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Show Manufacturers Cannot S:op."Cut Rates" on Goods Washington, April 3. The attempt "to put the ban on "cut rates" In prepared pre-pared medicines today received the "unqualified disapproval of the Supreme Su-preme court of the United States. That tribunal declined, in an opinion by Justice Hughes, to give Its aid to such an attempt on the ground It would afford tho manufacturers of medicines an unlawfulmonopoly The question of the right of a manufacturer manu-facturer to control the price of his article to the consumer arose in a suit begun by the Doctor Miles Medical Medi-cal company of Elkart, Ind., against a wholesale dealer in medicines In Cincinnati, John D. Park & Sons company. com-pany. The manufacturer sought to Onjoin the Cincinnati firm from inducing induc-ing dealers, who had procuned medicines medi-cines from tho manufacturer, to sell In violation of the contract with the manufacturer and from selling medicines medi-cines procured in this way at "cut rates," By a decision of the supremo court of the United States, the federal government gov-ernment will be given another opportunity oppor-tunity to enjoin tho Lehigh Valley railroad company, piercing the anthracite an-thracite coal rogions of Pennsylvania, from carrying coal In alleged violation viola-tion of the commodities clause ot tho Hepburn rate law. Justice White, today, in announcing the decision of the court, held that the lower court had fniled to carry out the decree of the supreme court rendered ren-dered more than a year ago In not allowing al-lowing the government to amend its original bill so as to show that the coal sompany In question was a mere device of the railroad to evade the law. Justice White hold that tho court was right in refusing to dismiss without with-out projudico the suits against tho other railroads. The commodities clause made It unlawful un-lawful for a railroad to transport in intei state oemmorec any commodity produced by it In which It might own or have any Interest, with certain exceptions ex-ceptions Oklahoma must enforce its own liquor laws, said Justlco Harlan, of tho. supreme court of the United States In substance today, when he handed down an opinion in whlch tho court declined to enjoin all the railroads entering en-tering the portion of the state which formerly was Indian Territory from introducing or conveying Intoxicating liquors Into that section. |