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Show ROCKY ROAD FOR REBATERS. American Sugar Refining- Company 'round Guilty of Accepting Rebates. New York. Tho American Sugar Refining company was found guilty by a jury In the United States circuit court on Tuesday of accepting rebates re-bates amounting to $20,000, from tho Now York Central railroad. Tho Now York Central was recently found guilty of giving rebates to the Anier 'lean Sugar lleflnlng company ami fined $108,000. Joseph H. Choate-, formorly ambassador ambas-sador to dreat Ilrltaln. In his argument argu-ment for the defense In Tuesday's-trial, Tuesday's-trial, declared that there was no precedent pre-cedent in American law for such an enormous penalty as the statute against rebating provided. It was necessary,, he nddod, to go back sov-ernl sov-ernl centuries In Kngllsh law to find an Instnnco In which a penalty amounting to more than $100,000 had been Imposed, The defonso offered no testimony. |