Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-25
WANTED, A Birdie
To Restrain the Wild Career
of the Trust.
POINTS AGAINST sHERMAEs BILL.

II Covers Too Much Ground and Would
He Pirsn to Good Many Combine
tionS That Are Innoeuoas. IL We're
The Supreme Court on State Railway
Tarins-Reports on the Montana sena-
torfzI Contest-The Day in Congress
WASHINGTON CRY, March 27-The anti
trusl bail was the occasion of an interesting
det4te in the senate yesterday. Teller was
the first member to make exten3e1 remarks
He said the bin would apply to the Farmers
alliance and the National Farmers league,
which were organized with the avowsd pur-
Pose Of increasing the prices Of farm produce
a thing which be REGARDED as most deSir-
able and as absolutely ESSENTIAL 10 the pros
perity Of the country: for everybody knew
that unless the prices Of farm products in
this country could be increased great many
OF the farmers would soon b. forced into
bankruptcy and turned cut OF their homes
Another Com animation Involved.
George said that he thought that was
good point. aRd referred 70 the Knights
OF Labor As another organization that would
come within he scope Of the bill, because
the obFct Of that order was 70 increase
Their wages and consequently 70 increase
the cost 81 production
Reagan TaOdyht ths first necessity was TO
strife down trusts AMI combinations which
gave life 70 Knights Of Labor ami trade
unions.
Necessary Evil. Says stewart.
Stewart said that the whole subjst was
surrounded with difficulties II the gravsst
kind Combinations were al the founda-
ton Of ali CIVILIZED society. They seemed
70 be ike the necessary evil Of civilization
Itself. The English people had tried to
check them for hundreds Of years, and had
finally come to the conclusion that legisla-
ton on all such subjects simply retarded
trade, and there would b. the sams result in
this country If the Ike thing was attempted
He could find no warrant in the constitution
for such legislation Il the bill were cousti-
tutional it would permit the prosecution OF
the farmers Of Iowa or Kansas who COM
bins 10 hold back their corn until prices
were letter.
The States Not Competent.
Hoar criticised the bali in some OF its legal
aspects and clzimei that it failed 10 affor d
| any adequate remedy.
Sherman, replying, said that if the duty
on cotton clothes or woolens was little too
| lyb 70 PROJECT if4hDUIActuFcfS IN AaSsdcHu-
sstts, not a month or a day would be al
| lowed 70 pass before he (Hoarj would de-
nand a remedy in the way OF raising the
| duty Here was a remedy for a greater
wrong than any that resulted from a low
tariff State courts had beea endeavoring
! to wrestle with combinations. he instanced
| the sugar trust composed OF seventeen CON-
/ binations AMI asked what remedy had tbs
| people oi New York against that combine
| ti1a- None az all, he said, except against one
| Of the corporations included Ia il. A rem.
| t4y would never come from the class OF men
| engaged in such mouopoiies He had seen
the gradual growth OF combinations, and
] knew fhst ths!r power was growing greater
| and greater, and stronger and stronger
| And If congress was impotent TO deal with
1 that evil. i il could not prescribe anything
| bat quack IneiiCine-it would prove itself
/ utterly untitled 70 perform It's duties.
Vest INDUCES in Sarcasm.
| F=-i eim-d some sarcastic remarks at
| sherman, denying that there was anything
| ia thst senators career that gave him the
! right 20 assume that hs had discovered the
Only rsmeiy. and the only road 10 success
| against combinations