Arizona republican., 1912-04-25
Correspondence Shows Re lations Between Roose- welt and Morgan
 Interests.
STEEL CROWD
 WAS IMMUNE
Astounding Revelations Are Made In Letters Now In the Hands of
 Congress.
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 WASHINGTON. April 24.-Confi- dential correspondence between Pres
 ident Roosevelt, Attorney General Bonaparte. and Commissioner Her bert Knox Smith, of the bureau of corporations, about the goY ernment antitrust suit against the Interna-
 tional Harvester company, was sent
 to the senate today from the files of the department of justice. One let ter from Roosevelt to BOnaparte. written at oyster Bay. August 2c, 1907. said the colonel had had con- ferences with George ". Perkins about the company's affairs and di- rected Bonaparte not to file suit then, but to go over the matter with Commissioner Smith and MT. Perkins. The letter from Commissioner Smith to the colonel September 21 told of conference with Perkins and stated smiths objections to prosecution a. that time. The commissioner wrote that he thought the question of the company's guilt or innocence was merely technical and told of his con ference with Perkins August 24. Com missioner Smith wrote that Perkins concluded with great emphasis that if after all the endeavOrs of this com pany and the other Morgan interests to uphold the policies of the admin istration and adopt its methods of modern publicity. this company is now going to be attacked in a purely technical case it is going to fight Further on, in the same letter. Smith wrote:
 While the administration never hesitated to grapple with any financial interests no matter now great, when it is believed substantial wrong is being committed, nevertheless it is a very practical question whether it is I well to throw away now the great influence of the so-called Morgan in- l terests, which up to this time have supported the advanced policy of the administration, both in general prin- ciples and the application thereof to their spacific interests. to place them generally in opposition.
 T believed Perkins statement, that his interest would necessarily be driV- en into opposition. was a sincere one: 1 III IdCL l Cdu llSsuiN Stt il'N tAi's7N great interests can take any other at titude should this prosecution be started" h another portion of the l letter Commissioner Smith reported | Perkins as having said substantially l the Standard Oil people in New fork were giving him the laugh for having | thought he was trying to be good and keep solid with the administra- l ton and that he is now going to get 1 the same dose as the others With ! the correspondence was q letter from ] William Loeb Jr., the presidents sec retary, making an appointment for BOnaparte to talk the business over. | President Roosevelts letter to At 1 tOrney- General BOnaDarte follows: oyster Bay. New York, April % 1907. l My dear Mr Attorney General: 1 MT. George W. Perkins, of the Inter- national Harvester company, has just called on me and submitted to me certain papers of which 1 enclose copies. According to these papers and MT Perkins statement 1t would 1 appear the Harvester company, re peatedIy on it's own initiative, asked that it's business be investigated by the department of commerce and la bOr through the commissioner of cor ipOrations; that three years ago, Tn this connection, it decided it had ac-
 icepted what then amounted substan
 tially to rebates: that MT. Moody, the
 then attorney general. was about to
 take action on this report; but the
 1 Harvester company at once proceeded
 to rectify it's practices and see that
 nothing contrary to the ruling of
 committee be done again.
 This was satisfactory to the at
 Itorney-g general and the suit was drop
 ped The Harvester company says Il
 is in position to prove it lived up tC
 this agreement made in May, 1904
 The Harvester company advances thls as proof that if any illegal action b6
 pointed out, it will itself rectify tho
 matter on it's being pointed out. Il
 further appears that last December } HansbrOugh got the senate to pass { resolution at the direction of the de II partment of commerce and labor tC } make an early investigation into tho l character, operation, and effect upOr 7 interstate commerce of the lnterna
 tional Harvester company; that il f January Messrs Garfield and Smitl } met various reports of the Harveste
 company in New York, and the con l cIusiOn was reached that the depart ment would begin an examination a
 speedily as possible, which cOnclu I sion was announced publicly in tn