Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1910-06-08
RATE
INCREASE HALTED
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION GRANT
Ed ON PETITION FILED BY
THE GOVERNMENT.
ANTITRUST LAW VIOLATED
Petition 10 Presented to Judge Dyer
at Hannibal, NO., Who Restraints
Railroads From Enforcing
Advance in Rates.

P. Dyer Of the United States cir
cult court for the eastern district Of
Missouri issued temporary injunc-
ton restraining rs western railroads
from enforcing, effecting or making a
general advance in interstate freight
rates.
The injunction was granted on
petition fled by the United States
government, alleging that the advance
in rates were arrived at by the de-
PENDANTS In violation Of the Sherman
antitrust act
The petition was filed in the United
States circuit court at St. Louis and
presented to Judge Dyer, who is hold
ing court in Hannibal.
Petition Signed by Wickersham.
The petition upon which the In
junction was presented to Judge Dy-
er by Edmund P. Grosvenor of Wash
ington, special assistant to the at
torney general of the United States,
and Frederick N. Judson of St. Louis.
acting in a like capacity. The petit
ton was signed by George w. Wick
ersham, attorney general; William S.
Kenyon, assistant to the attorney
general; Frederick N. Judson, Ed
mund p Grosvenor, special assistant
to the attorney general, and Charles
A. Houts, United States attorney.
The injunction declares that the re-
straining order has been issued upon
the statement of the counsel for the
government, that they would imme-
diately upon the filing of the injunc-
ton by the direction of the attorney
general file an expediting certificate
under the act Of February IL, 1903,
providing for speedy determination
Of the issues in contention.
Roads May Ask Dissolution.
United States Attorney Houts says
the railroads are privileged to come
into court at any time with motion
to dissolve the injunction. He stated
there was no set time for a hearing,
but that by the direction Of the at
torney general the proceedings would
be certified to in the circuit court in
ST. Louis. If the defendants do not
come into court with petition to dis
solve the injunction, he averred, the
case would come up for a hearing on
the first Monday in July before the
equity side of the circuit court
Unlawful Combination Charged.
Free of verbiage, the petition is to
this effect: That the defendants at all
times and are now common carriers
| of all classes and kinds of freight and
railroad company; that they are con
| tinuously engaged in carrying, NOV
| ing and transporting freight and com
modities in the commerce trade and
traffic, which Is continuously carried
| on among and between the several
states of the United States and the
| United States and foreign countries
also between the people residing In
the United States; that the defend
ants are the owners and in control OF
the respective lines of railroads
equipped for carrying on the business
Of q common carrier and that they
are separate, independent and dis
tinct of the lines of railroad operated
| by the other defendants
| Generally speaking, the lines are
the only ones for the transportation
of freight and passenger traffic fol
the states Of Missouri, Iowa. Mime
sofa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dako
70, North Dakota, Wyoming and parts
of Montana and Michigan. Wisconsin
Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee. They
furnish the only means of communi
cation by railroad between the inhab
itants Of the several states.