The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-07
Stanley Makes Statement Regarding Alleged Activi-
 ty of Administration
GLAD GOVERNMENT ,. WILL ASSIST PROBE
Says He Has Suspected That Gov ernment Was Able to Throw Floods of Light Upon
 Acts of Corporation

Washington, June 6.-Within about ID days the results of the investigation by the bureau of corporations into the or ranization and conduct of the United States Steel corporation will be placed on the desk of President Taft.
 It will then rest with the President and Attorney General Wickersham whether the administration will begin proceedings in the courts against the alleged Steel trust under the Sherman antitrust law.
 The hastening of the report is the result of directions issued by the President to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel. It Is said the information gathered by the bureau will be turned over to the House committee, which Is conducting the Steel trust inquiry.
 It was this report which Judge E. H. Gary said, in testifying before the Stan ley coinmissittee few days ago, cost the Stee corporation hundreds of thousands of dollars. It will represent the result of several years of probing by corpora ton experts of the government. The alleged activity of the administra- tion, since the House committee instituted its inquiry, today drew from Chairman Stanley statement. in which he said Senator Culberson, myself and others who have studied this question have long harbored the suspicion that somewhere in the archives of the government there was evidence that would throw flood of light upon the acts and doings of the United States Steel corporation. The judiciary Oc da tha strenuous efforts to ascertain these facts at time when the absorption of the Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company by the Steel corporation could hardly have been called consummated. I regret that reasons of state then existed which pre- vented the giving of this information to the people of the United States. Not in Favor of Investigation "one year ago I was advised by Rep res cntative Parker of New Jersey, then chairman of the House Judiciary com mittee. that neither the President nor the Attorney General favored a resou- tion of inquiry into the United States Steel corporations. When the resolution ;o have the department of justice advise Congress as to the very conditions into
 
 ably reported the Attorney General, with the advice and approval of the President, so I am informed, refused to furnish this information on the ground that it was not compatible with public policy It was well known that this resolution, although heartily approved by the people and press, was, over my | repeated protests, pigeon -holed in the rules committee during the last Con- gress.
 T am delighted to know whatever those reasons of state were they no longer exist and we will at last be fur nshed with the information which has beon so long refused that the depart. rnent of justice and the bureau of cor porations will take us into their confi- deiice.
 q am neither prophet nor a son of prophet, but I have an abiding faith that the department of justice will dis cover some violations Of laws other | than the antitrust act. if they will read the hearings already had by this com mittee.
 Y invite the attention of the depart rnent to the terminal charges and other agreements between the United States Steel corporation and common carriers" Herbert Knox smith, commissioner of corporations, has been three years in gathering the report.