The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-04
FOUR JUDGES
WILL REMODEL
BIC BUSINESS
They Are Emile H. Lacombe,
Alfred G. Cox, Walter
G. Noyes and Henry
G.. Ward.
ROOSEVELT PICKED
THREE OF THEM
Lacombe's Decisions Have
Generally Been Favor
able to the Great
Corporations.
ROOSEVELT PICKED
THREE OF THEM

| Special to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, June 3.-The de-
cision in the tobacco case handed
down on Monday, provided that
after the dissolution of the trust
it should have opportunity to re-
organize under the immediate su-
pervision of the circuit court of
the United States for the Second
New York district, so that there
might be recreated "out of the
elements now composing it (thc
trust) a new condition, which
shall be in harmony with and not
repugnant to the law"
These four judges of this court will
have-and they are the first judges who
ever did have-the right TO decide what
trust formation is in harmony with
the law and not repugnant to it.
The names of the four judges who
will go down in history as the men
who conformed the common law to the
modern requirements of "big bust
ness T" are Emile Henry Lacombe, Al.
fred Conkling Cox, Walter C. Noyes
and Henry e. Ward, The particular
case. before the court is the reorgani
cation " of the tobacco trtst'
These men have a tremendous and
epoch-making task, which Chief Justice
White has so alrily handed down to
them.
The first question that the public
wants to have answered is, ''Who arc
these Judges ?''-the men who are TO
take their place in American history
as those who built the trusts into the
national fabric.
One of them, Judge Noyes, is a great
authority on corporations and corpora
tion law. 1t is not too much to say
that he is one of the greatest In Amer.
lea, Another, f. Henry Lacombe, is
a Judge whose decisions ever since he
went on the bench have been noted as
bedng partial to corporations.
Three Are Roosevelt Men.
Ward was picked out by President
Roosevelt for administration office which
might seem TO Indicate that that strenu-
Gus retormer regarded him as man after
his own heart, but STILL when you con-
sder that Mr.. Roosevelt picked Oliver
" endell Holmes for the supreme court
bench. and that Holmes has ever since
been deciding cases adversely to Roose-
velts ideas. that argument is not go
very convincing.
Judge Cox was also picked out by
Roosevelt for an appointment But, II
that seems 10 indicate anything. it
should also he remembered that Vice
President Sherman-an old suardster If
ever there was one-rooted industriously
TO get Cox appointed on the supre me,
court bench to succeed Justice PeCkham
Certainly no one would ever charge
sherman with trying to sc, radical
AS FOR Judge Noyes. nobody knows
much about his predictions. He is "A
Connecticut man. who had served twelve
years on The bench in that state before
good man TO serve on the federal bench.
Lacombe Is Democrat.
All OF them are Roosevelt, appointees
from Cleveland In that presidents first
administration. Lacombe was a Whitney
mar. His tutelage was entirely under
that able politician. His most famous
in he decided that The peoples suit
against the gas companies hadn't leg
to stand on.
Then Judge Lacomhe decided the cases
ropoitan Street railway: and decided
them very much against the taste OF the
people. So there they are. the men who
are TO decide what is and what is not
legitimate business. 1t would be pretty
hard 10 charge any one OF them with a
bias. IL suCn a thing can be imagined
II is just as easy 10 assume that two OF
them are preiudiced against trusts AS to
assume that the other two are not What
ever prejudice they may have, all four
undoubtedly Will be tremendously sobered
by the big responsibility that now hangs
over them all