New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-19
HERE FOR TOBACCO FIGHT
Three States Send Attorneys
General to Oppose Plan.
WALL STREET SEES DANGER
Alarmed by Action of Virginia,
North and South Carolina-Both
Sides Claim Wickersham.

-. attorneys general Of North Carolina,
c,-s,pla and South Carolina viii be In New
vOrk this morning 10 confer on protest
...,nst the reorganization plan submitted
20 the court by the American Tobacco Com
ANY The protest expected to be made on
half Of the tobacco growers Of the three
srsat commonwealths was viewed with
-,A concern yesterday by financial inter
.,,s that had been confident Of the passage
,,a Man until this unexpected and for
-,,dable opposition was disclosed.
,,.-,o-s in Wan Street had IT that Attor-
49,. General yvickersham had practically
.---oves the plan in its main outlines. and
matter how the independent to-
- me, r7ieht strive to prevent what
..flo5 virtual continuation Of the
.-oi,. or how much James c. McReyn-
- Governments special counsel in
-. r,irrt be opposed 70 the plan, the
,-.-.,,,o,+ NJ Justice would look upon 1t
-. go Attorney General Wickersham
,bre far refused 20 say what he
..-,-L+ - the plan. but II was learned
.-.s, a. authoritative source yesterday that
re s.tituae during the private conferences
~ The nlan was far from conveying the I'M
80 thar he would favor the scheme
-. to--n by the lawyers for the Tobacco
Trust ,-,-,
Al one Of the conferences MI wicker
sham IS said 10 have remarked that no
matter what plan should be ultimately &C.
,.-,,5 Nv the court the Department OF
rre,ioa would insist that the new companies
..-~,ea sboul6 remain under the direct SUI
.,-i-ior7 Of the court for a considerable
-.-,oa ~ time His suggestion was met
With vigorous opposition on the part OF
.-. -s-rasertatives OF the Tobacco Trust
,,ro 4e~riAd this demand as an attempt at
.-,,..v-r,art through the court and pre-
,os4o-ors demand from an Industrial and
t.,zs-aes roint Of view. But Mr. Wicker
chan remained firm. and Il is expected that
81. mill insist uron such a provision in the
-. - a generalization Of the American
Tobacco Company.
While the attorneys general l. w.
picke++ Of North Carolina: Samuel w.
Williams. Of Virginia. and J. F. Lyon, Of
eor.r Carolina. started for New York, the
,,5srardent tobacco men IN this city won
...t- 4~s- victory IN the fight against the
.-rst,s rran by obtaining recognition from
,r. -ov-- IN their request 10 he heard IN
the matter Il
t,,is ID Rrandeis. Of Boston. and Felix n.
7svv NJ this city, as counsel for the Nation
a. cigar Leaf Tobacco Association. the Cigar
,renrfacturers' Association Of America and
49, rr5anande-7t Tobacco Salasmen's Asso-
cation of America, fled a petition in the
I-ri,ad states Circuit Court that they be
-s-,,itfsd N file written objections against
,sa rlan and be- heard at the hearings de-
,5s5 uron by the court. TIE petition was
--,r,e5 N an order handed down by the
eo,,-t later IN the day assuring them that
,,av would have an opportunity 10 present
,tsir o1ie~tion 10 the plan al the hearing
m. october 80. and giving them leave 10
hand I'D briefs OF memoranda at or pc
core The beginning Of the hearing on that
day. ,,
The r.etitIoners said they were deeply ana
vitality interested in the determination
which might be made by the court IN the
natter Of the reorgani zatiOn Of the TOBACCO
~rus-. because upon it depends the future
-rsrfsre OF their respective businesses
How the petitioners regarded the plan now
bsto-e the court was described as follows:
your petitioners believe that the saIu
rl,r &c fundamentally defective in that II
fails. in substance and effect to conform
to the requirem eats OF the decree OF the
supreme court. inasmuch as its Adoption
and approval would not in any substantial
sense restore free competitive condluons
/, the tobacco industry nor remove ths
animation by the so-called tobacco COM
rnatiCv"