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Show DECISION AFFECTS NO OTHER TRUSTS i DETROIT, Mich.. March K Charles A. Prouty, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, Commis-sioner, said today: "I do not know what the program of the Government Is, but I don't believe that the Northern Securities' decision will result re-sult In the breaking up of any more combinations. com-binations. "In my opinion the Government should not begin any more actions' to try these combinations, but should regulate the rate. The public does not care how the roads are combined so Ions as the rates offered them are Just and fair. I doubt whether It would be Just to destroy such corporations corpora-tions as the Pennsylvania, for example, because the stock was bought by the public, pub-lic, who Imagined that the combinations were legal. The rights have become vested, and a hardship might result if the court Interfered. "It was absurd to announce the decision deci-sion of the merger Case as a great blow at the trusts. It affects no other combination." |