The Forrest City times., 1910-06-03
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION GRANT. ED ON PETITION FILED BY
 THE GOVERNMENT.
ANTITRUST LAW VIOLATED
Petition Is Presented to Judge Dyer at Hannibal, Mo. Who Restraints Railroads From Enforcing
 Advance in Rates.

Hannibal, Mssouri-Judse David P. Dyer of the United States cir cult court for the eastern district of Missouri issued temporary injunc- ton restraining % western railroads from enforcing, effeeting or making a general advance in interstate freight rates.
 The Injunction was granted on a petition filed by the United States government, alleging that the advance in rates were arrived at by the de- fendants 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 by ar by Edmund P. Grosvenor of Wash lngton, special assistant to the at- torney general of the United States. and Frederick N. Judson of St. Louis. acting in a like capacity. The peti- ton was signed by George w. Wick ersham, attorney general; William 8. Kenyon, assistant to the attorney general; Frederick N. Judson, Ed nund P Grosyenor, special assistant to the Attorney general, and Charles A. Houts. United States attorney. l The Injunction declares that the re- straining order has been issued upon the statement of the counsel for the
 government. that they would imms-
 1iately upon the filing of the injunc- ton by thes direction of the attorney general file an expediting certificate under the act of February II, 1903, providing for a 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 a 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 ia to this effect: That the defendants at all
  of all classes and kinds of freight and commodities, generally carried by a railroad company; that they are con- 1 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 he respective lines of railroads. equipped for carrying on the business of common carrier and that they are separate. independent and dis tinct of the lines of railroad operated | by the other defendants.
 I Generally speaking. the lines are the only ones for the transportation of freight and passenger traffic for the states of Missouri Iowa, Minne- i sota, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dako- to, North Dakota, Wyoming and parts If Montana and Michigan Wisconsin. | Illinois Indiana and Tennessee They 1 furnish the only means of communi- cation by railroad between the inhab- tants of the several states.