The record-union., 1897-06-29
rebuke at the polls next November.

ed a letter written by James G. Blaine,
to Mr.. Mckinley, when the Mckinley
bill was being framed, protesting
against duty on hides as a slap in the
face of the South American and as
likely to legislate the Republican party
out Of power. The Senator argued that
a duty on hides could not advance the
price Of cattle in the West, as hides
We're only a bi-product of cattle and
moreover, the price of cattle was fixed
absolutely, with the power to put the
price up or down, by the big four COM
bination at Chicago. The Senator re-
called the circumstances of the Sena-
torial inquiry into the beef trust, in
which he participated.
When Vest spoke Of oppressive action
by Mr.. Armour to compel butchers to
use his dressed beef, Allen of Nebraska
remarked that the evidence seemed suf-
ficient for an Indictment and why then,
was not something done toward prose-
cution
This developed a warm controversy
between Hoar and Allen as to the right
of Federal prosecution for an offense
wholly within State lines, which at
times became rather personal.
A reference in Smiths remarks as to
the trusts led Stewart of Nevada, to
make an extended arrangement of the
money trust, which, he asserted, was
the worst of all trusts.
Stewart argued also that if there was
to be a protective tariff. bill all sections
should share in the advantages it gave.
incidentally Stewart paid a tribute to
the Chicago platform and said he sup
ported it throughout
Allen of Nebraska said that while not
an advocate of a general protective sys-
tenn, yet he concurred with the view
that if there was to be such a bill,
every section should share in the bene-
fits it gave. He spoke of the benefits
of a hide duty to the farmers. The
decision branched off to the prosecu
ton of trusts, Messrs. Allen and Hoar
discussing the law.
Hoar said that While the question of
trusts could be dealt with to some ex-
tent by striking at their imports, as in
the Law of 1894, yet he feared that the
most serious phases of the evil must be
dealt with by the States. He showed
the technical legal meaning of the word
trust" and showed the difficulty in
making the sugar trust and Standard
Oil trust amenable to Federal law. He
regarded these monopolies as a menace
to the republic and was hopeful that
some means might be found to check
them, yet he could not say how they
could be hit. The State could limit
their amount of capital, which would
be one effective means of dealing with
them.
Lindsay of Kentucky said that in the
case of a confessed monopoly, such as
the sugar trust, one effective means of
dealing with it would be to extend it no
further benefits from tariff legislation.
When the point was reached in tariff
bill where sugar was to be dealt with,
then it should be so shaped as not to
be in the benefit of the trust.
Hoar replied that the answer to this
was that the policy seemed to be es
tablished that revenue was to be raised
on refined sugar, and it was further de-
sired that the business of refining sugar
shall be done in this country, rather
than abroad.
A great foreign Government was
about the biggest trust that could men
ace the trade of the United States, Hoar
asserted He hoped that some effective
remedy would be found instead of go
ing on the theory that because a jackal
or a fox preys on our commerce it
should be given to a foreign wolf or
lion.
Caffery of Louisiana argued that the
sugar trust was within the operation
of the antitrust law, and he felt that
it was time the attention of the Attor-
ney- General and the United States Dis
trict Attorneys was called to the fire.
quent and fiagrant violations Of the
law by the sugar trust. The Senator
declared that the sugar trust was the
most arrogant and iniquitous trust i'll
the world.
Allen, resuming, declared that the
country was rotten with trusts" every
article we eat and wear and use being
controlled by trusts, while Congress, the
judiciary and the executive authorities
are impotent and powerless to act, ac-
cording to those VINO argue that the
Federal laws cannot reach the trusts
He maintained that the laws are suffi-
cfent if energeticaIly enforced, but that
the authorities have not executed them
with zeal.
The vote was taken on the hide para
graph as amended by the committee,
and it was agreed to-39 to 20.
One Democrat, Rawlins of Utah. and
Allen. Butler. Heitfeld, Jones of Ne
vada. Stewart, Mantle and Teller voted
with the Republicans in the affirma-
tive The balance of the vote was on
party lines. The committee presented
a substitute for paragraph 425, band
or boiling leather 1t was agreed to
80 to 49,
The glove paragraphs We're taken up
and agreed to without change from
paragraphs 42S to 434 The substitute
previously agreed to by the committee
for paragraph 434 was offered by Allen
and agreed to; also. paragraph 43o.
This completed the leather and glove
paragraphs.
Allison proposed a substitute for par
agraph 215, relating to cattle, as fol-
lows: Less than a year old, 50 a head;
on all other cattle, if valued at not
more than S14, So 30 head: valued at
more than S14 and not more than SO,
- per cent ad valorem; valued at
more than S25, 30 per cent. The sub
stitute was agreed to.
The bill was laid aside at 3 O'Clock,
and after an executive session the Sen
ate adjourned.
The session of the House to-day last
ed only long enough to call the roll
on Dingley's motion to adjourn. AS
soon as the journal had been approved
the floor leader of the majority re-
marked that as he was not aware of
any matters claiming the attention of
the House today he would move an ad
journment.
Bailey of Texas challenged that state