Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23

/ not merely going through the form OF
| asking for II, but wants to get IT,"
Il suppose the purpose Ia To know
whether the attorney. general has done
his duty" suggested Representative
Powers (Rep. Mass)
Perhaps the house Is capable Of
| Judging whether 81 ought TO know the
facts itself without leaving II TO tho
attorney general" answered Mr. Hearst.
Mr. Henry, (Dem, Tex wanted to
know II Mr. Hearst ever had applied
personally or otherwise to The attor-
ney general to get the report Of the
! district attorney, He had not.
Mr., Powers wanted to know II Mr..
| Hearst could not furnish the committee
all the information inasmuch as he
| furnished the district attorney the
facts IN the first instance.
"An individual can do almost all of
these things" responded Mr., Hearst,
but the attorney general Is there to
do something"
The committee referred the resolu-
ton TO a subcommittee consisting Of
Representatives Powers, Thomas and
Smith Of Kentucky for further consid-
Grafton,
The precise manner IN which tho
antitrust law was violated, as as
serted by Mir. Hearst, was when II be-
! came known 10 the six Coai.canylns
roads that the Independent coal mine
| operators contemplated building road
| Of their own TO tideWatcr
TO prevent this the roads bought the
property of Simpson 4 Watkins, own
| ing II colleries, the largest Of the
| independent operators They also
bought the Temple Iron company, cap
| italized at sijOO000O, guaranteeing
| per cent annual interest on this capt.
, talization. The price Of coal I'm New
| York was then raised 80 cents a ton,
| netting an increased annual earning OF
| $50 900 600
This, according to Mr.. Hearst, con-
| stituted a violation Of the antitrust
| law, Mr.. Hearst said he had been In
! formed although not officially, that the
! district attorney had reported the case
to the department of justice eighteen
| months ago, with a recommendation
| that "A case had been made out,
, Republican members Of the commit
| tee questioned the necessity OF calling
upon the attorney general for the evil
! dence inasmuch as Mr. Hearst had
| furnished It to the district attorney In
the first instance and could as well fur
| nish II TO the committee.
Representative De Almond tMo)
| maintained that the country ought TO
| know why the encouragement did not
proceed in the matter
Mr.. Hearst said It was impossible
for him to procure the report of the
district attorney who had investigated
the evidence furnished by him; that
would have 10 be obtained from the
department Of justice, The informa-
ton. he said, Of that report was en-
tirely unofficial, but, he believed, trust
worthy II had been obtained from a
person connected with the district at
torney's office, but he declined TO say
from whom, because, II might embar-
rass the person in question
Representative Palmer (Rep" Pa
asked II the present price OF coal was
an unreasonable one and II the IN
crease IN the price had not occurred
shortly after the commission appointed
by the president has Increased the
wages of the miners 10 per cent
This latter fact Mr.. Hearst conceded
TO be The case He held that the com
bination, however was realizing w.
0O0 600 year out Of the preservation OF
its monopoly and that the 10 per
cent increase to miners did not amount
to 5000, 900 a year.
The committee postponed further con
sideration Of the anti.lnjunction bill
until next November.