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Show FEDERAL TRADE , FULL AUJHOHITY. Justice Bailey Declares Powers j Sought "Vast and Unprecedented. " I WASHINGTON. April ID. The su-j prfiuc court of Iho District of Colum--bi? ruled today that the fedcrrl tni.le' com mission was without authoiity to jnforce its order requiring monthly re-jnoiis re-jnoiis of production costs from coal mine companies and ulher indiistrier.. . I In sJ"i'ntinS application of'lho May-naid May-naid Coal company if Kentucky and! (Ohio for an injunction to restrain Ihel (commission from proceeding to collect; a penally of ?100 a day for eery day of failure to report, Justice Bailey de-1 '?laifd that the powers the commission! (nought wrre "vast snd unprecedented"! jaml beyond the province of congress ito convey. The court's decision af-j : frets virtually every mining and manufacturing manu-facturing company in the country, it; i was said tonight by corporation law-j ' J f r.'- I j Justice Bailey held that if the business bus-iness of the concern from whioh pi'O-l liluction cost reports were iemaiided I was entirely in interstate commerce the commission's claim of authority I might be valid, but that in the May-1 jiiard case the commission obviously i v. as demanding information .'rom a I company whose business was both in-1 jtra-siate and interstate j J. S. Foster, general counsel for thei National Coal association, declared in a statement that the decision was far-, reaching. "If the contention of the commission commis-sion had been sustained." he said, "it would necessarily follow that the commission com-mission had the right to require not only such detailed reports of coat of production from coal operators buti from all manufacturing' and commcr-1 cial concerns which ship any portion j of the products or articles in which they deal in interstate commence and would force all such companies t ) report re-port in detail every item of cost and i profit, as well as their financial condition," |