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Show COURT DISSOLVES TOBACCO TRUST OTH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TRUST WIN IN CELEBRATED CELE-BRATED CASE. ftevsrnment Obtalna Dissolution of Offender Against Sherman Law, But Tobacco Company la Allowed Al-lowed to Reorganize and Point Way to Other Combines. Washington. In the longawalted decision In the case of the Tobacco trust which was rendered by Chief Justice White in the supreme court Monday afternoon, the government obtains an order for the dissolution of the coucern, which Is held to be a combination In restraint of Interstate trade, and the Hunt obtains opportunity opportu-nity to reorganize under the Immediate Imme-diate supervision of the circuit court of the Second New York district so that there may bo recreated, "out of the elements now comprising It (the tniKt) new condition which shall be honestly lu harmony with and not repugnant re-pugnant to the law." Thus both the government and the trust win. Tho government obtains the dissolution of this particular o lender against the Sherman law, but the Tobacco trust and all the other big corporations and combinations, wbloh collectively make np what are usually denominated "the Interests," get the very thing they have prayed for so long and ao hard they gut not merely a direction by the supreme court as to how they may proceed within the law, but also a command to the circuit court actually to show them bow to reorganize so as to "be to harmony with the law." |