission when the Su-
! preme Court of the United States de-
cided the commission had the power
10 compel water lines to report to it
regarding intra-state as well as inter
state business.
1t was the first case from the Com
merce Court TO be considered by the
Supreme Court and the Commerce
Court was reversed.
Patent Monopoly Case.
Washington, d. c., April 1.-The de.
feated parties to the patent monop-
oily case" recently decided four to
three by the Supreme Court of the
United States today asked the court
to re-hear the issue before a full
bench. The United States govern
ment Joined with a request for permis-
sion to intervene because the case is
regarded of the greatest public i'm
portance and involves the enforce
ment Of the Sherman antitrust law.
Missouri Antitrust Law.
Washington, D. c., April 1.-The
antitrust laws of Missouri We're up
held today by the Supreme Court of
the United States. The court approx
ed of the States action in ousting
! the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
and the Republic Oil Company of New
York from the state and filming each
$4,000 under these laws.
Show Down of the Whole Business.
Washington, D. c., April 1.-While
the cases before the court concerned
imm ediately water lines, the govern
ment declared in arguing the cases,
/ that the defeat of the commission in
| this case would mean that railroads
also need not report regarding intra-
| state business, and the commission S
whole system of gathering reports
relative to commerce would be worth
less. Justice Day said mistake had
been made by the commerce court in
confusing knowledge of intrastate
commerce with regulation Of it. He
said it was within the power of the
commission to require a show down
of the whole business intrastate as
Well as interstate. Justices Lurton
and Lamar dissented,
Missouri Trust Case.
Washington, D. c., April lin pro-
ceedings begun in Missouri, the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the
Republic Oil Company, a New York
corporation, and the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company, a Missouri corporation
were charged with having combined
to control the prices and to prevent
competition, and the Missouri supreme
court found them guilty.
! The Waters-Pierce Oil Company was
a Missouri corporation and the court
set a day when its charter would be
forfeited if the company did not pay q
$4,000 fine. The fine was paid Only
the Standard and the Republic, which
were ousted, appealed to the supreme
court. The claim was made that the
corporations could not be ousted ir
the same proceedings. Furthermore
it was urged that Ousting corpora
tions was a greater punishment thar
was inflicted on individual violators
by the law. The International Har
vester Company recently appealed tC
the court from a Missouri custer de
cree, the appeal being based on the
ground that these laws were uncon
| stitutional
Judge Lamar, who announced the
> unanimous opinion of the court, helt
that no right Of the corporations hat
. been denied under the law in tn,
trial
Governments Patent Contention.
/ Washington, D. c., April 1.-Accord
, ing to the governments application
the United States is seriously con
, cerned in several Sherman law suit
by the courts decision, which sus
tanned the right of patentee to at
, tack to the sale of an invention, re
strictions stipulating that the pun
chaser must use in connection witt
the patented article only such SUI
I plies, which are not patented, as ar
bought from the patentee of the in
+ vention.
!, The decision, the government SUI
+ mits, extends the power of propert
held under letters patent beyond tn
! warrant of the constitution and tn
;. grant of the patent laws, and puts
, above the universal limitations e>
pressed in the maxim so use you