New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-15
Cash Register Ruling a
Check to Criminal
Prosecutions.
VIRGINIA GRANTED
S12,393,929 VERDICT
West Virginia Loses Appeal
Caminetti Must Go to
Prison.
From The Tribune Bureau J

Washington, June Ia The unlted
States Supreme Court refused to-day
to review the criminal prosecution
against the officers of the National
Cash Register Company. It is believed
this decision means that no convlc-
tons can be obtained under the crimi-
nal section Of the Sherman antitrust
act
Coming after the Steel Corporation
decision at Trenton a few days ago.
to days decision disheartened officials
of the Department of Justice, who had
high hopes that they would finally put
the officials OF the cash register com
pany in Jail.
The conviction Of twenty-seven Of
fcers was obtained in the lower court.
The Court of Appeals remanded the
case for a new trial, holding that parts
of the indictment we're invalid. FROM
this decision the Department OF JUS
tice appealed to the Supreme Court.
The noted Virgnia-West Virginia
debt case. which has been dragging
through the courts FOR more than hity
wears. was finally settled to-day. when
the Supreme Court ordered West Nlr-
cinia to pay S12.393 ,929.50 to Virginia:
The court approved the findings OF
Special Master Charles E. Littletleid'
that West Virginia's share Of the debt
of Virginia at the time Of the separa-
ton was S4.215.000. But interest was
figured bv the court at sS,17S,929.50.
The case was watched with great in
tcrost by bankers, especially since the
purchase Of a block Of the bonds by
Brown Brothers and the issuance OF
Brown Brothers certificates"
Because the Supreme Court today
refused to review his conviction, F.
Drew Caminetti, son of the lmmlgra-
ton Commissioner must go to jail for
violation of the Mann white slave act.
Ex-senator Bailey, his counsel, asked
for time to file a brief for rehearlng
and for a review of the case of Maury
|. Diggs, companion of Caminetti when
he took Lola Norris and Marsha War
rington from Sacramento to Reno.
The court declined to grant re-
straining order to prevent Panama
Canal officials from tearing down
houses for oil tank and filtration plant
sites pending an appeal from the action
OF the cderal court on lne CdUdl LOue
in dismissing a suit by owners.
The scope of the Federal employers
liability law was held to extend even to
brakemen disconnecting interstate COM
merce cars to allow an intrastate train
to go forward.
The court disposed of the Kentucky
liquor cases without determining the
constitutionality of the Webb Kenyon
law or passing on its construction.
The case was a prosecution CT the Ad-
ans Express Company for bringing
liquor for personal use from Tennessee
into Whitley County, Ky, "dry terri
tory"
The court held il was bound to ac-
cept the decision of the Kentucky Court
Of Appeals that the Webb-Kenyon law
was not applicable.
After the announcement yesterday
tn t the Supreme Court had decided in
favor Of Virginia in tie Virginia-W
Virginia debt case, the Virginia debt
certificates listed on the Stock Exchange
sold as high as 70, compared with the
last previous sale at SO on June l5.
These certificates represent more than
sl2,0O0OC0 of deposited Virginia de-
fe-red certificates.