Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-29
IN STEEL SUIT
FILED IN FEDERAL COURT
Action Taken as Matter OF Right and
InsArcs Hearing by Highest
Tribunal.
CITES 2s DISTINCT ERRORS
Government Will Rest Its Case in
supreme Court on These EXccp-
tions-Same Defendants i'm Orig
inal Suits Named Again.

TRENTON. y. j.. October 2S.-Thc
governments petition for an appeal
10 the United States Supreme Court
n the sherman antitrust suit against
tho United states Steel Corporation
was filed here to-day in the Federal
Court. The appeal is taken as a mat
ter Of right and insurcs a hearing by
the highest court.
The appeal is from the recent deci-
sion of the District Court d'smissing
the governments complaint In which
the steel corporation WAS charged with
being combination in restraint of
trade. and in violation Of the sherman
act. and which sought it's dissolution
accompanying the formal petition for
an appeal. the government hled bill
Of exceptions to the decision OF the
District Court giving twentythree
distinct counts In which that court Is
said to have erred. 1t is upon these
1so-callcd errors Of the District Court
that the government will rest it's case
In the Supreme Court
The bill OF exceptions charges that
the court erred In failing to ind that
the steel corporation Is Il combination
In restraint OF trade. and that most
OF the units Of which II was formed
were themselves combinations in vio-
latlon OF tho Sherman act. Such VIC
lation OF the law is charged through
the ownership by the corporation Of
the stocks OF the Carnegie steel Com
Ipany. Federal steel Company. Amor-
can Steel and Wire Company, National
Tube Company American steel and
Tin Plate Company. American Bridge
Company. shelby Tube Company. Lake
superior Copsolidatcd Iron Mines.
Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Union
steel Company. Clarion steel Com
pany and Tennessee Coal Iron and
Language Of this bill. at occupies "A
pre- ponderant position ia the :ron and
steel trade generally, and controls Of
the total production In the United
States Of Bcssencr ana basic pig iron.
81 per cent OF steel interests aud cast
inEs 51.i per cent: of rails J33 per
cent: or structural shanes, 49.S per
cent: OF plates and shccts. 5o.t per
cent: Of wire rods. Ga per cent: Of
merchant bars. 25.6 per cent; of skelp
52.7 per cent. and Of hoops. bands and
cotton ties, 1l.2 per cent
WHOLESALE COMBINATION
OF COMPETITIVE PLANS
Til" bill claims further that the steel
corporation also controls a large pro-
portion Of other goods: and Il very
large proportion OF the commercially
available ore in N" Lake Superior and
Birmingham districts" all Of which.
says tho bin IN ts charge Of error on
the part Of the District Court. was
brought about, not the result of
norma! growth ana development, hNf
through the wholesale combination Of
competitive plants and business"
The District Court IS charged with
error again In the fact that IL failed to
cnjoin the right on the part Of the steel
corporation and its subsidiaries 10
maintain tho prices OF iron and steel
products by concert OF action with their
competitors. as through the so-called
Gary dinner movement !nauguratca by
l.. II Gary. executive head OF tho cor
poration IN 1907. As in the original suit
the following arc mad" defendants:
Louis W. IIIll. James y. Hnl. Walter
!. Hill. Edward y. Nicholas, J. =. Nor
gan. Charles steel, George W. Perkins
T.. ~. Gary, Charles NJ Schwub. Andrew
Carnegie. Henry &. F'rick. James Cav
ley, William II. Moore. J. II. Moore Ed
mund &. Converse. I'crcival Roberts. Jr..
Daniel q. Reid. Norman Il. Keam. John
-. Rockefeller. John II. Rockefeller. Jr.
T.. \. r. Wid"ncr William i. Palmer,
Ohm +. Morgan. Jr.. William T.. IIamil-
ton Herbert J.. Satt"rlcc and Lewis
CasS l.edyard.