. Review of reviews and world's work. i would prevent the suspensionby the courts of rates made ])y tlie InterstateCommerce Commission pending litigation. Another Siapreme Court decision Testimony in . tit i , ^i i • i Anti-Trust handed down last month has especialCases. significance in view of the proceed-ings recently begun by the Government at Chi-cago against the packers combination. Certainwitnesses in tliis case against the packers and insimilar proceedings brouglit by the Governmentunder the anti-tiust law have claimed immunityunder an act passed, by Congress in 1903. TheSupreme Court c
. Review of reviews and world's work. i would prevent the suspensionby the courts of rates made ])y tlie InterstateCommerce Commission pending litigation. Another Siapreme Court decision Testimony in . tit i , ^i i • i Anti-Trust handed down last month has especialCases. significance in view of the proceed-ings recently begun by the Government at Chi-cago against the packers combination. Certainwitnesses in tliis case against the packers and insimilar proceedings brouglit by the Governmentunder the anti-tiust law have claimed immunityunder an act passed, by Congress in 1903. TheSupreme Court concludes, however, that theimmunity guaranteed to witnesses by that legis-lation is personal and individual, and that noperson is excused from testifying against a cor-poration with which he may be connected, oragainst the officials of such a corporation. Intwo cases brought against the General PaperCompany in Wisconsin and Minnesota the Su-preme Court reached a similar conclusion, andthe power of tlie courts to compel testimony in. the anti-trust cases seems to have been fully es-tablished. Protection of a corporation againstunreasonable search and unlawful discrimina-tions should, of course, be guaranteed, and whatconstitutes an unreasonable search or an un-lawful discrimination will have to be left to thediscretion of the court. Nevertheless, the handsof the Government in the prosecution of thesetrust cases have been greatly strengthened bythis decision. Statehood- SENATOR HEYBURN, OF IDAHO. (Author of the pure-food bill.) Next to the rate bill, the most im-for portant measure before Congress lastohiahonm ? ^,^^^^1^ ^^^s the Statehood bill, whichhad been passed by the House early in the ses-sion, and was amended by the Senate, on March 9,so as to strike out all reference to Arizona andNew Mexico. As finally passed by the Senate,the bill provided for the admission of Oklahomaand Indian Territory as a single State. Thecompromise suggested to the House involved anamendment pr
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