Show NEW PRECEPTOR F FOR OR THE TRUSTS na V oil oh yes yea its an old story to mo me and speaking of course only for or myself I 1 regard it na as a plain subterfuge which deserves doB orvea nn an expeditious corn com to tho the scrap heap this statement made by ja jamos man 0 eighteen ago when lie ho was asked it if lio lie had bad soon boon tho the plan for tho the dissolution of the T tobacco trust then just jual published gives elves a aretty det idea of tho now attorney generals point of view regarding tho the onto enforcement of the tha Sher Shern nian fan a antitrust anti biti trust law and methods or disintegration that havo have prevailed pra in tile tho past mr McRoy nolda had conducted tho the light Ligal against list the tha tobacco trust from lia its inception anal an had carried it to tho the point where tho the combination was denounced by tho the supreme court and the circuit court in N now ew york was directed to bring about a now condition in harmony with anil and not repugnant to the iho law this was tho the first caso case in which the courts were called upon to worn work out oui a dissolution plan and it became incumbent upon tho american tobacco company through ito ita lawyers top something that would bo be acceptable to the government and tho the court the plan presented to the court for discussion in n open session was not what tho the trusts lawyers had started 0 out qt to net get and oven even after that mr air wickersham at the suggestion ot of the independents had some material alterations made but the essential feature to which mr air had particularly objected common co ownership of the companion companies which wore were to take over the segregated assets was waa still the central point |