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Show OBITER " DICTUM i Whites Opinion Noth-! ing More Than a I Passing Comment I Now York, Iay IS. Alhert HrWalk- : H , or, author of "The History of 'tho 1 ''tll Sherman Law," 'discussing the 'sup-! cljl reme court's Standard Oil decision be- ' 4l foro the New York FraauceFofuni 'H here last night, Joclarod that the pro- 7H nouncoment of Chief Jtretice-White' iil interpolating tho word "unreasonable'' ijH Into the Sherman law, was not,' and Bl never will be, an opinion of th'e sup-' nl rcmo court, but was simply ,an,obIter Ell dictum expressive of tho chief" Jus- ftl tlce's private view. Tho present 'ex- H cltement aroused concerning tho'chlot Tl justice's argument, he said, Is -"but ll an unfortunate hysteria due'Wrely, ll to a misunderstanding of thd court's ftl ruling. fl "Tho 'surprising thing," he said,' "In ll view of tho tremendous excitement H that has been raised pro and. con is )fl that all this talk of Justice .White's - rl about 'unreasonableness,' does not 'H make tho law of the law of theland, iil at all, but is simply what we lawyers IH call an obiter dictum ,a discussion. ifl of a matter not before the court, en- lll tlrely gratuitous. It was merely' an 'iffl Insertion by Justice White of anpp!n- l'iJH Ion which he has been holding for fit- IHlH teen years and which did not'reprc- n H sent the law at all. ' (fv illl "The law was laid, down bytheBrip 1 jH jqme court fifteen years ago In the', i H Trans-Mississippi case, and in thati ' ? H caso tho supremo court announced) 'sl definitely in a law-making decision H not in an obiter dictum the', fa-' l ,verso of this obiter dictum." I . ' H oo l y ii ( |