The daily sentinel., 1911-12-14
Associated Press.

Washington, Dec. IL Pursuing
President Tafts recommendation that
an executive bureau be created to su-
peryise corporations chartered under
a federal Incorporation act. Attorney
General Wickersham. In his annual
report submitted to congress today.
suggests thar the Bureau of Corpora
tions be raised to that dignity, even
in the absence Of the proposed federal
incorporation statute
Would BE Good NurIcus.
This branch Of the department OF
Commerce and Labor the attorney
general urges should he brought into
closer relation with his department
and adds that it might well be avail
ed of as the nucleus for an admins
trative board under whose supervis-
ion consultations or mergers for law
full purposes might be formed"
Economy Problem in sherman Law.
In enforcing the Sherman anti
trust law, the attorney general points
out that the department of justice
and the courts are confronted by
economic, rather than legal problems
when It comes to working out meth
DDS Of disintegratl0n after corpora
tion has been declared an illegal
combination. The department enlist
ed the assistance of the bureau of cor
porations in the dissolution Of the to-
bacco trust, and ii would be Of great
value to the legal branch Of the gov
ernment, Mr. WiCkersham says. IL the
functions of the bureau should be so
enlarged that IL could be called upon
officially TO make investigG tions and
report its conclusions with respect 10
plans for the voluntary or enforced
disinteEutiun of monopulistic combi-
nations.
Declaring that he appreciates that
public interest in the sherman anti
trust law was even greater than II
was at the date OF his last report, the
attorney general set forth the follow
ing cases as being prosecuted or penu-
ing for final settlement.
MANY Cases Pushed.
The powder trust, the night ria
err cases. United States Steel corpor-
alton, cotton corner, alleged towing
monopoly, beef packers, Southern Pa
cific merger, bituminous coal combi-
nation. naval stores suit. bathtub
trust lumber trust mill, trust"
wall paper combination. sugar
trust, trans Atlantic steamship
pool, magazine trust, sbpe machln-
cry trust. combination of Goa
roads. elevator suit in Oklahoma and
lindling wood trust"
Saved Two Million In Duties.
The vigorous enforcement of the
customs laws, the attorney general
says, resulted in the recovery of So
10000 in duties out of which the
government had been defrauded
White Slave Act q. IL
The White Slave Traffic act. now
year and half old, is having
salutary effect. in the Judgment of
Mr.. Wickersham. The statute was
diligently enforced throughout the
country, he AYERS, with most satisfac-
tory results One hundred and forty
five prosecutions were had, result
ing in 76 convictions, IA acquittals
and 0 nolle pressed or otherwise dis
continued. Forty-five cases are pend
ing. Sentences imposed ranged from
9 few months in jail to 10 years in
the pcnitentiary
Pconage StilI Exists.
While prosecutions against peo-
mage, the attorney general says. has
done much to stamp it out, the prac-
tice still appears to be quite exten-
sively carried on in some of the more
southern states. He suggests the
Strengthening of the statutes 50 as to
afford efficient protection of persons
against slavery and involuntary ser
yitude, except as a punishment for
| crime
Jaiss in Bad Shanc.
Declaring that many OF the jails
where federal prisoners are confined
are wholly unsuitable for the deten-
tion Of human beings.and "are shock
ing breeding places of crime, the at
| torney general recommends the ap-
pointment CT commission to inquire
| into the conditions. This commission