The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-25
ATTORNEY GENERAL IS FLOODED WITH APPLICATIONS FOR
 SUIT SETTLEMENT,
STARTED BY TELEGRAPH SUIT
Many Other Like Corporations Seek to Secure Like Agreements to Settle Differences With the sherman Anti. Trust Law.

1 Washington, Dec. 24.-When At or
 ney General McReynods agreed with
 the American Telephone and Tele.
 graph Company for reorganization
 or that concern to make it fit the
 groove the courts have hewed out for
 the anti-trus. act he gave rise to
 speculation in the minds of alleged
 trust makers all over the country and
 has brought upon the department of
 justice scores of inquiries from per.
 sons more or less interested in trus.
 suits about the possibilities of other agreements of like tenor.
 Since the announcement that the
 self-made plans for a reorganization
 of the so-called telephone trust would
 be accepted there has been one caller
 at the department bent on speaking
 Tn the cause of prosecuted combine
 And in the five days that have inter. N~N SA'+C Lhdb oiiIOuuCcD1Gur was made, the telephone of the attorney generals private secretary has ian gled to the tune of a hundred calls and there have been scores of letters and many telegrams seeking to learn what may be expected in the suit of the government against John and Will liam Doe, trust. MT McReynolds left Washington for Kentucky last Saturday and viii not return until next week. In his absence there is no one at the department authorized to act for him in taking up fresh proffers from trusts which wish to reform. The inquiries and reports of negotiations and protective agree ments have persisted, however and in the list that has been mente5ned have appeared what are regarded at the department as some of the mos. in many years.
 Mir. McReynolds, in discussing the American Telephone and Telegraph agreement with callers and in talking over the efforts of directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, has made it plain hat he is not willing to accept offers which do not mean reform in ac- ,ordance with the departments own deas. Speaking of the agreement with the telephone officials he point sd out that their plan had gone fur bor fbon Ion Tt, an lope a court to go if suit were insti- uted, and he referred as well as to he evident restoration of competi- ion in the telephone field
 There are in process of adjudica- ion in the courts less than dozen antitrust cases that are regarded as of supreme importance either as to their bearing on points in the anti trust law yet to be ruled upon or as to their effect upon big combinations. In this list are the action against the United States Steel corporation, the Harvester Company, the Motion Picture Patents Company, the Eastman Kodak Company and the Reading Railroad Company. Suits have been begun against the Aneri- can Gan Company and an alleged combination of wholesale and manu- featuring jewellers and there are many others in process of trial or under consideration which officials do not look upon as of prime importance. No suit is pending against the New Haven railroad but it has been an open seere. for several months that one was in contemplation when that company began negotiations with de partments
 Of the suits enumerated no agree ment proposals have come to the de- partment as yet.
 Representatives of the Motion Pic ture Company and of the jewellers have been in conference several times in the last few weeks with Mir. Me Reynolds and c. O. Todd, the assist ant attorney general in charge Of
 trust prosecutions. 1t is possible that these TWO suits will be settled without long litigation. In every case MT. Todd has made it clear that to meet the departments approval re5T- ganization plans must conform to ths complain. made by the government If this is done there is no objection to settling a case without litigation,