Show HARVESTER TRUST SUIT SUII IS OPENED Government Is Trying to 1 Dissolve Powerful Com Cern FORMED MONOPOLY BY Dr DEAL IN 1892 General Manager Testifies That Competition Ended Aft After r Th That t Date Dated CHICAGO Sept 18 Taking Taking pf of testimony tes tea of th the Igo government sui suit to dissolve dis di dia- dia solve Olve the International Harvester company com corn pany which as a a. l corporation corpora corpora- tion is c charged arged with existing in violation viola viol tion thu of ot the tho Sherman antitrust law was begun today before Special Examiner Robert S S. S TaYI Taylor r with General Manager Manager Mana Mana- ger Clarence Funk Punk the tho first wi witness withes eis- eis Mr Funk appeared with books aud and documents containing records records' of fr r tho the company's bu business Edwin P. P Grosvenor special assistant to the attorney general Jener J appeared appo r ted d for forthe the tho government H He announced that tho the C Chicago 0 hearing is one Jf pf a number numbe to lo be bo held beld in various Defendants include acor George Georgo o W W. Perkins Per PCT kins Cyrus Cyrul H. H McCormick Elbert H H. Gary president of ot the steel corporation corpora corpora corpora- tion George o P. P Baker Norman B. B Roam Ream Charles J Peering Deering and Harold Halold P. P McCormick I IThe IThe The filing of the suit uit was victor i tor mined up upon n after the tho department of jus justice tice and the tho company had failed tailed to agree aRIee to a plan pan to to dissolve without liti Ration gation by Iby dividing the corporations corporation's property among new companies as waR was done in the tho tobacco corporation on disso disco lution The Tho government lo charges el that Hint the cor- cor by combining the five fi lar largest cst agricultural implement man manufacturers in fin 1002 created a trust and d monopolized at that time Dl 85 to 85 to 00 09 i cr c cent nt of the J 11 ii r i 1 1 t combination on of the large Juge harvester com coin panics s in 1902 they thoy all ro active 1 1 I p Up Upon n the combination tho th general a agencies agencies' of all nil the the- the companies companies om i 5 were turned over o to the now tiou he said The products of tho present company Mr Funk Punk asserted were sold old to the farmers through h l ithe the P Pacific coast states and through h general agents in in other states All AU Pa Pacific co coast st states at he said were rB d divided vided ln into o five districts n the tho central J district being bing northern Illinois northern Indiana Indiana In In- diana and eastern Iowa Mr Funk Punk said Rid that the h head aa offices of the International Harv Harvester ter Company Com Corn Company pany pf America and those of the International International In In- Harvester Company of New Jersey were in tho the same same building in Chicago In the contracts which the tho Harv Harvester Company of New Jersey made for the sale of its products through h the Harvester Har liar vester voster Company of America Mr Funk unk said Baid tho selling price of the implements was stated |