The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-27
BONAPARTE WILL
TELL ABOUT IT
Former Attorney General is
Charged With Refusing
to Prosecute
SAYS HE PROTECTED
HARVESTER TRUST
investigating Committee De-
clares it Has Information
That He Had Proof
of Guilt

WASHINGTON, July Exchanging
that Charles J. Bonaparte. while at
torney-general in the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. failed to prosecute the
International Harvester Company for
violation of the Sherman antitrust
laws, although having complete proof,
Chairman Stanley, of the steel trust
Investigating committee, to-day pro-
duced a report on the Harvester Trust
made in 1908 by Burdett G. Town
send. a special agent of the depart
ment OF justice.
This report shows that the steel
trust paid the Harvester trust re-
bate OF So a ton on iron and steel used
in the manufacture Of machinery ex-
ported. The Harvester trust Is charg-
ed. also. by Townsend with iegfsla =
ture- bribing and tax-dodging.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa. form or
trust buster" in tsh department OF
justice. identified the report as hay
ing been filed with the department OF
justice. Mir. Kenyon said he had read
the report and believed further in
vestigation should be made. Il always
favored prosecution of the trusts. he
said, where evidence was conclusive,
Where 1t was not conclusive | adVis-
ed further investigation
Investigating Harvester.
Commissioner of Corporations Her
bert Knox Smith told the committee
on investigation of the Harvester
Trust was being made AT the present
time by the bureau OF corporations
He pleaded immunity when asked ps
Chairman Stanley II his Investigations
did not show that the Harvester Trust
and the Steel Trust were practically
one and the same concerns. Stanley
| then had read the list of directors OF
each concern, many being on both
boards.
Attorney General Wickersham said
| he knew nothing OF the report, oa'
| would get the original and all letters
| in connection with it for the commit
tee. He Was asked why. in his 5udg'
sTr~ht, no action had been takeF
against the Harvester Trust
| Il suppose" said he, lit was be
! cause of the doubt existing in the de-
partiuent of justice as to the supreme
/ courts construction of the Sherman
ANTITRUST law"
/ Bouaparte To Testify.
/ Charles J Ronaparte, who IN now
! in Canada. and Burdette {. Townsend
assistant district attorney OF Oregon
/ have been subpoenaed by the com
rnittee. Mr. Bonaparte will be heard
. by the committee in New York. where
I sessions Will btkth at wv
row morning in the city hall Richard
| Trimble. secretary Of the steel trust.
VIII be the first witness
John w. Boilsau, author OF WORK
on the coal fields Of Southwestern
Pennsylvania. gave the committee
lecture on coal deposits tending to
show that the steel trust did not
lhave a monopoly OF cooking coal in
Pennsylvania.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton he said. owns about 10 per
cent. OF the coking coal in the old
region. in Pennsylvania acquired
through Frtck. .
The Steel Corporation owns about
$4,000 acres of Conuellsvalle coal;
Jones & Loughlin own about $4,000
acres; I. the Iackawanna Company
owns about $4,000 acres; the Pitts
burg and Buffalo Company about s.
400 acres. while other companies own
varying acreages, all in the new
region.
About s,500 acres are being ex-
hausted eachA year, and IL the rate
| of past ten years shall continue for
the next twenty years. about $4,000
acres win be exhausted.
Admits Agreement
C. h. Shoemaker, president of the
Glasgow Iron Company. Of Pottsville
Pa. admitted that formerly prices
were maintained under agreemen,
among the manufacturers
isn't there just as much an agree
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