Show LI f r l For Eighteen Months the Altor Attorney ney ne General Has lias Been Brooding ing Over Coal Trust Casc Cuse 80 SO DECLARES REP WR W R HEARST House Judiciary Committee c to lo Call on Law for 01 the In It Washington Wn hl 22 The has been brooding over that Ilku l an 1111 old lion hon on nn u 1 doorknob for Cor IS months Ho Hc him not noted in III any way W und wont ont let take It II from rom him William Hearst this statement the tho committee on judicial today iu III arguing lor a 1 favorable on Ills resolution on the tho attorney for Cor the tho evidence against th anthracite coal carrying railroads which Includes the tho report of ot the tho United States Slates district attorney for COl tho Iho South Southern ern em district of ot New York Mr h occupied the attention of ot the committee fur COl an 1111 hour hOUI In the argument he hUll made In III his as nil a n member of ot the tho house hou e He e re reviewed viewed In detail the tho proceedings Instituted tilted by h himself the railroads demanded that action should be h hInken Inken cither by the tho or the house should appoint a n committee of seven of ot Its to compile COlli pile anew the tho evidence In III tho pos possession session of ot the th with witha a 1 view to tu securing action t these roads under the tho Sherman antitrust act Mr explained that the I decision of ot tho court of ot the United was predicated on an ac Ill action tion 1101 by b tho com cOlli commission mission and III was entirely l another mat matter t tel ter than tho prosecution of oC the com COnt complaints plaints for tor violating the tho antitrust law 1111 What I want concluded oll Mr II Hearst Is III to have hlo this evidence come before Congress and If IC the tho attorney general does doell not as UN 1 nm very cr euro Buro ho he wont as liS he hUH has to do anything of the kind I then w wl h or 01 hope hOllO that a II will be appoint appointed ed all with Ith power to tu take tho evidence CI I suppose the house hou and this committee In III reporting favorably tho really wants to 10 get et tho evidence It Is I not lIot merely going through tho form Corm of at asking lI for Cor It but Willits to gut ot It II ItI I 1 support tho purpose o In III to tu know kilO bother tho hUM has dono hit hIli duty Powers Hep Hel Macs tho homo Is Ie of ot judging whether hother it ought to 10 know the Itself IC without It to tho Mr Hearst MH irl Henry Dem Tex to Ii know knol If Mr Hearst cr hud personally or l to Iho no general to get tho report of ut tho attorney He had not Mr lII Powers wanted to 10 know If It Mr Ir could not furnish turn Ish the committee id 1111 the information Inasmuch aa 18 he II furnished tho district attorney tho facts In III tho Hist Instance Au All Individual can do O almost all 1111 of these responded Mr 11 Hearst but tho Is them thoro to todo todo do something RO h III 1 Tho ho referred the tho resolution lion tion In tn a II of oC Powers Thomas and o iii I Smith of Kentucky for tor further consid consideration The fhe In III th Ih antitrust law sas as ut as w il by h Mr Ir when It be he became came known to lu the six sl roads roadA that tho 1110 Independent loal mine operators contemplated building u 11 toad of own to 10 tidewater To 10 prevent this Ihl t e roads road bought tho Iho of ot Simpson own ownIng Ing Jn 11 tile the largest of ot tho independent operators They also bought hought thi Temple Iron company Clip cap capitalized at guaranteeing C G per lieI cent ent on ibis hili capi capitalization The pi Ice of ot coal conI In New NewYork York was Willi then raised clI liO 10 cents a II ton Ion netting an all Increased annual earning of or This according to Mr Ir Hearst con constituted a II of ot the antitrust law 11 Mr Ir Hearst Id ho he had hael been In Informed formed although not officially that the tho district attorney hud had the casc to 10 the Iho department of ot Justice eighteen months UKO o o with a Il recommendation that a II case lIIS Imd been made out members of or the tho commit committee tee teo questioned the lito necessity nece of ot tailing upon the for tOI the tho evi cI evidence cId dence d lIce Inasmuch us Mr Ir Hearst learst hall had It to district attorney In tho first Instance and could as nil well fur tUI furnish nish It to the committee 11 DC no Mo Io maintained that the thc country ought to know why wh the 11 did not proceed II In the tl Mr lr Hearst paid It was Impossible for him hlll to procure the report of tho Iho district attorney who ho hull hud 1 tho Iho evidence furnished 1 by hy him that would have tu bo ho obtained from of ot The Information tion IK h said of ot report was en ell entirely unofficial but he believed h lIel trust trustworthy worthy It Imd been obtained t from r m a n I person connected with the ni tOIl H o C but IK hI declined to 10 say sn Cram might embar embarrass rass UJo person 1 In Palmer Hep Pa II asked If the tho present price of nf coal collI was an nn one nn If It the In III ciettO CI h 1 In III the price had hOll not occurred after till the appointed by b the tho president lias Increased the tho wo sen eH of ot tho miners 10 per rent cent This latter Mr r Hearst conceded to tn be he the tho cafe He held that the com combination however hower was Ob 20 a n year en I out Oil t of the tho t Ion of Its monopoly and that t the 10 per lIeI percent cent Increase f lo 10 miners millets dill did not amount to a II i car carThe The Thc committee postponed further ton con consideration of oC tho Ihn bill until next November |