The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-13
ELECTRICAL
 TRUST BROKE
SWEEPING DECISION OF u. &. COURT AT TOLEDO WILL
 CAUSE DISSOLUTION.
Separates General Electric Co. and American Electric Lamp Co., Dissolves the Latter
 Concern.

Washington, Oct. 12.-By the sweeping decision entered iu the United States circuit court at Toledo today, the backbone of the so-caled electrical trust was broken and in yhe judgment of Attorney General Wickersham, the government was equipped with precedents of genuine lvalue in its prosecutions of commer- cial combinations forbidden by the sherman law.
 Meeting the governments charges that the trust controlled the electric lamp business Of the country, regu- lating by agreement prices at which all lamps were sold. the decree sey- CTS all relations between the General Electric Company and the National Electric Lamp Company. The latter concern and all it's subsidiaries are rlered dissolved.
 Contracts and combinations enter ed into by the defendants. the at torMsy general pointed out today, are declared unlawful and the com. panies enioined from enterlng in- to any agreement to control the pric- es of incandescent lamps. The prin- ciple was laid down, according to the attorney general, that once a lamp is sold by manufacturers the price at which it is resod by deal- CT or jobber must be open to freo Icompetition.
 The agreement was acqulesced by 1.-the defendant companies and thia Igiyes the government the moral cer. Itainty there will be no appeal .Af- ter the supreme courts decision in the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases Mir. Wickersham said the electrcai companies expressed a willingness to withdraw their original answers to the governments petition against them and submit to q decree. The matter was considered by the de- partment of justice and the attor- neys for the defendants throughout the summer the decree which was filed today being evolved as satis- factory to the government.
 There are similar decrees against other combinations the government is prosecuting which are likely to fol- low shortly with the acquisition of the defendant concerns. A decree in the case of the Southern Whole sale Grocers' Association. against which the government some time ago entered suit, is now ready for l filing the attorney general an- nounced, and the case will be dispos- ed of as soon as a julge in Alabama can be secured to enter the decree.
 Speaking of the electrical eombi- nation, Mir. Wickersham said it ap- peared to control practically 97 per cent of the electric lamp business.
 "The investigation out of which the suit grew the attorney general continued,' disclosed eleven dther patent pools, of a similar nature by which the prices of various eleetri- cal devices and supplies were fixed and to which some of these defenl- Iants were parties. But since the Ig- lstisution of this suit, all of these pools have been voluntarily dissolv- ed.
 "The investigation gso disclosed general trade and patent agree ment between the General Electric Company concerns in the counthy. covering substantially their whole business; but this agreement since the institution of the government suit has expired by limitation and has not been, and. it is believed. will lnot be renewed !"