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Show Discuss the Decision of (he U. S. Supreme Court Washington, May 1G. The government's govern-ment's policy In dealing with "trusts" and combinations of capital, as it must bo shaped in tho light of the supreme court's decision in the Standard Stand-ard Oil case, was discussed by President Presi-dent Taft and his cabinet today. There waB a great rush, at tho clerk's office of the supreme court to-da to-da for copies of tho opinion Thero was not enough to supply the demand, but more will be available later. Although the full opinion of tho court totaled more than 20,000 words, Chief Justice White, to the surprise of all, announced at least half of It without aparently g'ancing at tho notes which lay before blm Evidently Evident-ly the Chief Justice had the opinion so well arranged in his mind that ho spoke iuwlthout help. The court, In declaring that the Standard Oil company of Nov Jersey and Its nineteen subsidiary companies were a conspiracy, and combination in unreasonable restraint of trade, did not condemn all great Interstate corporations an(l did not hold that "every" restraint ot trade was a violation viola-tion of the law In other words, tho court seems to have upheld the doctrine doc-trine that there are "good" and "bad" trusts and that the Standard Oil was "a bad trust" Thero was much discussion here today to-day of Justice Harlan's dissenting opinion, lie declared that there ought to be no recognition of tho difforence between "reason'ablo restraint," and "unreasonable restraint" by the supremo su-premo court, but that Congress ought to do it If it were to 'be done. "But the fact remains," declared Justice Harlan, "that until this day Congress has been satisfied with tho lav as written In this respect, and today to-day the law stands that every contract in restraint of Made Is Illegal." As on of the direct results of the decision, it is said that the federal Incorporation act. prepared by Attorney Attor-ney General WIckersham at tho direction di-rection of President Taft, may be brought up by tho situation created- by tho court's action and pressed for passage in Congress. Attorney General WIckersham may consider criminal prosecutions of tho officials of the Standard Oil company It is said that ih the event the Oil trust officials should plcnd Immunity ! under the statute of limitations, the j government could take the position that the combination in restraint ot trade was a continuing conspiracy until un-til tho moment tho court ordered it dissolved. . |