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Show Shorly after the passage of the law compelling compel-ling newspapers to file and publish a report of their stockholders, the New York Journal of Commerce filed a suitin the Supreme Court attacking the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the law. Postmaster General Hitchcock, being personally opposed to the law, decided to refrain from enforcing the law until the Supreme Court should pass upon its validity. However, the new postmaster general, Burleson, decided that he would enforce the law until it should be declared invalid, and notified the Journal of Commerce to file its .report or be denied Supreme Courtw aJMBpiRi--and now the new postmaster general must Rtep his hands off until the matter is decided by the court. In the meantime, no paper need file itk report if it does not care to do so, the injunction prohibiting the postmaster general from excluding any paper -which may not file such reportY |