The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-25
President Taft is Mapping Out Cams
paisn Against Them Which
viii be Bigger Than
Any Before.
INVESTIGATION STARTED
More Men to be Added to the legal
Force and the War viii Start
After Supreme Court
Gives Decision.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-With the
beef trust already under fire and the
Standard Oil and American Tobacco
Company cases In the hands of the
supreme court, it was made known by
callers at the white house that the
administration is planning crusade
of trust busting such as this country
has never seen since the passage of
the Sherman antitrust law, about
twenty years ago.
/ President Taft, 1t was made known,
is waiting only for the decision OF
the supreme court in the Standard
Oil and tobacco cases before he be-
gins his campaign against the trusts.
\ He is firmly convinced, it was de-
clared, that the highest tribunal will
4 decide against the oil trust and the
tobacco trust, and after that he in
tends, 1t was said, to begin the prose-
cution Of every illegal combination
which he can find.
Already, it was made known, the
department of justice has started in
vestigation of many corporations
which it believed were operating in
} restraint of trade. 1t could not be
7 learned just what corporations the
/. department is probing, but 1t was stat
!. ed that any suspected of controlling
Y prices or. unjust discrimination and
t Illegally maintaining a monopoly Of
j any product are subject to inquiry.
I'll If necessary, it was said, the adj
ministration win greatly augment the
i force of special counsel and invests
:, gators of the department of justice.
1t will procure all the talent the
;, president thinks the campaign he Is
: about to launch will demand.
! President Taft, it was asserted,
was tired of having reports go out
that he has changed his mind in re-
:, :, gard to the prosecution CT trust
: busting campaign He told visitors
recently, it was said. that. far from
having changed his mind, he was more
firmly convinced than ever that he
must proceed and must keep to the
J. pledges he has made publicly in re-
- spect to the enforcement of law and
the breaking down of monopolies and
illegal combinations.
= The president has been waiting for
the decisions of the supreme court in
the oil and tobacco cases, not be-
cause he feared that they will be
ayerse, but because he be-
lieved, it was said, that they
will be favorable to the govern
" ment 1t will then be a plain matter
a. of duty with the administration to
begin further prosecutions.
y The future action to be taken by
: the department against the beef pack
- ers was the subject of conference
last night between Attorney General
= Wickersham and Wade RI. Ellis, his
y assistant, under whose supervision the
Investigations of the operations of the
National Packing company of Chi
- cago and the packing firms who con-
y troll it, have been under way for the
: last six months
The basis for the discussion was
the report made by United States
District Attorney Sims at Chicago
who had immediate charge of the
- work of the agents of the department
. in obtaining information needed in
- the proposed prosecutions. One of the
= y results of the deliberations last night
y was. it is understood. to determine
whether it will be necessary for Mr.
Ellis to proceed to Chicago to assist
- - in the proceedings there.