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Show SETTLES LIBEL CASE SUPREME COURT DECIDES FA. MOUS PANAMA MATTER IN FAVOR OF NEWSPAPER. New York World Had Published Article Which Wm Objected to by High Officials of the Nation and Caused Sensation. Wnahlngton.- l!y unanimous decls-(on decls-(on the supremo court of tlio I'nlted States on Tuesday decided that tha federal f.'ovi riiiiu'iit ( (mill not main-lain main-lain the t-oiul! il 'Titnuni.-t canal libel milt" against tln I'ri'in PublUhlng company nf New York In the federul courts of New York. T!i Press Pule li. h'ni; company, publisher of the New York World. in indicted In March, UMD, In the circuit court ol t!.e 1'tilt (I State for the soul hern district of New York on u charge ol lib I. In effect, tlit ulli'Kt'il libel wal tlio publication of artHea stating that Charles I'. Tuft. DoiiKlart Itobtnson mill William Nelson Cromwell, with J. 1'it-r oii t Morgan Hint others, obtain-cil obtain-cil control of I he Panama ( anal route for nlioiit $.1,iioii,iM)o, ami through the ro operation of Thcodoro Uoosovelt then president of the I'nlted States anil brotlu r In law of Mr. Kobinson; W. II. Tuft, then aecretary of war and brother of Mr. Taft, were able to effect ef-fect Die rule of the Panama ranul to the l ulled Stated at A iiroftt of $3i. 0(10,0011. |