Show H STANDARD O wL l COMPANY ILLEGAL I Hi J AND ORDERED ORDRED D VED BY v 1 i 1 Cc 1 Decision Commands the Breaking Up of the I 4 I Mighty Trust Within a Few Days WiIl 1 Be an all Appeal to Supreme Court lIss p po o or al l lr r ra t hn y j 0 3 St Paul 10 Nov OThe government wIns Its suit suU against the Standard n 0 P Tho Th United States circuit yen ento f court today the corporation The ii to b be as being illegal d case was heard In Ute tho United Uder J States circuit court at St Louis In a April lost by br CircuIt JudgeR Sanborn Flora or of St SL Paul Van or of Cho Id enn Hook of Leavenworth and Ad AdI a I 1 b by ams ains of St L l u Jud Jude Sanborn the presiding judge judg j the tho opinion and the decree In emu which nil all the judges concur and sent c th heni m to Judge Adams at St s co who filed them and entered the de der punch i erN cree In that hat city this morning r by vil 11 The caso was argued b by Frank B ot or St SL Paul and Charles B Borrlson nl nIn ot or Chicago the United c States and John G Ulburn or of But BuC falo David T Watson or of o 01 Chicago and andr ry r John GO Johnon of Philadelphia on onla la 0 by I behalf or the tho defendants S n ul It was brought to enjoin John D Dof Dof of a e Rockefeller William Rockefeller Hen Hents ts q j r ry M Flagler Henry U IL Rogers John D Archbold Archbo Oliver H FL Payne Charles Pre M 1 Pratt the Standard company 1 of cf New Ness Jersey and aDd about venty oth othis 1 is o l f er r co from maintaining a 3 Ine combination and ond conspiracy in En re ic on of trade trado to e Inter InterI interstate 1 state slate md and commerce and I th decree grants the thc Injunctions i by the tho government case cage U If ono one of the ibe most in the tho history of the national gm govern m nt on of Important indus tb and Questions and the vast ost financial interests it involves The 0 cv e C i filled volumes and ando o more than ten thousand prini 4 ed cd pages and tho th arguments of oC cohn tie tel moro more than 11 11 n ted pages The Syll Syllabus J f The nature of the case antI the char charr charI r I at r of the decision appear from the tho of Jud e opinion reads Congress has power under the tho clause of the he constitution to 10 and re restrict the use ln In among the tho several states and with foreign m nations of contracts of th the method of holding title to prop property erty 11 y and of every Other It i employed In that commerce so tar far tarI farI I as II may mar he necessary to do so ln in order to prevent the restraint there then thereof of denounced b by the an antitrust act or of Jul July 2 J 1890 26 i Test of the legality of a 1 linn Ion under this act Is Its necessary i j 1 f ct upon competition In commerce j the tho states or with foreign nn na ions v l rr ft Its necessary effect Is only mc 50 fl dentally or to restrict that h U competition while Its chief result Is Isto isto to foster the trade and Increase the tho S of oC those who mako ani and oper opel operate i ate ato It It does docs not vIolate that law Stifles Free Competition t But if Ie Its necessary effect Is to torI 1 rI or directly nd substantially S J to restrict free competition in corn com 1 merce merc amon among the states stales or with Cor or n nations it Is illegal within the tho meaning or of that statute The power j to restrict competition In omon among the several states or with for or nations vested In a or an or of persons h by n a combination tion is 15 Indicative of the tho of oC the combination it is 18 to the tho thoL L C I c r st of the tho parties that such a should be exorcised and tim tho presumptIon Is that it il will be o of the Case the tho ton yearn year prior to the seven individual defendants hll hii acquired control or of many corpor I t partnerships and refineries 1 th that H had har b been n competing in this buI bUBI 1 1 ns ha had placed tho majority of the 3 stock or of those corporations anti the 1 1 In proportion In i obtained In various trustees to toI toI I b and by thorn thom for the I of oC the Standard Oil corn com I pliny of oC Ohio one of the nineteen l In which the tho Individual do I fondants were principal str I I tied had thereby pre ed v linn Un among corporations a ud I In ISiD 1870 they thoy and their cLed all the trustees to conc cOnC theIr Interests In the stock property 1 C c business or of all o 0 five trustees to ho held t I ln by br them Cor or the sto l or of the tho Standard company or of Ohio i Irom 1879 until thoy pro Ti rl these corporations and others other I 1 lu lii of oC which s control from ll this commerce h by the tho thoDe i S I 1 of oC th their lr gull I II De C rail o Of a of their I L J I to 10 be held In trust for th the 1 of the or of OhIo ii 1 I nd from IS 1899 they nc ncI t I hed the santo b by ft aim Her bar device and b by the 1 or of tho ma maI I I t Jar It or of tOlK or of corpora corpor 4 lIons In year ar 1 the f n ln In f 1 I defendants defendant and theIr osso asso elates dates caused the majority of the lck of the nineteen corporations to tobe I h be transferred to the Standard on Oil I company or of Now Jersey In I for Its stool stock so that the latter bUm com comil nany thereby acquired the legal egal title to a majority of the stock of each or of ortho the tho companies the control of these companies and of all th companies of which thoy controlled I 1 the pow power 10 er ar to Lo fix Ix tile the or of purchase and selling price or of PC Jo I and Its products which all these corporations should pay and I receive in the conduct of their In commerce among the thc states mid arid with foreign nations Since that exchange of stock the tho individual defendants have havo been and are stockholders and aud officers of the SI Standard company or of New Jor Jorte te soy which has Ims exercised still Is that Jower and by Its use it hrs has and Is still prevent lug competition In commerce among the states slates and with foreign nation I among the tho corporations Declared a Conspiracy lcy Held Hed The Tho transaction eel 01 a combination and conspiracy In restraint of and to monopolize corn com merco among the states and with ith for aign nations In violation o of sections I 1 and 2 of the antitrust act of July 2 1 Q the government Is en n tilled to an Injunction against the further continuance and operation I thereof The decree decleo the thC sc seven n de cle the Standard on company and amid It its subsidiary corporations from continuing or Into effect tim tho Illegal camhi combination nation thor have formed from entering Into au any like corn com or conspiracY the effect cf which will be to restrain Interstate commerce In petroleum or Its prod products nets or to prolong the tho unlawful mon man of such obtained hy by hythe bythe the defendants as stated la In the do de decree crue cree and thoy are aro forbIdden from Crom on en engaging or continuing In Interstate commerce until they thoy their Illegal combination TIme The decree effect thirty days from th the date of Its filing un unless sus us by an appeal to the supreme I |