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Show SUGAR TRUST TH I BE PROBED SDOM Government to Allege Mormon I j Leaders Helped HaYemeycr Stifle Competition. I J &MITII AND CUTLER WILL J RE AMONG DEFENDANTS A Fraud .and Deceit Toward Pur- j chasers Included ifitlic " jR . NumerousCharges. ! :? Special lo The Tribune. . ! !' i "EW YORK. Nov. 27. Thp manner r R in which Joseph F. Smith, hcatl o tho J if j Mormon clnlrcli, Tlitfmas l. Cutjor and I- other lending lights in l.ho Mormon f ( hicrurchy co operated . with Henry .0. Huvemeyer ot? the American Sugar fie- : f?jj- lining company to'socurc control of the : beet sugar business in the iiiternionii- h tain states, will behold officially, and "H, the iiJcgal character" of. thoir acts do-. . fined, in tho suit soon lo be filed in l thu federal court for tho -southern lis- : j ' trict of Now York by tlie government. :) The "Utah group" will come in for ! t a sharp scoring at the hands of the at- torney general. 'Hio suit is to bo I'll brought by direction of Att'orucy Gcu- S Jii. oral Vickcrsham to dissolve tho Amor- IkIV ican Sugar "Refining company trust aa tWA an unlawful conspiracy iu rcslraiut of (k!1 trade, ojicrating in violation of the iKJl Sherman anti-trust law. vlufi' To Stiflo Competition. (Bjl .Tosoplr P. Smith is named as onu of Wmu tho defendants. Tho Utah-Idaho Suijar ! W company, tho Amalgamated Sugar -cdm- i'BSf pauy and Lowiston Sugar compaiTv will I'EIh also be named as being component vwwi parts of tho sugar trust, and tho 'iufr name.- of Joseph b Smith, David lie- iJe! cles, Thomas II. Cutler, Charles W. .Nih- ; ley, libber J. Grant, John Henry Smith, i vIM John C. Cutler, Y S. McCoriliclt and W George Komnev, many of them leading aH lights iu the Mormon hierarchy, will be 0 'IK named as directors in one or moro df lIB the dcfRudaui. corporal ions. ;PK The slory of how Thomas 11. Cut lor Wm entered into agreement with Henry H Havcmccr to sccurts control of all in- dependent, .beet sujjai; plants 'in tho ;K, intcrniountain states to turn over their control -to the firugar trust: and tu pro- Ht vent tho establishment of other bide- Iw pendent beet sugar factories, will bo fflVk told in tho government's petition. ' !'B9f Crush All Competitors. , E?1 Tlie acquisition of the Hear llivcr ''i Water company's holdings of irrigated 1J$I- sugar boot lands by the trust through &MM Mormon inlcrvcntion, l.hc building of a :1 trust factory at; Garland, Utah, lo stiflo SMII an independent concern then starting w-H Hansen's plan for an independent fac- tory at Sugar City. Idaho, by tho .Mor- s mon church and Huvcineycr, will bo m citod as hpcci fic acts iu the conspiracv JI among sugar trust officers and Mor- inous to restrain trudo iu violat'jn of l tho law. ivjl. Other independent concerns declared to have boon stifled by tho Mormou- iJflH Havomoyor conspiracy wcro at Idaho SjilJ I'allH, Idaho, by the formation of tho fill Fremont 'County Sugar compauv at f Nampa. also at Payetto, through tho formation and manipulation of tho SJfal "Western Idaho Sugiir company. ' ffllW Joseph P. Smith is named brtho gov- 4jkl eriimeut, along with tho Cullors aud II. fjj:J O. Ifavomo-or and tho sugar trust as fml co-cousniralors in the i'ormatiou of tho Idaho Sugar company iu J'ulv, 1907, tho pgfl purpose of which was to destroy conipc- W titiou and to give a monopoly' of sugar JH ))l'0(lllCttOU. f3g Thoy arc charged with arbitrarilv -Ml stifling now enterprises by fixing tho ffl price they will pay for sugar boets and pXI the price at which the' sell thoir sugar. jifl Thclefpiidauts also are charged with "decoiviug and defrauding purchasers 1W ,by misbranding their products." ''-JM The arraignment of tho Mormous and the sugar trust officers in tfao govern- ment chsu will be ouu of tho most start- JaW ling ever made iu any of tho anti-trust cases. ' TBI |
