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ther business which is in any way en-

other business which is In any way en-
braced in the combination.
That the stock of the United Cigar
Stores Company be sold and distributed
to parties other than the twenty-nine IN
dividual defendants or others OF the COM
mon stockholders of the American To-
bacco Company. to the end that the cor
poration be entirely separated from any
connection with the corporation among
which the properties and businesses now
in the combination are to be distributed
That appropriate provisions be inserted
in the final decree giving force 10 the
foregoing conditions by way of inJunc-
ton upon all parties to the suit, etc.
capitalization of Companies.
Respecting capitalization Of the new
companies. the Attorney General says:
The question of the capitalization OF
the various corporations among which II
proposed to distribute the properties ana
business now in the combination; as to the
sistribution OF assets. as between preferred
-tockhoiders and common stockholders.
md as to the amounts offered TO De
paid or distributed 10 the holders Oh
Fonds Of either class. or preferred stocks,
are submitted to the courts as matters
.oncerning the stockholders of the cor
Ilrations and the bondholders. the gov
ernment being concerned merely with lhe
disintegration Of an Illegal combination
and the recreation of competitive conan
lions under such circumstances and with
such safeguards as will insure the con-
tinuation of such competitive conditions
and prevent a recurrence OF the unlaWIui
condition found by the court TO exist III
this caSe.
Finally. the Attorney General asks Tor
= general Injunction prohibiting the re-
creation of the combination or or any
similar combination. He says:
..That BY the final decree to be entered
herein Ii be provided that the defendants
named in the petition, their respective Of
1cers directors, agents. servants ana
employees. be forever enjoined and pro-
hibited from continuing or carrying INTO
further effect the combination adJudged
Illegal by the Supreme Court, and from
entering into or forming any like COM
bination or conspiracy the effect or whlcn
is or will be TO restrain commerce In To-
bacco or its products or in articles useu
III connection with the manufacture anu
trade in tobacco and its products, among
The states or in the territories or with
foreign nations. or 10 prolong the unlaW-
full monopoly of such commerce optalheu
and possessed by the defendants. as ad-
Judged herein in violation of the act OF
Congress approved July >, 1890, either:
Other Things to Forbid.
"By causing the conveyance of the
physical property and business of any
of the corporations among which the
properties and business now in the COM
hination are to he distributed to any
other of said corporations; by placing the
stocks of any one more of said cor
porations in the hands of voting trustees
or controlling the voting power of such
stocks by any similar device; or
by making any express or implied
agreement or ARRANGEMENTS, together or
one with another. like those adjudged IL
le al by the Supreme Court in this cause,
relative To the control or management OF
any of said corporations. or the price
or terms OF purcha e. or of sale, OF to-
tacco or any of its products, or the sup
plies or other product dealt with in con-
nee ion with the tobacco business or
relative TO the purchase, sale, transporta-
tion or manu- acture of tobacco or its
product or supplies or other product
afore aid by any of the parties hereto,
which will have a like effect in res RANT
of commerce among the states, in the
territories aud with foreisn nations TO
that of the combination the operation OF
which is enJoined in this cause; or by
making any agreement or ARRANGEMENTS
of any kind with any other of such cor
porations under which trade or business
is apportioned between such corporations,
in respect either to customers or locali-
ties. or by any of such corporations do
ing business. directly or indirectly under
any other than their own respective cor
porate names; by refusing to sell to
any jobber any brands of any tobacco
product manu- actured by il except upon
condition that such jobber shall purchase
from the vender some other brand or