The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-09
Magnates, Too, Will Have Their
Time Occupied Defending
Charges Against Them.
MANY BIG COMBINATIONS
MUST FIGHT FOR LIVES
Attorney General and His Depu-
ties Expect to Put Some
Out of Business.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The next
half year promises to be strenuous
one for officials of the department OF
justice from the attorney general down.
The same period also promises to be
one Of unrest and worry for some Of the
larger corporations and trusts and
their officials
Within the period named the attor.
ney general will endeavor to bring to a
successful close the suits already instiJ
tuted against ten or a dozen corpora,
tions and have the investigations Of
half as many more completed and ready
for presentation to a civil or a criminal
court.
| First comes the case of the tobacco
trust, the brief of which the depart
ment filed with the United States SUI,
preme court this week. Arguments
were begun yesterday and will be con-;
tinued next week. This case will be
followed by the briefs of tho Standard
Oil company and later the corporations
tax case.
While these cases are being heard in
the higher tribunal some of the best
legal minds in the department will be
in Chicago combating the array Of LEI
gal talent employed by the beef trust
in an effort TO bring that corporation
before the criminal courts and check
mating moves for delaying prosecution!
In this case every effort is being
made by the department to get prison
sentences with convictions.
AT the same time the now famous
bathtub trust case will come up for
hearing and trial. Here an army OF
trust officials have been indicted by a
federal grand jury on federal charges.
This case is set for an early hearing.
Unlike the beef barons, the officials OF
the bathtnb trnst have confessed their
guilt voluntarily and asked for Glenn
ency According to Attorney General
Wickersham there will be no clemency.
There is now a suit in equity against
the Great Lakes towing monopoly. The
suit will be threshed out. A suit
against the wholesale grocery comblna-
tion doing business III the southern
states will face court music on the
Charge of restraint Of trade.
| Then there is the butter and egg
board of Elgin. H.. against which the
department of Justice has evidence
tending to show that it Is combine
ton which controls the price of butter
and eggs. A suit against it will be
started soon.
The sixteen hour law relating to rail-
way employees in interstate commerce
will come up for adjudication. The
railroads have insisted that it is un-
constitutional and will do everything
in their power TO break it down.
In April, 1910, charges were before
the attorney general = department to
the effect that certain individuals had
formed combination to monopolize
the production of raw cotton. An in
vestigation was made and the matter
presented to the grand jury with the
result that several prominent New
York brokers were indicted They will
face the courts on indictments within
six months.
In addition to the above suits, all
pending, there are numerous suits aris-
ing under the Interstate commerce law,
appeals from the decisions of the in
terstate commerce commission and fed
| eral circuit courts.