Show I QUESTIONS FOR MR BO AP ARTE Democratic Committee Wants to ta Know Where He Buries His Dead Trusts Chicago Sept 30 Joseph Daniel chairman of ot the Democratic press com committee co committee today made public a lettel written to Attorney General Bonaparte at the instance of or the Democratic na national national national committee asking the attorney attorn e general how many of the trusts tru ts of the country have been pro proceeded proceeded against in the courts by the fed federal federal federal eral government and how many more cases he expects to file Mr Ir Daniels letter makes only a hun bun hundred hundred bundred dred words but appended to It is a alist alist alist list of alleged trusts taken he says from a list of General Moodys manual manua of corporation securities He asks also for tor the amount of fines collected from defendant trusts and tho tha th amount of or fines standing against them but not collected In connection conn with this letter Mr Ir Daniel Dariel made the following statement Statement of Mr Daniels It is generally known that under Republican administration the oil trust had ha a monopoly of the old o on oil oilfields fields and that under the Roosevelt administration it has been able to dic dictate dictate tate the production of oil all in new terri tern territory territory tory is a matter of or common notoriety The Standard Oil trust has not been put putout out of or business bu nor reduced the price of its product Of or the 28 trusts in the United d States there have been prosecutions of but few and the ag aggregate agreate aggregate reate fines collected coll ct 11 will not exceed The fines in the beef trust casei ca l may be said to have been vir virtually virtually virtually a license licen e paid to continue the violation of the law The public has paid the fines against the meat trust times over If trusts can go goon goon goon on contrary to law and only be bc fined It may ma be asked of Mr Roosevelt Would not deeds speak louder than words The Democratic committee today toda will send a letter to Attorney General Bonaparte with a list of the trusts and ask him to mark those prosecuted and also ask him why he did not take up tip the steel trust which received more benefits than any other from this t is gov government government and contributed most to a Republican campaign fund |