Show WILL Witt fiGHT fOR r EXISTENCE Steel Corporation Suit Will Be Tried Before Judges Who Recently Ordered Dissolution Dissolution Dissolution tion of Powder Combination MASTER WILL HEAR TESTIMONY IN CASE First Step in n Action Will Be BeTaken Taken in United States Circuit Circuit Cir Cir- cult Court December 4 Proceedings to Be Pushed L APPEAL SURE TO BE TAKEN t c II By A d Vrenn Prell 2 1 Washington Oct l. The United 11 Mitten Steel unit tel step lu luhe U Ilie be he baille ith the government for It Its It's existence will he lie token taken Monday December 4 4 On that da tim timan nn Rn of f which bleh to Include of Lit the mo mot it brilliant Ir legal ul In merlen win will appear before the United Slate tate circuit court nt Trenton frenton J J. JI I tn n which the lie o dl ni wit suit ha ban he been heen brought t. t N On Un January iT Z JO 12 the Steel Mod corporation corpor Uon atlon I I to file rile It r to the Ibe government nt charges charce Several eral le- le maneuvers maneuver U of 1 which the he Steel corf cor- cor f oration law era could RB R then them thc tho date of or their lH e mft may postpone B for tor tb the they have hn the right to ink aMk k 0 court to give cUe hc thirty more c. c thu thai their ilme to uary In the meantime the they may demur to tome some of at the governments government's allegations or Dr thc they nay may natile file tile a bill of at exceptions exception Cither would delay automatically the actual be beginning of at the thc trial The government gov Jo expects that none of the formalities for for- or- or of at the law will ill be overlooked b by its opponents It is possible how how- ever e that no legal technicalities ma may maybe maybe and in that case be thrown in the a way the earliest dato data upon which the trial an can begin is January 2 The proc procedure dure will vill be bc before Judges Gray Gra- Lanning and Buffington ton to ap appoint appoint ap- ap point a a. master to hear testimony The fhe master naster t so o appointed will vill take evidence evidence evi evi- dence in various 00 8 parts part of pC the country countr It t required a year ear and nd a h hall haf lf to take the thc testimony In the St Standard Oil casc case WAS as' as considered fairly The government expects to do do a as well with Uh the steel corporation Appeal Wilt Will Be De Taken n When hen th the t t l n. n of testimony is finished and both oath sides have been heard the circuit court will vill decide the Issue Whichever side loses will a ap appeal pt peal al and by b- the operation of at the so- so called expediting act the case will Jump to te the supreme court Department of or justice officials do not feel eel that the supreme court decisions in n the oil and tobacco cases will decide the ho steel case casc Attorney General Wick Wick- declared toda today he Is 18 convinced more nore than ever cr that each ca case e must he be hes s upon Its own merits and that he the oil oU and tobacco ca cases es cannot be faIr fairly airly called models for solving the trust rust question Mr Wickersham was asked askell today If Ie lie he hoped to see sec business s return to the conditions of cum competition petition which prevailed pre pre- before the first trust camo came into existence I do not he replied I cannot beCAuse beCause because be be- cause I do not think it possible We Wc cannot annot return to our swaddling clothes We must readjust to a new set of conditions conditions con con- entirely k Do you rou think that can be done within the present presen laws without further urther setting business lie be was asked ri I hope so o. o replied the attorney general general gen gen- eral etlI but I do not kno know It ought to be bc made clear continued contin contin- ed Mr Wickersham r. r that there Is no conflict in the steel case between tho the department o of ju justice and the Stanley Stanle I committee of ot the House of ot Representatives Ute tives thich has nas been Investigating th the steel teel corporation That committee has b been en conducting its investigations to determine ine what legislation ma may be bc dc- dc i rable to meet the economic question tilted raised by trusts and combinations combination the f nut t Wed tiled b by the department of or justice isa Iia a. a legal proceeding to compel the ob- ob of ot the la law When hen h n the attorney general was asked I I Continued on Pace Jage Tivo Tn-a. RUST mUST WILL FIGHT FOR ITS EXISTENCE Steel Suit to Be Tried Before Judges Who Held Powder i j Combination Illegal P MASTER WILL BE NAMED I T First rt Step in Action Will Vill Be Taken 0 in United States States' Circuit Court December 4 I tr Continued CODDO t Front From OD One JJ Jf Jt lie he hoped the steel corporation would volunteer to readjust Its Us organization T and avert crt a u further pro prosecution a aK ai has hasi i been cn done b by tho International lIar lIar- c ter company compan thc thu electrical trust tho southern grocers grocers' trust and some Iome other ther combinations combInation he ho Indicated that he lie expected no such Much conciliatory conciliator move 1 L Some Sonic comment was occasioned b by the fact tact that tit the name of ot Solicitor General v Frederick V. L Lehmann had