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Show GOVERNMENT WINS IHMMKIH SUPREME COURT GIVES OPINION IN COAL CASES THAT PLEASES WICKERSHAM. Contracts of Railroad-Owned Companies Com-panies In Anthracite District With Independents Are Cancelled as Result of Court's Decision Washington The federal supreme court on Monday cancelled, as violative viola-tive of the Sherman law, the contracts con-tracts by which rallroadwned coal companies In the Pennsylvania anthracite an-thracite fields hnd purchased the output out-put for all time of "Independent" mines. Attorney General Wlckershsm expressed ex-pressed the belief that the "decision will so completely destroy the combination combi-nation that now controls the price of anthracite that It must result in a distinct measure of relief to the public." pub-lic." The court also ordered the dissolution dissolu-tion of railroad control of the Temple Iron company, by which the principal railroads and their coal companies were found to have strangled a protect pro-tect to build a competing road Into the anthracite fields In 1S9S and by which monopolizing schemes could be put Into execution handily in the future. fu-ture. The government failed, the court held, to show "a general combination" to apportion the amount of coal to be put upon the market annually by the various roads. The government's other charges as to a general combination combi-nation were characterized as "Indefinite." |