Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-02-06
STEEL. Trust
BURNED PAPERS
A Trunk Full of Important
Evidence Has Been
Destroyed
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION OUT
To Restrain Defendants from
Causing Other Books to
Disappear.

Disappear.
/ (Ry Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
! Washington, d. c., Feb. G.-The gov
ernment through Henry E. Cotton,
special assistant tn he attorney gen
eral in the dissolution suit against the
steel corporation. began negotiations
for these papers in connection with
the pending proceedings on January
2G.
K. c. Boiling. assistant general solic-
itor of the steel corporation, informed
! Mr. Cotton, it is ALLEGED, that the trunk
had been returned to the American
Steel and Wire Company about Sep
tember l, 1911, and mat all the papers
had been destroyed by Frank Baackes,
vice president and general sales agent
Of the wire company.
The papers. it is charged in the
governments petition contained MAJ
ters tending to show that j. A. Farrell,
formerly president of the United Steel
Products (eXpOrU Company, now pres
ident of The United States Steel cor
poration, not only anew of said unlaw-
ful pools and combinations uescrlOed
but aided and abetted in their success
lul operation.
The petitions aver that certain
much-wanted documents are in dan
ser of destruction because there are
officers of the steel corporation and
its subsidiaries who have not yet been
indicted fer the practices which said
papers ttnd TO show tnem guilty OF
to-Wit:
"Of having been involved in the
aforesaid unlawful association, and al
so because none of the defendant
companies has yet been indicted in re-
srect thereto"
The petition urges that numerous
other papers were produced in the
wire pool prosecution, which contain
ed data tending to show the guilt of
! the American Steel & Wire Company,
/ the United States steel corporation,
| the United States Steel Products (ex-
porD Company, as charged in the
! said petition, as well as the fact that
| said Farrell, former president of the
last named company, now president
of the United States steel corporation,
not merely was cOgniZant of the I'M
lawful pooling arrangement entered
into by the American Steel and Wire
Company, through its officers, but al
| so knowingly aided and abetted said
unlawful practices in violation of the
! Sherman antitrust act"
with occasional Interruptions says
the petition,' the subsidiaries of the
! United States steel corporation have
from time to time been members of
the similar pools and agreements in
respect to the several products mdn-
Iufactured and sold by them in inter-
state and foreign commerce, and there
must be, unless there have been al
ready destroyed among the records of
the United States steel corporation or
its subsidiary companies, cores pond
ence, papers, reports. statements end
accounts relating TO said pools and
agreements"
The rule issued by Judge GRAY dir
ecting the defendants 10 show cause
why permanent injunction should
not issue, is returnable On March ).
Washington, D. c., Feb. 6.--Judge
Gray in the United States Court for
the Third District, has issued an in
junction restraining the defendants
i'll the governments antitrust SUIT
against the ni-ed States Steel Cor
poration from destroying books and
papers desired by the government,
The injunction was issued on a petit
ton of the Department Of Justice for
several thousand papers and docu-
ments, which were used in the gov
: ernments criminal prosecution of the
wire pool" last fall which have been
destroyed.
One portion of the government 5
petition seems to be susceptible of the
Interpretation that criminal indict-
ments and prosecutions of certain of
ficers of the steel corporation and its
= subsidiaries are under consideration
by the Department of Justice.
The injunction, which is tempo
rary one, is to forbid the destruction
G o. any other books or papers which
! the government may desire in the an
n THRUST suit
The destroyed papers, it is said
We're in trunk which was delivered
Oh June 30, 1911, by United States
e District Attorney Wise to Charles
. MacVeagh, general solicitor of the
y United States Steel Corporation, who
gave written agreement, it is said
+ that he would keep the papers in his
personal charge subject to examina
u ton by Mr.. Wise or his assistants a
II any time.
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