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Show MUST MEN ' LIKELY TO GET TERMS Ii JUL Report of Attorney General Wickcrsham Says Sherman Law Is Adequate in Civil Suits Only. WOULD PROSECUTE. , COFFEE COMBINE Exclusion of Public From Hearings in iVlonopoly Prosecutions Should Not Be Permitted. i - i T?v International NoWg Son ice. WASHINGTON, Pec. A demand de-mand for legislation permit-ling permit-ling the department 0f justice jus-tice to carry on its litigation ajrainst tho United Stales Shoe Maeliin-ery Maeliin-ery company and tho o called coffee trust was the most important measure advocated y Attorney General Wickcrsham Wickcr-sham iu his annual report, which was read in both houses of congress todn'. In addition to this trust legislation, announcement was made of a second procedure against t.hc Lehigh -Valley Coal and Jtuilroad companies at an early date. Strong commendation of tho recent decisions oC the supreme court in the caaos of tlio. Standard Oil company and thc American Tobacco company was also contained in tho altornoy general's report. He stated that iu his opinion no additional legislation fo limit and define thc Sherman - anti-trust act is needed. "WUb regard to en mi mil 7ro5CutToi! under this law, howover, Mr. Wicker-sham Wicker-sham is of the opinion that the .government .govern-ment 'a suits- agaiusl? trilsrmiiiViIsSltfr-ing trilsrmiiiViIsSltfr-ing the past year wor fnr from encouraging. encour-aging. Collects Big Sums. The attornev general reported that there was collected and paid into tho treasury of the United States, as a result re-sult or suits brought, or compromises effected during tho lineal vcar. the sum of $2,0.1 S,l)3:t.)9, besides .:730f13G.IG collected col-lected by the solicitor of the treasury in compromise claims not in suit, making mak-ing an aggregate total of $2,749,070.15. During tho past fiscal year, says thc report, 32-12 civil cases, to -which thc United States was a party, and .1G.1GS criminal prosecutions, wore disposed of in tho circuit and district courts, aud .1212 eases in the court of claims. Sees Attack on Law. Reviewing these figures and referring to tho ellicacy of the Sherman law, the attorney general said: "I am strongly of the opinion that tho advocacy of amendments to the Sherman anti trust law, which shall particularize par-ticularize different acts as constituting unlawful restraints of trade has its origin or-igin not so much with those who desire its enforcement as with those who desire de-sire to secure a. means of evading it." The offices performed by tho commerce com-merce court were highly commended by Allorncv General Wickcrsham. With regard to this subject he said: " In my opinion the Commerce Court has proved a far more satisfactory instrument in-strument for tlie determination of legal (piOatiouH arising out of the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission than tho former method by which such questions wero passed upon in the various Circuit Courts throughout Tho country, "It is much more expeditious; it has uphold the commission iu a larger portion of cases than did- oil her the Circuit Courts or the Supreme Courts; and it has granted temporary injunctions injunc-tions with less .freedom than the circuit courts did." The attorney general advocated thc cuaelment of Jaws defining this scope oC judicial review. No Star Chambers. In that section of the report devok'd to tho National Banking Laws iho attorney gcnoral statod that there has bcou an appreciable falling off of criminal violations of the National Banking Laws. ".In 1113' judgment this has been largely due to the detcrrant effect of the numerous convietiona of erring bank officers.'' With regard to the Governmeut's case against the United States Shoe ISlachiuery Co.. which -was stopped on the order of "the attorney general fob Jowing a decision hauded down which excluded the public from being prosent at the taking of testimony the, report says: "lu the prosecution of defendants ' Continued on Pa&e Three. "?leIiSis (Continued from Page One.) charged with monopolizing or a I tempting tempt-ing to monopolize commerce it is the e,pcrieueo of tho department that newspaper reports of evidence givon in tho examination of witnesses, often leads to persons having knowledge of tho facts furnishing the government with valuable evidence bearing upon tin? questions in dispute. Kveu if (he court in this case has placed a .correct construction upon the law in handing down an opinion excluding the pnbli-from pnbli-from the hearing, in my .judgment congress con-gress should by statute'ulter the rule." With reference to the so-called coffee cof-fee trust, ease which was temporarily abandoned because section T I of the Wilson tarill' Jnw contained a technicality technical-ity whie.li forbade the seizure of the property of the trust. Attorney Ueneral Wiekerfliam raid: "The. Wilson tarill' law does not provide pro-vide for a .right of seizure when properly prop-erly is in the eourse of being imported into the foiled States or if it has been imported into and as hold in one of the stales of the Tniled States for the purpose pur-pose of being ciniibn oil in effectual ing an unlawful combination. In the particular par-ticular ca-e under consideration, neither neith-er the coffee in process of importation into the United States nor the .020.(100 bags of coll'ee held under the valoria-tion valoria-tion plan stored in tho city of New York was subject to seizure." The attorney general urged the enactment en-actment into law of a bill already introduced intro-duced into congress bv tlw- department of .justice to amend I hp law and allow the seizure of this properly. |