The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-03
Transportation Compa-
nies Indicted for Vio-
lating Trust Laws.
ACTION TAKEN IN
FEDERAL COURT
Atlantic Coast Line, seaboard
Air Line, Merchants and
Miners and Harvie and
Morris Miller Accused by
Government-Big Saw
ing Resulted.

Savannah, Ga, December after
hearing testimony since Monday. the
Federal grand jury OF the United
states Court for the Southern District
Of Georgia, handed down indie tments
| to-day charging an infringement OF
| the antitrust laws on the part OF
three large corporations and two indl-
viduals. The Atlantic Coast Line Rail
way and the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way We're eacii Jointly indicted with
the Merchants and Miners Transports
tion COMPANY. for specific violations
Of the Sherman antitrust and Elkins
laws, while Harsic Miller and Morris
Miller, grain merchants, and me rnbers
of the iirm of L. +. i1iller & Sons, Of
Philadelphia, were the individuals to
'ifeel the wrath of the government.
The Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company Vas indicted three
times. once as a sole offender. and
twice in connection with the Scaboard
Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
ways Morris f. Miller and Haryie c.
Miller, of Philadelphia. were arrested
and placed under bonds of s25,ooU each
Specifc Allegations.
In each Indictment specific allega-
tions are made of the facts which con-
stitute the alleged infractions of the
trust laws.
Dates are given when the defendants
are alleged to have made shipments
over the lines named at rates less than
chose on file with the Interstate Com
merce Commission 1t is alleged that
from Western points to Philadelphia
the Millers secured export rates, where
the law demanded they should be ship
ped under domestic rates. This saved
them from / TO cents upon every
hundreds of pounds of grain shipped
The Miller Brothers put themselves
IN the jurisdiction of the United States
Court for the Sou thern District of Geor.
sia through their shipments into this
district over the lines Of the three corr
poration8 Indicted.
The beginning of the investigation
against the defendants arose from com.
plants registered With the Interstate
Commerce Commission during the
summer to the effect that the Miller
tirm had effectively destroyed compe-
tlttcn ir grain shipments over an enor-
nous territory, embracing points along
the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and in
the South Atlantic States Proceed-
ings were held before Commissioners
Clements in Philadelphia during July,
and the revelations were sufficient ia
cause the government to institute pro-
ceedings against not only the Miller
firm. but also the Intermediates.
First Connection.
The first connection of the railroads
and the Millers arose during the hear
ing before Commissioner Clements, in
which 1t developed that the Pennsyl-
vania system had sold Its Philadelphia
elevatorto the keystone Elevator Com
pany. L. u. Miller & Son controlled
the latter company and were respon-
sible for shipments to the South over
both the railroads indicted and upon
vessels of the steamship company al
rates much less than those on file with
the commission.
In addition to this infraction of the
law, 1t was found that grain shipped
from Western to Eastern points en-
ioyed the export rates instead of do
mestic, and saving OF from L to 3
cents on each 100 pounds was effected
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