New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-28
ATTACKS PAPER TRUST.
MOODY TAKES ACTION.
MOODY
Suit against Western Combination
Filed IN st. Paul.

st. Paul, Dec. 27.-Attorney General Moody,
for the United States. through United States
District Attorney Haupt and Frank B. Kellogg
and James NJ. Beck, Special Assistant Attorney
Generals of the United States, late this after
noon, filed petition in the United States Dis
trict Court, in which he makes the General
Paper Company principal defendant, and the
Itasca Paper Company, of Grand Rapids, Mimi.
Hennepin Paper Company, of Little Falls. Mimi.
Wolf River Paper and Fibre Company, of New
Richmond, Wis; Atlas Paper Company, of APP
pleton Wis; Kimberly and Clark Company, OF
Neenah. Wis; Riverside Fibre and Paper Com
pany of Appleton, Wis. Wausau Paper Mills
Company, of Brokaw. Wis; Centralia Pulp and
Water Power Company, of Centralia. Wis; Com
bined Locks Paper Company, OF Combined
Locks. Wis; Des Paper and Pulp Company, of
Eau Claire, Wis; Grand Rapids Paper and Pulp
Company, of Grand Rapids. Wis; Menasha
Paper Company Of Menasha, Wis; Nekoosa
Paper Company, OF Nekoosa, Wis; the Falls
Manufacturing Company of Oconto Falls. Wis.
Fqambeau Paper Company, of Park Falls, Wis.
John Edwards Manufacturing Company, of Port
Edwards, Wis. c. w. Howard Company, Of
Menasha Wis; Wolf River Paper and Fibre
Company, of New Richmond Wis; Wisconsin
River and Paper Company, of Plover., Wis;
Tomahawk Pulp and Paper Company, of Park
Falls, Wis: Northwest Paper Company, Of
Cloquet MINI; Consolidated Waterpower and
Paper Company, of Grand Rapids Wis; Manu-
facturers' Paper Company; the Petoskey Fibre
Paper Company, Of Petoskey. Mich, and the
Rhinelander Paper Company, of Rhinelander.
Wis party defendants in suit to enjon them
and restrain them from doing business through
the General Paper Company as the sales agent,
in violation of the provisions OF Sections and
. Of the Act of Congress approved on July :, en-
titled an Act to protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and monopoles"
The petition alleges that the defendants en-
tered into an agreement to combine and control
the sale of the product of the different com
panies through the General Paper Company in
that the General Paper Company regulated
prices sales and shipment and territory for the
sale of the same, and, after deducting operating
expenses of the General Paper Company, di-
vided the surplus among the members OF the
corporation.
The petition recites that the General Paper
Company was organized under the laws of Wis
consin on May 26. 1900. with a capital stock OF
100000, divided into one thousand shares
which were distributed among and are now held
BY certain of the defendants named. and that
later the others were taken into the conolna-
ton naming them in the order IN Whlch they
entered the combination, and goes on 10 state
that the General Paper Company became the
exclusive selling agent for the defendants WIN
absolute power to control the output OF the
various mills, fix the price or all paper so!u anu
to whom and upon what terms and conditions
the paper should be sold, and into what States
and places it shall be shipped and what publish
ers and other oIstnnnersa each mill shall sGpDly.
The petition alleges that in consequence or the
combination all competition in the manufacture
sale and distribution OF paper had been restrict
ed and the price OF all paper products greatly
increased particularly that Of news print paper,
which has been increased about % per cent II
further states that no dealers or newspapers or
other consumers in the territory west of the Mis-
sissippi, with the exception OF certain newspaper
publishers in ST. Louis and Chicago, can pur-
chase any paper except directly through the
General Paper Company, and then only on
terms dictated by the latter.
The court is asked 10 declare the alleged com
bination unlawful and to enJoin the defendants
perpetuaIly from doing any act in pursuance Of
the said combination 10 enJoin the General
Paper Company from acting as sales agent for
the other defendants and the latter from con-
tinuing their arrangement with the General
Paper Company. The court is also asked to
direct the defendants to come !nto court and an
swer all questions relating to the allegations of
the petition as may be necessary.