The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-21
WHY TRUST BUSTING IS NOT
 SUCCESSFUL
By Tayenner.)

(By Tavenner)
 Washington, June 20.-Why has the government been unable to control the trusts?
 While this question has not as yet been definitely answered the House Investigating committees are bringing out testimony which tends to throw light on the subject at least to the end of showing that the great trusts of the country have at some time or an- other had most of the government prosecutors on their payrolls.
 United States Attorney General Wickersham heads the list. Under oath he admitted that the last thing he did before taking charge of the prosecuting machinery of the nation 900 fee from the sugar trust as a mem Der of the New York law firm of Strong & Cadwallader.
 Henry P. Taft, brother of the Pres ident, is still a member of this firm whose speciality is to show the sugar trust and other great industrial cor porations how to evade the law and escape prosecution.
 That Frank B. Kellogg, special coun- sel to the United States and widely advertised by the Republicans as the great trust buster, has received thou sands of dollars from the govern ment at the same time that he was
 
 torney for subsidiary concerns of the steel trust, was developed in testimony before the Stanley committee.
 It appears that MT. Kellogg, besides pocketing the $30.0OO recently paid him by the government for serving as trust buster'' under Roosevelt, also received from the steel trust $15000 as extra compensation for legal ser- vices rendered their corporations.
 On Oct. 29. 1907, MT. Kellogg was proven by his own testimony and documentary evidence in possession of the committee to have received sec- ond $15,000 for extra services.
 These sums were received by him in addition to the regular salary re- cefved by his firm from the trusts for many years past, and the last payment was made in the midst of the panic and only two or three days before the famous conference of Gray and H. c. Prick (ruling spirits of steel trust) with President Roosevelt, where by they gained the permission of the President to commit criminal viola tion of the laws of the United States by absorbing the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway company, thereby exter- minating their principal competitor.
 This situation becomes still more re- markable when it is recalled that the man who appointed Kellogg -Philander c. Knox, now secretary of state-was the man who went from the employ of the steel trust to the office of att torney general and who refused in 1901 to prosecute the steel trust when convincing evidence of it's violations of law were laid before him by the anti trust league.
 BRISTOw LEADS REACTIONARIES
 Senator Bristow of Kansas, assisted by the solid delegation of special priv ilege senators, succeeded in tacking an amendment to the resolution pro- viding for the direct election of sen ators, which greatly endangers and may defeat that measure.
 BristOw pretended the amendment which retains federal control over elections, would strengthen the prob- ability of it's final passage, when the fact is Bristow knew, as did every other senator in the chamber, that the amendment would endanger and perhaps defeat the ratification of the resolution by the necessary three- fourths of the states.
 The Bristow amendment is the same used by Sutherland of Utah and the ring of Wall street buccaneers in the Senate in the last session to defeat direct senatorial elections.
 The men who worked hardest for the Bristow amendment were Lori mer of Illinois, Guggenheim of Color ado, Cummins of Utah, Lppitt of a. Smoot of Utah and Stephenson of Wis consin.
 The Bristow amendment was fought by LaFollette. Gronna, Borah, Poin- dexter and Works, Republicans, and every Democrat in the Senate save one.
 LLOYD A HARD WORKER.
 Victory in the House has brought hard work and responsibility to the Dnr, io po yo11
 As an example of the exacting duties of a Congressman of Democratic faith take the case of Hon. James T. Lloyd of the First Missouri district Mr. Lloyd is chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee and as such assumes general supervision of the campaign in every district in the United States. He is also chairman of the standing committee on ac- counts and closely scrutinizes every item of expenditure in the lower House. He is also chairman of the special committee on organization, or clerical force, a job with a world of detail. In addition to all these and his onerous duties as congressman, MT. Lloyd delivers numerous address before societies. schools, etc. and is always to be found in his seat SPEAKER CLARK
 AGAINST GAG RULE.
 Speaker Champ Clark is opposed to the gag being applied to government employees. President Taft is endeay. bring to enforce Roosevelt rule which prohibits government employees from giving information even to mem 1 bers of Congress. The employees are also prohibited from calling the at- tention of members to any grievances. | Speaker Clark denounces this rule as un-American, and declares he will lis ten to grievances of employees when l they desire to come to him and he | defies anyone to interfere BREAD TRUST HAS EASY SAILING
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