Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-12-20
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REPORT IS OUT
Atlorney-Ge Takes Up
Work Accomplished and
Planned.
(ny Associated Pres. J

alleged nspiraclc3 to defeat the
law; lLnd tlauds, custom frauds.
frauds On the i.teI!al revenue, re-
bates, bucket shops and f.audulcnt
usCs OF the mails have made 1910 the
mos, strenuous year in the history
of the Department of Justice, Nj.
Wi;kersham states that only the ear
nest and enthusiastic work Of tho
} men of his force has made the work
successful.
The salaries paid are small" he
says, land the funds available for
special counsel do not permit the
payment of fees which bear any com
parison with those offered by private
interests. hut notwithstanding those
obstacles, the depal tment is fortu
nate in having been able to secure
the services of earnest and compa.
: tent lawyers to whose ability and
| inductry arc due the very large meas
urc of success that has attended the
, management of the legal business OF
, the government during the year"
| Prosecution for violations of the
work of the year. Actions, says the
Attorney General, are now under wa,
or pending against the following so.
| called trusts: Tobacco Trust, Stand
ard Oil Company, Sugar Trust, Ha.-
riman Lines, Hard Coal Trust, Pow
der Trust, Terminal Railway AssC-
citation of st. Louis, Towing Trust,
| on the Great Lakes; James A. Pat
ton and others for an alleged corner
In cotton Beef Trust, Wholesale Gro
GERS Trust. Butter and Egg Trust,
Brick Trust, Bath Tub Trust.
The following convictions were Sc
cured and fines imposed during the
year: Paper Trust, fined $4,000;
Night Riders, fined $500; window
Glass Trust, fined $4,000.
After the ,Attorney-General's re-
port came from the press, however,
the American Naval Stores Company,
known as the Turpentine Trust, and
six co defendants were convicted oil
violations of the antitrust law. Two
of the individual defendants were
| sentenced to three months each IN
Jail and fines aggregating $1I5OO
were imposed.
| Prosecutions of the Sugar Trust for
frauds upon the government in the
weighing of raw sugar recovered foi'
the government $3,135,363.SS. Con.
victions and sentence OF individuals,
still fresh in the public mind, were
/ occurred.
I Most extensive of all frauds
against the government yet discoV-
cred, are those in the undervalua-
ton of imports into the United
States. The extent OF the treasury
losses can only be conjectured. Every
step of the investigation shows fresh
| leads.
! There are now suits under way tn
recover 100000, of which the Gus
| toms revenue Is said to have been
defrauded in imports of cheese and
4 figs from Mediterranean potts. In
dictments are pending and some con-
| victions have been secured. A high
Is organized system to defraud the
government has been disclosed.
More than thirty individual indfct'
ments are pending against persons
charged with smuggling with sleep
err" trunks. Offers of compromise
and prayers for immunity are in the
hands of the Attorney General from
several firms of importers who have
confessed to frauds in undervalua'
lions.
The Attorney General recommends
that general immunity statute
such as exists under the interstate
commerce laws, should be enacted t.
apply to criminal prosecutions gen
orally, but says such statute shoult
only protect witness from the con
sequences OF the testimony he Il
about to give. "
Land frauds are probably entitled
TO "A pace with the customs fraud
and violations of the antitrust law
The department won signal victofie
) during the year against unlawful
fencing of the public domain. II
9S dyil suits and 20 criminal pros
ecutions, more than 100000 acres o
Land Illegally fenced were restores
to the government.
Prosecutions against the Oregon
California Railroad Company am
forty-fve other defendants to rccoS
or 100000 acres Of lands yalue'
at $50,O00,O0O, which the govern
mont claims are Illegally held, ar
now pending. There are also unde
way twenty four suits against tn
Central Pacific Railway Compan
ana others to recover thousands 0
acres of valuable lands, which Tn
government contends were Illegal
patented probably with the privat
knowledge that they were yaluahi
i fo. tba n,inaraJ and. aiIS unAprnpsft v