The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
ROOSEVELT
 H .LD BACK
 TRUSTSUIT
Letter Telling Bonaparte to De lay Harvester Prosecution
 is Sent to Senate
HEEDED PLEA OF PERKINS
Commissioner Smith Pointed Out Friendly Attitude of the MOr-
 gan Interests.

Washington, April 25-The Admin istration has begun it's heralded fight on Col Roosevelt's official record as President by making public part of the correspondence relating to the suppression of the suit against the In ternational Harvester Company in 1907.
 The documents were supplied by the Department of Justice. ostensibly in response to a resolution of the Sen- ate. But the way in which the Sena- tOrial machinery was started and the departments prompt reply caused pol iticians here to regard the whole move as part of the campaign for holding Massachusetts against the Colonel.
 The correspondence consists of a letter to Attorney General Bonaparte from President Roosevelt directing that suit against the Harvester Trust be not filed until further orders; letters from Secretary of Commerce and La bor Straus. and Corporation Commis- sioner Herbert Knox Smith to the President reciting the loyal co-opera- tion they had received in their work of investigation and publicity from the Morgan interests in general and the Harvester Trust and the Steel Trust in particular, and note from Mir Roosevelt's secretary, William Loeb. Jr., forwarding these letters to the Attorney General for his inspec> tion.
 Of Col. Roosevelt's personal views on the suit under discussion the corre- spondence reveals practically nothing. That fact explains the prevailing opinion here that the Department of Justice has saved some of it's ammuni- ton to meet the expected return fire from the Roosevelt forces. It is, un derstood here that Col. Roosevelt had intended to make the counter charge that within the last few months Pres ident Taft himself has suspended suit against the Harvester Trust. Senator Bristow of Kansas, a Roosevelt in surgent, hinted strongly at these tac- tics on the floor of the Senate yes- terday-
 It became known last night, how ever, that the Administration antici- pated such a move by the Colonel and decided to spike his guns by pros> ecuting the Harvester Trust. The suit will probably be filed next week. Negotiations for settlement, have been going on for some time between Attorney General Wickersham and at torneys for the Harvester company, hut it is now announced that neither the Attorney General nor President Taft could accept the terms offered by the trust and that unless some satisfactory offer is made within a few days the suit for dissolution will
 
 One letter from Col. Roosevelt to Mr. --Bonaparte written at Oyster Bay on Aug % 1907 said that the Colonel had had conferences with George w. Perkins about the company's affairs and directed MT. Bonaparte not to fle the suit then, but to go over the matter with Commissioner Smith and Perkins.
 A letter from Commissioner Smith to the Colonel on Sept. 21 told of con- ferences with MT. Perkins and stated Commissioner Smiths objection to a at that time The com missioner wrote that he thought the question of the company's guilt or in nocence was merely a technical ques- tion and told of a conference with MT. Perkins on Aug. 24.
 Commissioner Smith wrote that Mir. Perkins concluded with great empha- sis "that after all the endeavOrs of this company and the other Morgan interests to uphold the policies of the administration and to adopt their methods of modern publicity if this company was now going to be att tackled in a purely technical case, the interests he represented were going to fight"