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considerably bigger job than being
merely an assistant attorney general.
Not long ago this shrewd young pros
ecutor startled the lawbreaking cor
porations by announcing a novel meth
Dd OF procedure In trust busting. He
had suggested to the department of
Justice that in the prosecution Of the
tobacco trust the most feasible plan
would be the appointment Of a receiv-
or for the concern This was said to
be the plan agreed upon In that case.
Trust lawyers looked worried while
declaring that it couldn't be done But
other good lawyers declared that It
could be done, and If it can be done
In the case of the tobacco trust it can
be done in any other similar case
Special Government Counsel.
Another of the foremost trust bust
ers is Frank B. Kellogg. He is special
counsel for the interstate commerce
commission and as such led the inves-
kgation of the Hartman railroad sys-
t9m. He insisted that Hartman per-
sonally should be prosecuted. Now he
is special counsel for TIE government
in the biggest trust busting litigation
Of all, the suit pending at st. Louis
against Standard Oil. It is the govern
ment's contention that this gigantic
corporation should be dissolved and
the various properties in the more
than seventy concerns controlled by
the Standard be redistributed to the
original owners Mr.. Kellogg lives in
St Paul.
Kellogg himself is trust attorney.
He has represented for years the steel
trust in Minnesota. He still repre-
sents it. He gets $4,000 year out
OF this job A few years ago the
Northern Securities company, which
later the government dissolved after a
memorable litigation, needed political
influence. j. Pierpont Morgan was
dominant in steel as in the Northern
Securities company. James J. Hill,
his great confederate in the latter
concern, one day told Mr.. Morgan
while in New York that he would like
to have this man Kellogg do certain
political work in Minnesota in the in
terests Of the business. Kellogg hap
pened to be in New York, and Nor
gan sent for him.
II am a lawyer, not politician, Mr..
Morgan" Kellogg is said to have re-
marked after the proposition was put
to him and also after some language
more sulphurous had been uttered. 81
am glad to do the steel cOrpOration's
legal work, but I won't do it's politics,
and much less will I do it's friends
politics. If it is necessary for me to
become a political orderly for corporate
interests in order to hold my job I'll
resign the job"
Kellogg did not resign, nor did he
become a political orderly. Outside of
steel he is a consistent trust buster.
In the cases instituted under Attorney
General Knox against the western pa
per trust Kellogg was special counsel.
He secured an injunction dissolving it
into the minor concerns which com
posed it, and this precedent is highly
useful in the ST. Louis suit against
Standard Oil. Kellogg's coup put new
life into the Sherman antitrust law
which most lawyers supposed had Civ
en- up the ghost. He proved that law
is not a dead one SO long as you can
stick a pin in it and make a violato1
howl.
Mr.. Purdy by the way, did just
about the same thing to the old Elkins
law, which seems primarily to have
been designed for the protection Of
| Wall streeters under the guise of 8
righteous statute Purdy resurrecte6
| the Elkins law and used it in putting
| quietus on railroad rebating, which
was almost universal.
Verify, he that breatheth the breath
of life into a defunct statute anC
malzeth it sit up and kick is Of more
value to society than he that taketh {
city by the neck or gobbleth railroad
system.
| Another important man in the trus
busting fraternity is Herbert Knox
| Smith, commissioner Of the bureau Of
corporations. This bureau, organized
four years ago, is one Of the most eff
| fective measures for the curbing Of
corporate anarchy that we have
James R. Garfield, now secretary O.
the interior, was the first commission
er. Mr.. Smith, who halls from Hart
ford, Conn, was his assistant for {
time, going to the head Of the elias:
when his chief was promoted to the
cabinet.
Wise Beyond His Years.
Mr.. Smith is not yet thirty-eigh
/ wears old Int ha iS said To rocsacs