Show NO iNO IMMUNITY BATH BAIl FOR ST STANDARD N ARD Dili r r r- y J H f I m t t t I Freedom Freedom- Jom FI- FI rb o Dirt rt- rt Wi r t t l the Trust a Sum Stun 0 of f 1 EIGHT INDICTMENTS STAND I 1 u Understand mis I Intentions ii o of Congress lC From I for fOI Corporation Chicago O Jun Jan 3 No No Immunity b bath th for the tIme Standard Oil OU company compall of Indiana If the corporation would separate Itself front from rom the accumulation I of financial filth that lint It has tale taken on onby onby b by years of rebating and arid other vicious means of stifling comp competition of or In- In In-I In d companies the courts are prepared to scrape away uway the dirt in inthe inthe inthe the form of a fine inc The Standard Oil company prefers thu lie dirt to the bath lath and announced l through Its Us lawyers today that that- It would carry the case caze to tho the highest t tribunal The decision was rendered by Federal Judge LandIs Land Is to toda to- to da tIny day The Tho government secured Indictment Indict Indict- ment Against the oil trust on a charge o of oC a accepting preferential railroad freight rates rotes Out of or the 10 indictments the thc judge found two defective The others will stand as rendered and the they include counts and an the Standard Is liable Hablo for or a fine tine of on ca each h. h Indicted The line Indictments were returned l under un Un- tIer der the amendment to the tho EU ln law la lawand and ond the Standard Oil company maintains maintains maintains main main- that if any law was violated I It H was th then tho old I- I law Jaw This statute the tho attorneys for the company I maintain was virtually repealed by tho the am amendment and the company therefore declines declares Itself Usel Immune Th The judge however takes a u different view The Fire object of congress he gal said was to establish uniform rates rales for of the tho United States The Conner former law of oC the tho United States Slates The Iho formed law failed tailed and by the amendment U lL was I strengthened I Tho court Is risked to hold that I congress Intended to pardon purdon all l prior offenders whose conduct moved mo tho the enactment of a more rigid measure said Judge Juge Lal The Tire I Judge regarded this as n. n ridiculous and overruled the It Is lu also urged that the tho Indictments Indict indict- fronts ments are aro bad bud because they thoy charge the defendant lant with securing Its legal rates rales on shipments beyond the carriers carrier's own lines he said bald Id The rIte court does doe not so o understand tho the law When a carrier published a 11 rate late the law regards regard It U as thereby announcing that It II hus has facilities for transporting freight between the time points scheduled lcd Whether a 0 part of oC this dis tance tanco Is lit covered over 01 leased lines or bv by a n traffic arrangement i is Immaterial J |