The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-11-16
One Month for Answer.

ST LOUIS NC NoNeuber Do THE
et't.on insritutirs suit against t-c stand
Hra oN Company ~ New jersey. Joan
o. Rockefeller and others. iu tae name
Of tae government ty direction ef the
Atforuey-oerrrI was fl.d il the United
States Circuit Court lero this morning.
Frauk b Kellogg. of - Paul. MINI.
SPECIAL colu-o. lor thc government. for
7nals lsaced mo petition with the court
The defendants have ore month in
additional month .u which to fle their
answer. They also hato tte option of
rIug 81 demurrer 10 the hN
Following Tho nlug ot tle governments
petition, an ORDER was applied Tor be-
fore Judges S4nhoru and Adams ~ the
United States Circuit Court OF Appeals
O. bring nonresident defendants into the
Jurisdiction 20 the District Court at ST.
Louis. % serve them with sGhpo-nas
T. is considered probable that @ special
commissions viii be appointed TO take
the evidence ln the case. and that ho Will
certify the record 10 the United States
Court of Appeals as was done IN tho
Northern Securities case
Result in Dissolution.
This suit was instituted in the name
- the United states by direction of the
Attorney General against John u.
y. Rogers. Henry N. Fagier. John =.
Archbold oliver ~ Payne. Charles NJ.
Pratt. and scventy-one corporations and
partnerships charging them with hav-
ing violated sections I ana OF the
Sherman antitrust act.
The government asks for an injunc-
tlon against these defendants. which. II
granted VIII resui iu the dissolution OF
the alleged combination.
u IS ALLEGED In the petition that
stes. The other individual defendants,
formed a conspiracy 70 nonopoilze
the commerce IN petroleum and It's
products az very early date-about
the year 1S7O-aud that the same
individuals have controlled the COM
binatlon during all these years. In
81 its forms, and now control Il.
u was, therefore. deemed wise to
state 10 the petition the complete
history and growth OF this conspiracy.
The form which such combination and
conspiracy has assumed. and the devices
ana practices employed 10 obtain con-
trol Of the business have. however from
tliue 70 time been subject TO change as
the Ind irioual defendants considered it
unost ellectlye for carrying out their
purposes The petition. therefore is log
icaiy divided into three periods. During
the nIst ono ot these periods. 10 Wit
from 1870 10 1852 the combination as
sumed the form OF q simple consr,irsf.y,--
that rs 10 say. the defendants with the
Stdnuaid Cll company Of Ohio which
they organized. purchased and obtained
Interests Ia by stock ownership and
Otherwise, and entered into agreements
With various persons. firms. cOrpOrations
and limited partnerships engaged h, tLo
same business. whereby they octed -
gtther 10 suppress competition and CON
troll the OH business. During the seccr5
period. to-wit. from 1852 to 1890 M
combination and conspiracy assumed the
FORM Of trust agreement, whereby
shout forty separate corporations and
limited partnerships. engaged IN the
same business. turned over the manage
ment Of their said business to nine trUs-
tees, Of which these individual defend
ants were the majority. So that these
defendants controlled all OF these cor
poratiOns and limited PARTNERSHIPS and
thereby eliminated the competition be-
tween the same. such trust agreement
having been declared Illegal by the Su-
preme Court Of Ohio in 1892. the trustees
tassed a resolution CissOlving the trugt
but nevertheless continued to manage
I'll Of the said corporations and limited
partnerships In the same manner until
sbandon the trust agreement, they placed
and limited partnerships which has been
previously controlled by the trustees
INTO the Standard oil Company OF New
Jersey, as a holding corporation. And
einca 1893 the Standard OIL Company,
~ New Jersey, has controlled ali the
Various corporations. purchased the
ftocks Of other corporations. and organ
Eed new corporations until II now has
g. said combination about seventy cor
toratcns.
Having stated tho general scheme car
fled out by these defendants. the pet-
don states the leading facts Of these
q orsantiallAS an Ninth PazA1