The New England magazine . tsburgbut has never been identified with any o:the great dominating corporations. Hi;record in public life, moreover, is that of £reformer of the President Roosevelt was Mr. Knox who, as Attorney-General, filed the suit that dissolved the Northern Securities Merger, a legal act whicrjhas made Senator Knox immensely pop | jular in certain Western and NorthwesterrjJStates; he is the actual author of the solcalled Elkins Anti-Rebate bill, which has,been upheld by the courts and proved mosij!effective; he discovered and announced th(!virility of the Sherman Anti
The New England magazine . tsburgbut has never been identified with any o:the great dominating corporations. Hi;record in public life, moreover, is that of £reformer of the President Roosevelt was Mr. Knox who, as Attorney-General, filed the suit that dissolved the Northern Securities Merger, a legal act whicrjhas made Senator Knox immensely pop | jular in certain Western and NorthwesterrjJStates; he is the actual author of the solcalled Elkins Anti-Rebate bill, which has,been upheld by the courts and proved mosij!effective; he discovered and announced th(!virility of the Sherman Anti-Trust law; htjjwrote the Employers Liability bill which be-jcame a law, and also the Frick report orthe life-insurance exposures in New York]the document used by Governor Hughes,as the basis of his investigations as attorneVIof the Legislative Committee, and whichj)made him known to the people; and heimoreover, is entitled to a peculiar part oi[the credit for the passage of the railroad! MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 35i. Latest photograph of Vice-President CharlesW. Fairbanks Senator Foraker rate law which has added so greatly tothe strength and popularity of PresidentRoosevelt. This is not a record on which to chargea public man with being a friend and agentof the corporations, and yet, singularlyenough, that is the estimate which the coun-try has of Senator Knox. He knows this aswell as anybody else; but, with his custom-ary philosophical way of looking at things,thinks that by the time the presidential raceopens in earnest popular opinion about himwill have changed. As to the charge thathe was sent to the Senate by the Pennsyl-vania Railroad Mr. Knox denies it. Gov-ernor Pennypacker, he says, selected himentirely of his own volition, and the Legis-lature afterwards ratified the Knox says he never was engaged in alaw suit to which the Pennsylvania Rail-road was a party but once, and then theroad was on the other side. Personally, Mr. Knox is a most agree-ab
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