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Show IS. SHOWS f ROOSEVELT ffRMB pgtary to the Presi-iit Presi-iit Gives Out State-iiit State-iiit Relating How flner Occupant of White House Was afty of Compound-j Compound-j Harvester Trust low iTS AS RELATED ATTORNEY SIMS jecution Called Off ben George W. Per-Threatened, Per-Threatened, in the me of J. P. Morgan, Make Trouble; Harder Har-der People Are Even rgiven for Rebating. pISIILS'GTQX. May 17. President ' lib's sci'rctn'iy, Charles D. ' IIDIts. aosarcd In Washington , Way ami at the While House fj arc ; out .1. statement concern -titoy in the prosecution of the Harvester company during Wflwcvell's administration in Pns not known here that HUIes Miffs party hi Ohio. I Tc went ;lfptctldcnt again tonight. PJ vom to Washington to gel lu Attorney Townscnd's stale's stale-'s referent to llic harvester l Hie etntemrnt. Townscnd M enc of the attornc-js in the N JlMlIre n had made an pail or charges against tlic In-jPJ In-jPJ HarvMttr copipany. F inclusively," the statement ?. "HiEt President Roosevelt " Ms attorney general to dis-prosecution dis-prosecution in the jt.. Hgm,, niunths prior to P5 Wlmei'-i from office. Nra by Record. get Koovelf8 term expired p aftc u. ,.,..,. ,(ad bcpn r' hands of the prosecuting r"'r WiiK .jf Investigation. E"1 fr("" re00l'3 nt Kl I""1 t,roccd'nKS were about C wit about a year and a half E. ll00'ct went out of w Perkins took a liend n (hat , ft remarkably pethreaftar thi; whofj nmtte F. stifled, stranged. 0r put L .7 othcr process, which, by t2lyZ ea" il' 1 have no wt r satisfactory to tho har- ftSu,Il 6tti Rsevelt and under hLynslructlons, it PlW 1,16 ln"u1 l P 1MB. On February 21. 1907, KVS?anrCrJ Tnsend's iGlio? 168 DIatr,,'t Attorney K JrucnB him to take Eafha5!POnit,on8 implicate., fv MMag recommended pros- KJJ ' my judgment that lWevM h'lrT04!ter b.rr corpoml'on and PlL ?e lndlvWual5 con-Plu2 con-Plu2 Upade,,ayf which Son- B1 thai Bonapirlo wro.to iMe MtL fe cafce re-E re-E onl t ?'1, An e"ort wa fr1 oi t0 Pr0CC:e,3 w,th EhrCh l thet' ha"d' t0 J' "f corporationH. ' tf5Rh nr Crnnt Townaand haM to of 1908 h, SB2MS? Bonaparte told -V, harvcslcr Attoi and ei P"- jMft18 V'" "tcmcnt by no fc1, the bar- - HILLES SHOWS IIP II EX-PRESIHT (Continued from Pago One.) pany with Herbert Knox .Smith, and. I think. Cyrus H. McCormick. They requested Mr. Bonaparte to accompany accom-pany them on a visit, to President Roosevelt for the purpose of persuading persuad-ing tin president to refrain from prosecuting the harvester trust. Mr. Bannparte refused to do so, Upon tho ground that the written statement tiled by the harvester trust was In effect a confession of a violation of the law and therefore ho (Mr, Bonaparte) Bona-parte) would not stulllfv himself by temporizing with the subject In any manner, Roosevelt Persuaded. "Thereafter Mr. Perkins and Mr. -Smith (and I think Mr. McCormick) went out and Interviewed President Roosevelt and succeeded In persuading persuad-ing him not to prosecute the harvester har-vester trust, and shortly thereafter President Roosevelt Instructed Attorney Attor-ney General Bonaparte not to take action. ac-tion. "Attorney General Bonaparte gave me this explanation for ths purpose of assuring me that he haa not Intentionally Inten-tionally broken his word with me in the matter of authorizing me to Institute In-stitute a suit against he harvester trust. Mr. Bonaparte ' plainly Indicated Indi-cated to mo that ho was orfended because be-cause the recommendation of the harvester har-vester trust people had apparently had more weight with the president than his own recommendation and advice." Mr. Tillies then refers to Colonel Roosevelt's Roose-velt's declaration that none of the papers In the harvester trust over wore suppressed sup-pressed and reviews the recent presentation presenta-tion of some of tho papers to tho senate. The statement then continues: Rebating Oondoned. "These papers show that the harvester trust was about, to bo prosocuted for robs ting, hut promised to do better, which promise was satisfactory lo tho attorney general. Other trusts, probably not of the benevolent variety, were lined for rebating re-bating and had to settle In tho courts. "The suppressed pnpors show also that George W. Perkins was referred to as the representative of the 'far-reaching Morgan Mor-gan Interests.' and that Mr. Porklns said to Commissioner Smith that If the harvester har-vester trust was to be attacked, then the Morgan Interests were 'going to fight,' whereupon Mr. Smith wrote to President Roosevelt that 'it Is a very practical question whether It is well to throw away now the great Influence of the so-called Morgan Interests.' "President Roosevelt had sent the report re-port to the attorney general with these directions: 'Please do not file the suit till I hear from you.' Colonol Roosevelt Roose-velt met the damaging disclosure by saying say-ing that Mr. Taft, as a member of his cabinet, had advised the action that substantially sub-stantially was taken. He oven alleged that If his memory served him Mr. Taft made the motion In cabinet meeting which resulted in substituting an Investigation for a prosecution. Taft Absent. "The records of the war department were then Introduced by President Taft to show that In the fall of 1907 during the full period of the correspondence he was absent from the country. Colonol Roosevelt then shifted his ground and said that President Taft approved the suppression of the suit after his return in January. 1908. "This last charge is disproved by the record which shows that on November 7. 1907 (Mr. Tnft was out of the country from early .In September until late in Decembor. 1907), Herbert Knox' ' Smith, tho commissioner of tho bureau of corporations, cor-porations, telephoned Mr. Perkins, 'at the president's order.' that the president took the vlow that tlje bureau's Investigation should come before the suit. Why, then, would the matter bo brought, beforo the cabinet for serious discussion in January, Janu-ary, 1908? "If it was brought beforo tho cablnot In January, then Mr. Perkins had a 'scoop of sixty days on the president's confidential advisers. It Is significant, too. that the order directed Commissioner Smlthto communicate with Mr. Perkins of J. P. Morgan &. Co., and now with the president and attorney of the harvester trust." |