The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-08
HARD COAL CASE
DECREE AMENDED
Four Contracts May Be Ex-
empted From Recent Supreme
Court Decision.
OTHER WORK OF TRIBUNAL
Rules That Leased Railroads
Are Not Liable for Cor
poration Taxes.

Washington. April THE Supreme
Court to-day directed that it's decree in
the hard coal case BIO amended to give
the Federal District Court in Eastern
Pennsylvania power to decide whether
four certain go per cent contracts"
should be excepted from tho recent de-
cision that such contracts were void.
The Supreme Court has held that the
contracts whereby the railroad com
panics bought the output of 'inde-
pendent operators ut 60 per cent of
the prices of coal at Tidcwnter. sup
pressed competition and violated the
Sherman antitrust law.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company. the HILL
side Coal and Iron Company, the New
York. SusGuchanna and Western Coal
Company and the Pennsylvania Coal
Company maintained that it's contracts
or leases. did not suppress competition.
and asked that the lower court, which
was directed to enforce the DEGREES
be authorized to allow these leases to
stand If 1t were found they did not
come within the condemnation Of the
Supreme Courts holdings
Justice Lurton explained that the
court had been asked to exempt five
contracts from the effect of the de-
cision.
We find there is adequate evidence
before us to pass upon four of these
contracts. Therefore. we modify the
TO take evidence and pass upon the
point, The Attorney Is will
ing TO have the decree amended so as
to exempt the contract between the
Pennsylvania Coal Company and the
ELK Hill Coal and Iron Company We
amend the decree as to exempt this
contract.
The State railroad cases were not de-
cidcd to-day by the Supreme Court.
Among the decisions of the court
to day were the following:
Reversed the decision OF the District
Court OF Alaska sustaining two counts
In an indictment obtained by the gov
eminent against the aska tritispor-
tation trust. which had been quashcd
by the lower court. The case was re-
manded for trial on the two counts
Declared invalid the Wisconsin pure
food law requiring the labels Of pack
ages to Indicate the nature of the con-
tents, in so far as Ii applies to original
packages imported into the state
Ruled it interfered with Interstate
Denied application of Henry L. Bo-
CERT. of New York. and others for an
accounting of the transaction by which
the Houston and Texas Central Rail
road was organized and delivered into
the control of the Southern Pacific
Refused - sustain the decision Of
the Texas courts upholding the YER
dict of $4,000 awarded Marie j. Nc
Ginnis. OF Bell County, Texas. as adj
| ministratriX of the estate of her hus-
band. an engineer killed on the road
! i'll 1909
Approved. the sentence OF seventeen
years at hard labor imposed on Juan
| Pico. manager OF plantation in the
| Philippine Islands, for killing China
! man.
! Reversed the Judgement for s9.o6l
allowed the Grant Brothers Construc-
1 n NnttN tN.at, 49,
the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix
Railroad for the loss by fire of grad
ing equipment while In transit
/ Ruled leased railroads are not label
for corporation taxes in the case OF
William McCoach, collector OF internal
revenue Of PENNSYLVANIA. against the
Minehill and Schuylkill Haven Rail-
road In all, about 800 claims. involv
ing 100000 paid into the United States
Treasury. hinged upon this case
Upheld the authority OF the United
States courts TO try :, person for the
| murder OF an Indian on an Indian
reservation in the case OF James Don
nelly against the United states
Ruled. the negligence OF doctor
! must be proved before damages can be
recovered by patient. in the case of
| Annie Sweeney against DR.. w g. Erv-
| by an N-ray machine.
Held constitutional, the Nebra ska
| law of 1905. regulating the shipment of
live stock by railroads. in the case OF
the Chicago. Burlington ana Quincy
Railroad against w. !. Cramm and
James NJ. Kyle.
Declared valid. the Chicago theatre
ordinance imposing a license tax on
amusement places. in the case Of the
metropolitan Theatre Company against
I the city.
| Dismissed, suit OF W. g. Plested and
Charles Bcucaco, Of Las Animas, Col,
I TO compel the register of the Public
! Land Office at Pueblo. Col. to receive
! their application of 240 acres of coal
/ land i'm Colorado.
/ Upheld the right of the government
/ to control property OF Indians pur-
| chased for them out of their own funds
| In the case Of the United States against
! o. r. Anderson, OF Oregon.