Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-03-19
Attorney General Alleges Le-
high Valley Railroad Fixes
Prices Of Anthracite and
Otherwise Violates Law,
MANY CORPORATIONS
AFFECTED BY ACTION
Attorney for Defendant Com
pany Declares There Is No
Collision With Sales Con-
cem Named in Proceeding,

-NHtNe JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED Wfanl
NeW York, March l8-Tho Iehiqh
9Het ltaliroad company was sued
mere today hy ATTORNEY General Nc.
NeNhoids under tho sherman anti
crust RAW as being the dominant factor
in combination alleged 10 control
tne output OF anthracite from the
! fpnnsyNania fields Il touches
More than q dozen other corpora-
lions and individuals were named MS
co-detendants and parties 10 "A con-
splract 20 monopolize that trade. AZ
lhough suit was brought TO break up
IN alleged monopoly, the attorney
senefal CHARGES That the lchigh road.
through the formation of coal sales
company Two Years ago has escaped
the upremo court decision under the
commodities clause of the Interstate
rate act, which forbids The railroad
70 transport coal belonging to a cor
poration whose stock it owns whose
affairs have been common with its
own.
VIOLATES Pennsylvania Law.
The further charge was made that
tie Lehigh has violated the provision
of the Pennsylvania constitution pro-
hibiting common curriers' from cnrae-
ms IN mining or other business other
than transportation. The usual Inc
junction and decree OF dissolution
were asked
10 is understood that the suit Is to
be followed by others against some
of the roads which enter the pcnnsyl-
vania anthracite field.
Among tine defendants named were
Lehigh valley Coat company, lie.
high Valley Coal sales company Cox
Brothers Coo Inc. Edward 7.
StotesburN Daniel g. Reid. Charles
steele George +. R1ker and George
T.. Baor
49, virtue Of its monopoly. ihe COM
plaint declares the Lchigh has pre-
vented the building Of any new rail
road into the anthracite region served
by it. ana has kept the Independent
producers under the disadvantage of
having 10 ship over a railroad also
engaged In che coal business
Monopoly of Sales Alleged.
Furthermore, the bill sets forth
through its alleged monopoly of the
sale OF coal produced along It's line
the road Completely dominates the
market at an points thereon not
reached hy any other railroad and has
the power 60 fix, has fixed and does
Tx, without the check Of competition.
the prices at which anthracite is sold
at such points"
The bin points ont that the Lchigh
annually transports about 1l,0O0,000
gross tons OF anthracite. OF that to-
tai the government mainiains more
than - per cent Gin 1870 WAS ship
ped for the account Of the I.chigh
Coal company or affiliated compa-
mics, The relations between the rail-
road and the Lehigh Coal company
are set forth at length In the CONS
plant, which declares that THE latter
mas never been bona fide corpora
ton" but "a mere adjunct department
or fundamentally of the Lehigh rail-
road Ia Il statement tonight Edgar
". Boles, general solicitor of the a.
high Valley Railroad company. de-
MES that the sales company, bv whose
existence and activity the acts a.
legged By the government are said 10
have been made possible Is I'm any way
affiliated with or controlled los the
although IL IS conceded as
possible that the railroad and the
sales company may have stockholders
In common.
Dealing with the railroads owner 4
ship of the Lehigh Valley Coal COM .
lany and subsidiaries Mi Boles says
that this matter had been investigated +
oy the government for more than
q generation" and that If there had
been any violations of the law the
government should have Identified
hem by this time and made them
clear 20 the courts