Show I POINT WON DY BY King of Standard Oil Octopus Proven a Good Prophet B By Latest Development in Bij Big Suit for Rebating Rebating- JUDGE TAKES CASE AWAY FROM JUR JURY Says Government Failed t to P Prove Piove ove That Cent 18 Rate 01 or Oil From Whiting to Chicag Chicago Was Legal egal Rate RAILROAD THE OFFENDER t s o A I T Hf H 1 f 4 the line lino linous was wag H Hf f In m the the Oil 4 c C b by Judge K IC J 31 M. the thc 4 f- f Ul H tv o c i t nt nt- nt 4 J- J i one inc of lie Ih wiT HK H 4 K I.- correspondent ho had liati 4 h paned air Mr to Eu- Eu 4 t rope do down n to tu n Ga to tot t 4 him liin 4 Mr 11 talked quite 4 freely but when heu Mr 1 r. r Hooters Hooter's t Int v lc r lc was us 4 for for- rc Mr 1 Io cut 4 2010 worde vorde or ur more down clown t to hit hIs 4 sentence which s he lie PAll hald sum sum- uni- uni 4 and DriLl the thc lie ito 4 d his H s publican printed this authorized 4 v lc f a. a I will be bo dead a 1 along along Jon long line before lila tine line Is hi I paid 4 John D. D Rockefeller SaIl bald today f ft 4 u ut P t 4 44 t 4 t 4 4 tt t tO O 2 b n 11 th d gov government II the e C federal court today when Judge took tho the rebating so 80 from the tho hands of or the lh Jury Jun and to return a n. verdict of I them u. u cm the tho Jury not ot guilty In Instructing I garding tho the verdict Judge Anderson n decision which Is the down a n. delivered rc- rc ost far ever ever- art criminal prosecution pr of ship ship- rebates from rail rall- I per TB rs who secure as and ond according to tho United I practically r district attorney ne I wipe Ipes lp s tho the Elkins law off oft tho the statute 10 ltd ks Tho The decision of tho the court In favor vor Oil company tamo- tamo aa-a aa I a ot the District blow to States vera vero Counsel Sims and Special had dif dlf- and the they James mes 11 II In hiding the keen disappoint disappoint- them which oppressed ont ant Miller and Moritz Rosenthal I John ihn ho S S. S while not expressing or r the outward r defendant L LA c u k v wore elated over v r u tl u L l e fJ decision of or the courland curt I In In Interviews In- In had adjourned and after after court declared rel that toe lu this ad td t inc after the shipper shipper shipper-In case caso and others prepared by tho the gov gov- government 1 oil trustin trust- trust the tho shipper r In the tho in the face race of the tho fact that tIe the framed for the purpose of pro pro- promoting law was trade and that It was a self self- muting molln th UK evident Ident fact that had tho tha th carrier Alton railroad been Indicted a a. Chicago conviction could have been secured l I. I In n Judge Anderson n cr on In his ruling completely com coin reversed ro the rulings made mado b by Judge Kenesaw M. M Landis In the tho first Ju JO which resulted In th UK tho trial of ot tho the case caso r receiving a n. tine lint Standard t. Oil on company of ot 2 this Uis fine afterwards lo- lo United States les ng sot lt aside when hen tho the reversed the tho Circuit Court of or Appeals ls r th the writing ase aHe Judge opinion In i 0 ii 0 i talk to the Judge Anderson An In his that th the government declared iury lury to lo prove provo tho the legal a Bd ad att anti anil oil between Whiting Ind md L-ast L ate on St. St Louis was waB l IS cents and that thai the Chicago Alton road had hC hauled these points for tor the tre Standard Stand Stand- II 11 between six sis of or Indiana for company compan OH Oil ard ud the government I Lad Iad at tents cents but that t rate the IS cent rate or any an proven proVe rate ralo because US thrift I to be lIo the railroad sheet heet No 81 H filed by placed oil under tho ho Illinois classification classification schedule and cation In the freight ht rate rale tc to that this schedule was subject change chanse and therefore was wits not standa standard stand stand- a ard rd this tho the courts court's statement tc s I out that inai ino tue h v Ini-v pointed vu the lne Jury tariff road had hall to make mako its own Alton of ot and tho the Illinois Ill classification rates the tho railroad railroad rail rull- Ues Is prepared by b commodities commission of or and warehouse road rand arrived d at Illinois The 18 13 cents C rate ruto according to tho the by b the government through roush th a 3 process of circumlocution cir clr- court cou rt comes wh which Ich raises a reasonable I I Ithe rato nato being the cent 18 regarding doubt j railroad legal rate of or the tho the The Tho entire caso case Is so HO o surrounded with technicalities that the tho government govern govern- government declare that under I ment attorneys Andersons Anderson's ruling no railroad Judge has a a. le legal leal al t tariff rate te as required d by law although apparently doing so 80 and that therefore It Is 18 Impossible Impossible Im Im- mi- mi I possible for rol or the tha government nt to prove a h legal gal rate In any case This destroys the tho ettl efficacy nC according Attorney States District United Unit to Elkins the tho Sims and his assistants of or la law to so far ar ao as It relates to prosecuting which secure railroad rebates re ro- ro- ro trusts Attorney At At- At- At of or bates brates This Is also alo the opinion Miller who states that S S. torney John could have hac recourse th the government J aU ad Alton Aiton r Chicago the only against ti because It did not file Its lc legal al tariff tho Interstate Commerce rale rate with 1 I commission |