Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-13 | Page 5 | Critics Point out His Connection with Moneyed Interests

Critics Point Out His Connection Connection Connection Con Con- With Moneyed Interests Editors Editor's Note Here is the thelast thelast I last st of tho the series on Charles Evans Hughes and the chief By HERBERT LITTLE I United Press Staff Correspondent WA WASHINGTON Feb 13 13 Apparently Charles Evans Hushes Hughes will be beas beas as alJ conservative o a chief chic justice as 13 sly his predecessor ece soI William Willlam Howard Taft laft Apparently tho the appointment preserved erl unchanged the to six three divIsion of the tho court with the conservatives In tho time sad sad- dle Time The apparently I Is the most important im Ira- word in tho time foregoing forc oln Although most liberals see no Ito hint of lI liberalism in Hughes men after being eln appointed to tho supreme supreme- court often orten have followed courses of oC action which were at variance with tho the wl wishes of those who appointed them Political party part lIc ties mean menn nothing to a a. justice Critics Critic point out that lIu Hughes hes In Inthe lh time the last five Che years has represented scores cores of large corporations corporation before the tho court including General General Gen Gen- eral cral Electric company compan Swift Co Nut Beech Packing company compan the Trenton Potteries es company Aetna Insurance com company pan Anaconda Copper Copper Cop Cop- per lieI Mining company compan and Inter Inter- borough h Rapid Transit company Therefore the they fear ho lie may lean to the Interests of oC u and amid other corporate concerns rather rattler than to the Interests of or tho time consumers WAS REFORMER Rut nut further b back cl In his history Hughes was a pioneer in public regulation o of utilities As governor ot ur Nc New York from I 1007 1907 07 to 1910 he hea heas heway way as a a. reformer Before ho b be r