| Show HARRIMAN'S rs CASE GASE IN N PREPARATION t I. I I. I fi Attorney General Bonaparte to toi 1 i- i Direct Direct Prosecution o of the Railroad Magnate JJ Y TESTIMONY ALL TURNED IN fi tj Proceedings Taken Under the i Sherman Trust Anti-Trust Law l' l f Washington ton June The White WhiteHouse ii 1 c House the department of ur Justice the Interstate Commerce commission as a j whole hoIe Individual members tal taking ing tes- tes an and the tho commissions commission's special attorneys S 'S Kellogg and Severance So have ha had liati a hand hant in the preparation of or the J case against E E. H H. H Harriman j The con condition of or tho the case has not much advanced ance since last laston Monday on a V when the Interstate Commerce com corn commission ml mission lon In session compiled all the testimony taken talon In n New York Los Angeles n eleA and elsewhere and f c ed it for the department of or ju justice Previous to this however howo the dent had the tho of or anti and I yno Kellogg Kellogg- Severance which he took look his hisa on a vaca- vaca Uon with him to Pino Pitie Knot Inot On his return It was JI reported I that he would himself send en the tho summary sum sum- mur mary with his views to Attorney General Gen Gen- eral cral Bonaparte The action to tu be taken will follow the usual channel That procedure uro I Ifor Is ro- ro for Zoi the Interstate Commerce Hion slon to the tho testimony to the tho attorney at at- at- at tot fey general The Thc commission on does docs I not comment on tIme the evidence e or makeI make maleo I recommendations but It Is Js known that tha both bolh IcsIs Kellogg an and Se Severance rance 2 entertained the view e that action would woul llo ho under tho the Sherman trust anti-trust law Jaw This was intimated In their speeches here on April I 4 when the thc Harriman at attorneys attorneys at- at tOIne s asked aled Co for I and obtained leave to submit supplementary argument to U PIO to As S s the ca case o now stands It Is likely t that the tho views of or the attorney general on on time the evidence c will be submitted to the President at the cabinet meeting t on Tues Tuesday a when the attorney general will be Instructed to prepare a bill ng-ains ng the HarrIman roads and HarrIman Har hat rIman himself Harriman voluntarily dissolved the relations between the tho Southern Pacific and the tho San Pc Pedro ro but thieve there Is Es no noi i Intimation here that the fact will affect affect af af- that action the tho attorney In Intended Intended In- In ten tended ed to take talo before beCore the voluntary dissolution The relations of Harriman to the Alton deal however ho have ha not been changed change In iii an any wa way va and It Is presumed pre pre- 1 here that the proceeding proceeding- to betaken be betaken taken will revolve e around tho the Alton revelations lc |
