He was succeeded by Mr.Oscar Straus.

The first head of the Bureau of Corporations was Mr.Garfield, who was succeeded by Mr.
Herbert Knox Smith.

No four better public servants from the standpoint of the people as a whole could have been found.
The Standard Oil Company took the lead in opposing all this legislation.
This was natural, for it had been the worst offender in the amassing of enormous fortunes by improper methods of all kinds, at the expense of business rivals and of the public, including the corruption of public servants.

If any man thinks this condemnation extreme, I refer him to the language officially used by the Supreme Court of the nation in its decision against the Standard Oil Company.

Through their counsel, and by direct telegrams and letters to Senators and Congressmen from various heads of the Standard Oil organization, they did their best to kill the bill providing for the Bureau of Corporations.