Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-07-19
Judge Waddill, Sitting in the
Fertilizer Cases, Decides
for the Government
DEFENDANTS MUST GIVE BAIL
Case Will Be Concluded BY Prepare
ton of ReCOrd-NumerOuS Ar
ray Of Counsel for Fertil-
izer Companies.
Richmond Times-D Dispatch.

United States against the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company and
others in the United States District
Court yesterday, Judge Waddill pre-
siding, were intensely interesting.
1t having been published that at
II o'clock yesterday morning the
United States government, through
it's special Assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral, Edward L. Sanford, of Knox
vile, Tenn, would ask Judge Wad-
dill for warrants of arrest of certain
prominent citizens of Virginia and
their removal to the Middle District
of Tennessee for trial on indictments
for conspiracy in restraint of trade
and commerce, a large company OF
legal luminaries and private citizens
were on hand in the Federal build
ing yesterday morning to take note
of the unusual proceedings.
Some weeks ago a grand jury OF
the United States District Court for
the Middle District of Tennessee, sit
ting at Nashville, after weeks OF
careful investigation, brought in a
lengthy Indictment against a half
dozen or more fertilizer companies,
supposed to be in a fertilizer COM
bine, and against about thirty ofic-
ials of the companies named, charg-
ing them with various and sundry
violations of the Sherman antitrust
act Of Congress.
This Indictment, a certified copy
of which was put on file yesterday
morning in Judge Waddill's court,
is a lengthy document, covering sew.
enty-four closely printed pages.
The Indictment charges nearly all
of the fertilizer companies doing bus
mess in the South with being in a
combination in restraint of trade,
and calls upon them as companies to
stand trial in the United States
courts for that violation of the law.
It also charges various and sundry
officers of such companies with Grim
inal effort in violating the Sherman
law. These indicted fertilizer max
ers and dealers are scattered through
out the Southern States, and some OF
them are in Northern States.
It may be said that they are scat
tered from the Gulf to Canada, and
the object of the government now is
to have them all arrested and re.
moved to the middle district of Ten
nessee to answer the indictments
there found against them.
Eight Of the indicted men happen
to reside within the jurisdiction O.
Judge Edmund Waddill, the Judge
of the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Hence these proceedings in Rich
mond. The indicted men who re-
side in Judge Waddill's district are
Samuel T. Morgan, of Richmond,
president of the Virginia-C Carolina
Chemical ;Fortescue Whit.
tie, of Petersburg, vice-president Of
the same; J. Rice Smith, of Rich
mond, agent and manager of the
Virginia-C Carolina Chemical Com.
pany and of the Georgia Chemical
Company, a subsidiary nee Of
the notwithstanding Company; j.
g. Tinsley, of Richmond, president
of the Tennessee Chemical Company,
a branch of the Virginia-Carolins
Company; F. S. Royster, of Nor
folk, president of the F. S. Royste1
Guano Company; Charles F. Bur
roughs and Frank E. Wilcox, OF
Norfolk, Independents of the Roy
ster Guano Company, and Frank B
Dancey, Of Norfolk, manager and
agent of the Virginia. Carolina Com
pany.
The Special Assistant Attorney
General came here to ask:
First, that Judge Waddill issue 6
warrant for the immediate arrest O
these indicted parties; and, second
that they be removed to the Middle
District of Tennessee for trial on the
indictments there found, Or that they
be required to give a sufficient bono
to guarantee their appearance il
Nashville when wanted for trial.