not been Identified In th the tho gO bill because liet lie be- t cause CRUSO he was vas being considered for Cor or the tho vacancy In the supreme court and that v r-v as aM a Justice he might be called upon to sit In the ca cae c. c Rubbish h was Mr 1 I Lohmann's ehmann's only comment when hen he lie h heard ard this rumor e It was pointed out that tho the office of oC solicitor frenet general al IB IR so o h heavily II a lax taxed cd with supreme court ca caH CasOs i s that It was 4 Impossible for Mr Ir J. J to take tako t Charge charo of thu Iho case though he will be associated with It It was WaR declared toda today today to- to da day that Jacob M. M Dickinson former Carmer P p. p secretary of oC war who ha has been engaged en en- a as the hc go special counsel would occupy the thc same amo post post- r- r tion In the case CURC against th the steel corr cor- cor r 1 that Frank 11 n. did ld In j oJ th Standard Oil case casc Wa Washington Is IR still wonderIng wonder- wonder t Ing how the preparations for tor th the filing r of ot the tho bill were conducted with such Huch OC Th Tiit bill was not sot set In typo In the governments government's printing office a as such mch p petitions usually al' al are ale but was printed by the tho private concern that r t prints th the decisions of or the tho supreme court Will iii Take Two rno r It was Wa Intimated at the thc department f of at justice toda today that the tile government rs Its case practically complete If It bo bu fought tho tue supreme court of ot the United States It Is ext ex- ex t r that a miLl final decision might bo be had within two years The other great trust cases took tool much longer Tho magnitude e of ot tho the all alleged profits to the organizers of ot the tue branches of ot the corporation Is Indicated by tho hill blUrt declaration that In the National Steel company compan 0 of the common com corn mon stock went to the promoters promoter In tho the American Tinplate company 10 of ot common stock In the tue American Ameri Amerl- can Hoop company and a arge Jargo amount of oC American Sheet Steel 1 company's compans capital stock la is declared to toJ J have gono gone the same s-ame Wa way The Tho government so contends that the United Sates Steel corporation capi- capi Is not ies less than In excess of or tho the value of the tho property taken over and that approximately one half of oC their earnings s were brou brought ht about by tho the power powel the corporation exerted ex- ex over trade and commerce The governments government's contention Is that while the tue capitalization of ot the sub tub diary concerns merged by the J. J P. P Morgan forgan Co syndicate Into United States Steel were inflated the tho corpora cor- cor pora lon's lons Inflation wa was much worse wore J Trenton Tronton N. N J. J Oct 27 The Thc The legal 1 machinery set In motion here yesterday h by liy tho the government against the United 4 States Steel corporation has lain Idle awaiting the word from Wash Wash- I lug ton Three score of ot subpoenas to tobe tobe be je k Served upon defendants had not reached the office of the United States Inn marshal rali al Fourteen of at the tho defendant corporatIons corporations corporations corpora corpora- have o offices or agents within tho the state and these will wilt he be serve served b by the marshal of ot this district Other subpoenas sub sub- for Cor Individual defendants and antI the remaining corporations outside th thi I state will wili be sent to the proper marsi mar si l al District Attorney John B. B was not especially optimistic regardIng regarding regard retard retardIng Ing the prospects for a of or the suit sult- In the present action there then are aro sixty one defendants and th the amount o of testimony he ho pointed d ou out would tj be bo greil great t. t As ts In the p powder t trust case Judg t ann InS InS' clearly indicated the po of the tue three judges lie He said If It a Q corporation arbitrarily uses It Iti powers to force other competitors o oto 01 I to coerce them Into a calc Bale or unior with the combination It puts a re re on interstate commerce and ina in Ia a 1 sense sens violates the trust anti-trust act Our decree e must mut forestall future lations and comp compel compe the tho dissolving o othe ot ol the combination now existing Qa New York Oct 27 Theodore Theodore Hoose velt flatly declined today tocla to make any comment on the steel stel trust suit Ho lie HoKr Kr greeted interviewers smilingly smiling but but to all th their lr questions said aId repeatedly repeated with will his u usual ual emphasis I have haye nothing to say r have IIa 1111 ve you read the petition f the colonel was asked It lt was wall read to me said Mr Roose- Roose veIL elt Jt H sets forth Corth yOU vou were df ceJ deceived d with regard to the Tennessee Coal Coat Iron company compan deal Are Aro you ou going to let them get het away with that You Yon cant can't charm mo Into saying one ana word said laM Mr Ir Roosevelt snapping hI his teeth Well ell aside 1 from the Tennessee Coal Iron matter what do you think atthe ol of the expediency and common sense of tho the suit a as a 3 whole Not 01 ono word said ald the tho former President t. t win