The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-17

noon. An enormous crowd was on ndou and everyone got the full benefit of the terrific rainstorm which broke when the 1 performance was about half over.
 | It started in with a slow drizzle and kept on getting larger and larger until l the rains fell in perfect torrents. The sheet of falling water between the spec | tators and the participants in the show | was almost impenetrable. The cowboys. i cowgirls, Indians, and all the rest of them
 displayed remarkable fortitude in braying the binding torrents which fell, in att | tempting to entertain the crowd. The | arena soon became a pond of water about | a foot deep, but this did not deter them, Just as they are supposed to be used to
 
 shall be sold. or to coerce manufactur- CTS and producers engaged in selling
 or shipping commodities to fix a limited
 selling price at which such commodi- | ties may be sold. They will also be prohibited from having printed price
 on cards, for distribution. The de- fendants will be perpetually enjoined
 from confederating or agreeing to pre- vent any manufacturer from selling to any wholesale grocer who does not maintain the prices fixed or listed. All Relating Enjoined
 As for the alleged rebating that the | aoverpment prayed should be stopped the confessed or agreed upon decree will set forth that the defendahts arc narnetuallv enjoined from demanding
 or receiving from any manufacturer or | oa,,oa,. any rebate, bonus or emolu-
 ment of any kind to be paid any whole sale dealer or jobber for and on account of the fact that he has maintained the limited selling price and they are iihe-
 wise enioined perpetually from payiis | o, delivering any such rebate, bonus | o apoolument of any kind, directly or indirectly, impliedly or expressly Ahes will also be enjoined and prohlol'ea from demanding or receiving any Hhe' nenalty or such directly or mulreceis | from, any iobber or wholesale grocer l. o,gaeed in comerce among the several states and the District of Columpia' | The decree, it is understoou' VII anioin the defendants from boycotting | any manufacturer, producer "hoie- saler or jobber engaged in commerce m account of such manufacturer, pro-
 ducer or 1obber having transported or sold to a firm or corporation who IS not a member of the said assoc'a.ioi and who does not maintain hmite" selling price or who is not llsteo in the green book" or pamphlet or llst I of like character.
 The defendants will be prohloi'eo from preventing any firm or corpola- tion who refuses to join the associa- | tion or who refuses to maintain iihi- ited selling price from purchasing com
 modities from manufacturers, Jobbers or producers engaged in commerce among the several states and the DIS trict of Columbia. And they VIII aiso be enjoined from confederatins ihh- nliedIy. directing or indirectly, from
 preeing together to increase the Job-
 hers, profits by increasing prices at
 which wholesalers or jobbers shall sell commodities in interstate commerce. l They are also prohibited rom try
 ing to hinder or coerce any hrm or
 corporation from buying any commod- itv at any other price than that agreed | mon by the seller and purchaser | The meat of the whole decree is con
 tained, 1t is gathered. in the end where | in it is held by the court that the do-
 ;rps heretofore described are in vio-
 ,ation of the act of July % 1890, en- titled An act to protect trade and
 commerce against restraint and monop- l 1a CrOcarS association, it's officers and members and those who shall hereafter become officers or members are perpetually en- joined from doing or conspfring or combining to do either of the acts mentioned in the prayer of the govern ment as set forth in the plea for the dissolution of the association.
 ] It is provided, however, that the or ganization may meet for social or other purposes that are not prohibited by
 the injunction or in violation of the act of Congress.
 l For the purpose of handling the final stage of the noted case which ends disas- | trously for the association, Oliver D Street United States district attorney,
 ief; yesterday for Montgomery. He will
 be joined there today by O. E. Harrison, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and Gen. Luke E. Wright, solici- l tor for the defendants. The attorneys will agree to an amendment that MT. Street has prepared to the effect that the
 corporate body. as well as the association
 and members shall be enjoined
 | It is recalled that the association volun- tarily dissolved in Tennessee when the legal side of it was taken over by Caruth-
 CTS Ewing and recognized under diff ferent charter It was to get that string 1 into the government mesh that the
 amendment was drawn.
 Filed in 1910
 The case against the Southern Whole | sale Grocers was filed in Birmingham June 15, 1910, by the late J. H. Montgom- cry, who was at that time special as-
 sist ant district attorney. At the time the case created widespread attention because ] 1t was tue first trust case ever filed in the