A SET-BACK.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 217, 12 September 1908, Page 5

A SET-BACK.

MR ROOSEVELT -AND THE TRUSTS,

LATTER SCORE A POINT,

[press association.] (Received Sept. 12, 1 a.m.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 11

President Roosevelt's anti-corpora-tion campaign met with a sharp reverse by the Federal Circuit Court of Pennsylvania's declaring the commodities clause of the Hepburn Act unconstitutional.

The clause, forbids railways to ship from one State to another or abroad commodities of which they are ducers or manufacturers unless the commodity is essential to their legitimate functions as common carriers. It especially aimed at railway ownership of collieries. The railways affected own or control ninety per cent, of the unmined anthracite coal iaa. Pennsylvania.

The Attorney-General (Mr Bonaparte)- is appealing to the United States Supreme Court.