The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-08-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| NN ~ - JOA'S WIN ~ At'ON
from the American Antitrust
League and the Knights of La.
Dor, and most unprecedented men
are likely to vote aye. These gen
tlemen know that the Attorney.
General of the United States can
do his duty, by proceeding against
the big steel trust for having vio-
lated the Sherman anti trust law,
and they are determined to make
him do it or know the reason why.
They are proceeding in a business
like way; have employed two law
yers = ex-Attorney- General Mo
nett, of Ohio, and Mr.. A. A.
Lipscomb, of Westinghouse col
lect evidence of the violation of
the Sherman anti trust law and
submit it to the Attorney-General
with a demand that he begin legal
proceedings in the name of the
United States against the trust.
Speaking of their intentions, Mr..
H. S. Martin, chairman of the
joint committee, said: ''In the
event of the complaint being
blocked in the Attorney Generals
office, or if he does not consider it
advisable to act in the matter, we
have decided to lay the papers in
the case before the President of
the United States. In fact, we are
prepared to take steps for a man
damus proceeding if we are pushed
to extremes, but it is doubtful if
either of the last two named &C
tions will be necessary, and we are
proceeding with the idea that there
will be no bitches of any descrip-
tion." They are also preparing
to bring legal actions against the
steel trust under the laws of the
States in which it carries on its
business. The action of the com
mittee is receiving endorsements
from every direction, and some of
them have been accompanied by
the strongest evidence of genuine
ness-cash contributions to aid in
payment of necessary expenses.
Strong pull is being brought to
bear on Secretary Root to save
Capt. j. {. Read, son of a rich
iron manufacturer of Pittsburg,
who was convicted by a cosrt mar
tial of completely in the comissary
frauds at Manila and sentenced to
three years in the military prison
at that place to be dishonorably
discharged from the Army. Reads
lawyers have secured a promise
from Secretary Root to review the
case. One Of the claims OF the
lawyers is that the court martial
was irregular because nine of its
members were officers of the regu-
lar Army; that Read being u volun-
teer officer was entitled to trial by
4 court composed exclusively of
officers. But the strong
est CLAIM In Reads hehalf Is that
represented by his daddies' dollars.
If the story that Sampson might |
not appear before the Schley Court
Of Inquiry was put out as feeler
by the anti-Schley gang in the
Navy Department to ascertain how
she public would take some sort of
official Juggling that would enable
Sampson to avoid the trial which
ais cross examination by Jerry"
Wilson, Sehley's chief counsel, is
certain to be, as many suspect,
hey must be thoroughly convinced
BY the howl it raised that the pub
io viii not stand for any such bus
ness as that. 1t was Sampson
who was Schley's first accuser and
who was mainly instrumental in
he formation of the naval clique
which has so persistentlY sought
10 ruin Schley, and it is Sampson
who must either clear himself or
forever condemn himself. AL
.hough the clique pretends to talk
IS though Sampson had no more
interest in the court than any
,ther officer who happens to be a
witness, every mothers son of
hem knows that as soon as that
,ourt gets started it will be plain
o all the world that it is Sampson,
md not Schley, who Is on trial,