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Show H DISSOLUTION DE- P3 CREE ATTACKED mf9 ' PASLUJaE TO ENFORCE HHhH law is alleged HBH M - ? BH s AvttfrXnis League Fights the Plan HBhH fu'' organisation of American BBjBR Tioiiacco Company Approved by flflH Circuit Court Senators In Tilt. KM WWUnBton. Nov. 17. A general at- HSlM r.-.uik .luuu the decree of the circuit fif fl cwatt cf Nuw York In the dissolution HSHB uT tth- Jjincrlcnti Tobacco company Hflfnilili nuril a J'f'0 comparison of the nc- Hh ililttts ol Attornoy-Oenornl Wlcker HBHLIJr ibwt atnil former Attorney-General Kj'li .IlrnnrCT, In enforcing the Sherman an- Bfj.Pf '-Al trawl flaw against great combination jfif P X jenlrrnml today's hearings of the Hlm iJ 'onmatisteo on lnterstnto conimcrco HpN f which Is Investigating tho trust prob- Hg f t.j ll-'ra " view to now legislation. M' M SHimUir I'omereno, of Ohio, In vigor-Ifi; vigor-Ifi; Q , ' t v ol,(t Jiwsllons directed toward II. II. rift m ' TUarjQn, a witness, naked If bo knew of Hnt ,i j ; u"y Justification for the head of a do-Hh do-Hh ' L" i lM'traent of tho government to tako Hr, ,, . t3w jxj-sltlon that ho will not onforco Bwh 4t Jsk criminal provisions of the Sner- Hp team nntl-trust Inw. Hl'4 j Thoro appears to be little effort In H ' ;, Lh department of JiiHtlco to enforce R i tlic criminal provisions of tho law,'' Hp-; f Raid Mr. I'omerene, "Do you know of H , mny statute or other authorities which Hli ' uttLlTies an attorney general In tnk-H' tnk-H' i Ing itbei position that ho may enforce BiL I thr statutes In the civil courts, but HKy J tlecllne to onforco Its criminal provis-Hffp provis-Hffp j.i'j ; -s Ions? I regard tho course of the do-HBji do-HBji -j , pailmont In Its failure to enforce HKiIi : ' these pi o visions ns most reprchon- I'f 'Bible." HmI ' ' Oliver Replies to Pomerene. t ; f Senator Oliver was tho only inombor HRf ,, "1 tho conimltteo who replied to the BBzlttl 'sittnek oj) tho nttorncy general. Ad- HKtywj pressing the witness, he wanted to fffftr I mow what the latter thought of the HHK'' "oompanitlvo responsibility" of an at- HMI1 h tiirnuy general who actively and sue- Hft B C . ccssfully enforces n law llko this, who resurrects It and makes It effective and lnocceds at least toward successful success-ful civil prosecutions ns compared with one of his pi edecessors who did not and who practically declared tho law n dead letter. "I refer to fc:mer Attorney Ucncral Judson Harmon of Ohio," said Senator Sena-tor Oliver, looking at Senator rom-ereno. rom-ereno. The ccmmltte showed signs of an Incipient outbreak. Senator I'omerene dechuod It was not Mr. Harmon, but his piedecessor, Richard Olncy, who had said In substanco that tho law was n dead letter. Mr. Harmon ho said, took up and pushed to a decision In tho supreme court the trans-Mis-Bourl rate case and made every effort ef-fort to revivify 'tho Sherman law. Mr. Martin said tho Anti-Trust league lea-gue proposed to fight the dissolution decree In tho American Tobacco com pany case. Ho declared that officials of tho government In tho last twenty-one twenty-one years had failed to enforce tho law properly. Senator Cummins said he did not bellove actual competition could be enforced under the present Sherman law. Changes Proposed. There are clearly two movements under way for changes In tho Sherman Sher-man law," said Mr. Cummins, "tho first for a mitigation of tho iktovIs-Ions iktovIs-Ions of tho law; tho other toward nmoudments nnd supplementary ncti that will make it a more efficient Instrument In-strument for tho preservation of the competition." Ho expressed his sympathy with tho latter, adding that "the two plans have llttlo In common." The effect of n law prohibiting dl-lectcjs dl-lectcjs of steel and coal companies from sitting in the directorates" of rail roads was briefly discussed during the hcurlng. Senator Townsend of Michigan declared ho favored such an act, but he believed tho ono offered to the committee would permit of tho same end being accomplished through dummy directors. Samuel Untermeyer of New York, whose plnn for trust legislation wna outlined In a report to tho National Civic Federation last week, will be heard by the committee tomorrow. His plan Includes tho appointment of a commission BJmilar to tho Interstate commerce commission to deal with corporations with a capital of more than 11,000,000 doing business In more than one state. |