The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-11-10

The result of the great two days
legal battle before the United States
circuit court in this city anent the dis
integration plan of the tobacco COM
bination, and of the fierce, most in
tense opposition which certain interests
in the leaf trade had organized for rea-
sons of their own, but which have been
l4ostf carefully concealed from public
view, was the approval by the attor-
ney-general of the United States of the
general features of the plan both as to
physical and financial compositions with
certain amendments and notifications.
AS head of the federal department of
Justice which relentlessly and without
let-up prosecuted the tobacco combina-
ton and wrung verdict of its illegal
ity from the United States supreme
court, the attorney general can hardly
be charged with partiality or favorit-
ism towards the tobacco combination.
But the notifications proposed by him
do not tally with the demand for splin-
tering the combination into smithers,
nor with the proposition of auctioning
off vested property rights by parti-
tion sale. Moreover, the attorney
general created quite sensation
amongst the audience by his statement
that being impressed and troubled by
the contentious of the representatives
of independent interests he applied to
the commissioner of corporations for
an expert of great experience to advise
him as to the correctness of the conten-
tions made. And that expert of great
experience convinced him of the abso-
lutte fairness of, the distribution of
brands among the segregated compan-
les under the disintegration plan of the
tobacco combination and that not one
of these segregated companies will
have a monopoly in respect to any type
of tobacco products. But the attorney
general advocated one radical feature
in regard to the complete separation Of
the United Cigar Stores company from
the American Tobacco Co. by demand
ing the disposition of every share of
common stock in the United by the
American Tobacco Co. The final decis-
ion is now left with and will be rem
dered by the federal circuit court for
the southern district of New York. -
u. S. Tobacco Journal.
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The late Jos. C. Mitchelson, pioneer
of the shade-grown tobacco industry in
the Connecticut valley, and who was
widely known as numismatist, and a
foremost authority on coin values, was
possessed of a collection valued at
500, 900, which is to be permanently
on exhibition at the new state library
at Hartford Mr. Mitchelson's collec-
tion of United States coins and presi-
Dental medals issued by the assay Of
flee is said to be the most complete in
the ], country. He was continually
searching for and finding new treas
ures and his collection at last became
so valuable that it has for some time
been deposited in the vaults of Hart
ford bank
Nearly seventy-two million cigars
manufactured in the Ninth Pennsyl-
vania district during the month of Oc-
tober. The district has just eclipsed
itself and rolled up the biggest output
since October of 1907, when the total
reached about eighty millions. The
''joys' have certainly routed the
.1glooms" in the Ninth district, for
such showing is an Indication that the
cigar business is crawling up near the
top heap of prosperity. The big total
came as a surprise to almost everyone,
for while it was realized that the cigar
trade has taken on a new lease of life,
it was not believed that the prosperity
had come in such big punches. Accord
ing to Uncle Sans figures the total
output for the month was II, 906, 77O
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