Show Important Interstate Commerce Decision PHILADELPHIA Dec 24 Judge Reed today rendered a decision holding the state law forbidding the sale of oleomargarine in packages pack-ages as originally imported from another state unconstitutional The decision which is a lengthy one finds that the right of the state to enact police laws when such laws prohibit the sale of articles which without prohibition I would be legitimate subjects of commercial in terchange i subordinate to the power of the United States to regulate interstate commerce L The right to sell in the original package if the goods are merchantable and legitimate subjects of trade and commerce is guaranteed by the United States and though it can be regulated it cannot be prohibited by any state The United States has a paramount right to declare What goods are merchantable and what regula t tons of their sale are reasonable and by act of Congress the United States has drclarcd oleomargarine oleo-margarine to be a merchantable article and regulated its sale as in Pennsylvania The statute involved does not regulate but prohibits the sale of oleomargarine I cannot apply to the goods described in the verdict |