Will you yon Issue a statement after alter you ou dl digest est tile the petition Mr Ir Roosevelt elt smiled and said noth- noth I Ing ng ngIt It ft might Interest you OU to look up m my testimony before Detore the congressional com com- e in August Mr Roosevelt elt suggested sug sug- as he waved the interviewers farewell lI To what hat I said then I have nothing to add ad Statement b by Dickinson Chicago Oct 27 Former r Former Secretary of War ar John M. M f Dickinson who has acted as special counsel for the government government gov KOY- In preparing the case against the tue steel companies arrived here toda today lie lo sal said th that t any attempt to cause a 1 prolonged d delay lay In the hearing of ot the action would be bo fought vigorously b by bythe the tue government Tho The suit tiIt will wilt be pushed through the courts court's with the utmost speed sped he lie said Th There re will be no delays elas of oC an any kind The action of oC the hoard board of directors of the steel company In New York yesterday yes yes- CS erday In cancelling certain of Its ore leases cases was unexpected as this was one of the tho objects aimed at In tho the suit Under the terms of these leases the thet pt steel t el company compan was required to give I e two years years' ears ears' notice of oC a desire to terminate its as Is contracts which would make e It Impossible Impossible impossible Im Im- im- im possible for tor the company to vitiate the lease ease before beCore 1913 I If Ie the court decree Is in favor of or tho the government gO It wilt will mean Immediate immediato of the leases I I have b ben been en working on these cases as s special counsel for more than two tt months and believe we wo have all the necessary data to proceed with the pro- pro Any An attempt of or the defendant companies com com- panics or Individual Individuals unnecessarily to prolong the hearings s will be fought vigorously vig- vig 1 by 13 the government I I do not expect to to to- confer canter with t President Taft or any of oC the members rs of oC f his cabinet l while here but will ro- ro turn urn to Washington Saturday night or Su Sunda n day D Declared Impossible I Pittsburg Pa Oct 27 The The IndustrIal Industrial Indus- Indus i trIal rial World considered locally to bethe bo be bohe bothe the he mouthpiece of or the Carnegie compan com com- I pan pans pans- said toda today The dissolution of or the steel corporation corpor- corpor atlon will be a physical Impossibility The he plans have been abandoned and consolidated Inter company exchanges cs o of t plants effected entire new plants have ave b been en built In which equipment from rom old old plants Is utilized and entire neW ew subsidiaries les have been created Tho The Identity of ot neatly nearly all the original I plants lants has been completely complete effaced so o thoroughly has this pro regressed progressed that an any restoration of th the plants to their original aspect Is beyond beyond be be- yon yond the bounds of oC rea reason on Some of the actions of oC the steel corporation have ha been ben ill lf ad advised d. d These could have been corrected d without taking the he extreme step The mooted monopoly of or ores Is tho the governments government's best contention contention contention con con- In Its allegations that thal the steel corporation dominates Industry to an unhealthy extent The steel trust however how how- ever already ha has exhibited Its docility In n the ore matter Th keynote of or alt all the anxiety and tension in m Pittsburg r rg today however was the tho admonishment of ot Judge James II IT Reed need chairman ch of tho the Carnegie Steel of the steel company compan board and member trust directorate Dont sell steel stocks 8 he advised I I hope the army of stockholders of or the steel corporation In Pittsburg and be stampe stampeded stam- stam western Pennsylvania anla will not pe- pe peel el merely merel because of or the governments government's govern govern- nent's ments suit It Is one thing to enter a asuit asuit suit stilt an and another to win ItIn ItIn itIn It In m my opinion the corporation has always honestly tried to obey the law Jaw lawand no and conduct It its it business alon along lin lines s fair Cah to ever every one and I firmly believe hat bat it will ivill win the caso case In tho the eh did Stockholders ma may rest assured that this matter the corporation will see fought to the supreme court If Ir necessary sary I a 1 B a E. E V. V Luty an authority on Iron and steel affairs saId For or months past buying of steel products has been confined to supply the absolute and pressing requirements of tho the people In this countr country coun coun- tr try there being no forward buying and no buln buying buying- for stock The present news Is not necessarily I disturbing especially for Pittsburg for Cor the tile plants arc are here and arc are destined destined des tIcs tined to be bo run wa wages es being dl distributed ed ld and spent In Pittsburg as formerly Prices of ot steel products are arp not likely to be seriously affected We Ye have ha haan had hadan hadan an ab absolutely open market on steel products outside of standard section rails for months past a t |