Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-26
STONE, OF MISSOURI, FLAWS IN.
TERNATloNAL COMPANY
AS TRUST.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
SCORED FOR INACTIVITY
Stone Argues for Free Duty on Farm
Machinery in Order to Kill of Har-
vester Trust-state Court. Have
Acted While Washington Was Asleep
or Blind, He Says.

eration of the tariff bill was resumed
in the senate today the pending ques-
ton was the amendment offered yes
terday by Bacon placing agricultural
implements on the free list. Stone, Of
Missouri, Immediately took the floor to
continue his speech begun yesterday.
in which he outlined the testimony
taken by the attorney general of Mis-
souri, in his prosecution of the Inter-
national Harvester Company as a
trust. He asserted number OF COM
panies had been merged together to
constitute this trust and declared 1t
was conducting IS per cent of the
business Of the country in supplying
a agricultural implements, and contend
ed 1t was q trust and monopoly not
withstanding the denial of Aldrich.
Stone read statement from Attor-
ney General Major saying that in the
testimony recently given in New York
by George w. Perkins, of the firm Of
]. P. Morgan & Co., in the Missouri
custer proceedings, Perkins had ad-
mitted that thru him Morgan & Co.
controlled the entire business of the
company. So satisfied had Major been
with the result Of Perkins testimony
that he had decided to close his case
July ~. Stone also quoted Cyrus II.
Me- Cormick as confessing to the con-
solidation, saying it had been made
necessary by the ferceness of compe-
tition. He read from a speech made
by the former senator from North
Dakota (evidently referring to Hans
brought who claimed the International
Harvester Company had attempted to
control the delegates who were to elect
his successor, with the object of de-
featlng him because he had introduced
a resolution in the seate to Investigate
that corporation.
If they were after his scalp" contin-
ued Stone, they got it. 1t is dangling
at monopoly's belt"
He insisted there had been no need
from an industrial standpoint for the
organization of that combination. but
declared the company had put up the
prices Of their products. "The depart
ment of justice is asleep or blind"
continued Stone, in referring to the
failure of the attorney general to pros
ecute the International Harvester Com
pany for violation of the Sherman
antitrust law. This is a case in
which justice is too blind and dumb
and senseless. Arkansas, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and other states have proceeded
against them. The department of Jus
tice sits with palsied hands, but the
United States senate at least should
take notice that this great criminal
corporation should open it's doors to the
world. so far as possible, to mitigate
the evils 1t has created and to lessen
as far as possible its power of ex-
tortion"
Bacon's Amendment Defeated.
The entire wood pulp and print paner
schedules were agreed to by the senate
With amendments as proposed by
Brown. BY a vote of 26 to As Bacon's
amendment placing agricultural imple-
ments on the free list was rejected and
the paragraph as reported by the fl
nance committee was agreed to.
Provisions Of the Amendment.
The wood pulp provision provides for
free admission of mechanically ground
pulp. but it was provided that II the
president finds the United States is
being unduly Disseminated against by
the imposition of an export charge
upon wood pulp. OF pulp wood, or
printing paper, or that the expectation
Of these articles to the United States
is being prohibited, duty of one
twelfth of a cent per pound is pro-
vided for. On chemical wood pulp there
is to be duty of one-sixth Of a cent,
IL unbIeached. and one-fourth of a cent
If bleached, and in case Of discrimina-
tion, the duty in each case is to be
doubled. Any additional duty equal to
the rate imposed on print paper, VAL
ued at 3 cents pound or less, is pro-
vided in case of discrimination by an
other country, against the expectation
of pulp wood or wood pulp to the Un-
tied States.