Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1910 — RAILROADS INDICTED [ARTICLE]

RAILROADS INDICTED

Violation of the Sherman Anti-Truit Law is Charged. After hearing testimony in Savannah, Ga., the federal grand jury of the United States district court handed down indictments charging an infringement of the auti-trust laws on the part of three large cororation and two individuals. The Atlantic Coast line and Seahoard Air line railways were indicted jointly with the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation company for specific predations of the Sherman antitrust ai/d Elkins laws. Harvey Miller and Morris Miller, grain nVrchants and members of L. F. Millet & Sons. Philadelphia, were the individuals to fell the wrath of the government. The indictment of Morris was a surprise. The Miller brothers put themselves in the jurisdiction of the United States court for the southern district of Georgia through their shipments into this district over the lines of the three corporations indicted. In the indictments dates are given when the individual defendants are alleged to have made shipments over the lines named at rates less than those on file with the interstate commerce comission. It is alleged that from western points to Philadelphia the Millers obtained export rates where the Jaw demanded -domestic rates. This saved them from 1 to 3 cents on every 100 pounds of grain shipped. • ’