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Show OOWOKBM MAT STlBXOTrTBlf THE AMTI-nUSI 1AW NEW TOBK, May 0 One of th trst results of th u preme court' i d-ciaioa d-ciaioa ia th oil ease will b aa effort oa th part of radical Democrat and fiepubliraa insurgents to amend th Sherman anti-trust law so that th eourt cannot, la th future, distinguish between good and bad eombinatioa of capital, but will be compelled to difr eolve monopolies whether they b of the reasonable or unreaaonabl a- " Trie inaorgenta announced that thy would immediately consider the prepa-ratioa prepa-ratioa of aa amendment to tha law, while Senator Culberson of Texaa. colleague col-league of Senator Bailey, who commended com-mended th court' decision, .announced .an-nounced that he would co-operate ia any aueb movement, ". i . '". ' It if too early yet to forecast th course of th government with regard to other combinations, ia riew of th Standard Oil deeiaipn. It ha ben aaid at th Whit hone and th de- Jartment of justice for a long tim hat ther would he a determination of a general course of procedure until th decisions ia th Standard Oil and Tobacco cases had been rendered. Only an of th decision baa com down yet, and although thsr aeema to be a broad iatrprtatioB of th 8hnnan act, ther is Mill roat for variation ia th Tobacco deciaioa. Te ttempe a amend th flhrma law will b to strengthen it rather than ameliorate ita draetie provision. President Taft ha Toaatly let it be kaowa that h intend t recommend to eonareaa next winter, at th regular aeeeion, aom actioa along th lia of a federal iaeorporatioa bill. Thar i; aa doubt that if th decieoa today had been along th line) of reasoning of Jastie Harlan, th president would hav fonad it aa admirable argument ia faeer of hi federal iaeorporatioa proposition. But ia th light of th eourt 'a opinion th Miermaa law seems to have lost much of ita terror for eombinatioa and big corporation. Ther was much discussioa her tonight to-night of th effect of today' deciaioa oa the Tobacco case, whfh is (till to com. There wer etrong spr-eione spr-eione of th opiaioa that it foreshadowed fore-shadowed a templet victory for th Tobacco trust, aad that th decree of th eirenit eoart would b reversed. Senntor CuLberaon of Texas, who ha givea clot atteatioa to rack matters, wss decidedly of this opiaioa. Born of th representative of the big businesses wh were ia th courtroom court-room held th earn view. I This opiaioa was based oa the lda of th eoart with resreaee to th reaaoaableness f trad restraint. Th repreeentatiya belieee that th eourt will gad that tha Tobaeeo trust doe aot xreiee aa arsonsbl restraint re-straint npa interstate eommeree. |