Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-05-01
HARVESTER TRUST FACE COURT
Government Won't Accept Diss0lu-
ton I'lnT--Ifile Suit This Week.

pTactlcally aDanuOnpd. SUIT
against the corporation, under the
Sherman antitrust law, probably
will be filed at Chicago about the
middle Of next week.
There remains one bare possible
!ty, however, that an ogrcenent may
be reached, but those familiar with
the problem have lost expectations
that the government and the corpo-
ration will bridge the differences as
to plan Of disintegration.
After a protracted c, inference to-
day Attorney General Wickersham,
Mr.. Fowler, assistant to the attorney
general, and counsel for the Har-
yester comapny, who have conducted
negotiations extending over several
months. declined to comment on the
situation.
President Taft was apprised Of the
situation at conference with Wick
ersham, Fowler and Bancroft. It Is
understood he agreed that the plans
for disintcgrati0n SO far submitted
could not be accepted by the gov
eminent
The cruX of the whole difficulty,
it Is believed, lies in the contention
Of the Harvester company that the
Mccormick and Decring companies,
which are subsidiaries, should not be
separated in any scheme OF reorgan-
izaIion. The government wanted
these integral parts made distinct.
"AIorgnn Crowds Influence"
The confidential correspondence,
which passed between President
Roosevelt, Attorney General Bona
parte and Commissioner Herbert X
Smith, of the bureau Of corporations,
in 1907 about II government anti
trust suit against the International
Harvester Company was sent 10 the
Senate to-day from the files OF the
department. Of justice.
One letter from Col Roosevelt to
MIR. Bonaparte, written from Oyster
Bay on August %, 1907, said that
the colonel had had conferences with
Geo. w. Perkins about tho COM
pany's affairs and directed Mr.. 30.
naparte not TO file the suit then, but
to go over the matter with Commits
sioner Smith and Mr.. Perkins.
A letter from Commissioners Smitl
to the colonel on September 81 tolt
OF conferences with Mr. Perkins ant
stated Commisssoncr er,'th'e ohiec
lions - u prus"cutiOu at rlut 'ime
a As .@onNn,iahiones rN,oLo thnt IL
'ooNgbt thr Gurst!9u ~ jHn con-
pany s r3it or tHUNcnunc va, ln"r,l
technical question and told OF
conference with Perkins on Angus
24th.
Threatened to Fight.
Commissioners Smith wrote tha
Mr.. Perkins concluded with grea
emphasis that IL after all the Ell
deavors Of this company and th
other Morgan interests to uphold tn.
policies OF the administration and tt
adopt their methods OF modern pub
liclty, this company was now goint
to be attacked in a purely techica
case, the interests he represented
were going to fight"
Further on in the same letter. Mr..
Smith wrote:
"While the administration has
never hesitated to grapplc with any
financial interest, no matter how
great, when 1t believed that a sub
stantial wrong is being committed.
neyert heleSS II ic n yory nroctico !
question whether 1t is well to throw
away now the great influence of the
so-called Morgan interests which, up
to this time, have supported the ad-
vanced policy OF the administration
both in general principles and in the
application thereof, to their specific
: interests and to place them generally
in opposition.
IL believe Mr.. Perkins statement
mat his interest would necessarily
be driven into active opposition was
sincere one and, in fact, can
hardly see how these great interests
can take any other attitude should
this prosecution be started and the
ilnal adoption OF this policy be made
public"
In another portion Of the letter
commissioner Smith reported Mr.
Perkins as having said substantially
mat the "Standard OH people in New
YORK are giving him tho laugh for
having thought he was trying to be
good and keep solid with the admin