The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-28

-. s---S- s1s oeIendants- The list includes
-Ii Iiee'ors OF the main trust and of5er
companies Three women. I,o7risf1. u
I7aVeIneyer' Adaline H FreIinEhuvsen
ana Electra H Webb are namA5 h.
cause. with Horace Havemeyer tbev a.
executors Of the viii Of Henry o. Have
meyer the biggest figure in the Surar
trusts history
Joseph r Smith, head Of tHa Mo-
mon Church. IS defendant nv v,-+T-s
U 0eIng president Of the Utah-Idabo
Sugar Company, a beet su-ar coT7I,r-
uauon with an authorized capitsI Of
S-s'vf'os- Former Gov John G Cutie
the list
Directors Of Trust.
The directors OF the trust are given as
y washington B Thomas. president. Ar
Ihur bonner, George H Frazier. Hor-
ace HaFeneyer5 Henry 9 Niese, HeuA-
c Mott, Samuel c. Hooker. samI1e1
Carr' Edwin s AIsrstOn. and Edwin =
Atkins
John D. spreckeIs and Adolpb p.
Spreckels are among those named a
defendants The Government petfrfor
makes printed book Of ~ PAGES II
Is SET forth that the company was In
Gospcrateo IN New Jersey in 1891 and
Nr-4f-AEA4 pa katEE OF taslffaf-
Is cOJecIs as S1ven IN Tde Certificate
o. incorporation are To purchase
manufacture refine. and sell sugar. mo-
.SsseS, ana meiada- The companies
Inat make up the trust include refiuers
OF Eotn cane and beet sugar
4 chapter In the brief IS devoted 70
IacJs about the sugar trade and an
on sugar
A detailed account is given Of tbs
OpeEations OF the Havemeyers and assO-
elateG uiagnates from 1857. when the
tEust was rirst fled. At that tine
mere were twenty-three independent re-
nneT1es in the country with CaDscfey-
Lor producing 2S,4oo,oo0 pounds OF sugar
6aT-
Charges Made.
Under the leadership Of II 0. Have
meyer, Donner. Atkins, Thomas. and
Others says the brief, and owners and
directors Of seventeen OF the connecting
reflneries, which together carried on %
per cent Of the sugar trade Of the United
states, and jointly were capable OF
dominating and controlling It determfn-
ed TO combine 70 destroy the competition
among them, exclude all others. and
secure for themselves control and a.
monopoly OF commerce and such trade -
They operate as the Sugar Ra6ne-fas
company under a trust deed thar
gave fun control to eleven trustees AU
Ile SUBSIDIARY companies conveyed their
cdpita4 STOCK 70 the trustees in return
for agreed parts Of S50,O00.0OG nerotfabla
trust certificates
IN pursuance Of the general conspIr-
acy, plan and purpose the brief goes
on and in order 10 secure and raTafr
compete domination over the trade and
70 OBTAIN uncODSciOnable profits 10 those
interested. the trustees. their co-cog-
Spirators, and others. did. or caused 10
oe done many things, some OF which
are specified"
The specifications include charges
that the trustees smothered cOmDerf-
uon and acquired and held a mo-
sopoly Tor themselves" and many re-
nnerles were eliminated by then
Dissolved, ReincoTporated.
The Sugar Refineries COMPANY was
dissolved BY the New York court Of
appeals in 1880, and in January. 1891.
the same gentlemen Incorporated rhe
Sugar Refining Company,
the present trust, in New Jersey
Certificates issued By the old trust
were exchanged for stock in the new
company There We're then seven In
dependent companies, and most OF
them We're brought into the fold ssbv
purchase or by Cut-thrOat competition
that threatened them with failure.
and BY trade agreement
The latter method was ernuIoved IN
dealing with the California and FFa-
waiian Refining Company, after a
bitter trade war; in which the frI,zt
sold sugar at less than the cost Of pro-
iuctlon- The California Company. ac-
2ordfng TO the brief, accepted a bonue,
Jf S3tsl.O5o a year for retiring from busI-
hess for three years
The details Of the manner. in vvh{ri.
he trust secured control Of the Pen1-
iylvania Refining Company are outIineo-
Is result of the trusts methods.