The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-11-17
NOT DONE WITH THE TRUSTS.
The Government Probably Win
Take Early Action.

New York, Nov.l1.-The New lork
Heard Independently a supporter oI
Judge Parker in the campaign just
ended, says to-day in a dispatch
from it's Washington correspondent;
Regarding the position OF the
President with reference to trusts
and great combinations Of capital
there has been no change in his pre-
vious attitude. At the coming ses.
sion of Congress legislation bearing
on the trust question will he recon-
mended and these recommendations
will be m le without reference to
whether tn are acceptable to the
trusts or n ;. Their character is
possibly n, known even to the
President at his time. They will
depend large on the nature OF the
report which will be made to the
President within a short time by
James j. Garfield, the head OF the
bureau Of corporations Of the ne
partment Of Commerce and Lsh
1t will he recalled that it was the
part uf the commerce and labor hill
creating this corporation bureau TO
which the Standard Oil company oh.
ected aud in an ,fiord to defeat the
Yin the officers Of the Standard oil
company sent kilograms TO senators.
Some Of these kilograms came into
the possession Of the President, who
made them pubic Whatever legis.
lation may be recommended will he
In the direction of extending the con.
troll OF the government overcorpora-
tions engaged in interstate business.
The trusts may take the position
that this legislation is not Tor their
good. The President takes the posi-
ton that it is for their good and the
trusts do not know it. But one
thing is certain, whatever is sought
30 be accomplished by the President
will be in the direction OF strengthen
ing the power OF the government to
Interfere in behalf OF the public If
such interference at any time be.
comes necessary,
On this point there is strong
probability that at an early day the
government may take other action
against some Of the so called trusts.
This information does not come
from the White house and il merely
gossip of Washington. 1t ls under
stood that the Beef trust, which has
been under investigation for several
months, is strongly suspected oi
having violated the INDUCTION issued
against it by Judge Grosscup of the
United States court. There is said
to be some difference OF opinion
among officials as to whether recent
operations of the Beef trust consti
tute a violation of the law or not.
1t is possible that the investigation
may have disclosed IA deficiency in
the law. II this is true then the
recommendations to Congress prob
ably will include a strengthening OF
the law to meet sub cases rs have
been disclosed. For instance, it has
been disclosed that certain of the
trusts, like the beef trust and the
tobacco trust, have made practice
OF settling down b1siife smafift rom.
optitors and drive them ont Of bust.
ness by underselling, 1t has been
suggested that a remedy cannot be
applied by existing law, and il that
be the case then it could be applied
if Congress passed law compelling
all corporations engaged in nm inter
state commerce business to sell at a
uniform rate all over the country or
at q uniform rate in the same gener.
al territory.