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Show ROCKY ROAD FOR REBATER8. American Sugar Refining Company O.MPd. qu.JJ.Vy ej Ac,cepjtlng Rebates,. Now York. Tho American Sugar Helloing company wns found guilty by a Jury In tho United States circuit court on Tuosdny of accepting jPf bates amounting to $20,000, from tho Now York Central railroad. 'Iho Now York Central was recently found guilty of giving rebates to tho American Amer-ican Sugar Hollaing company and fined $10S.000. Joseph II. Chontc, formerly ambassador ambas-sador to Ureal Itrltaln, In his argument argu-ment for tho defense in Tuesday's trial, declared that there was no precedent pre-cedent In American law for such an enormous penalty as tho statute against rebating provided. It was necessary, ha added, to go back sov-oral sov-oral centuries In Kngllsh law to find nn Instance In which a penalty amounting to moro than $100,000 hud been Imposed. Tho defense offered no testimony. |