The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-07
Case Against Lehish Val
i Filed by Government
al Philadelphia.
|BGlTIONS MADE
in THE COMPLAINT
bct Of Action Is to Complete
|Ssparate Carriers From
the Producers.
ssHINGToN, July 6,-The gov

r.sHINGTON, July 6,-The gov
an, will renew the fight to disso-
I. ,bc great coal-carrying railroads
4 ,hsir i virtual control of mines and
,stusIize the commodities clause of
;.,sr.tate commerce law. A test
III ,he Lebigh Valley railroad was
4 ,oday in the United States court
1Hladelphia.
~ the Lehigh Valley Coal com,
J. coye Bros, Inc, the New York
S;dSle6eld Railroad and Coal com
1, and the Locust Mountain Coal
iro- .a,,..,;as; aS& &c. hcno fde
.ompapies, but merely adjuncts to
'isSigh Valley railroad and are
-;,ssU for evading the commodities
y is the governments s principal
f i also alleged that the Lehigh
H. With the object of removing
-rsti;ion, has caused the Lehigh Val
'i'ssl company to contract NJ a loss,
rstnut of other anthracite opera
. has transported the coal over its
Iipes and through the coal company
/ tsd the price in New York and
b markets.
Charges in Bill.
N government charges that al
-rA The buying Of coal from other
ntors has been done at a loss to the
||tonpany it has enabled the Lehigh
M railroad to transport the coal
4 is lines and profit from the
itAi charges.
4 support its claim that the coal
I,zny IS merely the dummy, - the
|rnlnsnt cities that the officers of
|nilroad and the coal company are
nne. and that certain members of
directorate and executive commit
|ai the railroad are members of the
stgra,e aud executive committee of
coal companies. Among those
II are Eben b. Thomas, George f.
h. L. 7. Stotesburg and James A.
iiletoDH
u government s complaint also says
since the capital stock of the coal
gany has been owned by the rail
j Il has paid no dividends, that mil.
) Of dollars have been advanced by
|rsiload TO the coal company which
h tne7er becn refunded and that the
bad has paid the interest on the
Companies bonds, being compen-
u the government claims, by the
lngs Of transportation of coal over
kse.
b proving that the Lehigh Valley
I'D is actually the legal owner of
|Lehgh Valley Coal company's an
'zte or has a pecuDiary interest in
re government hopes to bring its
INTO line with the recent decision
E supreme court in the commodity
|H ease, strike down dummy coal
51ales and force the coal-carryiDg
g from their control of mines,
Blow at Coal Trust.
'eIa in effect tine government IS ac-
"a blow at the so called coal
lbe case is separate from that
Fhleh Is now on appeal to the
zas court.
iss government s original commo-
clause action against anthracite
which was begun in 1908, the
Aolds that a railroad company
Owl stock III a coal company and
fclate the mmodities clause if il
rd own or have any interest in
nlsported coal Of that company.
n that decision the commodities
4 was considered by many a dead
out Attorney General Wicker
saTied the case TO the supreme
where it was decided that the
lnsut might amend its complaint
Iyolve the question of fact as TO
=, % the railroad has any interest in
~ which it transported.
tx n1ay Of the United States cir
sgurf OF the eastern district of
Jlsania, signed an order at Will
Sa, Del. this morning, permitting
1'ng OF the amended complaint.
sV,e'hment Is represented in the
oy Attorney General James a.
y, MS assistant, and Edwin p.
,IoI' special assistant attorney