| Show GT NORTH RY flY CASE Jan 0 On behalf of ot the tho Standard Oil company Ally Atty All A U D I Mc Me MeI I of or this IsIS city today toda filed a petition In the III court of St tho the United States for tor breve to Intervene In the case casa Sr f tho Uto Great Northern railway Involving ing In the Iho Elkins J III linen fines for tor grunting gressling or on accepting rebates which was repealed by hy tho the railroad mil rit law ot or the last Congress Tho The same question IK is Involved In inc tine tho casts case caseIn In which Judge Landis Imposed t i e fine IIno of or on tho the oil company and consequently tho the decision In tins tin Great Groat Northern case will have a n direct bear benr bearIng lug Ing on In st the Ire Standard Oil ease cane The Tine Great Northern company was in indicted dieted Nov No 8 S WOO lilt for giving Hiving rebates Besides objecting to the tho sufficiency of ot the tho indictment on a i technical ground the tire company contends that tine the original provisions of tho the law under which It was wn Indicted was repealed by bytho tho Iho Hepburn act Tine The contention of tho the government Is that the tire original pro provisions provisions visions of or the tho law so 80 far as us necessary for the tire prosecution of or of or offenses tenses committed prior to the passage of tho tino Hepburn act were saved by sec sac section tion 13 IS ot of the revised statutes anti and fur Cur further further ther that the provision of or section 10 of the Hepburn act that the Ito amend amendments ments herein provided for tOt shall riot not ef of effect feet causes cameos now nov pending In Irn courts of tho the United States but such causes caulS shall be prosecuted prosecute to a conclusion In Inthe Inthe the thu manner heretofore provided by bylaw bylaw bYlaw law refers to 10 of ot procedure In courts of or the United States under tinder tho tine old ohl law JaW and was not Intended to 10 opel site ale as ns an nn extinguishment of penalties for Cor forfeitures or liabilities incurred under the tho old law The petition was granted and a brief will still ho filed In the case on behalf of oC the tho Standard Bonaparte i made no objection but said the govern government meat ment did not concede that the tire two cases are lire parallel |
