The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-15

Chicago, Sept. 14.-EnthuSiaStic IN
terest and crowded hall put tonight
session of the conference ON trusts
sharply in contrast with the forenoon
and afternoon gatherings. Central
Music hall was packed with an aud
fence that represented nearly every
class of people.
Governor Pingree of Michigan was
the star attraction. The governor was
received with applause so tervent that
it was some minutes before he could
proceed with his address. He was
| obliged to rise several times after TAX
ing his seat and bow his acknowledge
ment before the audience would allow
the chairman TO introduce the next
speaker.
The house was divided against itself
during the address of the next speaker,
eX-Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster. The audience finally became so
speaker with questions and remarks
that delegate asked the chair to clear
the galleries unless the Interruptions
ceased. i
Was Small Attendance.
The second days session opened to-
day with William Writ Howe of New
d railing
in the attendance of both delegates and
spectators. Chairman Howe proceeded
at once to business by presenting res
olution introduced by f. C. FAIR of
Missouri for the appointment of the
important committee on resolutions.
He called for a committee of fifteen, to
be selected by Chairman Howe. To
this committee, according to Mr.. Howe,
were to be referred without reading or
doh oil
Stantly developed the undercUrrent of
strife between the factions for and
against trusts, which yesterday threat
ened the conventions HARMONY
Various speakers vigorously argued
that the resolution should be amended
to allow the appointment to the COM
mittee to be made by the delegates
themselves, one committeeman from
each state.
The original motion was not acted
upon, but the amendment in regard to
the manner of appointment was car
ried by a standing vote-99 to Il.
Says It Was Unfair.
Governor Atkinson of West Virginia,
rising from a far corner, declared that
1t was unfair to bind the delegates by
resolution. The debate waxed warm,
and delegates clamored for recognition.
Ex-Governor Luce OF. Michigan thun-
dered that the reference to a commit
tee without reading or debate meant
that many a we'll meant effort would go
to sleep in the hands of the committee
and sleep the sleep of death."A A.
this sally there was a ripple of merri-
ment, which ceased with the clamor of
others who wished to be heard.
The pro-trust people and the ants
were fearful, it became evident, that
one side or the other would secure con-
troll and bind the minority to something
of which they disapproved.
Edward Rosewater, editor of the
Omaha Bee, won applause in an infor
NAL speech in which he declared that
the people of the United States had the
averred that the conference should
adopt such resolutions as it saw fit
1t remained for w. Bourke Cochran
to repeat his performance of yesterday,
when he restored the harmony which
was lost in an endeavor to secure a
committee on programme. Upon his
suggestion, it was finally decided that
the committee on resolutions consist of
not only one representative of each
state delegation, but of each national
organization. To this committee it was
resolved that all resolutions be referred
without reading or debate.
The Tariff and Trusts.
Lawson Purdy of the New York Tar
iff Reform club was introduced, open
ing the tariff debate, speaking in part
as follows:
Il do not contend that the only cause
of combination which restraints trade is
the tariff, but the tariff does foster and
assist in maintaining such combina-
tons.
Il believe we have passed the point
where any objection can be raised &c
the abolition of protective duties on
the ground that they sustain: wages. |
The truth is that the tariff, by shutting
out foreign competition, enables trusts |
10 shut down domestic factories, en- |
ploy less labor and thereby reduce
wages. Mills make money by shutting
down Instead of by the production of /
goods
Byron w. Holt of the New England
Free Traders club followed /
John F. Seaman of Illinois took up I
the cudgel on behalf of the protection I
lists. He called forth a storm of min ,
gled hisses and applause by declaring +
that il was brave man who, after
the experience of the last few years.
would advocate a policy of free trade /
de compared the conditions of the |
at various times to show that /
was greatest when the tariff /
was highest.
Defends the Tariff.
Congressman Thomas Updegraff of
Iowa followed in defense of the protec-
tive tariff system. Congressman Upde-
graft said:
"A monopolistic trust I am against.
of capital, however large,
properly managed, 1 am for. AS I said.
am not fool enough to want to kill
he goose that lays daily the golden
egg. / don't care whether the tariff is
he mother of trusts or not. They don't
ouch the question. If the tariff be in
my sense the mother of trusts. what
would you do? ! viii tell you what we
viii do. We win take care of tie
mother and save her; we will raise her
children in the admonition and nurture
# the Lord. That is the way to man
Ige trusts. You cannot have rich soil
Without weeds
A paper by Mr. Horatio W. Seymour
publisher of the Chicago Chronicle, was
n part, as follows:
Trusts to Destroy.
"The trusts or combinations which
hould be destroyed and which can bal
destroyed are those which exist by rea-
on of the protective tariff, or whiciii
ould not exist If there was no pretec-
i've tariff, and those which either in
heir organization or in their methods
ince organization have adopted crimi-
al practices, and are therefore amen
bic to the criminal laws. In the one
ase there is need of the repeal of un-
wise and unjust legislation. In the