The Mena weekly star., 1912-01-18
4. CARNEGIE WAS
 CROSS-EXAN|NED
Admitted He Worked to Get His Lawyer in As Attorney General Wonderfully Ignorant of
 the Sherman Law.

Washington, Jan. i2.-"I am fa- mliar with the views of Roosevelt on the trust question and 1 am in- ciined to agree with him." sid Andrew Carnegie before the steel committee today when Representa- tive Gardner had contrasted those views with the idea expressed ny Taft in his recent message on the trust question.
 The committee today served a subpoena on J. II. Reed, Carnegies counsel. Reed and present Secre- tary of State Knox were partners as counsel for the Carnegie com pany from 1890 to 1900. when the company was declared to have been party to illegal pools.
 Would Regulate Trusts.
 Tn solution of the industrial problem said Representative Gardner, "the president expressed the view that the dissolution of the large units should go on. Roose- welt held that under the existing sherman law we should look to a recognition of large units controll- ed by the government. In which class are you, Mir. Carnegie?
 q have agreed with Roosevelts views. think for the present that YOU should allow large organlza- lions to continue and to see how we get along, and that you should pass laws regulating these organl- zaLions."
 Before a hot cross-flre examina- ton. Andrew Carnegie admitted yesterday that he had recommend ed the appointment of philandcr c. Knox, present secretary of state, as attorney general in President Mckinleys cabinet in 1901 Knox had been one of the head counsel lors for the Carnegie Steel Com- pany since 1850, in which year the Sherman antitrust law was passed. Carnegie said he thought no pro- tective tariff was needed on steel products with the exception of needles. Foreign nails will not flood this country, he said.
 Late in the day Representative McGilicuddy lead in the question ing of the steel nagnate.
 You said that you did not knov for many years the scope Of IL sherman antitrust law" said Mir. MeGillicuddy, in beginning his ex- animation of Mir. Carnegie.
 Between the years 1890 and 1900 you were the head of the Carneg Steel Company, were you not2"
 T never was at it's head, not even a director" replied Mir. Carnegie, q was the majority stockholder, owning 5i per cent of the stock"
 From 1890 until 1900 you had attorneys?"
 "The company had attorneys"
 Was philander C. Knox, the present secretary of state, one Of them?"
 Yes, Mr. Knox was one of our attorneys. He was of the firm of hHOA N hteu--J. n. htcu.
 Mir. Reed was sitting at Mir, Car negie's side, appearing as his coun- sel at the inquiry.
 Wasn't it the duty of your le- gal advisers to keep your company advised as to the laws passed by congress and the state?" asked MT. McGillicuddy.
 ot,nnna0 thnx~ x.r0ttiA anncttlf with the officials of the company, was the reply. II never was an official"
 Now, Carnegie, as principal owner of the Carnegie Steel Com pany, for which Philander c. Knox was the principal attorney. wouldn't you have expected him to inform you about legislation as im- portant as the Sherman antitrust law?n
 No sir; had no relations with these gentlemen. I was simply a holder of stock. Was I, as such to be bothered by these lawyers, when I had men to run the busi- ness for mel"
 Mir. Carnegie Representative MeGillicuddy continued, did you recommend to President Mckinley, after his election in 1900, that this same attorney, Philander C. Knox, who left you in blissful ignorance all those years about the effect of the Sherman law, be appointed at- torney general of the United States?n
 MT. Carnegie looked at his ques- tioner for moment in amazement. He started to speak, then turning
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