The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-14
WICKERSHAM'S REPORT
ON CORPORATE CONTROL
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Pursuing President Tails recon-
mendatiOn that an executive bureau
Dc created to supervise corporations
chartered under Il federal incorpora-
ton act, Attorney General Wicker
sham. IN his annual report submitted
TO Congress today, suggests that the
Bureau OF Corporations be raised TO
that dignity, even in the absence of
the proposed federal Incorporation
statute.
This branch OF the Department of
Commerce and Labor, the Attorney
General urges, should be brought in
10 closer relation with his Depart
ment aud adds that ii might well be
awaited oi as the nucleus for an ad-
ministrative board under whose SUI
pervisiOn consultations or mergers
Tor lawful purposes nigh, be form
cd"
In enforcing the Sherman Anti
Trust Law. the Attorney General
points out that the Department of
Justice and the courts are confront
ed by economic, rather than legal,
problems when ii comes to working
out methods OF disintegratiOn after
8 corporation has been declared an
illegal combination. The Depart
ment enlisted the assistance of the
Bureau Of Corporations in the disso-
luton OF the tobacco trust. and ii
would be OF great value to the legal
branch OF the government, Mr.
Wickersham says, il the functions OF
the bureau should be SO enlarged that
II could be called upon officially to
make Investigations and report its
conclusions with respect to plans for
the voluntary or enforced disintegra-
ton OF monopolistic combinations.
The attorney general reviews the
record OF year OF intense activity ,
in federal prosecutions and point,
out that the Department OF Justice
Justice financially sustained itself as
the result OF the contribution Of
$i.204.l Ii TO the United States
Treasury II the shape of fines collect
I'd, customes duties recoveries, etc.
The expense of the Department, in
iuding the Office of the attorney gen
aral.a II of the district attorneys and
assistants throughout the country
i gregaicd $3,223, 10.
la Il comprehensive rctiew of the
.nii-trust prosecutions. the Aitor-
oy General shows that the /, anti
rust civil suits pending at the be-
of the last fiscal year wor
augmented by q additional actions
s lille the II criminal prosecution
lnder the same statute We're increased
~ % more prosecutions during tis
asst fiscal year
Eight civil suits aud similar
lumber of criminal trials were
,rought to conclusion during the
ear. Ia four of the civil prosecu-
ions judgments were rendered in
dvor of the United States, while
hree were lost and one was dis
ontinued. Four convictions were Sc
ured until the criminal clause OF
he statute during the year and fouI
asses We're either quashed or dis
ontinued
Declaring that he appreciates that
ublic interest in the Sherman Anti
rust Law was even greater" than
was at the date of his last report,
ne Attorney General set forth the
blowing cases as being prosecuted
r pending for final testlement:
The power trust, " the might
der" cases: United States Steel
cotton corner; alleged
wing monopoly; beef packers;
outhern Pacific merger; bituminous
BAL ombination; naval stores suit;
athtub trust; lumber trust:
ilk trust; wall paper combina-
on: sugar ..trust" /; transatlantic
eamship pool. magazine .trust"
zoe machinery trust combina