Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 17, 1912, Page 2

WILL DESTROY COAL COMBINATION Attorney-General Wickersham Bélieves Supreme Court De- cision Will Bring Relief to the Public—Railroad“Con- tracts For Output of Independent Mines Are Cancelled— Railroad Combination to Stifle Competition Dissolved. of and with the intent, not of normally and lawfully developing trade, but of restraining interstate commerce and lawfully developing trade, but of re- straining interstate commerce and competition in transportation, which would have presumably come about through the construetion and operation of the proposed competing line of rail- road between the mines and tidewater, Railroad-Coal Contracts. The court holds that: certain.con- tracts made with producers covering between 20 and 25 per cent. of the total annual supply of ccal, known as the 35 per cent. eontracts, by which such independent producers bound themselves to deliver the output of their mines or any other mine which they might acquire, to the railroad companies for 65 per cent. of the aver- age market price at tidewater, were also void because in violation of the anti-trust act as abnormal and il- legal restraints upon interstate com- merce. Court’s Decision Unanimous. Justice Lurton announced the unan- imous opinion of the court which for the purpose of this case, consisted of only six members. Justice Day took no part in the decision because of his absence from the bench when the case vas argued in October, 1911. Justice es refrained from participating in the action ef the court, because he was a special assistant to the attorney gen- eral when the coal business was first investigated by the government. Jus- tice Pitney was not on the bench when the case was presented to the court. Lower Court's Finding Upheld. The suit was sent back to the judges of the court in which it originated, the circuit court for eastern Pennsyl- vania, #r the enforcement of the de- cision. The finding of the lower court was upheld, except as to the contracts with the independents. The railroads concerned in the case were the Philadelphia and Reading, the Lehigh Valley, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, the eCn- tral railroad of New Jersey, the Erie, ‘Waghington, Dec. 16.—The supreme sourt of the United States today can- celled "as violative of the Sherman anti-trust law the contracts by which railroad owned coal companies in the Pennsylvanija anthracite fields had pur- chased the output for all time of “in- @ependent” mines. Attorney General Wickersham in a statement tonight expressed the be- lief that the decision “will so com- pletely destroy the combination which now controls the price of anthracite that it must result in a distinct meas- ure of relief to the public.” Ne Combination to Restrict Output Shown. The court also ordered the dissolu- tion of railroad control of the Temple Iron company, by which the princi- pal railroads and their coal com- panies were found to have strangled a project to put a competing railroad into the anthracite fields in 1898 and by which monopolizing schemes could be put. into execution handily in the future. The government failed, the court held, to show a “general combination” te apportion the amount of coal to be put upon the market annually by the various roads. The government's other charges as to a general combin- ation were characterized as “indefi- nite.” Minor Cases Dismissed. Minor combinations were held to have been improperly included in the petition of the government and the proceeding against them was dismissed without prejudice to other actions by the government. Attorney General ‘Wickersham was not prepared today to say whether he would direct new proceedings against these alleged com- binations. Railroads Violated Law. The court finds that the principal defendants did combine for the purpose of shutting out from the dependent line of railroads, the New York, Wyo- min gand Western railroad, and to ac- complish that purpose it is found that the stock of the Temple Iron company angd of the Simpson and Watkins col- [ anq the New York, Susquehanna and leries, was acquired for the purpose ! Western, e — GOVERNMENT TO HANDLE RECORD GRAIN CROPS COMMERCIAL MESSAGES. HARVESTED THIS YEAR. Wireless Station at Key West Opened | Eleven Principal Crops Exceed Last for Business Last Night. Year’s in Valus by $50,531,000. ‘Washington, Dec. 16.—Record crops of corn, spring wheat, oats, ‘barley, po- tatoes, rye, hay and rice were har- vested this year, according to the final estimates of the department of agriculture announced today. They confirmed the preliminary estimates made several months ago in ‘almost every instance. With a total of value of $3,911,449,000, the eleven principal crr;ps etSltI}rznated today exceeded the value o e same crops las ar $50,531,000. i e Corn, the greatest crop of all, went almost 200,000,000 bushels beyond the record crop grown in 1906 and sur- passed the 1911 crop by 593,258,000 bushels. The value of the crop, how- ever, was less by $64,000,000 than last Year’s, the price per bushel on Dec, 1 being 48.7 cents this year against 61.8 cents last year. The total wheat crop was 108,929,000 bushels greater than last year; oats, 496,039,000 bushels greater; barley, 63,584,000 bushels greater; rye, 2545, 900 bushels greater; huckwh'eat. 1:- 700,000 bushels greater; flaxseed, 8,- 703,000 bushels greater; potatoes, 127, 910,000 bushels greater: hay, 17,775,000 tons greater; tobacco, = b7 6,000 pounds greater, and rice, 2,120,000 bushels greater. § —_— ‘Washington, Dec. 16.—The first gov- ernment wireless station to be opened for the regular receipt of commercial messages is that at Key West, Fla, which by orders of the navy depart- ment begins tonight at midnight to handle such business. This is in ac- cordance with the recent act of con- gress which provided that commercial business should be handled at naval and army wireless stations when there was no commercial station within 100 miles. The Key West station has a power- fyl range practically covering the gulf and the Caribbean sea and the many points of the various West In- dian group of islands. It also will be the main point of wireless communi- cation with steamships bound to and rom Cuba, Panama, and Central and :th America. e rates of the government will be @ same as those charged by com- 1 companies, with a minimum words in a despatch, twenty per word for the ship and sta- harge, four cents additional per or the cable line from Key West mainland, and the usual land graph charges to the point of des- ation. All messages must be pre- paid, as the Berlin wireless conven- don provides against c?llect messag:s or for messages agreeing to make payment if.a responsive degpa.tch 1:’ RAILROAD EMPLOYES sent, The moneys received at the TO MI Key West station will be turned into _MI3% HELEN douLp. :l‘ametlrle;:euoruy! fi-%c:x%?su hereafter as | Tell Her She is Getting a Model Man Later the same system will be ex- and Congratulate Her. tended to other government wireless stations on the South Atlantic and | of"the aiionsy Prg, 1 Employes Pacific coasts, Porto Rico and Alaska, quarters of mex roag lfl:er8t tfl:]e e Heretofore some of these stationshave | t, Migs Helen M Gould tehisota}y sent handled private messages, largely as a of congratulation on the 81“91;-3::} her engagement to Finley J. metter of accommodation and without | ment of charge, but now it will be a regular Shepard: business. “You are very dear to the hearts of the Missourl Pacific employes and hence the announcement that you' are soon to become the wife of one of our number, a model man, whom we es- teem most highly, is exceedingly grat- ifying to each one of us. 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