Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-03
UNITED ACTION
AGAINST TRUSTS
STATE Legal ADVISORS WILL
WORK TOGETHER.
ASK CONGRESS TO HELP
Memorial Demands That State Courts
Be not Interfered With by Fed
eral Tribunals SO Long as Right
of Appeal Is not Denied-Perma-
nent Organization.

st. Louis, Oct faction that will
have far reaching effect in antitrust
and corporation litigation, and which
will bear fruit in almost every state
in the union, was taken by the con-
Vention Of attorneys general in its
final session here yesterday. A COM
mittee was appointed to draft a
scheme of antitrust legislation to be
sent to all attorneys general, and as
a climax for the entire meeting the
delegates adopted a resolution which
is expected to remove thorn from
the flesh Of stat officers, interior
ence by federal circuit courts with
the operation of state laws. A per
manent organization was also effected,
under the name National Association
Of Attorneys General Of the United
States, and united front will be
presented in legal actions brought by
different states against the same cor
pOration or trust The following
memorial to congress was framed:
Whereas efficient administration as
well as the preservation Of our dual
system f government requires that
each sovereignty be permitted to ex-
ercise its function as defined by the
federal constitution unhampered by
the other.
Resolved, that we earnestly re-
commend to the favorable considera-
ton of the president and congress
the enactment of federal law pro
Wiling that no circuit court of the
United States or any Judge exercis-
ing the powers of such a circuit
court shall have jurisdiction in any
case brought to restrain any officer
Of a state or any administrative
board of state from instituting in
any state court any suit or other ap-
prOpriCte proceeding to enforce the
laws of such state, or to enforce any
order made by such administrative
board; bu, allowing any person or
corporation asserting in any such
action in a state court any right
arising under the constitution or any
laws of the United States to have
the decision of the highest court of
such state reviewed by the supreme
court of the United States as now
provided by law.
I'VE also recommend that suits in
federal courts by persons interested
In corporations to restrain such cor
poratiOns from obeying the laws OF
the states in which they are doing
business, be prohibited"
Officers Elected.
Officers were chosen as follows:
Presidential. S. Hadley, Missouri.
Secretary and treasurer-WilIiam
II. Dickson, Colorado.
President HadIey announced that
with two or three exceptions all the
attorneys general in the United
States had expressed a desire to par
ticipate in the future proce edings Of
the association and in any course Of
action that might be decided upon.
The first address yesterday was a pa
per by Attorney General Malone of
Massachusetts. Attorney General
Jackson was detained in New York
and in his absence, his paper on
State Regulation of Public Utilities
was read by Attorney General Dick
son of Colorado. Both papers were
discussed by several delegates The
closing paper of the day was by At
tOrney General Ellis of Ohio, on the
Standard Oil Trust.
He reviewed the inception, forma-
ton, growth and consolidation of the
Standard Oil and outlined the litfga-
ton started against the company in
Ohio in 1890, and then discussed the |
present phrase of the litigation insti- !
tuted by the government. He said
that if the trust is dissolved the prop
critics will be preserved and the bust
ness will go on, but the controversy
between those who would be free and
those who would enslave industry
will go on and right will ultimately
prevail.