Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-27
C()MRINE: CHARGES AGAINST
 READING UPHELD
Majority of Governments Charges in Anthracite
 Cases Upheld

Washington, April 26.-Announcing it's decision in part of the long pending anthracite coal trust cases today, the supreme court, in a to 5 opinion, sustained majority of the governments charges of illegal com- binationes against the Reading com pany, a Pennsylvania holding cor poration, and certain of it's railroads and Vandevanter dissented, while their dissolution. Chief Justice White and Associate Justices Holmes and Vandevanter dissenter, while Justices McReynolds and Brandeis took no part in the decision.
 No copy of the majority opinion was available as Justice Clarke was rendering it. Associated with the Reading companies as defendants were the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company and the Lehlgh Coal and Navigation company. The con stant recurrence of the words "Le- high company" throughout the read ing caused the opinion to exist that the so-called Lehigh case, which ac- tually refers to the Lehigh Valley railroad company case, argued last fall, with the Reading case, was be- ing decided also. Dispatches saving the government had also won it's case against the Lehigh Valley railroad company were sent out and it was not until almost an hour later when copies of Justice Clarke's opinion were made available that it was found that the court had acted on the Reading case alone. The majority opinion held the holding company guilty of violation of the Sherman antitrust act, and reversed federal court decrees rendered Tn Philadelphia in 1915, which refused to sustain the governments charges of monopoly but directed the separa- tion of the Central Railway of New Jersey from it's subsidiary coal com pany, the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre 1 Coal company. Dissolution was or dered by the supreme court on the Reading company, the Philadelphia and Reading company, the Philadel- phia and Reading Coal and Iron com pany, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh and Wilkes barre Coal company, maintained thrr the holding corporation. so that they would be entirely independent oi each other.
 The court, however, sustained the
 lower court decrees absolving the Le
 high Coal and Navigation company
 the Lehigh and New England Rail
 road company, and the Lehigh ant
 Hudson River railroad company or
 charges as to restrictive covenants II
 mining leases with respect to th'
 shipping of coal and refusing to or
 der the ispatch-association of thu
 Philadelphia and Reading Coal ant
 Iron company and the Lehigh ant Wilkesbarre Coal company maintain
 ed through the holding company.
 Charges against the directors O the holding company including thu
 late Geo. F. Baer and Henry c. Rrick as we'll as Geo. F. Baker, Henry A
 Dupont, Daniel Willard, Henry P ]. McKean and Samuel Dickson, named
 as defendants, were dismissed.
 Similar action was taken in re gard to the Wilmington and North ern Railroad companies. 1njunc , tions restraining enforcement of pro visions inserted by the Reading an Wilkesbarre Coal company in coa , leases requiring the lessee to ship al : coal by designated rail routes wer
 made permanent, the court condemn . ing such provisions as unlawful. '. Justice Clarke in the majority op inion charged the Reading holdin < company yb an 'adroit division Q !, property and of corporate agency :, with purposely violating Gin flag U rant manner" the Sherman Ant 5 trust act and with suppressing con ,, merce and competition.