The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1911, Page 14

WCKERSHAM ADS OPEN NEW WAR ON BIG COAL TRUST oe Ask Highest Tribunal to Set Aside Deciston of the Lower Court. IS A MORGAN COMBINE Success of Action Will Mean |* Millions Saved Annually in New York, (Spectal to The Brenng World.) WASHINGTON, PD. C., Oct. 2—New York City’s big anthracite coal bill of $70,000,000 for 1911-'12 is Involved in a lengthy brief filed to-day in the United States Supreme Court by Attorney-Gen- eral Wickersham and bis special assist ants, James C, McReynolds and G, Car- | roll Todd. Following sertes of articles published in The Evening World, the Government has appealed to the highest court from a decision favorable to the Coa! Trust, which was handed down Dec. 20, 1910, by the United States Cir- cuit Court in the Pastern District of Pena ta. At a time when tidewater coal Is at the maximum price of $6.50 a ton whole- sale, the Government seeks to smash the coal combine as a, “conspiracy in restraint of trade.” ‘The railroads at- tacked are Philadelphia & Reading, Le- high Valley, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Brie Railroad Co,, and the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Co., desldes seven companie owned by these rail and mor than a score of cor and firm: who have entered into contracts with the same railroads for the output of the anthracite mines. Here is what the Government asks @ the United States Supreme Court: ALI. DEFENDANTS ENGAGED IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE. by defendant Reading Company ant railroads and their affili- companies control, restra! &nd monopolize the production, tran! tion and sale of anthracite among the States; and Joined from doing anything in purr @nce thereof, and especially from con tinuing the same by establishing and maintaining uniform prices for the pur- chase of coal from other producers, by trolling the production of other pro- cers, by receiving less than the pub- Mghed freight rates on coal sold to them and transported to New York harbor, by establishing and maintaining uni- ferm prices o tconsumers, or by any aimilar means. “Becond—That the @ per cent. tracts, so called, made by the © ¢ * with the various 1 ent Producers before thy Court, for the con- trol of their output, be adjudged to re- strain and monopolize trade, and that ull parties thereto, respectively, be en- folned from further carrying them out or entering into any similar contracts 0f arrangements restraining or monopo- Waxing trade in anthracite coal. “Third—That the control by the Read- fig Company, through stock ownership, ofthe Philadelphia and Reading Rail- way Company, the Philadelphia and Reading Swift & Company's aales of New York City for the week endi apt, 30, averaged 8. con- 1 ndiseé o be the public priced le ar to do for devote They have t values hitherto @ | > enemies that they be ens ‘oal and Iron Company, the sto > for everyboc the las to manage—no employee their entire ti merchandise at prices menufacturers,—so that Icontra Ratir Lehigh ar al Company be adjudged a restraint | | | Jo continuing the same, (ally the Reading Company rom voting or recelving divi- n any shares of the sald cor-| t otherwise exerci#ing any er them. | WANTS ERIE TO GIVE UP CON.! t i the | 1 uiso that in y be adjudged an unlawful eémbina Sixth—hat ft be shares of the ny, 1 Raliroad Company Wyoming Valle owned by the were acquired and are held tn viola- | § tion of law, and that the Erie Rallroad |? te enjoined from voting such shares and from receiving any dividends or other profits therefrom. “Seventh—That ft be adjudged that the Lehigh Valley Ratiroad Company and the Lehigh Valley Coal Company are in violation of law, and that each be en- Joined from receiving any profita from certain coal companies. Sixteen per cent. gf the output of the anthracite region of Pennsylvania 1s sold in New York City. This amounts to| | 11,000,000 tons annually. The Government | s that J. Plerpont Morgan was and is the guiding spirit of the coa) com- bine, and a part of its case ts the fol- lowing excerpt from the minutes of a famous coal meeting 1 THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1911. WALLSTREET ‘To-day'a stock market commenced the new week with the lull party having the the result of ea easily as the nd last week because whip hand, Prices rose bullish activity fall was aceomplis! of activit was In progress. » move upward with prship 0 tnion Pacific Pacific moved at TTT pint adva’ vltaly wa tn! tion to the declining 2% pointe. To somewhat from the bottom. y on the part of bears. firet hour of trading to-day was even stronger than the closing hour of Satur. y, when considerable short covering Starting generally higher, the lst pro- reports received very a n from the morning’# high | ef States Rubber was an excep- lency. On per-| sistent buying the common advanced The ity eel, Tending |, crossed 62, | stomach t 161 and Reads | until the ALMANAO FOR TO-DAY. | Bun rises, 6.56/Sun seta. 6.43/Moom sete A. M, THE TIDPS, High Wi Bandy Hook | Governor's I Hell Gate ‘Stomach Sufferers Squander Millions In Search of Relief. ‘The world 1s full of disordered stomachs, and 90 per M the money apent upon physicians and fain ‘and us gets his fee for the rugeiat for the physic, ne are exhausted and ard closing time pricga tallied Net changes were mostly fractional gains. Amal, Copper... 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