Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-01-06
TOBACCO TRUST
IS INTERNATIONAL
Suit Under Sherman Anti
Trust Law to Dissolve
the Combination
APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT
Governments Contentious Had
Been Negatiyed by Lower
Tribunal.

ElDuIldi.
: Washington. Jan. G-The final CON
/ test over the dissolution of the Amer
lean Tobacco corporations began to-
day before the supreme court, Of the
! United States.
Story Of the Case.
] Washington, Jan. 6.-The suit un.
der the Sherman antitrust law to dis.
/ solve the so-caI1ed Tobacco trust"
was instituted il 1907 in the circuit
court Of the United States for the
southern district Of New York. The
/ proceeding was brought by the de-
partment of justice against more than
sixty corporations and a number of
/ individual defendants headed by
James b. Duke
The process of organization Of the
combination alleged to be unlawful
spread over many years. II began in
January, 1890. Then the first Amer
lean Tobacco Company. was ircor.
porated for the purpose, it is alleged.
OF taking over the business Of five
independent cigarette plants.
/ In 1898, the Continental Tobacco
Company was incorporated Tor the al
legged purpose OF taking ov,r he plug
tobacco business OF the American To-
bacco Company and the business Of
| five other plug tobacco concerns.
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was Vi 6"iiiHeu 10 lahe over Ihe export
I business oi Do'h the BRUSH ana the
4'me'ic"n companies
ieS,inionS was presented 10 prove
'H", 'I.e oelenuants produced ~ per
reii' Vi the SiLlohlhs 'ooacco maze III
inns country % per cent OF the cigar
cues oi per cent OIL the pug ana
'"i'' .o0f'0'o, o. pel cent ol lne me
ou' 'ooacco' % per cent OF the niue
o's"ls' 30 per cent vi tne shuH; 20
pei 'el' Vi tue IicorIce PASTE 70 per
.en' Vi 'le tiii loii anu most OF the
'o'"''o eN'lacIs' ooAeS anu contain
a
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.n' l'ipe i"l company anu the brlt'
iSii'[NiiieiIcdH 'oilipahS' ana IIle Unit
Gu Clsal 0toFes ooihpahy' "nich was
oldlipeu ~ ne tne retalI ordhcn ol tue
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Vi 'le siouhus lor appedI ny the gov
eiHniehI " the supreme Nourt.