| Show lilt TRAFfIC TOOL The full text t of ti Supreme court decision on railway pool Is awilttd With great interval 10 railway circles loco ao al IftfaiA understood II blanks up all combinations bilwetu railways by which uniform lan rot ps euger and freight trsfllc me main 1luoo find oomll eoh 0110 to Independently Of Oil there olnli There now seems to be question that the decision case to Hut extent and that very agreement bilwtcu railways to maintain a common rate to goveiii the action of all In sttlc matters It unlawful Tbe suit which icacloj fluul il > clilou this weak wall IKCUII la lCaness five ytars age the traffic tool proceeded against tolug known as the Transmlkiourl aisoclatloo and lu eluding the following tullwayi Atcbl anTnpeksoapd Santa Ft UI h cl lUoai ooJ Tcxu Ublogo It sis and Ntbratuii Chicago and Itick Island Chicago HI Paul 1 Mlnneapoll and Omnlia llurllngton In Nebraiki Denver and Itio Grande RIO Grande Western Deliver Texas Rod Fort Worth Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Memphis Route HI Joseph and Council BluO Mln = url Pacific Hbo City and IViclflc Bt Joseph and Grand Island Frisco Haute Union rclflc and Utah Central 81 Red the commencement of the suit the Trans mlBluii asjoclatlon hot been ills solve d and another similar comblua lloo entered Into Tbe rallwnjs won lu each of the lower courts successively anJ there was a fscllog of Jubilation In tome quartets over what was astumel lobe certainly of victory In the higher court But tills was not to be Upon every point In the uintentlou the decision de-cision Is ajveria to the ora itu I a thin The ruling of the court np pllim not only to railway but to very a < eoclatl9u or comblntlloo t j all agreement which are lu restraint of commerce the language of the statute 1s that every contract combination com-bination the form of a trust or otherwise other-wise or conspiracy reslralut of trade or commerce among the Several states 1 or with foreign nations Is I hereby deed de-ed to bo Illegal Uon this Ian guago berG 11 the wy the But rtme u Erlt metals ILI alpllcMlolI Thoconclu4ionwhich wo b love drawn < from nmlUIIII Into the qUUolI ho lore us is that tit ounittrula 11 rallroadsand that uIt rondo ap0sa101 agreements which are Itirestraltit 01 trade or eonnoco aii wo havo above dooo < that ex prossion and ho question then 1IIe whether tho agreement before ulo 01 that nature kinds tile agreement restrain Ulldo or oomllloco In say way so as 10 bo a vllatlon of Ibo oett Wo have no dOllh that II < done The DKOO nient on 1M face I rocllo that It Is centered into for tile PIIPOHO 01 mutual protoetiolf by establishing IIO i W f foaoon li auto I rates relo1 all regulatioll oil till freight luW both through and local 10 that and tile aoo elallon is I formed Dod a body c rem of = which Is 10 adopt r ulo wblcb ml hen agreed 10 a to to be ho lIovolng rates for till the cOlUpIIII08 mud a violation 01 which sublecto ho dollulllnil company 10 a pymol1l 01 a 100lIy and although tile parlbui have it rlghl to wlllidw from tLoagrcemont on lIving thirty clays lint on of a desire so to do Yet bile fit force sit 3 tuietning it to be lived up 10Iheo cn bo no doubt that its threat Immediate ana 116cey olfoe 10 10 put a loaln upon trade or com mrco 01 described III the act From this language the ruling forms toba very broad III I Its soopt yet U Is not to bo understood at having an application ruinous ItirallrotJ bust nets as some Boom to think At the nm i time It nppcara to bo of Euillolont force to give a death low to trusts er pool which eliminate cimpolltlo In rain from railway business procedure |
