The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Washington Correspond
ent of The Times.

Is by CLYDE II. TaVenner.
Washington, June 27.-Why ha
the government been unable to cor
the trusts?
While this question has not as ye
. been definitely answered, the Hous
,, investigating committee are bringin
=, out testimony which tends to thro,
light on the subject at least to the en-
of showing that the great trusts o
the country have at some time or an
other had most of the government
prosecutors on their payrolls.
United States Attorney-Genera
Wickersham heads the list. Undel
oath he admitted that the last thing
he did before taking charge of the
prosecuting machinery of the nation
was to draw down his share of {
$26, 600 fee from the sugar trust as g
member from the New York law
firm of Strong and Cadwallader.
Henry P. Taft, brother of the Pres
ident, is still a member of this firm
whose speciality is to show the sugar
trust and other great industrial cor
porations how to evade the law and
escape prosecution.
That Frank B. kellogg, special coun-
sci to the United States and widely
advertised by the Republicans as the
great trust buster, has received thou
sands of dollars from the govern
ment at the same time that he was re-
ceiving big fees for acting as attor-
ney for subsidiary concerns of the
steel trust, was developed in testi-
mony before the Stanley committee.
1t appears that Mr. Kellogg, be-
sides pocketing the $4,000 recently
paid him by the government for serv-
ing as trust buster" under Roose-
welt, also received from the steel
trust SIS, 900 extra compensation for
legal services rendered their corpor-
atoms.
On October 20, 1907, Mr.. Kellogg
was proven by his own testimony
and documentary evidence in posses
sion of the committee to have receiv-
ed second $4,000 for extra SER
vices.
These sums were received by him
in addition to the regular salary re-
ceived by his firm from the trusts for
many years past, and the last pay
ment was made in the midst of the
panic and only two or three days be-
fore the famous conference of Gray
and H. c. Prick (ruling spirits of
steel trust with President Roosevelt, !
whereby they gained the permission
of the president to commit criminal
violation of the laws of the United
States by absorbing the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railway company, there
by exterminating their principal COM
petitor
This situation becomes more re-
markable when is it recalled that the
man who appointed Kellogg-Philan-
der c. Knox, now secretary of state
was the man who went from the
employ of the steel trust to the office
of encouragement and who refused
in 1901 to prosecute the steel trust
when convincing evidence of it's VIC.
|ations of law were laid before him
by the antitrust league.
Bristow Leads Reactionaries.
Senator Bristow, of Kansas, assist
I'd by the solid delegation of special
senator's, succeeded in tack
ng an amendment to the resolution
providing for the direct election of
senator's, which greatly endangers
md may defeat that measure. I
Bristow pretended the amendment,
which retains federal control over ,
he elections, would strengthen the :
of its final passage, when !
he fact is Brstow knew, as did ev-
ry other senator in the chamber, ,
hat the amendment would endanger
nd perhaps defeat the ratification of r
he resolution by the necessary three I
Ourths of the states.
The Bristow amendment is the 6
anne used by Sutherland of Utah and ;
be ring of Wall street buccaneer in
he Senate in the last session to de- :
eat direct senatorial elections. +.
The men who worked hardest for
he Bristow amendment were Lori
her of Illinois, Guggenheim of Colo
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