Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-31
W|CKERSHAM
rs AROUSED
Sweeping Attempt to Secure
Criminal Conviction of
Trust Magnates.
HOUSE PROBE SINKS Deeper
Attorney General States He Re-
ceived Retainers In Years
Gone By.

NOAS Oy'
(By Special Leased Wire to New MeXican)
Washington, D. c., May 31.-The re
cent decision of the supreme court In
the Standard Oil and American Tobac-
co cases, will result in sweeping
attempt to secure criminal conviction
CT violators of the antitrust law, ac.
cording to Attorney General Wicker.
sham who appears today before the
house committee on expenditures in
the department of justice.
Wickersham and the Trusts.
Washington, D. c., May 31.-Attor
ney General Wickersham, appearing
today before the House committee on
expenditures in the department Of JUS
tice, today testified that he had ad-
vised the United States steel corpora
tion on several occasions from 1901 to
1909 during his connection with the
firm of Strong & Cadwallader and also
that he had received his share of the
fee earned into the firm for services
to the American Sugar Refining Co.,
personally attended to by Henry w.
Taft, brother of the president. Mr..
Wickersham said his share was about
26,000.
A GrueIing Examination.
Washington, D. c., May 31.-Mr
Wick org ham caid that aftor ha no.
came attorney general, John Henry
Hammond, represented Strong and
Cadwallader as counsel for the so
called sugar trust in the purchase of
the Friar lands. He added that at
the time he gave his opinion permit
ting the sale of these lands he did not
know Hammond represented the presi
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Company Havemeyer. When asked
about the connection of the firm with
steel affairs, Mr.. Wickersham said:
Il personally have advised the United
States Steel Corporation in one OF
two matters"
Did Strong & Cadwallader ever
represent the New York cotton ex
changer" asked Chairman Beal. Eyes
Henry w. Taft was counsel for the
Exchange Mr.. Wickersham replied
| and I think he still continues in that
capacity"
The chairman sought particularly
to learn of the attorney general why
the department of justice and the
treasury department accepted a $4,000,
900 settlement from the American Sug
ar Refining Company as restitution
for undervaluations at the port Of
New York, rather than enforce the
severe penalty provided by the law.
Mr.. Wickersham replied that the
department felt the evidence at hand
was not sufficient to support claim
for penalties, though it was his belief
that restitution was made because the
corporation feared penalties would. be
imposed Then it was your judg'
ment," suggested Mr.. Beall. that not.
withstanding that the government had
access to memoranda book showing
the real weight of sugar imported and
to books showing fraudulent weights
lit the government had attempted to
collect the penalties there was strong
probability of failure?" YES" Mr..
Wickersham answered, Il think the
$2,000,000 settlement was the best pos
sible arrangement"
i The attorney general denied that
there was any agreement preventing
criminal prosecution. "That right,
he said, was especially reserved ia
the government"
Sentiment at So Much Per.
Washington, D. c., May 31.-What
was expected to be the last day of the
hearings of the Canadian reciprocity
bill by the Senate finance committee
was featured today by the appearance
OF John H. Allen and Whidden Ora
ham of the firm of Allen &Graham
New York, who are said to have beer
employed to manufacture senti
ment." 1t was at the instance of Sena
tor Stone that they were summoned tt
appear before the committe to tell
what part they have taken in the pro
paganda of opposition to reciprocity.
Senator Stone declared that Alle1
& Graham were promoters" and tina
they were not "practicing attorneys o.
lawyers" thus controverting the dec
laration made to the committee recent
ly by N. P. Hull, master Of the Michi
gan Grange, that Allen & Graham hat
been acting as legal advisers for tn,
National Grange. The firm, it wal
Learned, was sending out for some o
the officers Of the National Grange lit
erature warning farmers in all part
of the country that the reciprocit.
agreement would injure them and ask
ing them to contribute to the cause
Manufacturers also were asked TO
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