New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
CONSTANT Reader Tells what
He Missed in Last
Weeks Papers.

The Taft administration seems deter
soired to test and II possible enforce, the
,ous controlling corporations. does IT not?
,,ted Busy Man, as he met Constant Read
tr last evening
YES indeed" was the reply. AT the
direction of Attorney General Wickersham,
limited States Attorney Henry A. Wise in
,ututed proceedings in This city this week
IN the United States Circuit Court asking
for the dissolution OF the Atlantic Confer
,nce. a combination Of the principal steam
.hip lines carrying passengers and freight
between the ports of the United States and
shose Of Europe. The action was brought
,,nder the Sherman antitrust act, and this
ls the list OF companies made defendants In
tbe governments suit: The Allan Steam
ship Company. Limited; International
Mercantile Marine Company. International
Navigation Company, Anchor Line (Hen-
,erson Brothersl Limited. Canadian Pa
rifc Railway Company. Cunard Steamship
company, British and North Atlantic
steam Navigation Company, Limited |;
1amburg-American Line. HollandAmerica
Line, North German Lloyd Line. Red Star
7 inc. White Star Line, Russian East At
santic Steamship Company. Limited. Fur
sher. the bill prays that the court will en-
SON each Of the lines from entering or
clearing any ships at the port Of New
York or any other port In the United
states. so long as the contract remains IN
effect.
Judge Holland. in the United States
Dstrict Court. Philadelphia, inflicted fnDs
OF $4,000 each on the Philadelphia &
Reading Railway the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road Company and the Bethlehem Steel
company. charged with unlawful rebating
The second fight Of the American To-
racco Company against dissolution by the
decree Of the Supreme Court Of the United
s,otes under the Sherman antitrust law,
t.esn in Washington. and a strong asser-
ZION of the right Of Congress TO so within
state lines and strike at monopoly Of
rlaDufacture was q feature of the revised
h-tef Of the government filed in the suit,
The Attorney General holds that the power
n regulate interstate commerce carries
with II the authority 10 remove conditions
which would tend 10 nullify rules for the
regulation Of such commerce. Such an ar
cunoent was mentioned only incidentally in
the former brief; now IT is emphasized.
An agreement for an international com
r1erce commission TO regulate railroad traf-
f, between the United States and Canada
has been prepared and will soon become
operative II is the outcome Of the series
of conferences held by Martin A. Knapp
chairman OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. and ]. P. Mabee. chairman Of the
Board Of Railroad Commissioners Of Can
ada These of1cials have reached the basis
Of an agreement which will be converted
into the form of a treaty arrangement be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
The so-called Carmack amendment TO
the Hepburn law, making the initial car
rier liable for loss Of interstate shipments
during transportation, not only on its lines,
bat also on those of connecting lines, was
declared constitutional by the Supreme
Court Of the United States"
President Taft declared himself squarely
opposed TO any mitigation OF the punish
nent Of the rich man, because his wealta
and social position made punishment by
Imprisonment a greater hardship 10 him
than TO the poorer lawbreakei. saying;
Fines are not effective against men Of
wealth Imprisonment is necessary This
was in his opinion denying an application
for the pardon OF W. S. Harlan, wealthy
resident Of Florida, convicted Of peonage."
What else have tney peer doing at
Washington" asked Busy Man.