Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-19
Attorney General Hasn't Dissolved
a Single Trust. but Has Helped
Ten in Last Seven Months.
Worse Than BaIIinger in Delay.
STILES Greatest Victory Ever Won
for People Before U. S. SUI
preme Court by Action in the
Union Pacific Dissolution Case.

WASHINGTON. oct. IS.-All rec
ords for first aid to trusts" have been
broken by the Department OF Justice
under the administration Of Attorne,
General McReynolds.
During the seven months he has
been in charge Of the Governments
campaign for fighting monopolies the
Attorney Generals notable accom-
plishments-eNcIusive Of the number
Of small proceedings instituted-stand
as follows:
Number Of trusts issolved-NONS.
Number of trusts or other influen-
tiaI defendants which have received
first aid'-TEN.
The only other Cabinet officer in
the history Of the United states who
approached the present Attorney Gen
eral in this respect was former Sec
Rotary Of the Interior BaInnger, and
the record indicates that he was not
v.on close second.
Here l. the record
/. UNION PACIFIC SOUTHERN
PACIFIC RAILROAD cAsE-The
United States brought suit 10
compel the Union Pacific Ran
road Company TO dispose of SIPS
100000 If the stock Of the South
ern Pacific. under the sherman anti
trust act. Attorney General Wicker
sham won the case. The Suprenr
Court yr1arog thu T~,g,,, T,a.tE
proceed TO diyest itself of the stool
Tho lawyers Tor the Union Pacific
drew up plan and submitted it TO
the new Attorney General OF line
United States. Mr. McRevnolds. He
accepted the plan, although, contrary
to the expressed wishes Of President
Wilson, he withdrew his request for a
public hearing
on top of this Attorney GeneraI
McReynolds forfeited the right to a7
peal the case by consenting to taa
entry OF a decree by the Circuis
Court. and i, can not be reopened ex-
ce2t by special action on the part %,
Congress
Thus he efTeetIuly stifled what s
considered the greatest victory ever
won in the Supreme Court by ire
people. The man who represented thu
Attorney General in the latter part OF
this remarkable proceeding. Z. Car
roll Todd, has been promoted by his
chief to the position OF First Assist
ant Attorney General. in full charge
of the trust busting" work of the
department.
2, THE ANTHRACITE COAL
CASE-McReynolds began this dur
ing the time Wickersham was Attor-
ney General. The latter assigned him
to the case.
The first proceedings were taken
under the Hepburn rate law. and. in
effect, NcReynolds lost the suit. Then.
with the same E. Carroll Todd, ne
filed a bill under the Sherman anti
trust law, charging conspiracy. After
a long struggle McReyuolds won a
decision from the Supreme Court.
Part Of the responsibility for the
doubtful victory was laid 10 failure
on I0c part OF WCnGy1CtCS 10 draw
his bill properly. Now. in 1913. al
though the proceedings were begun
originally in 1907, the Attorney Cen
eraI has just filed a bill against the
1--WE coal companies concerned, whicn
complies in form and manner OF
pleading with the rules established
for such cases by the Supreme CoG-t
ia 1898. In other words. he has just
now made fair beginning in the
case. AstG the retail price Of coal has
steadily gone up
3. THE INTERNATIONAL HAP
VESTER TRUST CASE-This case
was nearly settled by Attorney Cen
aral Wfclersaam. a compromise was
Wickersham thereupoG
made out d list Of conditions for the
Trust to subscribe to, but
they were SO binding and SO favorable
to the Government that the trust de-
,ided IT could better afford 10 fight
the courts