The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-28
Of Justice, in Ex=
 coriating Arraignment of the Robber Monopoly, Calls . on Federal Court to Wipe
 it Out of Existence
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
 New York, Nov. 2s-In one of tht
 most sensational petitions ever pre- sented in the Federal courts. the De-
 the United statS Circuit Court tc outlaw the sugar trust. The combina. tion Is characterized as a ruthless monster, which crushed all 1t could not control, and the courts are asked to dissolve it, ''by receiver or other the old time competition.
 The trust agreements, monopoly fraud, graft and the use of power tc crush or conquer independents are among the reasons given for asking the court to end the giant corpora tion's activity.
 Of the Havemeyers and their asso- ciates, who built up the trust. the gov ernment briefs say:
 'They managed and dictated all the affairs and business of the former competing concerns, whose shares they held, destroyed competition. fixed the price of sugar, prevented others from entering trade and commerce, therein and forced the retirement of many al- ready so engaged. Enormous profits resulted and the public was damni- fied.''
 The suit, which was instituted by District Attorney Henry A. Wise, on direction of Attorney General George Wickersham, is directed against the American Sugar Refining Company, and 27 companies that either through force or persua sion" have been absorb ed by it. Twenty-seven> individuals
 yI,1 list includes directors of the main trust and other companies. Three women, Louisine W. 'Havemeyen Ade- line H. F,relin ghuysen and Electra H. Webb, are named. because. with Hor- ace Havemeyer, they are executors of the will of Henry O. Havemeyer. the biggest dealer in the sugar trusts his tory.
 Ex-Governor John C. Cutler, of Utah. who is director. is also in the list. The directors of the trust are given as Washington B. Thomas. president; Arthur Donner, George H. Frazier. Horace Havemeyer. Henry c. Niese, Henry c. Mott, Samuel c. Hooker, Samuel Carr, Edwin s. Marston and Edward Atkins.
 John D. Spreckles and Adolph B. Spreckles are among those named as The government petition makes a printed book of PIT pages It is set forth that the company was incorporated in New Jersey. in 1891, and has a capital par value of $90,- COG, GOO. Its objects, as given in the certificate of incorporation, are to raise, manufacture. refine and sell sugar, molasses and melads The that makeHup the trust in clude refiners of both cane and beet sugar.
 A chapter in the brief is devoted to facts about the sugar trades and an- other to an explanation of tariff rates and sugar A detailed account is given of the operations of the Have meyers and associated magnates from 1887. when the trust was first filed. At that time there were B independent refineries in the country with capacity for producing 23, 400, ,O00 pounds of sugar a day.
 "Under the leadership of H. O. Have meyer, Donner. Atkins, Thomas and others" says the brief, "and owners and directors of seventeen of the com betting refineries. which. together car ried on 90 per cent. of the sugar trade of the United States and jointly were capable of dominating and controlling it, determined to combine to destroy the competition among them, exclude all others and secure for themselves control and a monopoly of commerce and such trade"
 They operated as the Sugar Refiner- ies Company under a trust agree ment" that gave full control to Il trustees. The specifications include charges that the trustees smothered and acquired and held a for themselves" and many refiners were eliminated by them
 The Sugar Refineries Company was dissolved by the New York Court of Appeals in 1890 and in January. 1891, the same gentlemen incorporated the American Sugar Refining Company, the present trust, in New Jersey. Ger tiffcates issued by the old trust were exchanged for stock in the new com pany. There were then seven ihde- pendent companies and most of them were brought into the fold by purchase or by "cut throat competition that threatened them with failure and by trade agreement" The latter method was employed in dealing with the Cal ifornia & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company after a bitter trade war in which the trust sold sugar at less than the cost of production. The Califor- mia company according to the brief, accepted a bonus of $200O 900 a year for retiring from business, for three years.
 The details of the manner in which the trust secured control of the Penn sylvania Refining Company are out lined. and the immense loss to those in the Pennsylvania concern is quoted as result of the trusts method.
 As to customs frauds. the brief says that the trust officials, ''in order to enrich themselves, to destroy compe- tition and to strengthen their monop oly'', employed ''fagranly fraudulent and wicked means" to secure entry of their imports, grossly underweigh- ed. It is also mentioned that the government has collected more than three million dollars from the trust on account of weighing frauds.
 On relating the trust is charged with having utilized its great indus trial power to extort from railroads