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901 Taft becomes Governor
1901 Cuban convention makes the country a US protectorate.
1901 Treaty on bldg of Panama Canal under US supervision.
| 1. Political 1901-02 |
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(March 21, 1901- March 21, 1902) |
1901 President McKinley signs the Army Reorganization Bill. US Army Dental Corps and Army Nurse Corps are established.
| 1. Political 1901-02 |
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(March 21, 1901- March 21, 1902) |
10/16/01 In one of his first controversial moves as president, Roosevelt invites black leader Booker T. Washington to White House. The South in incensed and reacts with violence against blacks. The visit will have alienated the south when, later, Roosevelt tries for a third term.
11/28/01 Alabama adopts a new constitution. which effectively disenfranchises blacks through its literacy and property tests, and for extraordinary circumstances,, by way of its "grandfather" clause which states that a person cannot vote if his grandfather has not voted before him.
| 1. Political 1901-02 |
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| 1. Political 1901-02 |
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(March 21, 1901- March 21, 1902) |
9/4/01 William McKinley
shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz; dies 9/14 succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
5/9/01
In a titanic struggle for control of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railroad lines, the Hill-Morgan group collides with the comparative newcomer
Harriman and his associates Kuhn, Loeb and Company. Stock value soars from
$100 a share to $1000 on May 9. As other stocks fall, panic results and a
settlement is forced upon the two contestants in order to save the whole
banking structure. In February 1902 Roosevelt will bring suit for
dissolution of the monopoly, and in less than two years will have won the
case. It signifies a healthy new era in industrial relations.
1901 US 1st significant oil
strike in Texas at Spindletop, near Beaumont. Control of state changing, with
oilmen taking over from cattlemen and rail men.
2/25/01 The US
Steel Corp is incorporated in NJ. It the first billion dollar corporation. The
trend to combine into gargantuan orgs has accelerated rapidly in the past
decade. Within the iron and steel industry more than 20 mergers have taken place
in the last 2 years alone, and copper, sugar, meat, tobacco and oil have all
become giant monopolies. By this time 1% of pop owns seven-eights of the wealth
of the country. The US Steel Corp is formed by J.P. Morgan in defiance of the
Sherman Anti-trust Lawn. The primary reason is to buy out Andrew Carnegie for
$250,000,000, art his own request. The gigantic trust is capitalized at
$1,400,000,000, although actual assets are under $700,000,000. One-seventh of
the total capitalization goes to the men who arrange the intricate deal. Morgan
is said to have made $80,000,000. Although this is the biggest such merger, it
is typical of the financial maneuvers of the day. They succeed as long as wages
can be kept low through liberal immigration policies and prices high through
tariff regulations.
By 1920 all but five states had
enacted such laws.
1901 Oil is
discovered in Texas.
1901 King Camp Gillette begins manufacturing modern safety razor with disposable blades.
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(March 21, 1901- March 21, 1902) |
In 1902, (*what month, Feb.?) president Roosevelt began with a suite against
a northwestern railroad monopoly. At this time there was concern among
Americans about the spread of trusts and industrial combinations. He moved
next against the Beef Trust, then against the oil, tobacco and other
monopolies. In every case the Supreme Court supported the administration,
even going as far as to reverse its 1895 decision, (*what decision?)
The Northern Securities Company was a
large railroad trust formed in 1902 by financiers E. H. Harriman, James J.
Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates. The company
controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and other associated lines. The conglomerate
was sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by President Theodore
Roosevelt, one of the first cases filed against corporate interests instead
of labor. [1]
James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman, owners of the Union Pacific Railroad and
Great Northern Railway, respectively, battled over Northwestern rail lines
in 1901. In a series of maneuvers to capture control of each others' stock,
the contest set off speculation that resonated throughout the market and the
country as a whole. With a stalemate in sight, the two men, their backers,
and associates agreed to settle their differences and instead form the
desired monopoly though a trust. The Northern Securities Company was formed.
A public outcry over the new company made its way throughout the country,
and both state and federal officials prepared to file litigation. On
February 19, 1902, the United States Department of Justice announced plans
to file a suit against the company on the behalf of President Theodore
Roosevelt. When approached by J. P. Morgan to settle the issue in private,
Theodore Roosevelt later remarked, "Mr. Morgan could not help regarding me
as a big rival operator who either intended to ruin all his interests or
could be induced to come to an agreement to ruin none." [2] While Roosevelt
still considered that trusts were not always bad for society, he could not
bear to feel treated as just another rival operator. The suit continued.
After vigorous federal prosecution, the company was dissolved according to
the 1904 Supreme Court ruling in the Northern Securities case, five to four.
The companies were convicted under the Sherman Antitrust Act, overturning
the previous decision of United States v. E. C. Knight Co. In that case, the
Court ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act was insufficient in regulating
that monopoly. In the following 7 years, 44 other cases turned out rulings
similar to the Northern Securities case. The Northern Securities case was
one of the earliest and most important antitrust cases and provided
important legal precedents for many later cases, including that against
Major League Baseball.
In 1970, the three main railroads merged together with Spokane, Portland and
Seattle Railway to form Burlington Northern Railroad.
3/10/02 Instigated by Roosevelt's vigorous campaign to bring the operations
of Big Business within the reach of law, Attorney General Philander C. Knox,
invokes the Sherman Anti-trust Law to bring suit against Morgan and
Harriman's Northern Securities company, the New Jersey holding company for
their western railroad combine.
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