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Show SUPREME COURT DECIDES CASES Arthur P. Heinze Loses Proceedings Pro-ceedings for $15,000,000 Damages Against the Amalgamated. WASHINGTON, May 21. All the big anti-trust suits before the supremo court wore today orderod re-argued next term. This announcement by the court today to-day bears out the prediction that there would be no decisions in the great anti-trust suits at least until the country had readjusted itself to war conditions. Tho suits against the Steel corporation, corpo-ration, International Harvester company, com-pany, Reading and Lehigh railways and the United Shoo Machinery company com-pany are among the cases which go over. Court recesses for the summer Juno 11. WASHINGTON, May 21. Arthur P. Heinze, representing the Heinze copper cop-per interests, by a supreme court decision de-cision today lost proceedings for 15,-000,000 15,-000,000 damages under the Sherman anti-trust law against tho Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Copper company, the Lewisohn interests, in-terests, William Rockefeller and others, oth-ers, charged with attempted monopoly of the Montana copper industry. The court sustained dismissal of the Heinze suit The court, in an opinion by Justice Braindeis, affirmed dismissal of the suit by Now York courts, which hold that as mere stockholders of tho United Unit-ed Copper Securities company, controlled con-trolled by the allegcl "copper trust," the Heinze interests could not sue for alleged injury to the securities com-pan. com-pan. The Helnzes allege that in 1902 the Amalgamated company, tho Anaconda Copper company, Adolph, Leonard, Walter and Albert Lewisohn, William Rockefeller, the late H. H. Rogers, John D Ryan and James Stillman. with Marcus Daly, entered a conspiracy conspir-acy to attack the United company and secure a monopoly of Montana copper interests. As stockholders of the United company, com-pany, a majority of whoso stock was controlled by the defendants, the New York federal courts, in dismissing the Heinze suit, held that they had no capacity ca-pacity to sue for injury to the corporation. Compensation Law Decision. WASHINGTON, May 21. Tho New York workmen's compensation law, recently upheld as constitutional by the supreme court, was construed today to-day by the court as not applicable to workmen injured on ships while in New York navigable waters. The general gen-eral and federal maritime laws, the court held, are exclusive and paramount. para-mount. Railroads Must Pay. WASHINGTON, May 21. Federal laws prohibiting railioads from giving passes, the supreme court decided today, to-day, do not exempt them from liability liabil-ity to livestock attendants injured while traveling on a drovers' pass issued is-sued under the uniform livestock contract con-tract It was successfully contended that the droven pass was not gratuitous, gratuit-ous, but a part of the livestock transportation trans-portation rate and that the liability exemption clause was void. Missouri Lav Upheld. WASHINGTON, May 21. Provisions Provis-ions of Missouri statutes of 190D prohibiting pro-hibiting railroads from fixing higher freight rates for a short than a long haul, whether such rate discrimination is reasonable or unjust, were today sustained as constitutional by tho supreme su-preme courL Arkansas Minimum Upheld. WASHINGTON, May 21. Federal decrees holding the Arkansas minimum mini-mum freight and two-cent passenger rates confiscatory as applied to the SL Louis and San Francisco railroad were sustained by the supreme court today. Pover of Commission. WASHINGTON, May 21. The Interstate Inter-state commerce commission, tho supreme su-preme court decided today, has power to compel railroads to furnish "a reasonably rea-sonably adequate" supply of coal cars to handle "normal and seasonal" demands de-mands for interstate commerce originating orig-inating at mines along their line and to award reparation to shippers for failure to supply such cars. no |