The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-07-22
None of Government Prosecu-
tors Ever Turned in Itimized
!" Accounts.
CORPORATION ATTORNEYS
CHIEF BENEFICIARIES
Three Millions Expended and No
Trust Is Yet Put Out of
i Commission.

WASHINGTON, July 2O.-The
trust busting campaign of the De-
:" partment of Justice has cost the gov
ernment over $3,0O0,000 in the last
ten years. Not a trust has been
busted. either.
According to a report just furnished
to the House Committee on Expendl-
lures in the Department of Justice.
the department paid to "speciap' as
sistant prosecutors $1,161.483 from
1900 to 1911. The regular assistant
during the same period received in
salaries, $2,345,Os5.
The report has disclosed another
advantage to the special interests
gained through these sham battles
hitherto unknown. Until recently the
campaign was carr cd on for purely
political reasons. But since the willy
Wichersham became the chief trust
buster this art was put on a money
baas-that Is, money for corporation
attorneys.
For instance, there Is Frank B. KEEL
logg. the legal luminary who is sup
posed to be the terrible enemy of
the Standard Oil trust. It has been
recently established as q fact that
Kellogg works for the government
part of the time and the rest of the
time for the Steel trust.
From September 80, 1907 to Feb
ruary 2, 1911, Kellogg received $59,-
900 for his services in busting" the
Standard Oil Trust. Another special
consel," ]. B. McReynolds, received
s64,ooo for "busting" the Tobacco
and Coal trusts.
SO Day for Food, Etc.
McReynolds. Kellogg and the other
trust experts, also established rec
: 4ordss for high expense ts, which
the government paid without the
slightest protest. McReynolds, for in
stance, got $40 day for "subsistence,
after railroad and Pullman fare had
been paid for separately.
None of these legal gentlemen ever
turned in an itemized expense account
as the law requires.
Most of these special counsels.' ~
were formerly employed by the De-
partment of Justice at regular yearly
salaries. But when big trust busting
jobs came along they resigned and
were Immediately afterwards hired
by the department and given special
fees" Needless to say. the special
fees were much larger tnan their
former regular salaries.
Henry l.. Stimson, the present Sec
retary of War, also changed from a
regular to a. special about two years
ago, Wien he was engaged by the
department to save the real heads OF
the sugar trust for going to Jail.
Where Wichersham Gets Advice
Wickersham, the Wall street favor
ite, Is overseeing this trust busting
job. And when he needs advice, he
knows where to get it. Witness this
paragraph, which appeared in an OBJ
scure place in the Washington Pos
the other day:
George w. Perkins, chairman o.
the finance committee of the United
States Steel corporation and acting
head of the big company while Judge
e. H. Gray is abroad, came to Wash
ington yesterday to confer with va
rious government officials, He spenr
an hour with Attorney Genera
Wickersham, but refused to say
whether he discussed the affairs o,
the steel corporation or the Interna
tional Harvester company, both o1
which concerns are known to be un
der government observation"
1t may be that Perkins suggested
the name Of a 8 special counsel t,
prosecute the Steel trust in the ex
pected suit against the corporation
Kellogg, of course. has become dis
qualified since it became known tha
he is on the pay roll of the Stee
trust .a