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trust. The result was that he filed bills for injunc 

 tion against six of the principal packing house 

 companies, and restrained them from combining 

 and agreeing upon prices at which they would sell 

 their products in States other than those in which 

 their meats were prepared for market. Writs of 

 injunction were issued accordingly, and since then, 

 after full argument, the United States Circuit Court 

 has made the injunction perpetual. 



The cotton interests of the South, including 

 growers, buyers, and shippers, made complaint that 

 they were suffering great injury in their business 

 from the methods of the Southern railroads in the 

 handling and transportation of cotton. They al 

 leged that these railroads, by combined action under 

 a pooling arrangement to support their rate sched 

 ules, had denied to the shippers the right to elect 

 over what roads their commodities should be shipped, 

 and that by dividing upon a fixed basis the cot 

 ton crop of the South all inducement to compete in 

 rates for the transportation thereof was eliminated. 

 Proceedings were instituted by the Attorney-General 

 under the anti-trust law, which resulted in the de 

 struction of the pool and in restoring to the growers 

 and shippers of the South the right to ship their 

 products over any road they elected, thus remov 

 ing the restraint upon the freedom of commerce. 



In November, 1902, the Attorney-General di 

 rected that a bill for an injunction be filed in the 

 United States Circuit Court at San Francisco against 



