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Show SOUNDING PRESIDENT ON TRUST PROSECUTION WASHINGTON, " Jan. 2!. Callers at the White House who have sounded the president, recently ns to his attitude toward the prosecution of tho trusts reported re-ported today that, regardless of whether tho proposed voluntary federal corporation corpora-tion law Is passed or not. tho administration adminis-tration in preparing Jo put Into effect a vigorous policy of dealing with the big combinations so as to bring- them within the provisions of. the. null-trust laws. The president Is awaiting the decision of the supremo court in the Standard Oil and tobacco trust, cases before directing the attorney-general to take up an Inquiry In-quiry Into t lie more notorious of the other oth-er trusts. The president is further reported as having said that both he and the Republican Repub-lican party are. pledged to a vigorous enforcement en-forcement of thi- Sherman act, and that be Intends to keep the pledge, but does not consider it necessary to climb upon the housetops every morning and shout about It. |