Business & Finance: Upset in Milwaukee

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Finally, after a day of questioning, hard-boiled Judge Geiger ruled: "It is my judgment that the Department of Justice did not have the power to negotiate with these parties for a consent decree during the pendency of the grand jury inquiry and that it was not proper for the parties to get together to deal on matters that were within the terms of probable indictments. For these reasons, there is nothing for me to do but discharge the grand jury. . . ."

Trust-Buster Jackson will now presumably start over again with another grand jury in another Federal district. Meanwhile last week his boss, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, took the matter seriously enough to send a protest to the House Judiciary Committee. Terming the case "not an isolated instance of arbitrary, unjust and unfair conduct on the part of Judge Geiger." Mr. Cummings declared, "this course of conduct is so obstructive to the administration of justice that I could not justify a failure to bring it to your attention."