Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-01-26
President Makes 1t Plain Only
Monopolies Will Be Af-
fected in Fight.
GOETHALS WILL BE
CANAL GOVERNOR
Wilson Has Had No One Else
in Mind for Place He Tells
Newspapers.
BY JOHN E. NEvIN.
(staff Correspondent of the United
Press.)
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UNITED PRESS LEASED wIRE.l
Washington, Jan. 26.-The admins.
tration S antitrust policy is directed
only at such business methods as are
directly in the nature and spirit of
monopoly. The president made this
plain to callers today. He held un-
warranted the alarm felt in some quart
ers that the bill prohibiting holding
corporations would affect companies
that organized subsidiaries to meet state
legal conditions.
None Of the trust bills, the president
explained to his callers, contains any
thing which would bar from business
anything that is not itself monopolistic.
And so far as the interstate trade com
mission is concerned, he indicated that
body would not be the dragon" Ger.
tain business interests fear. Its findings
the president explained are not binding
upon anyone. 1t undertakes investi-
cations at the direction of the depart
ment of justice and its reports are made
to the attorney general, who acts on
them as he sees fit. 1t prepares orders
for the court but the court can amend
these orders as it sees fit.
VIII Tell of Some Of 1t.
Whether all information compiled by
the new board is to be made public, is
for the commission itself to determine
The president believes that at least a
certain amount Of publicity will be nee
essary in viesw of the state Of public
opinion, He did not believe, he ex.
planned, that this commission would be
as secretive as has been the internal
revenue bureau Of the treasury de.
partment in connection with its investi-
cation of corporations liable to the cor.
poration tax.
But one thing that the president con-
sidered certain, he explained and that
was that business rivals would not be
permitted to CLEAN trade secrets as the
result of investigations under the new
law.
Goethals VIII Take Job,
So far as Colonel George w. Goethals
is concerned, the president made II plain
today that at no time has any one other
than the canal builder himself been
considered for governor of the zone
under the administration act. Goethals
has already been assured Of this fact by
the secretary Of war, although the pres
ident himself cannot do so until he act.
ually issues the order creating the civil
government.
This order is nearly ready for the OK.
eeutive's signature and as exclusively
stated by the United Press a month ago
il contains the name Of Goethals as gov
ernor with full power to select his own
assistants up TO the number Of $500 to
start operation of the big waterway.
Retirement Problem.
The president refused TO discuss in
advance whether the fact that Goethals
may want to retire in a year or is
months might cause him to change his
mind saying that he had no reason to
believe that Goethals intends to ask
for relief until after the canal was in
fun and complete operation.
Dinner Not Important.
The president insisted that undue i'm.
portance has been attached TO the din.
ner tonight to the senate foreign rela-
tions committee. lie declared that the
real purpose was TO discuss all unfin.
ished business now confronting that
committee, including arbitration trea-
ties and the like. He insisted that there
is not critical situation confronting
this government anywhere But with
the big "poliey measures out Of the
way, the president wants to get In