Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25
ROOSEVELT
ON WARPATH
Administrations Publica-
ton of Harvester Let
ter Rouses His Ire.

NEW YORK, April 25.-'I haven't
begun to fight" said Colonel Roosevelt.
When the colonel read the morning
papers he decided to begin to fight.
He telegraphed to New York for his
secretary and for his records dealing
with the International Harvester Com
pany. He said that he would give out
tonight a statement of his position in
relation TO the Harvester Company,
taking up In detail the matter referred
to In the letters published this morn
ing.
Colonel Roosevelt, in the meantime,
would make no commend. and said that
he regarded the matter as one to which
he Should give his most careful atten-
ton, and that though he could say
nothing, he had the case thoroughly
in hand. He added that there was a
good deal still to be said.
George w. Perkins issued the fol-
lowing statement today:
MI. Perkins said that the letters of
President Roosevelt and Commissioner
Herbert Knox Smith stated the facts
as he recollects them. n he is very
glad. indeed, that they were given out.
@1C D6pA Cb9No 6htaN AC6AOLf
that the present administration has not
seen fiji to give out all the other cor
respondence and interviews from 1904
down to date. especially those covering
the past year, as h public is entitled
to know all the facts"
BALTIMORE, April 25.-Respecting
President R~oosevelt's letter to Attor-
saw GannVai pananorta 1s~ao4i0w +Ha
latter to withhold the antitrust suit
against the International Harvester
Company, contained in the correspond
nee sent to the Senate yesterday by
the department of justice, MI. Bona
parte said the action was withheld
pending the result of an investigation
of the Harvester Company by the
bureau of corporations, being made at
the instance Of the Senate. Former At
torney-General B~onaparte said:
The letter in question was written
while / was absent from Washington.
and while an investigation by the de-
partment of justice was in progress
in regard to the affairs of the
harvester trust, but before any report
had been made to the department or
any decision reached by it.
oCNCidt AiOI1ltiS ldltI, utter The ue-
partment had received a full report
from it's representative. a Mr.. Town
send, 1 announced to the President
that | was ready to institute a suit for
the dissolution of the harvester trust.
1t was then ascertained that the
bureau of corporations had not yet
completed its investigation of the
same harvester trust (Which it was
conducting by direction of a resolution
of the Senate), and the matter, being
submitted to the cabinet, it was de-
cided that the suit should wait the
conclusion of Mr.. Herbert Knox
Smiths inquiry.
1T was supposed then that this would
cause but a short delay. The inquiry
lasted. however, not only during the
remaining year of Mr.. Roosevelt's ad-
ministration, but during some three
years of Mr.. Taft's, and. so far as 7
know, is not finished yet.
1.-THE Presidents letter of August,
1907, did not in any wise delay or af-
feet the action of the department of
justice, and when I told him I thought
the suit should be undertaken, which
was probably five or six months later,
he Immediately acquiesced. The only
impediment was the discovery that Mr..
Smiths inquiry was still unfinished and
his (Mr. Smith's) statement that he
could not complete tiff the suit should
be brought"