New-York tribune., 1906-10-01
John jameson
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PROSECUTING TRUSTS.
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for granting rebates, January TO- 1soo' case
Bosiey. Virginia indicted for granting rebates
January 10. 1905; pending. ,,,.
GAY Manufacturing Company, NlrgiI.Iiaa;o Iaoe -
ed for receiving rebates January III. lsoo' case
pending ,,,..- p.t1road
indicted January 10, 1906. for granting reoateSi
case pending. - 1r-,. tn
dicted for granting rebates. January Io A0oo'
American Sugar Refining Company INDICTED indh.
three times for receiving repates, May Il A'O''
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad.
indicted five times for granting rebates. May A.
Guilford ct al New York, indicted for con-
spiracy to grant rebates, May a. Ieoo' case
pending.
To this list might be added indictments against
the Standard Oil Company, indictments brought
in various parts of the country and amounting
altogether 70 between nine and ten thousand
counts. The fact that the law provides an ex-
treme penalty of $4,000 for every count proved
has led TO the reports that the Standard would
be broken up, for were the Department OF JUS
tice to prove and the courts to assess the ex-
treme penalty every count, the aggregate
fines imposed on the Standard would amount to
about $500 100000. OF course. ii is hardly the
expectation of the department officials that they
Will be able to prove every count or that the
courts will. in every instance infict the extreme
penalty. AS to what the effect Will be on the
Standard the officials do not profess TO KNOW,
nor to care, beyond their determination to en-
force the law and to demonstrate to the trusts
that infractions OF the law will inevitably prove
improbable.
MAY JAIL OFFICIALS.
With the new Railway Rate law. which re-
stores the Imprisonment penalty repealed by
the Elkins law, there is to believe that
numerous officials Of the law breaking trusts
will have to serve terms In jail, perhaps in the
penitentary.
All summer Frank B. Kellogg, OF st. Paul.
and Charles B. Morrison, of Chicago, have been
diligently working as special counsel for the
government, running down cases against the
Standard and securing indictments. and while
the officials of the Department of Justice are
unwilling to talk of the prospects their high
praise of the special counsel demonstrates the
effectiveness of the work accomplished.
The case of the St Louis Bridge Terminal
Company is one of the interesting forms which
the governments prosecution of trusts has
taken. 1t is alleged that certain railways run
ming into st. Louis have acquired control OF all
the bridges across the Mississippi at St Louis
and are maintaining monopoly In restraint or
trade. monopoly which the government has
deemed 1t wise TO prosecute
AS already stated, the Republican candidate
for Governor of New York, Mr.. Hughes, together
with Mr.. Simpson, of New York. has been en-.
gagged in the prosecution of the Coal Trust. and
H w. Taft, brother Of the Secretary Of War,
with Messrs. Levy and HILL Is engaged In the
special prosecution or 1ODacCO
Enough has been said TO prove how thoroughly
in earnest the President was when he said that
the people must proceed to eliminate the evil
to interstate commerce in the conduct OF the
great corporations, and when the history of this
administration shall come TO be written the
thoroughness with which the antitrust laws
have been enforced will present record never
before equalled, while the opportunity Of again
equalling it will have passed because the trusts
will have been taught their lesson. lesson they
not likely to forget unless the time should
come when they have confidence that the Presi-
dent the Congress would sustain them and
their lawless methods against the people.
The master mind of this administration, the
mind which has furnished the energy and the
encouragement in the breaking up of trust evils,
is that of the President himself. although he has
been ably seconded by the Republican majori-
ties in both houses of Congress and has enjoyed
the advantage of having efficient and con-
scientious Attorney General Mr. Moody has CO.
operated with the President in every possible
way and he has, moreover, organized a force in
the Department of Justice which is remarkable
for it's energy and efficiency. The man who is
in special charge of the antitrust cases is Mil
ton D. Purdy, assistant to the Attorney General.
Mr.. Purdy is quiet, determined man, who says
little and works hard. He IL Is who receives
the reports of special counsel. directs the numer
Gus District Attorneys, and whose brain and de-
votion to duty have made possible the good work
already accomplished and the benefcent results
which the near future is certain to bring forth.