Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — DECIDES CASE AGAINST MONON. [ARTICLE]

DECIDES CASE AGAINST MONON.

Transportation Must Not Be Exchanged for Advertising, Says IT. S. Circuit Court. Chicago, July 15. —"If it be lawful to make the exchange of railroad transportation for advertising then It would be lawful to do the same in every eransaction and the railroad business might lawfuUy become one of barter and sale, limited only by demand.” In a decision handed down today by Judge C. C. Kohlsaat in the United States Circuit Court, from which the foregoing is quoted, the jurist enjoined the issuance of transportation by the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company to the publishers of Munsey’s Magazine in exchange for advertising. The decision was rendered in a test case in which the Federal authorities brought suit to prevent .the carrying out of a contract entered into fn January, 1907, between the railroad company and Frank A. Munsey & Co., providing for the issuance of trip tickets or mileage to the value of SSOO in consideration of certain advertising space in the publication of the magazine company. The contract was be a violation of the Hepburn /A.

The Monon is about the only railroad in the country that has continued to issue transportation in payment for advertising space in the * newspapers since the Hepburn rate went into effect* it contending that congress had no power to say that it should not do so. H. R. Kurrie of this city, who is attorney for the Monon, had felt all along confident the decision of the court would be in the road’s favor. The case will be appealed to the U. S. Supreme court, and in the meantime no more transportation, will be * issued on advertising contracts, and it is likely the road Will advertise less and the newspaper , men will travel less.