The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-07-27
'HHRVESlER GO.
raid Rebate
ANOTHER SENSATION is SPRUNG
BY CHAIRMAN STANLEY BE-.
FORE THE 1flvEsIIeA e CON:
MITTEE.

i q - 7 q 4 ~ :
WASHINGTON July "a Attorney
General Nackersham5 appeared before
the Stanley eSteeI Trust fnvestigat.
ing commit tee yesterday, to tell what
Rhe knew concerning o report made to
FORMER Attorney General Bonaparte,
by Bnrdette Townsend, aispecial agent
Of Tie department Of 1908, in which
the latter urged that the international
Harvester Company had operated IN
violation OF the Sherman antitrust
sact
The attorney general, when shown
copy of the yoluminous document by
Representative Stanley said he never
had seen It before, though since he
had been head Of the department OF
sjlstice he heard runors that there
had been an investigation of the Har.
lyester combine
Senator Kenyon. Of Iowa, former
assistant to the attorney general, sum.
Emoned before the committee for the
game purpose, said he advised further
Investigation before any prosecution
was undertaken under the report,
Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith,
of the bureau Of corporations, which
is nov investigating the international
Harvester Company, also had heard
Iofithe report. 81
Harvester Gets Rebate.
The matter was injected into the
steel inquiry because the report
charges that the Steel Corporation
pays a rebate of SO a ton to Harvester
companies on steel purchased and be;
cause the committee has .iuforma ton
that there is an arrangement between
the two giant corporations, whereby
the Harvester companies buy exclu-
isiyely FROM the steel corporation.
/ The commission % corporations
was. requested TO intercede with the
President ON behalf OF the committee,
Ito see II information regarding the
relations of the two corporations at
present in the hands OF the bureau,
could not be placed at the hands of
the committees disposal. Richard
.Lindabury. counsel for the United
States Steel Corporation, offered to
furnish all the information Of the
records of his corporation bearing on
.theapofnts at issue.
Attorney General Wichersham
agreed to have Mr.. Townsend, who
is still in the service Of the depart
ment, APPEAR before the committee at
d later date.
I'VE will have Mr.. Carnegie before
JUS in October" satd Chairman Stan
ley. land perhaps you could arrange
to hame Mr.. Townsend here about
that time" oi: All Z,
do YOU know Of any reason Chair;
man Stanley asked, why this Har-
.yester company investigation was not
acted upon by the department Of Jus.
itiee, prior TO the time you assumed
charge OF the department."
lido not know, M. Wfckersham
replied.
'I,surmise Is only surmise-
that the case was delayed pending a
decision by the supreme court in the
STANDARD on, and Tobacco cases.
The steel committee left last night
for New York, where the, inYestiga.
ton will be resumed today. Il = ssg
Further inquiry into the ABSORPTION
Of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Comt
pany, by the steel corporation, will
be taken up early and in this the
testimony OF former President Thee;
dore Roosevelt may be sought.
Denies Charge.
CHICAGO, July 27-An official
statement for the International Har'
vester Company was given out by
Clarence s. Funk, general manager,
late yesterday, as follows:
"The Associated Press dispatch u
too general in It's terms to admit OF
a specific reply, but we are unwilling
to believe that the alleged report OF
1908 to the department Of Justice CON
tanned charges which the most super
fetal investigation would not have
shown to be unfounded,
ut is hard to believe that any re-.
sponsible person could make the
charge, for instance, that the HaF-
yester company was selling its ex,
port machines at less prices than are