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Show III Were Given to Harvester I Companies - Report I Was Suppressed Washington, July 26. That chargos I were made to former Attorney Gen-I1 Gen-I1 eral Chas. J. Bonaparte, during his J . term of office, that the United States jm Steel corporation gave refunds ot $3 TIT' a ton to the Harvester companies was Mr, revealed today to the house "steel IK trust" investigating committee, R5 -Representative" Stanley of Kentucky MP chairman of the committee, introduc-m-. eJ into the proceedings a voluminous K: report on the Harvester trust, made lit to Mr. Bonaparte in 190S by Burdetto Kfc C. Townsend, a special investigator of I IK the department, now assistant district Iff attorney of Oregon. r E Mr. Stanley announced that a sub-ft sub-ft jviena had been Issued for Mr. Bon- aparte who is now in Canada, and I that an effort would be made to ns-B ns-B certain from him and from ofher gov-WjP gov-WjP ernment officials why there never was f any prosecution of the International Harvester company upon Townsend's Biji charges. Mr. Stanley also announced Iff his intention of endeavoring to show If a close connection between the Unl-Jj(f Unl-Jj(f led States Steel corporation an I the I International Harvester company and f as a basis for future inquiry, he had read into the record the names of Ithe directors of both corporations, tho same being Identical in many instances in-stances Mr. Townsend's report was exhaustive, exhaus-tive, going into the entire history of the harvester companies, Involving r the organization of the International - In 1902. the transaction being directed Bsnd guided by J p Morgan & Co Tho rteel committee will call attention o the forming of the steel trust the yeir before A feature of thc Townsend report which the steol inquirers lay stress u on is the following: ' "The International Harvester company com-pany sells to the foreltm trade at a Reaper price than the domestic trade. It sells machines of all kln-'s for ex- ' port, delivered at New York, at the , rsme price for which they are sold to K- fmestic purchasers f. o. b. Chlcaso. , This makes a difference of from $6 to ?in per machine. "I was surprised to learn, while ln- tvpstlgatlnjr this subject, that tho 'Bteel trust' refunds to harvester companies com-panies $3 per ton for all steel used In th manufacture of machinery exported, ex-ported, thus giving the same result ?s if tho steel had been imported. , tho import duty prices and afterwards refunded uoon the drawback law,, indicating in-dicating that steel can be profitably ti produced in this country and Eold at I t foreign prico. It justifies a small difference between the domestic and iW foreitm prices, but it would amount ; to only a few cents for each machine and In no way explains the dlfferenco indicated above " Mr. Townsend detailed many other charges of violation. "I have learned,' he said, "of many rllered dishonest acts of the International Interna-tional Harvester company, such aE legislation leg-islation bribing, tax dodging, etc . f"Mne based on apparently authentic information, some on rumor." These matters he submitted to en-pb en-pb c the attorney general to deterralrn ; n-hother there has been violation of , th anti-trust law. "In mv Judcment," the report con-' con-' c'ndes. "the facts concerning the or- rnnization of the international Har-: Har-: veptPr comnany constitutes a violation 5 of the anti-trust law." L |