Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-29
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Washington, D. c., April ga civil
antitrust suit seeking the dissolution
of the International Harvester Com
pany under the Sherman law will be
filed in Minneapolis tomorrow, This
is the elimination of an investigation
extending over five years.
The International Harvester Com
pany is a $140,000,000 corporation
composed of six Observation-Disclosures
mick, Deering, Champion, Milwaukee,
Osborne and Plano.
The refusal of the company to agree
| to separate on any plan of dissolution
| the Mccormick and Deering con-
panies, said to be its two principal
subsidiaries, rendered futile the eff
forts of Attorney General Wicker
sham, and the intefAacIunai COUNSEL
to reach an agreement.
The government maintained that
the so-called trust as whole con-
trolled from eighty-five to ninety per
cent of the harvester business of the
country and the Mccormick and Deer
! ing firms represented from sixty to
| sixty-five per cent of the business.
Under these conditions, the attorney
general refused to consent to any
plan which held the Mccormick and
Deering companies as one
Tap Lines Not Common Carriers.
| Washington, d. c., April 29-Tap
lines are not common carriers. That,
in general effect, is the decision of
/ the Interstate Commerce Commission,
handed down today after an investi-
CATION of more than year.
The committee holds, however, that
each case must be determined on its
own facts, it being clear that some
so-called tap lines are entitled to priv
ileges of common carriers.
1t is significant that in every one of
the SO tap line cases passed upon by
the commission, it is held that none
Of them is a common carrier with re.
spect to the services it performs to
the proprietary lumber companies.
Statement by Commission.
Washington, D. c., April 29.-In
dealing with the subject the commits
sion says.
| "The commission, for the last four
years has been making careful in
vestigation of the relations between
the railroad companies and small in
dustrial lines that are owned by man
ufacturing or other plants who receive
allowances from the carriers suffi-
cient in many cases not only to pay
their operating expenses, but to re-
turn handsome revenues in the in
vestment. "The contention of the
lumber companies was that the tracks
and locomotives, serving their mills,
and which have been incorporated un-
der the state statutes as railroad COM
mon carriers, are entitled to receive
allowances from the trlnk lines for
the services performed for the propri-
etary companies.
THE commission holds that the
common ownership of an industry and
a short line serving it is not in itself
sufficient to divest the railroads of its
status as common carrier The
commission holds. however. that each
case must stand on its own facts"
Patten Cotton Corner Case.
| Washington D. c., April 29.-The
Patten cotton corner case was today
restored to the docket of the supreme
court of the United States and re-as
signed for hearing October Is next
The case arose in New York under
the Sherman antitrust law
New Meta Schedule.
Washington, D. c.. April pa
compromise amendment to the Meta
sharp reduction from the present
duties and varying changes from the
Democratic House measure was intro
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