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Show Attorney General Gregory Personally Presents Case Before Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, March 7. Tn reargu-ment reargu-ment before the supreme court today of the federal dissolution suit against the International Harvester company, Attorney Attor-ney General Gregory personally presented D'.ie government's reason for seeking disintegration dis-integration of the so-culled truft. He declared that If the Intent of congress to prohibi t. undue concentration of capital and restraint of competition were not carried car-ried out. government control if not ownership own-ership in all likelihood would follow, with its evils and dangers. j Such "colossal" concentration of capital ' enjoying control of an industry even "if good" combinations are. illegal and j harmful, the attorney general argued. Ho ! pointed to evidence that the defendant : controls between 77 and S. per cent of tlie harvesting machinery trade, asserting that, one "dummy'' and six "office boys" formed the huge combination. This referred re-ferred to the transfer of constituent corporations' cor-porations' assets to William C. Jane for subsequent transfer to the New Jersey corpora tion. "Lane, the dummy." said Mr. Gregory, "offered to transfer the subsidiaries. The office boys gravely asked for time to consider. con-sider. The next day these six office hoys said the propositions 'looked good' to them find accepted. "George W. Perkins (formerly of J. P. Morgan fe Co.) was the little child who led them by the hand. "J. P. Morgan & Co. waved the niatrfe wand and received 500,000 for promotion promo-tion services to make legal what was illegal." il-legal." There was conscious wrong-doing, in the combination's formation, the attorney genera insisted. Com pet it ion actually has been "throttled and destroyed," -he added. ' |