The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-09
IN THAT COURT DECLARES TsM-
PS IRON COMPANY vio-
LATEs SHERMAN Law.
ANTHRACITE TRUST CASE
Decided by U. 8. Court Ia Pennsyi-
vania-Three Opinions in case,
All Differna--R RaiIrcads
Exoncrated.

Philadelphia, Dec. S--The Unifel
States court for the district OF Penn
sylvania today decided that there ID
mo general conspiracy among the an
thracite coal carrying railroads or
coal companies to restrain t ade or
commerce or to monopolize trade or
maintain certain pfices,sbr it did de-
eide that the Temple Ifol Company Is
a combination Of anthracite coal car
rying railroads~ in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law. and granted
|the prayer of the government for an
injunction restraining the corpora
tion from continuing violation of the
act.
The sum and substance Is that tie
government wins only one Of several
|pcints, that in the Temple Iron CON-
Ipany case, and that the defendants
Twill not be compelled to change the
present prices of coal as the result OF
the courts decision.
The case was e--eard BY Jr- ss
Gray, JOS Buffington and Wi Ian M.
Lanning, l8st February. Three ogin-
ions were banded Down this afternoon
and each differs from the other.
Judge Grav dismisses all the gov
ernment's charges except that relas-
ling to the Temple Iron Cor-panv,
which he sustains Judge Buffing5oa
Idismisses all the charges except one
against the Temple Company and one
lroiating to the G5 per cent contract
existing between the big corpora
tions and independent ccal companies
he sustaining the charge Of violation
iof the law on these two points
The independents sell their product
to the big companies for s. per cent
OF the price the big companies re-
celve for 1t at tidewater. The govern
ment contended that the independents
we're forced into making these con-
tracts because there Is no other way
of getting their coal to the market =
the coal carrying railroad companies
chose to discriminate against them
4 In the matter of cars and rates.
Judge Lanning dismissed all the
contentious Of the government
The suit was filed in June, 1907,
during Roosevelt's administration.
1.-THE defendants included tie Reading
Railway; Lehigh Valley Railroad;
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
4 Railroad; Central Railroad of New
4 Jersey; Erie Railroad; New York,
e-usouehanna and Western Railroad,
| Philadelphia and Reading Coal Com
uanr: Lerigh Valley Coal Company;
enigh and Wilfesbarre Coal Com
pany; Pennsylvania Coal COMPANY;
Hillside Coal and Iron Company; New
York, Susquehanna and Western Coal
Company; Temple Iron Company, and
about forty individuals.
The three other anthracite coal car
rying railroads were not involved in
the suit as they were not competitors
in carrying anthracite to tidewater.
They are the Pennsylvania Railroad.
the New York, Ontario and Western,
an dthe Delaware and Hudson.
the theory Of governments case
was that all the defendants had long
been parties to a general combination
: and conspiracy which stifed eoInpe-
: tition and obstructed trade and com
:, meree in anthracite. to which the sep
arate acts charged In the suit against
the various groups Of defendants
: were steps toward common goal
and that these separate acts ot vafi
GUS groups were independently ~
violation of the sherman antitrust
act.