Show ANTITRUST T SUIT AGAINST OCEAN LINES Concerns Operating to Brazil Bra zil zU Charged With Unlawful Unlawful Un Un- lawful Conspiracy CAVE GAVE REBATES AND STIFLED COMPEtiTION COMPETITION Alleged ged to Have Monopolized Business and Fixed Unreasonable Rates I NEW w YORK YORE June 5 The 5 The national government filed tiled a civil antitrust suit in the federal district court here today against the steamship companies interested inter inter- ested in and alleged to have monopolized lined the transportation of or passengers and freight between the United States and Brazil Sweeping charges of granting rebates rebates re xe- bates fixing arbitrary and unreasonable unreasonable unreason unreason- able ahie rates and en entering ring i into to conspiracies conspiracies conspiracies combinations and agreements in ui violation of or the Sherman law are mad mada i against the Prince ce line limited the Hamburg Hamburg- lines and the proprietors of the he 6 Lamport and Holt line For or five years the tho government livers P these thes steamship lines and cerain cere tam ain tain of their officers or as as individual defendants have pave com com- pin d and con conspired to destroy all an competition com com- petition in tho tio traffic between bet the United States a and d Br Brawl Through iho he ho in instrumentality trull enl i of OL f tra traffic fi and pool pool- in log ng agreements and conferences for br con erf i t i t L 19 clin charged ed d dates t s of sailing ha hav been apportioned profits profits pro pro- fits divided freight rates fixed and discrimination le cJ d at shippers who refused to patronize the defendants defend defend- an ants ts exclusively Asks That Illegal Practices Stop The co court rt is is petitioned to declare the tho alleged combination a restraint of tr tra rade de' de in of tho the Sherman law lawand lawand lawand and to forbid tho the vessels of or the defendants defendants de de- entering or clearing any port of the United States as long as th the contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts agreements and aud practices of the government complains are aro continued The Tho government applies for fora a series of or injunctions prohibiting all parties Indies concerned from granting rebates rebates rebates re re- re- re bates or bonuses or fixin fixing sates rates and eliminating competition among themselves themselves themselves them them- selves or oi destroying the efforts of ri ri- ri vats vals An interlocutory injunction is sought to restrain the ste steamship lines Jines from continuing their alleged ed unlawful methods durin during the of the suit The rho following are arc named lamed in tho bill biU billas as defendants Prince Line mes Knott of ot Newcastle Tyne England linland Paul 3 S. Gerhardt Francis J. Zimmerman Charles Jo E. E Gerhardt Gerbardt Harry Connor o or New York Walter Holland George Kelly Arthur Cook C C. S. S Jones f Liverpool Liverpool Liv Liv- owners of the Lamport and Holt lino Frederick r T. Busk Dusk Lorenzo Daniels William Willia n of New Now York Hamburg American packet line inc inc- Hamburg Ham Hani- burl burg South American line William G U. Paul Gottheil Thomas A. A Sparks Volle ens lL iL W. W W. W L. L Walter Robert 11 in Goodwin Clement H H. H Betts and Henry H. H Garvin of New York |