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Show states Fosmori g:io?.atio::s' Preparing to Arraign All Corporations Clsarly'Vio-latlng Clsarly'Vio-latlng the Law. WASHINGTON. Bent. 12. Recent report to the effect that attorneys for large combinations of corporations nd their principals also were hoping for some genera! understanding with gov eminent authorities concerning the application ap-plication of the anti trust law, and that aom of them had gone to the attorney general to ascertain what action, if any, iav be nerrsrary to make them atand right in th eyes of the government, was the subject of much discussion here today. . The AsnoeiatedTiresa is in position to te the following as the attitade of the deportment of justice: "Th position of th attorney general, gen-eral, a frequently stated by aimis that since tbe decisions of the supreme court in the nil and tobacco cases to qunte tb. language emphived by htm in his speech at battle t'reek. Mich.: " 'The arm of uncertainly In the law' has been greatly reduced and th meaning of the statute in its applica- tinn to rrt monopolistic rorpurmtmui m ad rlear ind tbn makes it ntvf uiary tor (ho trombinatioot to rewlv them-sivf them-sivf into number of parmte entitle, enti-tle, none of wbirh shall bt in itnelf a combination in restraint of t ratio or thrpftfea mouoiwlv. "How this aba II bo Hone is. of eourae, ft aPrat problem ia each cmui a rvrofoiem whir.li in the flint instanee thn in control of the eorihtnatioaa aud their ouaaJ must work out. Too law o part meat of th jroverniDoat eaanot nndPTtak to act as universal eounne for the trusts. It is propariirf to bring before ths court all the eombinationa whirb appear to be ia aiear violatioa of tho law. If the court afire with the rnverament's views ther will doubtless follow ths precedents set." |