| Show UNITED STATES SUPREME suit against a combination subcommittee of the heuse on appropriations meets t washington fortifications estimates washington dec 1 one of the bet down for argument this week before the supreme court of the united states is that of the euit of the united states against the traps missouri freight association and the fifteen railroad companies the organization to dissolve the association as being in contravention traven tion of the trust laws and also of the interstate commerce law the government wae defeated in the courts below and the attorney general appealed from the judgment of the court of appeals fur the eighth circuit the decree of thit court was by a majority of the bench judge sanborn delivering the opinion concurred in by judge trayer while judge shiras dissented in the meantime however the freight association has been voluntarily dissolved and it ia a question whether or not the court will consider tho case at all inasmuch as there can be under these conditions no relief afforded the government notwithstanding this a brief in the case was today filed hy W A guthrie Gul hrie solicitor for the burlington and missouri river railroad company in nebraska Neb rabka one of the defendant corporations |
