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Show WALKER'S VIEW OF ' RECENT SUPREME T DECISION .... White's Interpolating "Un-reasonable" "Un-reasonable" Into Law Is Declared Obiter Dictum. NEW TORK. Mar 1 Albert H. Walker, Walk-er, author of "The. History of the Sherman Sher-man Law." dlacusslna the supreme court's Standard Oil deeiefoh before the New Tork Finance forum here last night, declared that the pronouncement of Chief Justice White. InternouUInc tba word "unreasonable" Into the- Sherman law, waa not. and never will be. an opinion of the auoreme court, but waa simply an obiter dictum expreaelve of ths chief Justice's, private view. The present excitement ex-citement aroused concern In a the chief. Justice's anrumrit. he said. Is but an unfortunate un-fortunate hysteria due merely 1o a mlsun-derstandlna mlsun-derstandlna or the court's ruling. 'The surprtslna thlna." he said. "In view of the tremendous excitement that has been raised pro and con Is that all thia talk of Justice Whlte'e about un-reeaonahleness.' un-reeaonahleness.' doee not make the law of the land at all. but la simply what we lawyera call an obiter dictum, a discussion discus-sion of s matter not before the court, entirely eratultoue. It waa merely an In sertlon by Justice White of an opinion which he haa been holdlns for fifteen yeara. and which did not represent the law at all. , . The lew was laid down by the supreme court fifteen years ago In the trans-Mls-eourl rase, and In that raee the supreme court announced definitely In a lawmak-Ina lawmak-Ina -diction not In an obiter dictum tbe reverse of this obiter dictum." |