St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 6, 1913

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_—--_ ZERO TONIGHT AND SNOW PREDICTED: Gt SHEATHES GITY Many Persons Are Injured by Falls on Slippery Streets— One Woman Is Near Death —Cars Run All Night— Lines Kept Open — Night Made Vivid _by Trolley Flashes.

OFFICIAL FORECAST. rEMPERATURES.

“eee #e ee we ee & -* ICE . SHOULD “WORRY! Official forecast for St. Lauts and vicinity: Snow and ft colder this after- noon; cloudy ani colder tonight; | lowest tempera- ture about zero; Tuesday fair and continued cold. Missour! — Cloudy and colder tonight; Tuesday, fair and continued cold, Iliinois—Snow flur- and cold wave tonight: Tuesday, generally fair, with colder in east por- tion.

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Zero weather is predicted for tonight or tomorrow morning, following a heavy storm of sleet which marked the arri- val of winter in St. Louis. The morning. A misty city was glazed with ice this rain, which began to fail early yesterday, turned to sleet late in the afternoon, making the footing so rrecarious that at least 14 persons suf- fered broken bones as the result of falls en slippery sidewalks. An army of men employed by the United Railway Co. worked all night to keep the trolley lines cleared, so that there might be as little traffic delay @s possible at the going-to-work hour. Schedules were fairly well maintained, though there were occasional block- ades. The placing in commission of 73 new cars alded in keping the princi- pal east and west jines open. | As an additional precaution, more than 300 cars were kept in operation § al! night, and extra ‘trouble’ crews were busy repairing wires broken by the weight of the sleet. In the parks and in the residence dig- ‘ricts the trees were covered with ice in fairy-like traceries, making a rare and beautiful spectacle. St. Louls at 7 a. Mm. was Warmer than other cities in the Central West with a temperature of 22 degrees at 7 a. m. At Kansas City the temperature was $§ degrees and at St. Joseph it was 6 de- grees. The sleet storm extended throughout Northern Missouri and the upper Ohio Valley. Rain was falling over the

NEW DECREE T0 BE DRAWN UP IN

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Judges, Not by Supreme Court Rules That Its Dect ion Should Be Enforced by Circuit

CROW’S POSITION UPHELD;

Sanborn, Hook, Adams District Judge. 4 JUDGES TO DRAW DECREE and Smith Will Make New Start in Settling Litigation, Highest _ ' Court Holding That Expedition Act Was Not Repealed by New Code,

effect a year ago. Government officials say this will be decisive of the point raised by navi- gation companies in Alaska, law and officials of the United Shoe Machinery Co., under similar charges that the criminal appeals act was re- pealed by the code. The effect of these claims would be to prevent the Supreme Court from re-{ viewing decisions of lower courts which annulled counts in indictments against the parties.

New Start Must Be Made in Prepara- tion of Terminal Decree. The decision of the Supreme Court means that a new start will be made in the preparation of a decree interpret- ing the decision of the Supreme Court, holding the Terminal Railroad Associa- tion an illegal combination in restraint of trade. Judge Jacob Trieber of LAttle Rock sitting for Judge D. P. Dyer of St. Louis, prepared a decree to which E. C. Crow, as special counsel for the Gov- ernment, obfected. His principal ground of objection was that the decree written by Judge Trieber recognized the bridge arbitrary, instead of abolishing it. Crow contended that it was the intention of the Supreme Court that the bridge ar- bitrary should be wiped out at St. Louis, and be appealed from Judge Trieber’s decree on several grounds. He took the view, in the first place, that Trieber, as District Judge, had no jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction should lie with the Circuit Judges. ' He sought to have the circult judges assume jurf{sdiction, after Judge Trieber had prepared his decree. the circuit judges were divided in their opinion as to whether they should assume juris- diction, and Crow took his case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court sustained his po- sition. The four circuit judges, under the decision of the court, will have to proceed with the preparation of a de- cree to carry out the original decision of the court. “This is an important victory for the Government,”’ said Crow to a Post-Dis- patch reporter. “It means that the Ter- minal case will be promptly settled. As soon as I get a copy of the opinion of the Court, I will appear before the four Circuit Judges and make a motion that they prepare a decree. i ad with violating the Sherman anti-trust Me

“The decision fully sustains my post- tion that the Terminal case should have been disposed of by the four Circuit Judges who originally heard it. cases, Sugar Trust cases. It very likely mean that the Circuit Judges and not the District Judges will have to prepare the decrees in those cases to carry out the directions of the Supreme Court.” The four Circuit Judges are Sanborn, oHok, Adama and Smith. CARRIERS WIN BIG CASE IN U. S. SUPREME COURT Contracts Limiting Liability for Loss of Shipments Subject to Interstate Laws. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Fallroads and express companies today won an im- portant victory in the Supreme Court when it was held that contracts limiting to small sums their lability for loss of shipments were not subject to &tate laws but to intersta we It was further that

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The Supreme Court today announeed the decision that the United States Judges of the Eighth Circuit and not the District Judge in Missouri, should enforce the r | decree of the Court holding that the St. Louis Terminal Association has violated the Sherman anti-trust law. In so holding the Court decided that the ‘‘expedition act’’ aii? thorizing the calling together of Circuit Judges to pass upon im- portant cases was not repealed by the judicial code which went into * ‘oak

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PATTEN COTTON contrast U. S. Supreme Court Decision Is’ That Control of Any Com- modity Violates Law,

WASHINGTON, Jan. ¢6—By upholding certain disputed counts against James 8 ¢ A. Patten and others, charged with A violation of the Sherman anti-trust law in running a so-called cotton corner. the Supreme Court today sent the ¢ass against the men to trial in the lower courts. Patten, Eugene G. Scales, ‘Frank > Hayne and William P. Brown were in- dicted in New York on charges of eon- spiring, Jan. 1, 1910, to cOrner cotten by extensive buying on the New York Co ton Exchange as a result of which price would be enhanced and ultimately bring arbitrary and excessive prices.” The conspiracy was described as cal- culated to yield $10,000,000 In profits, The alleged violation of the Sherman law was set forth’in the indictment fh eight different ways in as many counts, the defendants being Mable for trial on any one, but the United States Circuit Court for Southern New York held four counts insufficient as not stating an offense. The Government appealed from that decision to the Supreme Court, Because of similarity in the counts held insufficient, the controversy in the Supreme Court narrowed down to the validity of the third and seventh counts. The third count had been attacked cessfully as insufficient because it ly stated an alleged conspiracy to cotton, and omitted to oharge ments to withhold cotton or to sell tn any particular manner. The lower oourt said the defendants were not charged with “power” to control the market. The seventh count was the one epé- charging the defendants with cifleally running a corner” on cotton futures, The lower court held that such a eor ner did not produce effects direct The | enough on interstate commerce to bring decision also will have an important |'!t Within the Sherman anti-trust law, bearing on many of the big merger} The Justi¥e sald the Government had auch as the Union Pacific and | cone eded in arguing the case that wil} | order vs to effect a corner there must a ‘withholding’ from sale of the cotton bought. Therefore, he gaid, the versy turned upon whether the ment charged a “withholding.” Ags to that point, the decision of the lower court could not be reviewed at thig | time. the Justice added, although mo int might be reviewed tf the ceeded with. For the decision of the lower court on must be accepted @s correct,

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