Show STANDARD Oil V INS IMPORTANT POINT PONT I 1 JACKSON fenu Nov No Nol l The The The indictment in ji j I of the tl Unie United States against the tho Standard Oil Oi company of Indiana on the called so-called Grand Junction concession con Coil cession cession charge by which it i was sought to have assesse assessed penalties ag aggregating I now stands shorn of its isI is I magnitude e. e The prosecution met reverses rc in a ruling rul nil I ing of Judge John McCall in the States circuit court cout yesterday as to a I point of law which in one ono sweep dwarfed the monetary feature of the issue by exactly and arid in general generl played playe havoc with wih the bill bi of charges as set up by tho the government government I It I was tho ruling of Judge McCall McCal that within tho the meaning of the tho Elkins I rebate anti-rebate law Jaw a settlement and not an individual shipment constitutes an offense of of- tense Ju In the indictment as returned it is charged that tho the Indiana corporation corporation corpo ration raton committed 1524 offenses basing i each of the counts count on a shipment from the cODanY refinery at Whiting Ind Lid i to points in in J the southeast through Grand Junction unction Tent Tenn I J Evidence shows only six forty settlements settlements settle settle- I ments all 1 monthly bi transactions between between between be be- tween the toe Standard Oil Oi company and I the carriers named amed in the bill bi within I the years covered 1903 to 1905 Hence should the defendant company be found fount I guilty guity on a all charges now st standing the maximum penalty possible to lo be assessed assessed as as' would be For each offense the statute provides may be taxed The minimum is 1000 Of secondary importance only that in a final ruling was not made made Judge McCall also held tentatively that dates shown in the indictment should conform conform con form to the proof tendered The trial along the restricted lines will wi be resumed today The prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution it is announced will wi now endeavor endeavor en en- deavor to show that toe the much debated cent 13 rate from Whiting to Grand Junction for points beyond illegal that oven eve should this rate in itself itsel bo hO legal another rate a higher commodity tariff applying from Evansville a point j along the tIle line traversed would make the cent 13 rate illegal |