The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

slow moments in the battle.
When the bill was filed in the
United States court at Trenton asking
for the dissolution of the corporation
and its subsidiaries, Attorney General
Wickersham also filed "a certificate
of public Importance" This states
that the case is of utmost importance
to the government and asks that it be
heard by a bench of three justices.
Ordinarily it would be heard by only
one.
I Mr.. Wickersham was asked whether
he believed the steel corporation
would reorganize He said he did not
know, but hoped this would result.
Attorney General Wickershams
certificate of public Importance
filed with the government bill, fol-
lows:
Urges Early Hearing.
81 hereby certify that above-en-
titled cause now impending in said
court is a suit in equity brought by
the United States against the United
States Steel Corporation and sother de-
PENDANTS named therein, under the act
of Congress entitled an act to protect
trade and commerce against unlawful
restraint and monopoly, approved July
2, 1890, and that said suit is in my
opinion a case of general public i'm
portance.
81 therefore request that, complying
with the provisions of the act of Con
gress entitled an act to expedite the
hearings and the termination of suits
i'm equity pending or hereafter brought
under the act of July ,, 1890, ap-
proved February II, 1903, you will file
this certificate among the records of
the above entitled cause, and immedi-
ately furnish a copy thereof to each of
the circuit judges of the third circuit
to the end that said case shall be
given precedence over other cases in
the said court and be assigned for
hearing at the earliest practicable
date before not less than three Of the
% circuit judges of said circuit, as is pro
vided by the act of February II, 1903.
Many Chances for Delay.
Although the steel corporation will
have until January, to make its an.
swer to the governments allegation
that it is a dozen trusts within a
trust a menace to the nation" and
practically the most complete monop'
oily ever perfected in this country
there are possibilities of other devel.
opments in the meantime. Attorneys
for the corporation may demur to the
governments charges. In that event
there might be some delay After
that possibility is disposed of the cir.
cult court probably will appoint a
master to hear testimony and bat.
tie of giants will begin.
Attorney General Wickersham and
other Department of Justice officials
expect to make progress much more
rapidly than was done in either the
Oil or the tobacco cases 1t was 4
little less than five years from the
time those cases were started until
they reached the Supreme Court OF
the United States for decision.
The Supreme Courts decision in
those cases, however, is expected to
expedite the trial of the steel case
The government's view is that the
courts decision in the oil case as re.
CARDS stock holdings and Tnterhold
ings can be applied to the steel cor,
iporation.
Giant Holding Trust.
The governments purpose is to
show that the steel corporation is
only giant trust to hold at least a
dozen others The bill charges that
the Federal Steel Company, the Car.
negie Company of New Jersey, the
American Steel and Wire Company OF
New Jersey, the National Tube Com
pany, the National Steel Company
American Tin Plate Company, Ameri.
can Steel Hoop Company, American
Sheet Steel Company and others are
illegal trusts in themselves and com.
binations to monopolize trade. The
government asks that all these com
jpanies be dissolved and set back into
the integral units of which they were
formed, even before the organization
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, In this respect the petition is
complete.
Combinations within combinations,
pools within pools, agreements, both
written and unwritten, to fix prices
and stihe competition are alleged in
minute details in the suit, which at
tempts to show that by immense hold
ings of iron ore, ownership of rail
roads and powerful relations with
other great corporations the alleged
trust has worked itself into a verita-