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Show tIEIIilS URGED TO EXISTING LIS Attorney General Gregory Makes His Initial Report to Congress. IIS WORK IS REVIEWED Special Recommendation Is m. Made as to Interstate W Commerce Act BVSSIGTOV Dec 10 Utoroev BatgraT Gregory mads his first report Lwagresa today as heal of the do-Rfjant do-Rfjant f justice, lie recommended Jratl amendments to existing laws Km gave & comprehensive revieT of K work ef the department for the EKWl J1 His principal recownen Hsuon was for an amendment to the 2tm$odit)e3 clause of the Interstate tojnneice act designed to block the Krty of any common carrier which KlKj to transport pTodvts over its Iffift in which it has any interest Kjsttsoever 3a asking for each legislation the RharneT general referred to the diffi fciltj the department has encountered a attempting to break up what is down as the hard coal con bina lion controlling a large part of the inthracite lields in eastern Pennsjl rinia. lie told congTesa that railroad' ji that field have met recent s preme ioart decisions, interpretm the com nudities clause bv the orgahizat on of orporations whose stock is d strib-ited strib-ited ratably among stockholders of the railroad, with its management domi nated by the railroad, To such a corporation, cor-poration, he save the railroad in ques ion sells coal at the mines under a OBtraet whieh puts the new corpora Ion largely if not completely w th In the power of the railroad ' Th s jlaa 4as been challenged by the gov eroment Recommendation Made I recommend wiote Mr Gregory 1 an amendment which will prohibit a railroad from transporting n interstate tommeree articles which it manufactured manufac-tured or produced or which were man afactured or produced by any corporation corpo-ration controlled by it or affiliated With it by having the same controlling stockholders, irrespective of whether such railroad or such controlled aitil Intel corporation has an interest in the Rtrticles at the time of transportation nit is alt-o necessary if transportation IJasd production are to be completely (divorced that congress prohibit any "traih-oad owned or controlled by a pro-aucing pro-aucing or trading corporation and not operated merely as a plant facility ufrom transporting interstate commerce Uarticles produced or owned by such fjeorpoation. Other recommendations include An amendment making it a federal enme to kill an ofricer of the United "tatea engaged n serving or executing fpoteS9 and authority for the use of search warrants in advertising fraud ea.e which rely on the mails to at tract-Tietims. Documentary evidence savs the Import, only procurable bv search is almost indispensable to convict these swindlers and protect their victims Weakness of the Law As the law now stands, Mr Gregory pom s out no authority exists to re-I re-I cover property used for criminal pur poses save on specific conditions un 1 der customs revenue Ind an liquor fishery interstate commerce transpor tation and obscene literature cases Attorney General Gregory recom menas that the power of federal grand Junes be enlarged so that they can in vesfaf.ate crimes committed in any di vision of a federal district. He sug zests alo that an amendment to ex Wang law is needed whereby a federal judge in whose court an indictment s returned, may consider testimony be fore the grand jury and enter an order making the warrants run to all pa ts of the federal territory Under the prevail ng practice says the report offenders agamt " uniform laws while living within the borders of the United States frequent ly gain practical immunity from pun ishment The federal laws apply to every part of the United States and the procedure to secure the punish irent of an offense and the presence of the offender before the court should be as far reaching as the law declar in? the offense It is oftentimes more difficult and expensive to compel an accused person who 1 ves m a state othe than the one where the offense is committed to respond to an accusa tion than it is to secure extradit on yfrom a foreign country HKher Suggestions , Amendments of a minor nature are suggested also to the food and drugs act, the lnecticide act the twenty J e sht hour law and the bankruptcy law ' Mr Gregory renewed the recommenda . t ons of the former attorney general that when a federal judge of any court 'below the supreme court reaches the J age of "0 and after ten years service refuses to ret re the pres dent be au ithorired to appo nt another judge to preside oyer the affa rs of that court and have precedence over the older Judge The attorney general recites at lngth the enforcement of the feher man antitrust act during the last f cal year Speaking of the negot at ons wth the New York New Haven & Hartford Bailroad company he m formed congress that the department wh le intent upon enforc ng the law realized that it must proceed so as to cause the least embarrassment to m ffvfstors and to the unsettled industries I of New England. In accordance w th that pol cy, the report expla ns the recn est of the new management of the New Haven company to enter nto egot ations with a view to br nging abo t w thout a protracted and netessa lv unsettling contest a d ssolution of the unlawful monopoly was granted f Great Care Taken In the meant me the department jouffht o avo d anv action that m ght tf U nder in any way the accomplishment of that end so mportant to the people Mr Inland, DUt the cr minal as ppects of the ase were kept constantl f j" m d and care was taken to do noth log which m ght nterfere w tb proper prow ut ons at the appropr ato t me The department s bureau of invests-1 gat on investigated during tho vear Iwh te slave cases in which 4oo md ct ments were secured with 3o7 convic t ons f fty three acquittals and fortv six discont nuances Du ng the preced ing year there were 332 in 1 ctments and 2C6 convict ons The bu oau m veil gated on the average forty one complaints of -violat on of the ant trust act each month compared w th thirty s x last year |