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Show REFLECTS M Manufacturer Puzzled by Former President's Change of Front. Washington, J.in 17. F. J. Lowe, representing independent manufacturers, manufac-turers, charged' beforo the houEejulcs committee today, that "flfty-ono per cent of the stockholders In the steel, sugar, bocf and, bankers trust also controlled the International Har-vostor Har-vostor company." Ho declared that the department of Justice had "chloroformed every movement move-ment to prosecute tho harvester trust, shown, by the fact that the Townscnd report to the department In 190G has slumbered thero ever since." Mr Lowe said that last August ho asked Col. Theodore Roosevelt's nd-vlco nd-vlco as to what ha should do to urge prosecution of the Harvester company nnd Mr. Roosevelt had said: "You'd better come to see me later about that." "Later," said' Mr. Lowe, "1 was astounded as-tounded to learn that Mr. Roosevelt had placed a clean bill of health on the Uqlted States' Steel corporation. I also received a letter from Mr. Roosevelt' stating: that ho could give me no advice on tho Harvester company com-pany and asking me to 'drop In any Friday morning and 1 11 explain why ' " ihc affairs of the International Harvester Har-vester company wore discussed boforo the committee of rules in the house today. Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagol participated In tho discussion dis-cussion W. H. Green of Creighton, Neb , dealer in farm machinery, declared de-clared that tho so-called Harvester find Steel trusts, the National City banlc of New York and tho great transportation systems of the conn-try conn-try are dominated by the some directorates. di-rectorates. Mr. Green urged tho committee not to glvo the Harvester trust' an immunity im-munity bath. He assorted that the company had raised prices from fifteen fif-teen to twenty per cent. F. J. Lowo of Now York charged thut. In the formation of the "trust," tho smaller mannfacturers were frozen froz-en out. Tho actual work og forming the trust, ho declared, was directed by J Plorpont Morgan through George W. Perkins. Charles R. Flint, he added, was tho original promotor, who turned his affairs over to Morgan Mor-gan & Co. "We propose to show," said Mr. Lowe, "that tho United States Steel corporation gives' rebates to the International In-ternational Harvester company and that the Belt Lino railroad in Chicago Chi-cago obstructs freight traffic of In-dependt In-dependt companies." He also charged that the "trust" sold goods at home at a profit of 100 per cent and sold abroad at almost cost, demanding cash from American farmers and giving long-term contracts con-tracts to foreign trade. "We charge that the International Harvester company, through tho National Na-tional City bank," Mr. Lowe continued, contin-ued, "can break any independent concern con-cern in tho United States." |