The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1899-12-30

consequently tHey arc '0
what they are, and that's just about
Whatthe same number of men III any
calling are. As usual, consid r.
able number Of Senators and Re
representatives. are spending their hoil-
day IN Washington. AS a rule they
are doing 10 work, but Speaker
Henderson 10 one of the exceptions;
he remained in Washington to do
some work that he could not get
time to do while Congress is IN ses-
sion The members OF su6-com-
mi,,ee ofthe Roberts Committee are
prepared to take some additional tes-
timony in the Roberts case, but no
witnesses have arrived.
The fund for the widow and chill.
diem of Gen. Lawton has reached
$1,000 and is still growing.
Prof. RichardG Ely, of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, read paper
on trusts, at meeting OF the Wash
ington economic society, which has
! attracted more than passing atten-
ton. After telling how trusts were
formed and operated, and pointing
out that the consumers always have
II IN their power to make the trust>
charge fair prices by refusing to buy
their goods. be SAID of remedies fo'
trusts: 1.-The so-called antitrust
lie glslation, in my opinion, has pro-
duced harm, and can produce moth
ING but harm. So far from lessen
lug the concentration of production,
# has rather increased 1t. LCOseI
forms OF combination in the face of
,ntl- trust legislation has made wa,
Tor closer and more effective unions.
Among remedies, first of all, would
mention education. l would have
general education so developed as
to prepare every boy and girl for life.
Another class OF remedies is found
IN the regulation of the transmission
Of property from generation to gen
Grafton, and this must be brought a.
bout in part by taxation, in part by
laws which aim otherwise to secure
wide diffusion Of wealth. have
no sympathy with any proposal to
abolish or limit private corporation.
| would, however, bring them un-
Ter effective public control, the sole
purpose of which should be honesty
md individual responsibility"
The announcement of Chairman
Burton, of the House committee
on rivers and harbors, that no
River and Harbor bill would be
reported at this session of Con
gress, has caused some grumbling,
but as the announcement was
made under instructions from the
leaders of the majority, it is likely
to hold good.
Some of the friends of the Mica.
ragua Canal in both House and
Senate, are determined to try to
push a bill providing for the con
struction of the Canal through at
this session of Congress, without
waiting for the report of the Canal
commission, which will not be
made for at least year. 1t is
perfectly well understood, as it
was at the time, that the sole OBJ
iect in view when the Canal Com.
mission was legislated for by Con
gress, was 10 delay legislation for
a Canal. 1t is also believed that
a majority in both House and Sen
ate would vote for a bill to con
struct canal, if given an opportu-
nifty to do so, but, owing to the ap-
proach of the Presidential cam
paign, and the fact that large ap-
preparations for other purposes,
will be absolutely necessary, it is
very doubtful whether the leaders
will allow a Canal bill to be voted
on at this session; they will quiet
those who would like to vote for
the bill by telling them that little
time will be lost by waiting until
next session, when the report Of
the Canal Commission will be
ready.
The recommendation of Inspec-
tor General breckenridge, in his
annual report, for the creation of
a joint army and navy board, for
the purpose of arranging for a
more thorough cooperation be-
tween the two branches of the ser
vice, is highly commended as a
step in the right direction. There
were several times during the war
with Spain when the lack of in
telligent cooperation between the
army and navy, notably the land
ing of Gen. Skaters army in Cuba,
would have led to serious and dis
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