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VOLUME 9, NUMBER 58
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Attorney General Wickersham has
presented to the United States su
premo court a case of the govern
ment against the tobacco trust. The
case against the trust is described
by the Associated Press in this way:
"The cases Were tried in the United
States circuit court for the southern
district of New York, which, after
dismissing the petition as to foreign
tobacco companies and some of the
subordinate American companies, ad
judged the others to be parties to an
unlawful conspiracy and enjoined
them from continuing their
operation and from engaging in in
terstate commerce. The attorney
gonoral takes the position that these
findings, sweeping as they seem to
have been, were not broad enough,
and he asked the supreme court to
extend them to so widen their scope
as to take inthe foreign companies
and somo individuals who were re
lieved from the operation of the ver
dict. Many other extensions of .the
judgment are also requested. After
showing that in 1890 competition
was free, the yarious coalitions .are
traced in the document and facts are
given, to show .that- the combination
has grown until ls combined assets
amount to $400,000,000. It is as
serted that the combination manu
factures all of the cigars for export
and almost three-fourths "of the
smoking tobacco and cigarettes for
domestic sale, more than three
fourths of the plug, twist and fine
cut tobacco and almost all of the
snuff and little cigars that are made.
It is declared that 'the defendants
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have persistently exercised duress,
have practiced wicked and unfair
metliods and', have used their great
.power in oppressive ways.' Further,
is asserted tnat tney nave neen
tuated' by a fixed purpose to de-
roy competition and obtain monop
olies, and that 'competitors have
gradually disappeared and tne com
bination, strongly entrenched, unduly
restricts the business of those In the'.
trade and prevents others from en-
ipnng.' it is aiso asserted tnat
bushwacking'. methods vrer resort
e'd to in the use. of union labels, and
.the method in thisfproceeding' is de
nounced as iiniauitoua'f and'onn such
,as is ''inhibited by a cfjrijlzed con-
'the record contains much evidence
arid a vast deal', of correspondence
concerning the operations of the
bushkhacldng companies which dis
close amazing depravity, and show
with clearness how the sinister
agencies were effectively utilized.'
The advertising methods of the trust
are referred to as a means of influ
encing both business and public sen
timent and it is stated that not less
than $10,000,000' were "expended in
this way in the single year of 1906.
The attorney general interprets the
complaint as not merely directed to
the acquisition and ownership of
stocks or other property, but as
against the. company's operations in
commerce, 'Competition has been
persistently destroyed; scores of con
tracts have retired skilled men from
the trade; many have been forced
out .and the necessary result of the
plan' lorig followed has given defen
dants power to exclude others, and
exercise monopoly.' He , -seems in
clined to the view that a receiver
should' be appointed for the business
of t the parties to the combination,
andadds: ip 'The very existence of
certain defendants is criminal, and
certainly they can not rightfully com
plain because restrained from carry
ing' otit tire' 'unlaVful "purposes' 'of
f-Uelr creation; they are wilf ully Jn
positions where every1 act is a trans
gression.' ".
The treasury department has ruled
that its officers, may accept a bond
If executed by a surety company at
its home office or at an office outside
the boundaries of the state where it
has no license, for a principal re
siding in such state or for the per
formance of a contract therein. This
follows an opinion of the attorney
general to whom the question was
referred." The assistant secretary
holds also that such bon,ds running
to the United States are valid and
enforceable against the company
whether or not it maintains an
agency in the state in which the
principal resides, also that the exe
cution of a bond ' in this manner
wohfd not be doing business within
the state within the meaning of the
law. Under existing treasury regu
lations a bond can not be accepted
by any of Its officers if executed by
a sur.ety company or its agent in a
state where the company has not
obtained a state license.
On December 30 a committee of
four persons completed the counting
of the coins and securities" in the
United State treasury. They had
forty counting experts to assist them
and the work took about two months.
An Associated Press report says:
"Upon the retirement of Charles H.
Treat as treasurer it became neces
sary for a counting of the contents
of the vaults to be made for the
Incoming treasurer, Lee McClung, to
give a receipt. Next Monday Mr.
McClung will give Mr. Treat a re
ceipt for $1,269,001,756.87 2-3, the
exact contents of the treasury. Not
a cent was found to be missing from
Uncle Sam's pocketbook. It was the
quickest count ever made in the
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