Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
INGALLS, IS IRONICAL.
Opposition to His Amendment to the
Antitrust Bill Leads Him to
SCORE THE SOUTHERN SENATORS
For Their Hew-Found Reverence for the
Constitution Which
THEY HAD ENDEAYORED TO DESTROY.
The License for Dealers in Options Increased From
$1,000 to $4,000.

The antitrust bill was discussed il
Committee of the Whole in the Senate. Dur
ing the debate Mr.. Ingalls, made one OF his
characteristic speeches, in which he rebuked
several Southern Senators for raising the
point of unconstitutionality.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The anti
trust bill was taken up in tie Senate to-day.
Mr.. Spooner offered an amendment to the
first section, giving the courts authority
| Tin addition to other remedies) to issue
writs of injunction prohibiting and re-
straining combinations from proceeding any
further in the business except to wind up
their affairs.
After some remarks in reply to something
said by Mr.. Reagan yesterday, Mr.. Vest
said that he would not say another word
about the Constitution. He was prepared
to 'join the procession" 1t reminded him
of the hunting party that made an agree
ment that the first man who complained of
a dish set before him in camp should cook
| for week. One of them happened to kill
an old crow, and cooked it for the mess,
| and every one praised it as most delicious
morsel.
SUITS THE SENATORIAL PALATE.
1.-THE Farmers Alliance" was cooking
now, and no dish could be placed on the
Senatorial table that would not be taken
with a gusto that would delight Partisan
gourmand. He would like the Senator from
Ohio [Mr. Sherman) to say whether he con-
sidered the clause incorporated in the bill by
Mr.. ingalls, amendment Imposing tax on
dealings in optionsl constitutional or not.
of legislative legerdemain." 1t said to the per-
sons engaged in dealing in futures and options
that they were a lot of criminals, thieves and
robbers, but that if they would pay 81, 600 into
the Treasury they might go on robbing.
Mr.. Eustis said that he asked himself, in
looking over the bill, whether the Senate was
seriously engaged in the attempt to impair and
destroy trusts" or whether it was engaged in
a sham battle, playing the role of Don Quixote.
What (he asked) had the Congress of the
United States TO do with the Cotton Exchange
of Louisiana or with the dealings in futures of
manufactured cotton and woolen goods in Bos
ton, Philadelphia or New York?
UsURPATIoN OF POWER.
If the States, he said, had become SO debili-
tated and emasculated as to surrender the
whole question of police. of policy, of public
morality, to Congress, it would not be done by
his vote He regarded that part of the bill as
the grossest usurpation ever attempted in the
history of the Government
Mr. Ingalls, said that his amendment was not
intended in any manner whatever to interfere
with the bargains, purchases, sales exchange
of any products of which the parties might be
possessed, or of which they might be the pro-
ducers or which they intended actually to de-
liver. 1t was directed against that gigantic
modern invention known as dealing in fut-
ures," which was just as nefarious and Just as
disreputable as the poker table or the faro
bank. In these dealings in futures there were
agreements to sell often so tunes more than the
amount of product in the market-the sole pur-
pose being to enable those who neither toiled
nor spun, but who were clad in purple and
Jared sumptuously every day, to settle up. on
the lst of October or lst of November the
differences between the price on which they
had bid and the market price of an article on
that day.
BLOCKED BY ETIQUETTE.
His amendment had been met at every stage
of the proceeding by the interposition of some
question of order, or some question of etiquette,
or some question of constitutionality. The SEN
ator from Louisiana (Mr Eustis) and other
Senators had questioned the sincerity the good
faith, the intelligence of those who offered or
adhered to the amendment, and had desired to
know if it was sham battle. if those in favor
of it were playing the part OF Don Quixote; and
the Senator from Missouri (Mr. VesI) had init
mated that the amendT ent was offered at the
di.tation of the Farmers Alliance as if "the
isle was to be frightened from its propriety."
and if Senators trembling and in state of
trepidation had endeavored to do that great act
The people OF the United States, Mr.. Ingalls,
continued, had a reasonable degree of respect
of it. The Constitution was a growth and not a
manufacture; and the Constitution of 1890 (by
reason of the operation of the will of the peo-
pie who made it) was vastly different instru-
ment from the Constitution of 17S9.
ITS AUTHORS WOULD NOT KNOW IT.
They had made it for specific purpose-not
for the object of enabling country lawyers to
devise definitions or to put obstacles and barri
ers to the will of the people. But the Constitu-
ton was perpetually invoked by narrow and
rigid and illibeIal constructionists as an insu-
perable barrier against every effort to benefit
the condition of the people. Senators support
ing this bill had been taunted with bad faith
with false chivalry. with fighting sham battles,
because they attempted to carry into effect
provision which was entirely within the limits
and puryiew of the Constitution. He could not
conceive OF anything more humorous, more
grotesQue more qualified to make the sides of
the nation shake with derisive laughter than to
have the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Eustis)
and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. George)
and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Vest) and
their associates rise on every occasion and
plead the Constitution, with stimulation of
terror, as if the minutest alteration of that sa-
cred instrument would, like the death of Kosci-
usko, make freedom Shrek"
SCORING SOUTHERN SENATORS.
Those gentlemen had spent considerable
portion of time in endeavoring to destroy that
Constitution. What, he asked, was the secret
of their new-found reverence for the Constitu-
tion7 Had they borne it away in the ark of the
covenant for four years and then brought 1t
back as its chosen guardians? And did that
permit them to taunt those who endeavored to
carry out the idea of national growth and pro-
gress without being violators of the Constitu-
ton? 1t seemed to him that it would be a little
more becoming to those Senators who were
scourging and holding them up to public casti-
cation to remember that their view of the Con-
stitution had not been maintained by the peo-
step in National progress in the last 35 years
against which the Senator from Louisiana and
the Senator from Mississippi and the Senator
from Missouri had not risen and declared that
it was against the Constitution. He recolected
that there was once great demonstration to
prove that there was no power in the Constitu-
tion to coerce State which saw fit to go out
of the Union; but yet the people had found it.
They had found it somewhere in its latent re-
sources-"public welfare" blessings of hber-
ty" or somewhere else.
SWORD MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN.
They had been told that the abolition of
slavery was without warrant in the Constitu-
tion; but it had been found and it could not be
found in the letter. 1t was amended by the
sword, and that was fair warning to those who
attempted to establish verbal and lingual inter-
pretations against the will of the people. that
whenever the elasticity. the capacity to carry
out the wish and will of the people, was not
sufficient in the Constitution there would al
ways be found way to amend it. They had
been told when the reconstruction measures
were up that there was no Constitutional power
to reconstruct; they had been told that there
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