The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-17
The CHARGES IN DETAIL
Anti Trust League Named Witnesses
it Wanted Subpoenaed.
SENATE, COMMITTEES TO BE- NAMED
This Will be Done Today and Senator Simmons
Named is M.ntione in Connection
With Several. Foraker Talks
Out in Meeting.
Especial to News and observer.)

Washington, D. c., December 18th,
Senate committees will be announced to
morrow. Senator Simmons will probabl,
be on these committees, to examine tn,
several branches of the civil service
agriculture, public buildings and grounds
postoffices and post roads, coast de-
fenses, forest reservations and relation:
with Cuba.
The Antitrust League has been giyin.
the administration trouble over the con
hrmation of Mr.. Knox to be Attorney Gen
eral. He was confirmed in the end. O
course, for Mr.. Roosevelt is cheek by low
with the trust, but not until the League nat
used his favorite method PUBLICITY Il
air the trust record of his Attorney Gen.
e1al. The Antitrust League has sent g
letter TO Senator Hoar going more fully
INTO the matter OF the charges against
Mr. Knox. They say:
Pursuant to permission accorded to
them and to notice given to their counsel
p. ). Tharin. ESQ.,, to lay before the hon
orable committee through its chairman any
evidence or offer of evidence, in writing in
opposition TO the confirmation of Philander
G. Knox as Attorney General of the United
States on OF before Saturday December a.
1901 to be laid before the said judiciary
Committee for its consideration
" ''Ihe joint committee Of the Auti-T Tr1Ist
League are informed and believe the said
r. {. Knox is unfit for such high office be.
cause he lacks the unbiased judicial mind
necessary for the conduct thereof without
prejudice to public policy, private right
and the energetic prosecution of artificial
persons created by the people and exer-
cising to the injury OF their creator un-
constitutional and unlawful jurisdiction
gm01ptlnU n uSIlV tipu of a,tnl
duty OF Congress to regulate exclusively the
peoples foreign and interstate commerce
because of his Identification and affiliation
with such persons in their secret measures
tc monopolize the wealth. and commerce of
the people Of the United States: in that
the said Phiander c. Knox and James II.
Reed lawyers in the employ of the Car
neg1e Company, drew up the constitution
OF the Carnegie Company which is voIative
OF the Constitution OF the United States in
usurping the regulation of interstate COM
merce contrary to the common Law as to
monopoly and subversion of the statutes of
the United States against combinations in
restraint of interstate commerce.
The said T. G. Knox procured the Of
fee OF Attorney General by reason of an
understanding with one Andrew Carnegie
whose representative therein he became az
can be known by the testimony of witness
es whose presence to testify before the
judiciary Committee is respectfully de-
nanded
He omitted to ACQUIRE accurate infor-
nation through his United States District
Attorneys as to the dongs of the trusts
within their several districts or to furnish
his subordinates with information offered
to him as probable cause for the purpose
o. enabling him inteligently to instruct
them in the matter of prosecuting viola
tiors of the Constitution and Laws of the
United States by the trusts.
''Hc has evaded and still DELAYS the
hearing of petition Of the said joint
committee which was filed on the 9th day
of September, 1901, in the Department of
Justice.
I'm TIE interest of his confirmation he
has attempted to impress upon the minds of
the President and Senators pretended ar
rangement with this joint committee as to
the hearing OF SAID petition, while OBJ
serving diplomatic silence towards let
tiers from the Joint committee and their
counsel urging said hearing.
The committee still complaining against
the said p c. Knox unfit to conduct the
peoples department of justice, have the
honor to supplement their evidences thereof
by requesting the judiciary Committee to
subpoena the following persons and to
compel them and each Of them to testify,
and also make discovery Of their contracts
with European and American capitalists of
the constitution and bylaws of their re-
spective corporations and syndicates of
their negotiations with other corporations,
and of the sources OF their profits in order
to be publicly necessary to orderly and
needful legislation in the premises and also
OF the relations of them and Of each of
them with the Department Of Justice in
Washington. d. c.. and the several Dis
trict ard Circuit Courts OF the United
States during the administration of said
department by the following Attorney
Generals, viz. Richard 0lney, John W.
Griggs and Phlander G. Knox, and, in or
der to support charges, ask that
the following witnesses be subpoenaed, viz
-. Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie,
sPhilander G. Knox, James II. Reed Henry
G. Frick. John w Gates, John ID. Rookie
feller, William Rockefeller, Charles NJ.
Schwab."
The letter closes with the statement that
the league asks for further time to present
evidence as is convenient with its
orderly arrangemhent, and the letter is
signed BY II. b. Martin, chairman; W. H.
Dewart, secretary, Sand the lawyers.
rs il proper for lawyer to appear
against his former clients Can a lawyer
willing 10 appear against his former eli
ents be trusted to prosecute them II guilty
when it is generally understood that
the President Of the United States refuses
to accept Si0,0o0,090 to endow an eduea
tional institution because the gift exists as
stock OF a trust Is there any further neces-
sity TO show your honorable committee
that trust probably exists.
''If this tr1st notoriouslv existed ever
since Mr.. Knox came into office the obli-
CATION is ON him to show what he has
done about ii in nine months control OF
the Department of Justice.
'fIt probable cause against the trust has
been suggested by our committee, unless
Attorney General Knox can show that he
las proceeded with some diligence in the
consideration Of the Law and in the accu,
mutation OF facts, he is guilty Of neglect
Ii is we'll known that Coils p. Hunt
ineton and Mark Hanna are the two men