The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-06-28
IS Blind DUMB
and SENSELESS.
Justice Too Lenient, Says.
Senator Stone.
.PRODS HARVESTER TRUST

Missourian Speaks in Favor of Putting
Agricultural Implements on the Free
List and in So Doing Outlines Testi.
mony Taken by the Attorney Gen
eraI of His State in Prosecuting the
International Company.
Washington, June 28.-When the
consideration Of the tariff bill was re
sumed in the senate the pending ques-
ton was the amendment offered by
Senator Bacon placing agricultural i'm.
plements on the free list. Senator
Stone of Missouri Immediately took
the floor to continue the speech in
which he had outlined the testimony
taken by the attorney general of Mis-
souri, in prosecuting the International
Harvester company as trust. Sen
atOr Stone asserted that a number OF
companies had been merged to consti.
tute this trust; declared that it was
conducting IS per cent of the bust.
ness of supplying agricultural nipple.
ments and commended that it was a
trust and monopoly Notwithstanding
the denial Of Senator Aldrich. Soon
after Mr.. Stone began his speech he
was interrupted by Senator Davis of
Arkansas with statement that the
company had been driven out of Ar.
kansas by legal proceedings under the
state antitrust law.
Mr.. Stone read statement from
Attorney General Major saying that In
testimony recently given in New York
by George w. Perkins of the firm of
j. p. Morgan & Co., in the Missouri
custer proceedings, Mr.. Perkins had
admitted that through him Morgan &
Co. controlled the entire business of
the company. .. ..ar.l 49,.
So satisfied had Mr.. Major been
with the result of the Perkins testi-
mony that he had decided to close his
case on July IL. Mr.. Stone also quot
ed Mr.. Mccormick of the company as
confessing to the Consolidation r
and saying that it had been made
necessary by the fierceness of COM
petition. He read from speech made
by former senator from North Da-
kOta evidently referring to Mr.. Hans
brough), who claimed that the Inter-
national Harvester company had at
tempted to control the delegates who
were to elect his successor with the
object of defeating him because he
had introduced resolution in the
senate to investigate that corporation.
IF they were after his scalp" con-
tinued Mr.. Stone, "they got it. 1t is
dangling at the monopoly's belt"
'"The department of justice is asleep
or blind,' continued Mr.. Stone, in re-
ferring to the failure of the attorney
general to prosecute the International
Harvester company for violation of
the Sherman antitrust law. This is
case In which justice is too blind
blind and dumb and senseless. Ar
kansas, Kansas, Missouri and other
states have proceeded against them.
The department Of justice sits with
pals1ed hands, but the United States
senate at least should take notice of
this great criminal corporation and
open its doors to the world so as to
mitigate as far as possible the evils
it has created and to lessen as far as
possible its power of extortion.
BY a vote of 26 to Is Senator Ba-
cons amendment placing agricultural
implements on the free list was re-
jected and the paragraph as reported
by the finance committee was agreed
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