Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-10-27
SUIT MAY TAKE
FIVE YEARS
Litigation Against Steel Trust
to Be Long Draw
Out
TESTIMONY TO FILL VOLUMES
Examiners Are to Take Evi.
dence All Over the
United States.

(By Special Leased Wire 10 New Mexican)
judges, and not one, as originally re-
ported, will sit in judgment on the
suit brought by the government
against the United States Steel corpo-
ration, it was announced here today.
They are Geor"e Gray of Wilmington,
Delaware; Joseph Burlington, of Pitts
burg, and VIM. NJ. Lanning, OF Tren-
ton. the same tribunal which recently
crowned with success the govern
ment's fight against the so-called
powder trust" Service on defend
ants residing in New York will be
made through the Office of United
States Marshal Henkel in that city.
May Take Five Years.
The United States District Attor-
ney's Office, here, was not optimistic
of a speedy trial of the suit. In the
case of the suit against the powder
trust, it was pointed out, twelve vo-
lumes represent the testimony and
three years after the filing of the
suit The case against the steel cor
poration, considered even more far
reaching than the powder silt, will
hardly be completed within less this
time, they Lelieye. Even then, they
point, the final decision may be de-
layed two years or more by appeal to
the United States Supreme Court.
Must Answer December 4.
On December 4, under the rules of
the court, the defendants will answer
| to subpoenas and nothing more. Fail
ure to do this involves a penalty of
! $500 fine and contempt of the court
which may be punished with impri-
sonment.
counsel for the defendant will be al
/ lowed until January l to file their
| answer to the governments petition
! but this time may be extended at the
discretion of the court indefinitely.
4 The court docket is not crowded and
/ the court will be prepared for the
answers on that date, it was said to-
day,
{, The law provides for the appoint
ment of an examiner or examiners af.
ter the filing of the answer to take
i testimony. Testimony probably will
be taken all over the country.
/ Roosevelt Will Not Discuss Suit.
New York, N. Y, Oct. 27-Theodore
Roosevelt flatly declined today to
make any comment on the Steel trust
suit He greeted interviewers smil.
ingly bat to all their questions said
repeatedly with his usual emphasis:
81 have nothing to say"
1T might interest you to look up my
testimony before the Congress com.
mittee in August" Mr.. Roosevelt sug-
gested, as he waved the interviewers
farewell.
"To what l said then l have nothing
to add"
Dozen Trusts Within a Trust.
| Washington, D. c., Oct H-Now
that the governments fight to dissolve
the United States Steel corporation
has been fairly started there will be
no slow movements in the battle.
I When the bill was filed in the Unit
ed States Court at Trenton yesterday
asking for the dissolution of the corpo
ration, and its subsidiaries, Attorney
General Wickersham also filed "a Ger
tificate of public Importance"
This states that the case is of the
utmost Importance to the government
and asks that it be heard by bench
of four justices. Ordinarily it would
be heard by only one.
Although the steel corporation viii
have four months to make its answer
to the governments allegation that il
is dozen trusts W. hin trust, a "me
mace to the Nation and practically
the most complete monopoly ever per
fected in this country" there are pos
sibilties of other developments in tht
mean time.
Many Corporations Attacked.
The bill charges that the Fedora
Steel Company, the Carnegie Compan!
of New Jersey,the American Steel &
Wire Company of New Jersey, the Ma
tional Tube Company, the Nationa
Steel Company, American Tin Plat'
Company, American Steel Hoop Com
t pany, American Sheet Steel Company
| and others are ilegal trusts in them
r selves, and combinations to monopo
/ lie trade. The government asks tha
all these companies be dissolved ant
set back into the integral units o
which they were formed, even befor,
the organization of the United State
J Steel corporation. In this respect tn
, petition is complete.
. The governments purpose is to shoy
/ that the steel corporation is only
8 giant tr1st to hold at least a dozel
, others.
Will Rush Case.
| Former Secretary of War. Jacob NJ
Dickinson, special counsel for the gov
ernment, declared the case would b
, pushed throughout the courts witt
the utmost speed" There will be NJ
; delay of any kind. II have been work
ing on these cases as special counse
i for more than two months and be
lieve we have all the necessary dat
J to proceed with the hearings. Any al
tempt Of the defendant companies o