Show II U vS S SUPREME m COURT COUnT Decides Hooks Published Periodically cally caly tie Are Not Second Class Mutter Matter Washington April 11 rh 0 United States supreme court c today decided thai books published periodically are not en ell entitled entItled titled to transmission the malls ns as second class matter maUer The Tho opinion was delivered dell by Justice Brown Drown ani and covered cOer d three thee cases ulles against the post postmaster ost master mastel general Instituted respectively ely by company Smith and others and hates Dates ail Gil The Ilie Justice and amid Justice harlan dissented Tho The question decided 1 has mas been tho the subject of long hong controversy between tho the department anti the tho publish publishers pUblisher ers er before Congress and In III toe depart department department ment meat For 10 lii years eRrs and under nailer 11 post postmaster master muster generals these the o publications were carried an lis O second class matter flintier thong under protest from the tho department am anti with many efforts to have tho the low law modified or ur repealed but without sue suc success cess eeM Falling In this the tho postmaster llo general issued an en order In 1902 excluding tug ing tho thin books from front tho the second class rate Thereupon the thc matter was Willi takei to 10 the tho courts tho the effect being that the ter general was vas sustained by the tho final decision ns OB rendered today The United States s supreme court cunit to today day decided tho the case COSI of ot tho tito suite state o ot of Minnesota vs 11 tho the Northern Securities company slid mul the tho Northern Patillo nm and Great Hallway companies lump In the tue validity or of the merger o otho of tho the companies holding that I Iwan It wan tIts without Jurisdiction and reversing tho tim opinion of the tue court below Justice who delivered the tho opinion that the circuit court should not lot have entertained jurisdiction In III tho tue case tho the effect to remand tho tIme c to tho tie Bluto courts Tint Tho United States supreme court to today day decided tho tha New York ork rase case against W V late Into III to chief of or tho time and allowance division of ot tho the department It was lliS nn nil Oil Lou i a mt derision ion by h I tho circuit I t court for or tho district of If New Ne York refusing to tl grant a n writ oC cor cur corpus pus 1110 1 IS |