The age-herald., 1899-09-19
SAVERS GIVES HIS sPLANS
Complete Humiliation Better Than Any
 Possible Scheme Of Regulation.
ATTORNEY GENERALS WILL ATTEND
Combines and the Best Mannea in Which to Combat Them Will be Discussed in an Infor-
 nal Way

St. Louis, September Ex-Governor Joseph D. Savers, of Texas, the originator of the antitrust conference between governors and attorney generals to open here We'd nesday, arrived in the city today. Attor- ney-General Smith, of Texas; Governor Jones and Attorney General Davis, of Ar kansas, and Governor Stephens and Attor- ney- General Crow, of Missouri, have also arrived.
 Governor Savers has prepared no pro- gramme for the conference, and says the
 meeting will be entirely informal, the dele-
 gates themselves deciding the manner of proceedings after they come together. He asserts however, that the conference will
 be distinctly inimical to trusts The only
 question in his mind is whether trusts should be regulated or abolished. This, he
 thinks is the question that will be dwelt
 upon chiefly; the ways and means of regu- lation or annihilation forms another sub
 ject of discussion.
 ,it His Plans
 In an interview Governor Savers said: 'I
 have no plan or programme for this con-
 ference. l merely wrote letters to all the
 governors asking them to join me at St.
 Louis for a conference whose object would be to devise ways and means of either reg ulating the trusts or annhilating them. have purposely avoided any attempt to make arrangements for the conference, but wanted no one to think it was a cut and dried affair. I want every governor and attorney-general who comes to make suggestions as to the manner of pro- cedure As to the purpose of the confer- ence, l can only give the idea that actuated me in suggesting it.
 "I am impressed with the fact that the trust now as it exists is an evil--a terrible evil with which we must grapple sooner or late. Our dual form of government has given rise to diversity of opinion as to whether the national or state governments should take up the task of lighting trusts Regulation or Destruction "Another question upon which there is a division is whether trusts should be merely regulated, or whether the fight should be more far-reachng and have for it's object their destruction Personally, l | am in favor of destruction, root and branch. | I have no patience with the trusts In any form, and don't believe regulation will do any good. They must be destroyed. "But the question arises, how is this to be done? What part must the state take in the fight? One thing is certain one state can do nothing if it attempts to fight alone and the influence of several states is weakened if they don't conduct their fights according to the same general plan. In other words, if the states are to accom- piish anything, they must act in harmony. "I thought if the governments of con- siderable number of states could be brought together by their attorney generals with an exchange of views, they could arrive at the means of opposing the trusts and de- stroying them.
 No Set Speeches
 '"There will be no set speeches. I expect to do some talking in an informal way. IL would be impossible for good not to come out of such an exchange of ideas" Attorney General Smith of Texas fur nishes the following list of attorney gen. erals who have promised uncondbtionaliy to attend the conference: David M. Camp bell, Colorado E. C. Crow, Missouri; Jef- fer son Davis, Arkansas; W. L. Taylor, h. diana; C. B. Nolan, Montana; s. W. Ben nett, special counsel and Attorney General Monnett the noted anti-trust fighter of Ohio.
 Those who will come if they can are: D. R. N. Blackburn, Oregon; F. L. Ford, Cali fornia; A. A. Goddard, Kansas; G. w. Pickle Tennessee; J. A. Vanorsdel, Wyo- ming; A. c. Bishop, Utah; w. B. Lamar, Florida; J. M. Terrell, Georgia; J. A. Mon- | tague, Virginia Milton Remly, Iowa; M. | J. Cunningham, Louisiana; Edward P. Rucker West Virginia: & V Walser North | Carolina; the attorney general of Washing | ten; E. c. Aiken, Illinois; w. B. Douglas, Minnespta; and Horace M. Oren, Michi- gan.
 The attorney generals of Massachusetts and New Mexico declined the invitation.