The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-06-29
BEEF TRUST PEST,
ferferlizer Trusts, Canada
Headquarters. Indicted.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gets Busy and Directs In
quiry to Railroads.
Especial to Tar Republican,

Especial to Tar Republican,
interest in the Beef Trust fight
Silf keeps to the fore. The latest
excitement and resentment has been
ut the Capital where letter from
Ire. President landed late this week
telling chairman Wadsworth Of the
Agricultural Committee just what
the. President thought of the COM
nittss. The letter goes over the
sit,raSion in detail and shows the
House substitute for the inspection
law "a about as bad as it could be.
1t appears to have been drawn by
the counsel for the packers and if it
Sa3 been, as it probably was, it
could not more nearly meet the re-
sairements of the Beef Trust.
Second only to the interest in the
meat inspection bill is that aroused
this week by the Department of
Justice in finding indictments
against the Fertilizer Trust. This
trust is of more interest to the south
than TO the north as it has operated
most largely in the states of Tenne-
ssaa, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississir-
nj, FLORIDA, Georgia and North and
SSNnA Carolina. The indictments
fsantS against it are six in number
zuu5 I:targe violation of the Sherman
law a13 conspiracy in restraint Of
trade.
Me Of the neat tricks of the trade
tia, this investigation has unearth-
ed has been the fact that the trust
was practically engineered from
Gars6a. There was a company Or
gau;Ged up there under the laws OF
Ontario known as the Colonial De-
yelopment Company and supposed
to have nothing to do with the fer
rerlizer business in the States. But
as matter of fact it was acting as
the controlling company for all OF
zyenty-six supposedly Independent
s,gnpanies in the United States and
WIZ adjusting territory, regulating
sales and distributing profits.
-"
he Int 90 IN a
Commission a good while to get
husy n the coal and oil investiga-
ton under the Tillman-Gillespie res
slution.. 1t will be remembered that
the first reply sent to Congress by
the Commission was no reply
at al and was Indignantly return
cd by tn e authors of the res
slut;on with the instruction TO
get to work. Well, the Commits
sioy has been working and has al
ready turned good deal of inter-
sting material in the way of graft
RoG corruption. But this week It
asz,t out circular letter to all Of
the. railroads in the country rhat
SiIl furnish material for at least
oEe volume of its prospective report.
4 wants to know the relation OF al |
the roads TO the coal and oil COM
names along their routes. Of course
dis will not touch all Of the roads. |
because many of them have no coal
anu oil lands along their routes.
SEn there are few questions that
nearly all of the roads will have 10
answer and one that all of them
yziIh he in on. 1t is the question OF
'wtize they get their lubricating
OIL, lew much they pay for it, who
che officials aye who buy it, who the
,sgenou are who sell it, and a lot OF
sherY things, all directed palpably
again T.: the Standard Oil Company
which, is generally understood to
sontrol the lubrlcating oil just as
ocolghly as it does the market for
gasoline and coal oil.
The' slSom statement of the manu-