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Show HIDED BETTER 111 IE KB WRITTEN OPINION OF FRAMER OF ANTI TRUST LAW PRODUCED IN DISSOLUTION SUIT. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts Said There Could be no Conviction Under the Law, Yet Pool Was Broken Up. New York Kvldt-nee that the late Senator Ceorge k. Hoar of MaK.nchu-eelts, MaK.nchu-eelts, who framed the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law, wrote an opinion one year after Its enactment which held that teel manufacturer who entered pool I agreements to fU price, regulate output out-put and divide profits could not be ' convicted under tho law, came to light ' Monday at the hearings of the government govern-ment dissolution suit against the United Unit-ed States Sled corporation. The letter let-ter written In 1891 at the request of j wire iiwiniiracturers who proponed to form such a pool was put n evidence ty the attorneys fyr tho corporation In connection with, th, lt',lajony oi a K?l,m " "W. halrmnn of n.. i...oa, saying that in the early jUya of the steel indi;; it M v-r 5- e4 ity ateel manufacturers ra aw. yers that pools were Pgi, Three yean ago pools of wlr. manufacturer were broken up the government under the law and their members Indicted In-dicted and. fined. |