Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21
A. Yes.

rOundlap bale.
 Q. Is there any cotton grown in New Jersey, Senator?
 A. No.
 Q. There is cotton grown in Arkan- sas, IS there not, Senator?
 A. Yes.
 Q, How much did you pay for your charter ill New Jersey, Senator?
 A. S4, ,40O
 O. How much do you pay ann to do business there? A. $4, 100.
 Q. Now, Senator, what would it have cost you to have chartered your com pany in Arkansas, where there is cot ton grown?
 A. S25.
 Q. Then will you please explain to this jury why you would pay 84, 400 for | your charter, and SLIGO annually to do business in state where no cotton is grown, when you could have char tered your company in cotton state for $25?
 I imagine that the Senator would decline to answer this question, but it being pertinent and germane to the issue, the court would compel him to do so, and his answer would be this: I've get the protection of secrecy. that is, no one can look at the books incorporating company except a stockhOlder or director, whereas, ir Arkansas the meanest negro in the state would have free access to the books This is why we pay this enor- nous sum for the privilege to do busi- ness in New Jersey" tor? F " '' GU . O'' '''''''0''' '0'a A. Well, MT. Searles is one.
 Q. Isn't he in a sugar trust, Sena- tor? Didn't he organize it?
 A. Yes.
 O. Who are the others! A. Well, MT. Carnegie is another.
 c. Isn't he in the steel trust, Sem tor? A. Well, yes, I believe he is.
 Q. In fact, Senator, are not all your partners in business members of vari- ous trusts?
 A. Yes. Our company|is not trust, MT. Searles says it is not! and he ought to know; he says it is Ia patent.
 Q. Well, Senator, isp't it Ncustomary to sell all patented inventions such as, ice cream freezers. churns, and WashA ing machines?
 A. Yes, believe it is.
 Q. Will you sell one of your presses, Senator?
 A. No. We do not sell them.
 l ask you, gentlemen of the iurt why this is true? It is because tI company wants to keep it's long bo] fingers on the arteries of trade.
 e. Senator, will you gin cotton your customers for toll or pay?
 A. No, we buy it in the seed.
 c. Is it not the object of your co pany, Senator, to drive out the square presses, and esta.bJ5iisslnS ta.b5is-ln round bale press?
 Q. Then if you succeef in tb ator, and won't g1f'eqfton i'd customers, @ e! but compe;lIthem td your company a mon6poIy of tf fbis 4ii h"sk not yous msai obee2 ana linf cotton # A. We'll, yes, y9@ might so c}
 An, gentlemen pray God u company may never succeed ing out the square bale, ana lisning this monopoly, the mo erlng curse that would befall Southland. It is now just in fancy, it may never succeed! has millions of money behind if it does succeed and drive v vupthe old square bale, and the farmers are compelled to carry their cotton and sell in the seed to this octopus, the round bale, then the farmers of my Southland will call on the rocks and hills to hide them from the wrath of Senator Jones' good thing.
 c. How much stock have you in this company, Senator?
 A. Well, the first stime I was on the witness stand at Searcy said only had $70,000 of this stock, but since a more careful investigation, l find that 1 have $360,000 in stock.
 Of course, gentlemen of the jury, this mistake on the part of the Sena- tor should be overlooked, a small matter like this as he deals in largx sums.
 Q. Senator, do not the books New Jersey show that you own $S50y 900 of this stock?
 A. Yes, but the books are not right, somebody has put up a job on me, and gave me more stock than | really own.
 An, gentlemen of the jury, search old Jim Berry; search his clothes, search his house, and you won't find any American Cotton stock on him, and we don't need any senators and con gressmen who invest in private enter i. prises, inconsistent with theG public ' duties. The greatest man that Erkan- I sas ever produced, Hon. August Garland, wrecked his political bark o this same rock. The Pan Electri and Bell Telephone companies wer each contending for the patent. Mn Garland was great senator, and turned up one morning with big