The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Big Three Thought to be Closely Re-
lated and VIII Be Given
Thorough lnvestI-
cation.
LUMBER TRUSTS ANSWER
Association Officer Says That Natura,
Laws Make II impossible to
Buy Lumber
Cheap.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-An
nouncement was authorized by Chair
on rules today that his committee
had determined to report to the house,
shortly after congress reconvenes, a
resolution authorizing an investiga-
ton of the shipping trust, the Harves-
ter combine and money trust to be
conducted by special committee of
seven members THE committee has
gone far enough in it's investigation
to show us that this means the most
sweeping probe of trust evils ever in
stituted,' Henry said today We are
convinced that all three of the trusts
are intimately related
Three bills asking for seperate in
vestigating committees to investigate
the three alleged combines were in
i troduced last session. Representative
Humphrey (Republican, Wash), the
champion Of the ship subsidy legisla.
tion committee, demanded a probe OF
the shipping trust. Representative
Foster democrat, Ill.) called for an
investigation of the International Har
, vester Co.'S business, and Representa-
J tive Lindbergh Republican, Minn.) al
! legged that there was money trus
dominating Wall Street, and through
I them. the nation. These three investi
A cations will be combined in one
+ Henry received a letter from Secre
g tary Of Commerce and Labor Nagel to
day promising to appear before tn,
s rules committee on January 15, ant
n tell what he knows of the shipping
n combine. On the same day it is prof.
e able that Attorney General Wicker
s sham and Samuel Untermyer, the Ne,
e York lawyer, will be present to teI
3 what they may know of the thre
trusts under suspicion I'VE expect t
present the resolution providing fc
an investigation Immediately afte
hearing these three Witnesses sal
r Henry. "The statement made by Sci
ator La Toilette in one of his Obi
= speeches that approximately fourtee
men dominate the finances of the nj
ton is one of the things particular
to be investigated
al The Lumber Trust.
10 MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. Dec. pa
" serting that the consumer never b
IN bought and never can buy lumber
,s rect, because of the operation of n;
,a ural laws which have classified Il
N. business into wholesalers, retaile
of and manufacturers, w. G. Hollis, sc
70 retary of the Northwestern Lumb
- Manufacturers association and 9th
is defendants in the action broug
~ against the association two mont
t. ago by the United States governme
ba charging conspiracy in restraint
trade, today filed an answer in t
or federal court
"a The defendants deny that they
od tered into a conspiracy; that they
.lv tempted or did eliminate competiti
20. in the lumber business in their ter
q, tory or that they have ever prepar
! and used black list OF wholesa
~ lumber dealers who violated ira
1,a agreements. The defendants adm
sa the collection of penalties for nc
lilo ethical" sales by their members a
the Northwestern Lumberfnen's as
-, citation also admits an agreement wi
I'D the Mississippi Valley Lumberme
mo Association to exchange informant
,is as to 'non-ethical" sales by who
,,t salers but deny this was black listil