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Show i .... i.' . i . ... J ' T- : -x- ":., J.:"y S. " he law passe J by t:.e Lrc, ! Uure l,i.-t v, I:.tt r appropriating appropriat-ing ".0,0.0 to bi:::i an Independent oil refinery re-finery at Teru h ,s teen declared unconstitutional uncon-stitutional by the State Supreme court In. an opinion, rendered by Assoclite Justice Green. ' . , The oil refinery law wag considered one of the most direct blow ttruck at the Standard Oil company by the last Legislature, Legis-lature, which adopted several measure tending to restrict thMt concern In the !". ::;nar of tvp Kanm rrO.iot "I court hui..s th:tt ti.e .construction of the rti'.nery and ine brunch penitentiary peniten-tiary in connection with' it Is n violation viola-tion of th t;te Constitution, which declares, "The tetate shall never be a party in carryl: : on any works of Internal In-ternal Improvement." Th construction and operation of such a refinery, it is held, would be a work of Internal Improvement. The court reviews the discovery of great quantities of oil In the State, the S(ate's rapid development and "the general gen-eral public complaint that a particular corporation was unjustly manipulating the market of this product bo that the producer was being deprived of what rightfully belonged to him," and that a public demand had been made upon the Legislature to enact laws to protect the producer. The court, by Inference, criticise Gov. noch for using a scarecrow to frighten the oil trust, so called, and for Informing Inform-ing the trust that the thing he has set up Is a scarecrow. "The Indictment of the Standard Oil company," says the court," is no doubt true, and the provoca-tlon provoca-tlon was very great, but we must not make a scarecrow of the law. Gov. Hoch was greatly disappointed at the decision, and said: "Now that we have started it, I wanted to go on and run our refinery. We would have Becured more than its cost in the price of oil in a few months. If I had been the Supreme court I would have strained a point to have declared the law constitutional." |