Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-28
L blow 1T POOLS.
Attorney General Hogg Fiss SUN in
Travis County Against the Texas
Traffic Association.
Tho State OF Tsxas Asks iDjupclier
Against Waldo and 0Eher Officers
Of the Assoc Atien.
Combustion, Conspiracy, Contract ana
rtDershiP.-oOBtrOlnng tho Busiress
OF Parallel tNG u mpeIInE Lines
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, March 81 To-day
Attorney-Genersl Hosg on oshalt Of the
safe fled suit ia the District court OF
Travis countp Sgai1ss the T Kiss Tr.fic
lssucia ion, j. Waldo OF Houston SIS
manager. The following roads are the
principal members of the association
Cult, Colorado and Sints Fe; Texas and
Pacific; II Iustop, East and West Texas !;
Houston and Texas Central; the Texas
Central; the ST Louis, Arkansas and
Texas; the Fort Worth ami Denver and
rhe Missouri Pacific. The s ate asks
uJ9uctlOns against Commissioner Waldo
AID lac III GERS Of the association, In
lis suit 'hs Attorney General says that
said Texas T;sffic Association subsists by
virtue Of com 9instiup, conspiracy, con-
'rsGt and c0p-rtReTsiip by and between
aid defendants Snd inc aforesaid foreign
railway companies. A copy Of said Coz
tract is hereto attached, marked exh bI
"a" ald Is N tde part hereof. Il wss
O7Eab z d IN FexsB In 1885
sBd Was remodeled and reorgspized In
September, 1887, ny Gil the aforesaid
parties es It's M II 5ers, With permission
20 all other railway companies so desi--
ing TO ,in Il. The association is con-
tr0lleo and managed BIZ the servants, Of
acers az 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 10 said sssccia-
ion. The chl,f executive n Ger of the
committee is called "the commissioner"
and the person now I'll ng said position
is Waldo, WOO IS a citizen and resident
1T Houston, TEX. The said Traffic Asss-
citation, ty and through its executive
committee, claims the right to, and IL
tsss does control and adop: arbitrary
rules and regulations @0verni2g the
TARIFF, CHARGES AND RATES,
snd the dlvlSon Of sll the tram
Including botn freight and passenger
business carried by the railway lines OF
lie szid parties belo nS'ng thereto, which
ass It's origin or deetination within tae
state Of Texas. Thereby the tariff rates
are fixed, the divisions Of ira lc and the
pr f:s thereon made, and the rules Eno
tegGlalions thereof sdCpsed by said exec
utive committee or BY the commissioner,
Sheu IL has not 6cSsd. E lch OF the rail
SaJ lines az CoroOrations herein before
mentioned are bound according to the
agreement of said association.
He goes OF to say wherefore the state
Of Te1ae, acting through her sal
Attorney General, charges and says
that said railway compani, s
oy their SAID conspiracy, contract, com
5ination and copsrtnership have formed
! consolidation Of parallel and competing
lines, and organized monopoly that is
menace to commerce and is in de 6snce
of and against the constitution and laws
of the state; thai said contracts and 1850.
citation are in RESTRAINT Of trade and the
common carrying facilities Of the state,
and. in derogatiOn Of the eQusl rights Of
all individuals, associations and corpora
lions to have persons and property trans
ported over railroads; that, beiu e com
5iDation to 1X their charges sn6
control the business for competing
lines Of railroads., they tend to preverI
iAir competition AMI result in unjust |
and enforce arbisrsr, |
charges for traffic and facilities for |
that the association thus |
formed and in all particulars Is unlawful |
and Injurious to the whole state and to |
The commercial markets competing 10 |
her trade is sgsinst public policy; is
oppressive OF the agricultural, mercantile
and geI eral business pursuits Ut the
country, and subjects their produc s,
trade and comfort to the power Of the
parties forming said monopoly.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Of the association will soon De In session |
again st Houston and it's COM
missioner Is daily cooperating With |
said committee and msnsgIDg the trs fflc |
Of Texas by. through and over defend
ants railway lines, and threatens ard |
will continue to do 30 unless he and the |
are restrained, which can only |
be done by the order Of this court, as the
avs afford no sufficient, sdsquG remedy
therefor
Wherefore, your petitioner, in the name
II the state of Texas, prays:
l. For process and service thereof
against and on each of the defendants
herein, and J. Waldo as said commits
'ioner.
Q That the said contract on which said
association is formed and the several con-
;ricts and agre, ments belonging to or
connected Herewith, and all other con-
;racts, agreements and combinations Of
similar nature between said defendants
md each Of them their officers, agents,
servants and all other parties may be en-
dined By the orders of this court until 8
rearing hereof, and perpetuslly thereaf.
er, from carrying or acting under ssid
and agreement, and each
" them, and any similar contracts, sgree-
nents, understandings. and from entering
nto any further contracts or agreements
Il that nature, and from forming and act
ng under or In connection with any such
s. And for such other further CT differ
mt relief as may be or become necessary
II proper, and for al costs incurred by
eason hereof. J. S. HoGG,
attorney General for the state of Te1ss