Arizona republican., 1912-12-06

in the war on the white plague.
 packers of criminal violation of the sherman law, has accomplished, in the belief of the attorney general, "a substantial restoration of competitive conditions in a very large industry which have not for a long time here tOfOre existed"
 Objections to the commerce court in the judgement of MT. Wickersham, would be met by legislation requir- ing the Interstate Commerce Com mission to state in it's report, as d basis for its order, the findings of fact and the reasons on which the order is based, providing that all finding of fact and conclusions of policy appearing in the report shall be final and conclusive: and limit ing court review exclusively to ques- tions of law arising upon the com missions report
 As a result of the decision of the supreme court holding that the com merce court has no power to re- view so called negative" orders of II, the attorney general recommends that the law be amended so that the commerce court will have juris- diction to review all errors of law i'll respect to orders of the commis- sion which deny relief to shippers or others, just as the court now has power to review orders granting re lief. The practical result of the pre- sent situation he adds, is that re lief against errors of law by the commission is limited to the railroads and denied to the shippers.
 In connection with the suit against the Lehigh Valley railroad company under the commodities clause of the Interstate Commerce Act, because of it's alleged ownership and transpor- tatiOn if the coal of the Lehigh Val ley Coal company, the atOreny gen eral says that the organization by the railroad company of the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales company seems to satisfy the demands of the law as interpreted by the supreme court The situation is he continues that coal which is shipped over the
 
 the Lehigh Valley Coal company, all of whose stock is owned by the rail road company, and is sold at the breakers to the Lehigh Coal Sales company, all of whose stock has beer originally issued to and distributed among the stockholders of the rail l road company, pro rata, but whicf company has separate offices iron the railroad company, and separate directors, and whose stock may b, sold by the stockholders without re gard to their continued holding O | stock in the railroad company. BA this arrangement both the railroad | company and the coal cOmpanie, | seem to have parted in good faitl 1 with title to the coal before trans 1 portation would seem to be free iron the prohibition of the commodities | clause as construed by the suprem | court"
 ] The attorney general announces hi. 1 intention of soon filing suits il l equity against the Southern Pacifi railroad company and others for tn | recovery of vast areas of petroleum ] bearing lands in California said t
 be worth more than $50O,OOO,OO0. Tn
 legislation under which the patent l were granted to the railroad compan
 he says excepted mineral lands othe l than iron or coal lands. The rail
 road company contends, according [
 the attorney general, that the eX
 captions in the patents are void
 To investigate and preserve tn l rights of the government to tn
 sources of water supply for the stu 1 pendous reclamation projects con 1 structed or in contemplation, M l Wickersham strongly recommends a l appropriation to employ an adequat 1 force of lawyers. Pointing out ths | innumerable claims inevitably will |
 lodged against the government, cor | testing its right to selected wate ] sources, he says the welfare of tn citizens who have staked their fol
 tunes on the success of these CT
 terprises and the honor of the gov 1 ernment demand immediate action 1 The department of justice, includ | ing the offices of the attorney gen | eral and all the United States at i torneys, has been on a paying basi
 during President Taft's term of of
 flee, according to figures submitte
 in the report, a surplus of nearl ! $2,500, 900 over expenses having bee
 turned into the federal treasury. Flo l the four years ended June 30, las | the department collected $11,212,95 I through suits and compromises an l expended $S,756,565 The collection I ,ty1t ed to $3,597,442 and expenses $6,366, 798. In addition, the government re | covered during the past four year