AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT
RAILWAYS AND COLLIERIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 11. President Roosevelt’s anti-corpora-tion campaign met with a sharp reverse by the Federal Circuit Court of Pennsylvania declaring that the commodities clause of the Hepburn Act is unconstitutional. Tho clause forbids tho railways to ship from one State to another, or abroad, commodities whereof they aro producers or manufacturers, unless such commodities are essential to their legitimate functions as common carriers. It is especially aimed at railway ownership of collieries. The railways affected own or control SO per cent, of tho unmined anthracite coal in Pennsylvania. The Attorney-General (Mr Charles.!. Bonaparte) will appeal to the I Tided States Supremo Court.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6624, 14 September 1908, Page 5
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