Show SENATOR AFTER THE TilE LUMBER TRUST Said That Astounding Condition Condition Condition Condi Condi- tion of Affairs Has Already Been Discovered COMBINATION IS COMPLETE leclai-ed leclai That Representatives of or th lime tho Associations t lone Fix ft E Cr Every cry Month Washington D D. C. C Dec Kittredge e of or South Dakota expects no opposition In th the senate to the adoption of or his recent recent resolution di directing directing directing di- di an nn Inquiry Into the operations o of the lumber manufacturers by hy the thc Department of or Commerce and Labor In Is I understood tood that an nn astounding condition of affairs was waR di erel In Inthis this iris connection by the Interstate Commerce commission lon In Its present nt in investigation Into the tho elevator trust It is believed in ill c certain official circles cirdes cir clr- cir cir- el des cles J that th the lumber trust is one ol of th lh j most completo of all the tho great greal combinations It Is 11 operated lt without a holding company compan but fixes the prices for all nil lumber It I lj pointed out that these prices havo steadily lly advanced ad for or over a decade decade de de- IC- IC cade and am that the they are now approaching approach approach- ing th prohibitive point notwithstanding standing the fact that there ther Is more lumber on hand In yards ar and storehouses store stoie houses than at any previous period It Jt Is declared that representatives of the tIre hemlock pine and hardwood a associations in N every month anI and fix lix pric prices And nd that any customer disregarding garlIng garding the he JI list t price i Ie boycotted am and l out mit of hm business lne Lumber Is the iho fourth rOl largest Industry Indus indus- t in try In i the country It Is If charged that tha the entire lumber production of or th the United St States te I is controlled by th the trust the time capital of which the tho last las census o at j I Go |