The Washington times., 1911-11-16
TOBACCO TRUSTS ID ID
DISSOLUTION PLAN
TOBEUNCONTESTED
Department of Justice De,
cides to Take No Appeal
in Case.

The Government will not appeal in the
Tobacco trust case. This was learned
authoritatively this morning, following
conference between the Attorney Gens,I
eral and the President. ryt
Ihe decree of the United Circuit Courte
OF Appeals will be allowed to standos
and the plan OF dissolution proposeah
Dy the attorneys of the Tobacco trust"
themselves will become effective. ,oY
In spite of the action Of the Governt'
nent In deciding to acquiesce in the ds,t
cree, there Is a great number of inde-st
pendent tobacco manufacturers in thss
country headed by the attorneys generatl
OF Virginia, North Carolina, and cthetT
states, who insist that the whole bene.n
mt of the decision of the Supreme Court
mas been destroyed in the decree of ths,
circuit court of appeals. s,s
independent tobacco dealers were desy
ffeated in New York today wnen Judgss~
lac dt;acombe; ward, Moves, and Coke, sit-,.
ung IN the United States Circuit Court
denied the petition of the Natfonaid
cigar Association and the Cigar Manu.l
tacturers' Association OF America forrv
a, ;eaye 10 intervene and petition for a,
maj review OF the American Tobacco
Goinpanys reorganization plan by .iRgt
United States Supreme Court. no
In other words the decision reacheds
al The conference between the Presizs
dent and the Attorney General today
means that the Tobacco trust dissoIuy
tion suit has come to an end. and thafS
no further proceedings will follow. On1y, :
the Supreme Court itself may take ,llG
the matter, and this will not be done. -
Inc dissolution plar of the Americaffs
Iopacco Company provides for the splitss
ting OF the New Jersey corporation iflss"
tc four companies. three of which now
exist under separate charters. The
fourth one is yet to be created. Thes
company proposes to divide the stock
OF the present cooperation into four,
parts, no one company holding more
than 30 per cent Of the stock of another
petiliVe conditions will exist betweefi,
the four companies and that this win be-
clearly demonstrated as soon as the deaS
The independents. on the other hanoi
declare that no such conditions WINS
actually exist. They say that by ID
shrewd manipulation, of the brands on
four companies will not interfere IN
any way with each others trade. OneS
company will make certain standard.
into the market against any otheFT
brands which may be made by thee
supposedly competing manufacturers,s
the independents say. sc
When the dissolution plan was firstIz
presented to the court, the Department
of Justice went into court and approSeNs
the general scheme, but asked the court
TO make the decree conditional. The
Attorney General wanted the right to gDs
before the court any time within fivs
years and ask for a new decree. Has
asked for this reservation on the grouaal
that subsequent events might show that
the competition contemplated by the
Supreme Court might not have been re-S
stored. This kind of decree was not
approved. however. .ron
Under the general law however, the
Department of Justice has a right t0I
appeal to the Supreme Court at auw
time within year. This right will nf,ts
be exercised, however, according to the
announcement from official sources to-
day. ,6y
When asked why the appeal would NOT.
be made, an official said today that
there was nothing to appeal from" fft
this fashion the matter was dismissed. lPI