New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-12
ANTHRACITE COAL SUIT.
Terms Of Petition Which Government Will
File To-day.

Washington June 1.-THE following state
nent was made public at the Department of
Justice to-day:
rnen II the United States Circuit Courtat Philadel-
mia is aimed al the anthracite coal monopoly. The
Edepha * Reading Railway Company the Lehlgh
VALLEY Railroad Company. the Delaware Lacka-
wanna q Western Railroad Company. the Central
Railroad Of New JERSEY. The Erie kallroad on, on
err Railroad Company comprising az tte IoaGs
Ysnla, the New York, ontario q Nssle!" anu '-te
Delaware & Hudson (which last does not extend 10
s-5eiSss-,- ~asl mining c0npanies AS vet no evil
dence Of sufficient probatVe force TO connect the
e. S-'.-L-a 11 i7 m fo4t6conng in the prog
joined with the other defendants. 49, .e.,,.,.
II brief the petition recites that the aeIetG9 9
railroads control al the means OF transportation
between the anthracite mines and udewater except
The lines Of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
New York Ontario < Western Railway. which
reach only limited number 81 coheile5 mar IItE
transport annually about % per cent OF l!4e 1o'e
anthracite tonnage. that in their own name or
through coal companies whose capital STOCK they
taracts deposits and produce about 20 per cent o.
tbS+ -ZJr I,T5le y little more than ) per cent
Of The anthracite deposits. yet produce ABOUT -
sod IN competition wlth The output Of the defend
ants were lot not for the restraints imposed oy Ie
lat-@r. l..
The petition. then charges that the dsfen .5,t
have leuslred to silence competition among iIl'r
10 prevent the 81 = Of The Independent output in
competition with their own. thereby establishing d
moLoHa.E and in support Of TINS general aAesa'lon
First-That the defendant railroads agreed among
thsnselT-s upon uniform contract 70 be eIltefel
int JN tleu or their coal companies with the
Independent operators along their respective lines
lnc-r which railroads would be able TO contTpI
ne sale OF the independent output, and mat py
portatioa from the anthracite mines to tidewa'er'
save Ire lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
psny and the New York. Ontario & Western RAN
Eay Gonna NY. the defendant ~! lrOads able
frrrl md ~ force
a0ng then lines into making these contracts.
% That the Erie Railroad Company mas eX-
,9rliE Of the shares Of the New York Susquehalna
western Railroad Company. a competing Inc,
Merenv uniting under a common source or cOnuol
ne two competing railroad companies ana their
SUBSIDIARY coal companies.
@ That The Reading Company. which already
ned all the shares Of the Philadelphia & Rea ding
$500 Cenpany has eEeitilseb Us o%It sii e..
80 PONDS for majority o the shares OF the en-
tfa Railroad Company Il New Jersey, 4 competing
AAt, thereby uniting under common source or
cslfol the TWO competing railroads and their SUD-
ABOUT g per cent Of the annual anthracite tonnage
so contTo! about 90 per cent Of the anthracite
% That twice in recent years the defendants
No. defeated the construction q projected indie
PE-ldent railroads from the mines TO tidewateT,
thMca would not only have introduced competition
yulq nave permitted the output Of the Independent
DIe.La.oEs 70 be sold IN the markets IN competition
Ut mat of the defendants.
ne petiton praE6 generally that the defendants
l. el}olned from further carrying out their com
..allon and specifically that the above described
SoAlfacts be cancelled and that the mergers be-
80. s4sQuehauua q Western Railroad Company
LIelI coal companies and between the PhlIa-
trst A "a & Reading Railway Company and the Cen
Nosl companies be dissolved.