Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-23

| acquired until July. 1908, and your pc.
tltioner Is informed and believes thai
when said legislative prohibition is
removed by the expiration of the time
designated, a large part or the whole
| of the remainder of said Boston &
| Maine Railroad will be speedily ac-
| quired by the New Haven Co. and a
virtual consolidation of the two roads
will be effected unless restrained by
this court
1.-THE acquisition of the New Eng
land Navigation Co. in connection with
the alleged purpose of consolidating
the steamboat properties which the
New Haven Co. had heretofore ac-
qlircd is described in Paragraph Is.
The purpose of this step. the petition
says. was the consolidation of the
steam railroads, trolley, steamboat and
other properties held by the New Hav-
en- Co, and placing them within the
direct control of one company.
Paragraph 16 sums up the previous
declaration stating that if the release
prayed for is refused by the court not
only will the New Haven Co. retain it's
control of the electric systems as here
inbefore described and hold large
portion of the stock CT the Boston &
Maine Railroad Co., and thereby per-
petuate suppression of competition, but
that situation will be created, with
respect to the transportation instru-
mentalities and facilities of New Eng
land states but between such states
and the several other states of the
Union and your petitioner further al
lcges that unless the combination is
restrained and prevented, the New
Haven Co. and its officers and direc-
tors and the several other corporatel
tors will acquire or attempt to acquire
the control and ownership of all the
remaining transportation whereby
commerce is or may be carried OH
among the several states Of New Eng
land and between such states and the
other states of the Union and with
foreign countries.
Then came the PRAYER of the
petitioner in which the United
States of America prays the
court to order, adjudge and de-
cree that the combination, monopoly
and attempt to monopolize is unlawful
and that all acts done or to be done in
furtherance of the same are in deroga
ton of the common rights of the peo-
pie Of the United States and in viola
ton of the act of Congress of July 2,
1880, entitled "An act to protect trade
and commerce against unlawful re-
straints and monopolize;" and that the
corporate defendants, and each and
every one Of them and their officers,
directors, stockholders, agents and
servants and each and every one of
them. be perpetually enjoined and re-
strained from doing any act in fur
therance of or for the purpose of car
rying out the same.
That this honorable court adjudge
and decree that the corporate defend
ants herein named Except the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad,) and each of
them, in violation of the provisions
of Sectional and two of the said act
of Congress of July 2, 1890 have been
and are now parties to a combination
in restraint of trade and commerce
among the several states of New Eng
land and between such states and the
other states of the United States and
hat each of said corporate defend
ants have attempted and now are at
to monopoliZe such trade and
commerce as is more particularly dis
cribed i'm this bill of complaint.
And your petitioners prayes that
the holding and control of the capital
stocks of the various corporations in
this petition named be adjudged and
decreed to be in violation of the said
act Of Congress and unlawful and
void as in restraint of trade and COM
merce among the various states of the
United States and as an attempt to
such trade and commerce.
The petitioners then asks the court
to dissolve the monopoly it alleges
the New Haven Co. to have over the
Consolidated Railway Co, and tho
Providence Securities Co. 1t further
asks that the defendant, the New Ha-
ven Co., and it's officers. directors,
Continued on Page Twelve.)