Show ELKINS LAW STILL IN FORCE Hepburn Act Is Amendatory In the V t Opinion of the Court I Denver In an opinion announce Monday by the United States circuit court of appeals sitting In Denver the judgment of the district court for Mln icsota against the Great Northern railway In the rebate costa was practically prac-tically affirmed The circuit court holds that the Hepburn act is un amendatory and not a repealing act that In so far as It repeals or repro lucea portions ot the KIKins act It con inueu them in force and makes no weak in the law and that in so far as It omits or changes provisions of the Elkins act It repeals them The act of granting rebates was ad nltteil by the Great Northern Rtil road company at the tdalv and the only question prestJnted bjw the 4 railway company was VrhetHifl1 rloCthe El kins act of 1903 making it an offense and fixing punishment for granting relates re-lates was repealed by the Hepburn 4ct qt 1906 in such a way that thereafter there-after there could be no prosecution or punishment of offensca committed prior to ho repeal The dlstAct court ailed against this contention of tho railway company and hence the appeal ap-peal to the circuit court of appeals |