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Show COLLUSION IS CHARGED Attempt Made to Get Review- of Decision in - Chicago Gas Case. CHICAGO, May 12. Collusion on the part of the complainant In the 75-cent gas case in order to make the United States Circuit court take jurisdiction of a question which it already had refused to consider, is charged in an answer filed in the Federal Circuit court by the city of Chicago to the bill of Darius O. Mills, a stockholder in the People's Gas ' Light and Coke company. Mills' case was filed . after Judge Orosscup decided that he had no Juris-. Juris-. diction to pass upon the power of the city to regulate the price of gas when that question was presented In a suit by the gas company. He ruled In this case, however, that the gas company has no contract to charge a uniform price of It for gas In Chicago, and his decision was affirmed. ' When Mills filed his bill the city interposed in-terposed a demurrer, but Judge GroBs-cup GroBs-cup took Jurisdiction on the ground that Mills Is a resident of California and a diversity of citizenship existed. He derided de-rided that the right to regulate the price of gas is vested in the State, and "not in the city, and the answer Just filed is a step toward securing a review of his decision. |