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Show iiifir IT f H Bit FINE Ruling of Judge Anderson Cuts the $29,240,000 Penalty Down to Maximum of $720,000. Court Does Not Accept View That Each Car Lot of Oil on Which Rebate Re-bate Was Accepted Constituted a Separate Offense. Chicago. From Judge Landls' flno of $29,240,000 to a possible maximum flno of $720,000, 1b admitted to bo tho meaning of a ruling made on Thursday by Judge. Anderson, In tho retrial of tho Standard" Oil company, ot Indiana, for alleged rebating. The ruling wna Informal, but it almost certainly will stand. The court of appeals In ruling out Judgo Landls' great lino, eliminated tho view that each car lot of oil on which a rcbato was accepted, constituted consti-tuted a separate offense. There were 1,402 of these car lots, tho freight charges for which wero paid In thirty-six thirty-six different Settlements. Judgo Anderson Interpreted tho decision, de-cision, which ho said, served ns his guide, to imply that tho alleged rebates re-bates accepted alter each or tho thirty-six thirty-six settlements, constitute the units or offenBe. Judgo Anderson's ruling was a severe se-vere blow to District Attorney Sims. IIo and his assistant, JameB II. Wll-Korson, Wll-Korson, had argued that each of tho 600 shipments, mnklng posulhlo a maximum max-imum lino of $10,000,000, constituted an offense. This vlow, Judgo Anderson Ander-son declared ho could not understand. He saw no reason why, If a tralnload, or a car lot, wore regarded as a separate sep-arate offense, tho matter might not bq further divided, making a hundredweight hundred-weight tho unit, or a gallon, greatly increasing tho number of offenses nnd mngnirylng tho punishment. |