The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-27
STONE RAPS
BIG TRUST
Jumps the Harvester
Combine.
DRIVEN OUT OF ARKANSAS
Missouri Senator Says Department.
Of Justice Is Asleep.
Senator Beveridse Says That the Az
rieuItural Implements Are sold
Cheaper Mt Home Than

Washington, June 26-When the con-
sideration of the tariff bill was resum-
| ed in the Senate today, the pending
question was the amendment offered
yesterday by Senator Bacon placing ag-
riculturaI implements on the free list.
Senator Stone, tMo.), immediately took
the floor to continue the speech begun
yesterday, in which he referred to the
testimony taken by the Attorney Gen
eral of Missouri in his prosecution of
the International Harvester Company
as trust. He asserted that a number
of companies had been merged together
to Constitute this trust declared that
1t was conducting So per cent of the
business of the country in supplying ag-
ricultural implements and commended
that 1t was a trust and a monopoly,
Notwithstanding the denial OF Senator
Aldrich.
Soon after Mr.. Stone began hisspeech
he was interrupted by Senator Davis
(Ark.), with statement that the COM
pany had been driven out OF his State
by legal proceedings under the State
antitrust law.
Mr.. Stone read a statement from At
torney General Major. saying that In
testimony recently given in New York
by George w. Perkins, of the firm sof
J. P. Morgan & Company, in the Mis-
SOUTH custer pTOC6culnB6t MI G0thahb
had admitted that through him, Nor
gar & Company controlled the entire
business of the company. So satisfied
had Mr.. Major been with the result
of Perkins testimony that he had de-
cided to close his cases on July II.
Mr. stone also quoted Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick, of the company, as confessing
to the consolidation. and saying that II
had been necessary by the fierceness OF
competition. He read a speech made
by a former Senator from North Da-
kota. referring to Mr.. Hansbrough).
who claimed that the harvester COM
pany had attempted to control the dele"
gates who were to elect his successor.
with the object of def@ ting him be-
cause he had introduced resolution
in the Senate to investigate that cor:
poration.
"If they were after his scalp, they
got it. It. is dangling at the monop-
oly's belt"
He insisted that there had been no
need from an Industrial standpoint for
the Organization of that combination,
but declared that the company had put
I'D the prices Of their products
Department of Justice Asleep.
"The Department Of Justice is asleep
or blind" continued Mr.. Stone, refer
ring to the failure of the Attorney
General to prosecute the International
Harvester Company for violation of the
Sherman antitrust law. -,
This is a case in whicn Justice is
too blind and dumb and senseless. Ar
kansas, Kansas, Missouri and other
States have proceeded against them. The
DepartmentI OF Jtstlce sits with palsied
hands, Gbut the United States Senate at
least: take notice of this great crimi-
nal corporation and open its doors to
the world so, as far as possible, to
mitigate the evils 1t has created and to
lessen as far as possible, its power OF
extortion."
Stating that his inspection Of consul
lar reports had shoN n that the Inter
national Harvester Company sold Its
products at home cheaper than abroad,
Mr.. Beveridge said this extraordinary
circumstance led him 10 believe that 1t
would not be injured by placing agri-
cultural implements on the free list.
He did, however, believe that such &C
ton would injure some of the indie
pendent manufacturers.
A lively colloquoy took place be-
tween Senators Overman and Smith
(Mich.) on the attitude of the North
Carolina cotton manufacturers toward
the tariff Mr. Smith claimed that
three congressional districts of the old
North State had embraced the protec-
tive tariff principles in the last cleo
ton.
yes" retorted the North Carolina
Senator, "they believed you were going
TO revise the tariff downward. heard
1t all over the State"
Mr.. Overman insisted that the North
Carolina manufacturers did not need or
want any protective tarfff BY a vote
of 26 to As Senator Bacon's amendment
placing agricultural implements on the
free list was rejected and the para
graph as reported by the Finance Com
mittee was agreed to.