ANTI-TRUST CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13750, 12 September 1908, Page 5

ANTI-TRUST CAMPAIGN.

v m i A SEVERE SET-BACK. LAW DECLARED ITNCONSTITFi TIONAL. i ■ .. — ' • By Electric Telegraph .J-^Copy right. i (Received Sent. 12, 8.20 a.m.) [ NEW YORK, Sept. 11. ' President Roosevelt's anti-trust cam paign has, met .with a sharp reverse. The Federal Circuit Court at Pennsylvania has declared the "commodities claxisc" of the." Hepburn Act unconstitutional. This clause forbids railways to trans- | port from one State to another or to I send abroad* commodities of which they themselves are producers or manufacturers unless the commodity is essential to their legitimate functions as -common carriers. It was especially aimed against the railway companies' ownership of collieries. The railways affected own or control 90 per cent, of the unmined anthracite coal of Pennsylvania. » The Attorney-General jMr Bonaparte, will appeal to the United States Supreme Conrt against this decision. '