The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-03-27
INGALLS, HAD THE FLOUh.
The Kansas Senator Posing as the
Champion of Those Who Oppose
Dealings In Futures.
Southern Men Who Dispute His
Assumed Authority Denounced
as Obstructionists.
Wyoming Making a Hard Fight to Enter
the Union. Despite Its Woman
suffrage Constitution.

-WAsmNGToN. March aG.-In the senate to-
day, after transHcting business of minor
Importance, the antitrust bill was taken
up and various formal amendments were
made Spooner offered an amendment
giving Inc courts authority to issue writs of
injunction prohibiting combinations from
proceeding any further III business except
10 wind up their affairs.
The legal bearing and effect OF the amcnd
ment as well as the hill were discussed by
Spooner. Gray. Hoar. Stewart, West Rea-
gun nnd Eustis. After some remarks in re
ply TO something said 10y Reagan yesterday
Vest said he would not say another word
about the constitution. He Was prepared
10 ''jOiu the procession. lie would like
the senator from Ohio tShermanl 20 say
whether be considered the clause incorpor-
ated in the bill by Ingalls, amendment,
imposing a tax on dealings in options"
constitutional or not. He character
lied the bill as "a remarkable act
of legislative legerdemain.n Eustis
said he regarded the bill as the Grossest
usuTpation of states rights ever attempted
III the history of the government. ingalls,
said the amendment WAS not
chases, sales or exchange of any products
OF which the parties might be possessed, or
be the producers, or which they intended
actually 10 deliver. IL WAS directed against
\ the gigantic modern invention known as
dealing in futures" His amendment had
been met at every stage of tho proceeding
by the interposition of some question
OF order or some question of ETH
quette or some question of ofconstitutionaiity.
Il llts ~ II 80. H.
continued. have q reasonable degree OF re-
speci for the constitution. but they are not
afraid of IL. The constitution wRs not a
growth and not n manufacture. and the
constitution Of 1890. by reason of the oper-
alton of the will of the people who made IL,
was vastly different instrument from the
constitution of l7S9. Its authors would not
know it. They had made IL for specific
purpose, not for the purpose Of enabling
country lawyers 10 devise definitions, or 10
put obstacles and barriers TO the will of the
people; but the constitution was perpetu-
ally invoked by narrow and rigid and
illiberal constructionists as nm insuperable
barrier against every effort 10 benefit the CON
dition of the people. The senators support
ing the bill have been taunted with bad
faith, with false chiyalry, with fighting a
sham battle, because they attempted to
carry into effect a provision which wns cn.
iirely within the limits and puryiew of the
constitution. Those gentlemen lEustis,
George and Vest) had spent considerable
time endeayoring 10 destroy that oonstitu-
tion they now plead for on every occasion.
( There had been no stepin national progress
/ IN the last thirty years against which these
senators have not risen and declared IL
against the constitution. He (lngallsj re-
collected there was once great demonsira-
ton 70 prove there WAS no power IN the con-
stiiutiOn 10 coerce a state which saw iii to
10 out Of the union, vet the people had
found IL. There had been similar protest :
against abolition ol slavery. the reconstruc-
tlon laws, etc. Recently, when n resolution
WIS offered 10 inquire INTO violation OF the
constitution, the government had the right
TO 70 anywhere else in the world where the
rights of American citizens were violated
I but had no power To take care of the rights
of American citizens assaIled in Mississippi
He commended To these construers of the
constitution n contemplation of the results
of their criticisms during the last thirty
years.
Vest said if the senator's representing the
southern states were To be under the proscrip-
ilon announcedhy the senator from Kansas
| they might as well lie ont of the union
/ lie WIS under an obligation 10 obey the
constitution, but not to take the construc-
tion put upon il by Ingalls, lie moved the
amendment Of Ingalls, amendment. max
ing the license $1,000 instead Of Sl,sUO.
Eusiis also replied 10 Ingalls, remarks
briefly. and argued against the amendment.
II the senator tlngallsl sought 20 correct
the morals of the people, he Eustisl asked
him 10 leave out Louisiana.
lngails-We want 10 take hold of your
lottery by and by.
Vests amendment was then adopted, as
were also the following by Butter, extend
ing the provisions Of the bill to stocks and
bonds: by Eusiis extending its powers 10 cot
ton prints steel rails. boots and shoes, lead
and lumber: by Blair, including WOODEN
goods and whisky, and all kinds Of intoxi-
eating drinks. The committee of the whole
then rose, reported the bill, and after an
executive session the senate adjourned.