Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-10-13

SpOnSlDle Tor the SeleCtlOn by freSl
dent Harding of Andrew w Mellon.
of Pittsburg, as secretary of the treas
ury.
Ii was Immediately after the final
refusal OF the senate to ratify the
Treaty of Versailles that Senator
Knox began his fight for the ending
of the technical state of war by reso-
luton
Senator Knox's last important ad-
dress in the senate was in support of
his position that congress had the
power and upon it devolved the duty
to end the status of war by resolu-
tions.
Philander c. Knox was Attorney
General in the cabinets of Presidents
Mckinley and Roosevelt, Secretary OF
State in the cabinet of President Taft
and in the interim between those two
offices and afterwards was United
States Senator.
Senator Knox was an active figure
} in the fight in the senate in 1919 and
1920 against the ratification of the
Peace Treaty of Versailles. Even
when the treaty was being drawn up
he delivered speeches in the senate
and out of it in which he demanded
that the League of Nations covenant
should be separated from the other
part of the treaty. He introduced a
resolution to that effect which was
adopted by the senate and also a reso-
luton against the appointment of Am
erican representatives on the Repara-
tons Commission He also drafted
! one of the various resolutions submit
ted to the senate for adopting the
treaty with reservations.
Subsequently Senator Knox was the
author of a resolution adopted by the
senate in May, 1920. declaring peace
with Germany. This also was vetoed
by President Wilson.
Appointed by Mckinley
Senator Knox first came into ma
tional prominence when in 1901 Pres
ident Mckinley appointed him as at
tornep-general. He retained that Of
flee under President Roosevelt until
1904 when he resigned to accept an
appointment as United States senator
from Pennsylvania to succeed the late
Senator Quay.
AS attorney general he established
a record for prosecutions of trusts and
combinations and in actions against
railroads to prevent rebates and dis
elimination in rates.
Notable among his achievements
while in this office was his suit
against the Northern Securities Com
pany, corporation organized for the
purpose of combining the Northern
| Pacific and Great Northern Railroads.
He brought the government action to
dissolve The merger and after "a long
: legal fight beginning in 1902 he won
the case in the United States Circuit
court.
Mr.. Knox also waged notable
|. fight against the combination of sew
! en- beer corporations against whom he
brought action in that year 1902,
! charging them with being in conspir-
acy in restraint of trade. He obtain
ed injunctions against the defendants
which were made permanent on APP
peal to the United States Supreme
Court and the combination was order
ed to be dissolved
Prosecuted Railroads
Soon after MIR. Knox instituted pro
ceedings against IA railroad corpora
I tions charging them with being in
! combination in restraint of trade, and
! finally won all the suits. His friends
/ declare that was a pioneer in the
movement TO control corporations. 1t
was upon his recommendation that
| congress amended the laws against
| railroads so as to punish them for
| granting rebates, extend the authori-
/ ty of courts to enjoin the carriers
| against making discriminatory rates
and permit the federal courts to give
, precedence to cases of great import
ance to the public. These actions
made him a powerful factor in the
war against unfair practices by cor
| porations which was the outstanding
! feature of that period of President
! Roosevelt's administration.
His own views on these powerful
! combinations were expressed in an adj
| dress at that time in which he declar-
! ed that over capitalization was the
most conspicuously evil feature of the
trusts but that other factors which
! contributed to their ill effect upon the
! public were lack of publicity of oper-
alton, discrimination in prices design
/ ed to eliminate competition, tenden-
CIV TO monopolize trade in their lines
and failure to appreciate that they
owed any service to the public.
MP purpose" he declared, lis to
show that we are not hopelessly help
less to deal with serious problems
! which confront us
! Mr.. Knox has been credited by
some with having actually carried
! through" the purchase of the Panama
| Canal for $40,000,000 which was an
/ achievement of the Roosevelt admin
| istration. AS attorney general, Mr.
| Knox went to Paris and ascertained
! that the new Panama Canal Company
held a clear title to convey the canal