Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-30
A BLOW AT POOLS.
Attornsy-GeHeraI HOgg Files Suit in
Travis County Against the Texas
Traffic Association.
The Sts'e OF Texas Asks Irju lon
against Waldo and Other Ofic,
OF the Association,
oo@oinatioD, Conspiracy, Contract Anss
'nersatp-COniroliinEr no Business
of Parallel and Competing Lines,
SPECIAL to the Gazette.

J AANAcA ohu L1nEH,
Special to the Gazette.
AUsTlN, TEX, March 27-To-day
/ Attorney-General Hogg on behalf OF the
state Sled suit in the District court of
Travis countp against she T xss Traffic
Assccis ion, }. Waldo Of Houston as
manager. The following roads are the
principal members OF the association:
Gulf, Colorado ard S4nta Fe; Texas and
| Pacific; Houston, East aad West Texas;
Houston and Texas Centrsl; the Texas
Centrsl; the St Louis, Arkansas sud
Texas; the Fort Worth and Denver and
the Missouri Pacific. The Safe asks
IL functions sgalnst Commissioner Waldo
and the Ulcers OF the association. In
tue suit the Attorney General ssys that
said Texas Tfalic Association subsists by
virtue OF inclination, conspiracy, con-
tract and copartneIship by and between
said defendants and the aforesaid foreign
railway companies. a copy Of said con
sEset ts hereto attached, marked exh biz
"a" and Is made q part hereof. It was
organized IN Texas In 1888
and was remodeled and reorgaDiZad in
September, 1887, by all the aforesaid
parties IS its members, with permission
10 all other railway companies so desir-
ing to join 1t. The association is con-
troiled and msnegsd by the servants, Of
fcers ard employees Of the defendants and
said other corporations, and they COM
pose the executive committee thereof
upon the basis OF one representative from
each member belonging to said assocla-
ton. The chief executive 6ficer OF the
committee Is called "the Commissioner
and the person now I'LL Nc said position
is J. Waldo, who Is citizen and resident
at Houston, Tex. The said Trsflc $500
citation, by and through it's exec. we
committee, claims the right to, and iE
fact does control and adopt arbitrary
rules and regulations governing the q
TARIFF, CHARGES AND RATEs,
and the division Of all the tre2c
including both freight and passenger
Business carried by the railway lines o.
The said parties belonging thereto, which
hss its origin or destination within the
state Of Texas. Thereby the tsrE rates
are fixed, the divisions If tire fIc and the
profits thereon made, and the rules and
regulations thereof adj pied by said exec
ative committee or by Inc commissioner,
when it has not acted. E.ch of the rail-
way lines and corporations herein before
mentioned are bound according to the
agreement of said $3.50 citation.
He goes on to say wherefore the state
of Texas, acting through her said
Attorney General, charges and seys
that said railway companies
BY their SAID CONSPIRACY, contract, COM
binstion and copartnersbip have formed
5 consolidation If parallel and competing
lines, and organized q monopoly that is 8
menace to commerce and Is in defiance
of and sgainst the constitution and laws
OF the state; that said contracts and 1850
cistion are IN restraint Of trade and the
common carrying fscililies OF the state,
and in deTogatiop Of the equal rights Of
all individuals, associations ard corpora-
tons to have persons and properly trsns-
nnrted over railroads; that, being COM
bi lation to fix their charges and
control the business for competing
lines ofrsilroads, they tend to prevent
iair competition AMI result In unjust
discrimination and enforce arbitrary
charges for traffic aud facilities for
transportation; that the association thus
formed and in all particulars Is unlawful
and II curious to the whole Etate and TO
the commercial markets competing ioI
her trade is agsinst pubite policy; Is
oppressive OF the agricultural, mercantile
aud gel eral business pursuits VI the
country, and subjects their prodac.s,
trade and comfort to tia power OF the
parties forming said monopoly.
THE EXECUTIVE CaalMITTER
OF the association Will soon De 10 esssion
again at Houston and its COM
missioner is daily Cooperating with
said committee and maDsgipg the traffic
OF Texas by, through Sad over defend
ants railway lines, sad threstons and
will continue to do seamless be and the
defendants are restrained, which eaD only
be done by the order "a This coC7t, as the
laws aEoEd no sufficient, AdeQuste remedy
therefce
Wherefore, your petitioner, il the nams.
Of the state of Texas pfaYs:
L. Sor process and servi9e thereof
against and on each of the defendants,
herein, and j. Weldo as SID comniss.
sioEez.
q That the sad contract Ga which ssid
ssosiatidA is forne d and tie several COR
TRAITS and sgre' nents belonging % OF
connected the-swssh, and I'll other con-
tracts, sgree Dsnts and ccabinaticns O
siBilar nature. between Esid defendants
ard each OF them their officers, agents
servants anctail other pa5iies NAV be an
| i ,ined by tho orders of shis coure until
/ nearing hereof, and perpetually therea5-
ter, from carrying or acting urder SAID
contracts and agres Rent, and essh
Of them, Ind any similar contracts, sgrss-
ments, understandings, snd from entering
| into an. further cont sets or agreens1ts
of that 3atSre, and from forming and act
| ing under Or In connection with any such
combination.
| 3. And Tor such. ether further or differ
ent -elief as may De or become necessary
or Pepper, and Ter al costs incurreds-
reason hereof. j. s. UoGS
Attorney General for the state OF Texah.