Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-31
TOBACCO TRUST.
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same clerical or other organization, or
occupy the same office or offices
No one of them shall hold capital
stock in any other corporation, any
Part of the stock of which is also
held by any of the other corporations
among which the properties of the
combination are distributed.
To the end that the % individual
defendants in this suit" the attorney
general continues, shall not increase
then control over any of the corpo-
rations among which the properties
and businesses now III the combina
| ton are to lie distributed. pursuant to
! the plan, that such defendants be sew
! orally cniUined from, at any time
! within five years from She date of The
decree, acquiring, directly or indirect
~, the legal or equitable ownership or
any amount of stock in any one Of
. said corporations in addition to the
amounts which they would respective
ly hold if and when the plan shall
nave fcen carried out as proposed.
he further suggestions of the gov
, eminent included the following:
That, in the distribution of the prop
critics and businesses now held in the
combination pursuant TO the plan of
dtslntsgration, the corporation shall be
allowed to acquire property, tangible
or Intangible. which would invest It !
with as much as 40 per cent in vol 1
ume or in value of ans particular line |
# the tobacco business
That all covenants III any way re-
siritting the right of any COMPANY or |
Individual in the combination to buy !
manufacture or sell tobacco or its !
products, should be rescinded by the |
affirmative action of the respect tive |
parties thereto who are parties 70 this
suit
That the action terminating cove
narts be amplifed SO as to include
like action with respect to all cove
nant8 not only concerning the to-
baeeo business. but ANY other business
~ heh is in any way embraced in the
combination.
That the stock of the United Cig9r
Stores Company he sold and distfi-
huted to parties other than the - in
dividual defendants OF others of the
common stockholders of the American
Tobacco Company. to the end that the
any connection with the corporations
among which the properties and bust
nosses now in the combination are to
be distributed.
That appropriate provisions be in
to the foregoing conditions. ty way
# injunction upon all parties to the
suit. etc.
10 81 ,,i-
for general injunction prohibiting
the recreation of the combination or
Of am similar combination. He says:
THAT, by the final decree to be en-
tered herein. It be provided that the
defendants named in the petition. their
re spective officers, directors. agents.
servants and employees. be forever en-
Joined and prohibited from continu
ing or carrying into further effect the
combination adjudged illegal by the
supreme court, and from entering into
or forming any like combination or
conspiracy, the effect of which is or
win be to restrain commerce in to-
Iacco or its products. either:
by causing the conveyance Of the
physical property and business of any
of the corporations among which the
properties and businesses now in the
combination are to be distributed to
any other of said corporations; by
placing the stocks of any one or more
OF said corporations in the hands of
voting trustees or controlling the vot
ing power of such stocks by any SINH
lar device; or
by making any express or implied
agreement or arrangements together
or one with another like those ad-
Judged illegal by the supreme court
in this cause. relative to the control
or management Of any of said corpo-
rations. or the price or terms of pur-
chase. or of sale. of TOBACCO or any of
itg products. or the supplies or other
product dealt with in connection with
the tobacco business. which will have
a like effect in restraint of commerce
among the states. in the territories
and with foreign nations to that of
the combination, the operation OIL
which is enjoined in this cause; or
BY the British American Company
and the Imperial Company employing
a common agent for the purchase of
leaf tobacco in the United States, Or
b. either of said two companies unit
ing with any of the corporationSI
among which the properties and bust
nesses now in the combination are to-
be distributed, in the employment of
a common agent for the purchase of
tobacco leaf; or
by transferring to and vesting in
any of the corporations among which
the properties and businesses now in
the combination are to be distributed
any mart of the stock of United Cigar
Stores Company"
SECOND DEATH AT WELLS.