Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-01-29
a. TAFT SUITS
AGAINST TRUSTS
President Has EQuaI3d kuinsTi-
caI|y RoOSeveIts Record.
88 CASES IN LAST II YEARS
Pending Action Against the Steel
Corporation Regarded as Most I'm
portant Of AIl-Case Of Intern a. onal
Harvester Company.

Harvester Company.
President Taft has equalcd the rec.
ord of President Roospvplt's admins
tratiOns for trust prosecutions under
the Sherman law. The total number
is forty four. In IiouSpvelt's seven
years eighteen hills IN equity were
filed. twenty i've indictments returned
and one forfeiture proceeding begun.
In the little less than threp Years of
the Taft administration there nave
been twenty-five civil suits and like
number of Indictments.
The Roosevelt record was eGulrd
with The filing at Macon. Gn.. of a
civil suit against the so called naval
stores trust aud the returning of in.
dictumn : against tire alleged coaster
brake trilSt at Buffalo.
From lnly 2. 1870. to July I. 1911.
here were eighty eight cases brought
,n'rr til" Sherman act. These were
divided:
President Harrison's administration
-Four bills In equity and three indict-
ments.
President Cleveland-F bills In
equity. two indictments and two infor-
nations for contempt.
President McKinley-Three bills In
equity
President Roosevelt - Eighteen bills
In equity. twenty-five indictments and
one forfeiture proceeding
President Taft-Twenty- two bills in
equity and twenty-five indictments.
The forty-f four cases In the Roose-
welt regime include the famous North.
ern Securities case. the suit to restrain
the beef trust. two suits against the
Federal Salt company. suit for the dis
solution of the Jacksonville Wholesale.
Grocers' association. one to dissolve
the General Paper company. one
against Armour and other Chicago
meat packers. two suits in the tobacco
trust cases. one against the Terminal
Railroad association of st. Louis. one
to restrain the Otis Elevator company.
one against the National Association
of Retail Druggists. one against the
American Ice company. one to dissolve
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey. one to dissolve a combination
among the anthracite coal carrying
of the powder trust. one against the
Union Pacific Railroad company.
charging IL conspiracy i'm violation of
the Sherman law: one against the New
York. New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road company. alleging an attempt to
combine under one common control the
various steam and electric systems in
New England. and number of less
important prosecutions.
Among the most fnrreaching cases
of the Roosevelt administration was
the suit against the American Naval
Stores company. This was declared to
be'a combination in restraint OF trade
in selling turpentine and its products.
The defendants were convicted in the
lower court Fines nggregnting S11.-
900 We're assessed ana two defendants
We're sentenced to serve three months
in Jail An appeal was taken to the
United States supreme court and is ON
the docket awaiting oral arguments.
In its opinion on this case the court
will for the first time conStTue the
penal clauses of the sherman act.
The most important of the prosecu-
tons instituted during the Taft ad
miniStration We're the cases against
the American Sugar Refining company.
against the Imperial Window Glass
company. two cases against the Ma
tional Packing company and one
against the Armour Packing company
suit to restrain the Missouri Pacific
and twenty-four other railroads from
increasing freight rates. which pro-
duced an abandonment of the plan; Il
case alleging a combination by the
General Electric company to control
the business in incandescent electric
lamps, one to break up the tranSatlnn-
tic steamship pool, one charging con
spiracy against the officers of the
Eastern States Retail Lumber Deal
ers' association. one against the Ium-
Der secretaries bureau of information.
covering twentythree states from
Pennsylvania to the Pacific coast and
other suits of less consequence.
Since July |. 1911. a suit has been
instituted for the dissolution of the
United States Steel corporation. which
surpnsses in Importance and aggregate
of wealth represented the Standard Oil
and tobacco cases Evidence has been
accumulated for the prosecution of the
International Harvester company. hut
negotiations are pending for ii voiun-
tary REIMBURSEMENT of that concern )
methods to avoid prosecution