The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-26


OF cotton seed in Mississippi or other
properties Of eighty-five nonresident
cotton seed oil mills operating in Ala
bama, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky,
Georgia, Louisiana Illinois and Ten
nessee, or any Indebtedness mills in
this state owe to any of the concerns
named, will be attached by Attorney
General Ross A. Collins this week.
The attachments are quickly to fol.
Gerry court here, in which the attorney
general makes defendants to the anti
trust litigation all concerns whom he
believes have in any way been con-
nected with agreements to name the
price of cotton seed in Mississippi.
This action is but another link in the
chain of his fight against cotton seed
, oil mills which he charges have con-
spired among themselves to establish
uniform price on seed, in violation
of the states antitrust laws.
Bought at Fixed Price.
The So mills mentioned in the
amended bill of complain are charged
with having bought in Mississippi cot
ton seed at prices which they helped
to fix. The bill also garnishees all
railroads in the state that may have
cotton seed for transportation to the
mills outside the state, and the com.
plant is returnable at the January
term Of the chancery court, when 1t
is expected that testimony in the cases
against the alleged trust" will again
be taken. This will involve the fam
GUS "Sons Of Plato" which the attor.
ney general claims Is a secret or.
ganization Of cotton seed oil mill men
that has for its object the fixing OF
prices on seed, sacred obligations
taken and oaths signed being a part
Of the ceremony " sed to prevent any
breaking away from such agreements,
| Violated Antitrust Laws. I2
In nut shell the attorney general
claims that the nonresident mills have
violated Mississippis antitrust stat
utes.. and he is going to ask for heavy
penalties tn fines for what they al
ready have dehe. and in order to In
sure collection OF such fines. IL they
are assessed ty the courts. he is hav
ing their holdings in this state attach
led. pending the outcome of the litiga
/ ton. He win ask that the courts
I after finding the defendant guilty, con
{ denim their Mississippi holdings to sat
: isfy the judgments, in the even
q they are granted, and proposes to stol
s any shipments by mills in this stat
r to mills in other states involved In thu
e so called conspiracy in restraint o
e trade. 1t lis believed that all of th
d defendants will Immediately make sal
It isfactory bonds, when the attachment
r will be released.
Z Most Of the outside mills brough
into this litigation are located in Bill
# mingham, and Montgomery, Ala, NeN
L Orleans, La, and Memphis, Tenr
& Others are scattered throughout thos
a and other states.
Vt Object to Suit to Recover
u The object of the suit, summarize
e from the bill of complaint, is as TO
% lows:
vi "The object and nature of this su
u is to recover from said nonresident
70 for violation of the antitrust law an
te to subject and bind the. personal pro
erty and effects of said non-residei
Ie corporations defendants mentiont
nj above or the hands of the reside
IS defendant named herein. and any
r debtedness that may be due to sa
pt Inon-reside. defendants from the sa
b ersideni d " aants to the demand
n (Con1 e. On PAee Three).