Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-11

duced in the country. When daxseed or lin
seed was reached. he would move to strike
the item from the free list. and he believed
that he would have the SUPPORT of his side Of
the House, the democratic side.
| Mr.. Cannon of Illinois. declared that every
one of the existing trusts had grown up un-
der the administration of Grover Cleveland.
| He had not heard any proposition from the
democrats to restrict the cottonseed oil trust,
the whiskey trust, the sugar trust, the an
thracite coal trust, or, greater than all, aud
without WEIGH no other trust could exist, the
transportation trust. The gentleman from
Pennsylvania representing the administra-
tion, Mr.. Scott, had hurried to ST. Louis to
get in the platform a declaration against
trusts. His biography in the congressional
directory showed that he was the greatest
railroad king in the land. While he thun-
dered against trusts, by the action of the bill
and the other side of the House the trusts
still lived.
Mr.. Dockery of Missouri, quoted Mr., But
terworth's speech to show his variance from
Mr.. Reed upon this subject of trusts. He
said that no man claimed that all of the
trusts were directly attributable to the tariff
and he cited the Chicago cattle trust as case
in point. Still. the tariff, as Mr.. Butter
worth had sal |, led to the vast accumulation
of wealth that made these trusts possible.
He taunted the republicans with failure to
carry out there platform pledges to revise
the tariff, and said that Mr.. Bayne of Penn
sylvania had interpreted the party's position
he said: "We do not want any tariff re-
vision until after the election of 1888" The
party in the House could be brought into
alignment only on the policy of non-actlou,
q nj lnn rod hn hat bad l,nra a,f.,
lied its early days.
Mr.. Butterworth said that there was little
difference between himself and Mr. Reed
upon the necessity for preventing the unlaw-
tul exercise of corporate or syndicate power
But Mr. Reed believed that it could not be
done by loud seedlings. He objected to
that kind of steamboat that had to stop her
machinery when she blew her whistle. What
steps had the committee of ways and means
or the majority of the House taken to place
in the hands of the members of the House
the information contained in the book he
held in his hands-showing how the bill af
fected the articles imported. Members of
the ways and means committee maintained
that it was not their duty TO supply the COM
pilatlon, and, after an extended collOQuy up
on the subject, the committee rose and the
House adj ourned.
General Congressional News.
The President has approved the act of
Congress providing that pensions heretofore
or hereafter granted to widows of soldiers of
the war of the rebellion, shall commence at
the date of the death of their husbands
This legislation favorably affects all claims
of widows of the late war, which have been
filed in the pension Office Oh or after July
lst, $780, and which have been allowed To
from the date of the filing of
their claims. but will not favorably affect the
cases of such widows as were filed before
July lst, 1850, and which have been allowed
pensions, having already been granted in
those cases from the date of their husbands
death.
The commissioner of pensions gives notice
that in the settlement, under this law, of
claims already allowed, no formal applica-
uon will be required, and that the services
of attorneys will not be necessary. Widows
entitled, under said laws, need only to write
u letter giving name and post office address
and certificate number, and claims will be
allowed with as little delay as possible.