Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-28
SENATE.
The Antitrust I.iII Again UP.-Ap
preparation Bills.


WAsHINGToS, March Elm the
Senate the House bill amending tile
census act. 10 allow special agents -
day for subsistence when travel-
ing, was asSed.
Among the bills reported and
placed on the calendar Were the
following:
The Senate hill to reorgauize and
establish the customs collection dis
trict OF Puget Sound; the House
bill FOR the retirement Of John G..
Fremont as major-general.
The Senate bill aqpropriating Sl0,-
900 additional for l!ghiship for the
mouth Of the Columbia River was
passed.
The Senate bill susponding for
one year the statutes requiring
steamers 10 lie provided with certain
l'fe-saviXS appliances. guns sOr
throwing lines, etc. Passed.
The antitrust bill was then taken
up. When the amendment accept
ing from the prohibitions Of the law
combinations Of wOFkmen anu farm
ers came zap.
Edmungs spoke at some length.
He favored going as far rs the Con-
stiution permitted in' suppressing
aud breaking up trusts and m0nop-
olies. The PEOPLE could not shu;
their EYES TO the fact thai if capital
combined, il great industrial estlb-
lishmenis combine, TO regulate
wages. the wOtkmen also combined
to defend themselves, and srthis
country and other countries for the
last forty years had been turned into
great camps rs oppO-iiions, where
there ought TO 10 only one camp Of
cooperative friends. Even in
Washington, where Congress has
extensive jurisdiction, all the
TRADES HAD COMBINATIONS.
which were armed camps making
aggressive warfare against the rest
Of mankind. Edmunds cited as an
incident the case Of a skilled pr n er,
who wantei employment in the
public printing Office, but coui not
Ire hired rs he did no; belong to a
particular combination. The public
printer was threatened with n strike
il the man were employed. IL this
sort Of thing was not tyranny, Ed
muds did not know what tyranny
was.
Edmuuds went on to argue that
n labor combinations put up wages
80 per cent, the people who owned
the mines and furnaces, etc., hal
n right to combine to protect thu M
selves. so As to get such prices a
would make up for the increa-ed
cost Of production He believed j
were better 20 endure the partia
evil OF grinding m1n0p0iies than tS
ATTEMPT TO step over the clear buuu'
Diary line established and main
tanned between Congress and th'
legislative powers Of the States.
Plat alS0 attacked the bill,
q motion by Waithall to refer th'
bill and amendments b the judi
ciary committee, 10 report back IL
twenty days, was then agreed to.
THE SENATE BILL
| granting pensions TO ex-suldiers ant
l SAILORS inca ptCltlttA Aoi Alhul@'
lsbor and to dependent relatives o
deceased soldiers aud sailors wa
taken up, and Plumb argued in 70
vor Of his amendment, made suns
lineage, extending the provisions
to all who served three months O
more, etc.
Berry opposed the amendment a.
another form OF the service pension
bill.
Davis, Of the committee on pen
sions. also opposed it. ie was 10
ready TO 20 10 the extent Of pen
sioning everybody, irrespective 0
dependence. The bill reported l..
the committee would make an ap
preparation Of 81, 10000 necessar.
Ia addition TO the s9S, OO0,0JO nov
needed.
Plumb's amendment was rejec.ei
and the bill went over
The House admission bill 70
" yoming was ordered printed.
Adjourned.