The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-21

he paused and made mo. on that the
governors of Missouri, Tennessee and
Texas be appointed to draI. and fer
mulate bill such as in th,ir opinion
may safely and advantageously he
passed by the legislatures Of the sew
eral states and which will. IN their
opinion, as far as possible remedy the
evil. The motion was tabled.
Governor Shaw said in part:
Il regret that the call for this con-
ference did not include all that is in the
mind of him who issued it. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the purpose to make it not only
an antitrust conference, but an anti
expansion and free trade and free
silver contention. I say evidently the
purpose from the tone Of the remarks
of the chairman and from the speech
of the governor of Missouri. Had this
been, it is quite possible a larger at
tendance would have been secured. For
certainly it would have then embraced
subjects upon which there are greater
differences of opinion than upon 7he
question of trusts alone.
shaw's Sarcasm.
81 was interested and diverted by the
address from the governor of Missouri.
Interested, for he stated that his state
had triumphantly exterminated the oc-
topus. I was diverted as he told of the
downfall of Rome caused from evils
such as now confront us. / was made
to regret that in the expansion policy
of old Rome she did not acquire some
territory as productive of statesmen as
the Louisiana purchase and which
might then have produced a governor
of sufficient foresight, a legislature of
sufficient wisdom, an attorney general
of sufficient courage and a supreme
court of sufficient erudition and fair
wi h
multimillionaires and bankers which il
was claimed infested the empire to the
great damage of the COMMON Jeople.
Il prefer a formulated bill, such as
l may safely submit 20 the general as
sembly of my state, rather than roso-
buttons. l think I am politician enough
to draft a set of resolutions so drastic
that if needed all trusts and combina-
lions would Immediately take their de-
parture from the commonwealth of
which I have the honor to be chief ex-
ecutive; but l am not so confident that
l am statesman enough to draft bill
which will compel their everlasting exit,
provided they are determined to stay.
If the committee, when appointed, shall
draft bill which seems to me- COM
prehensive and effective, l will very
gladly recommend it; for l desire here
and now to say that l have no sym
pathy with any combination which
rests on monopoly.
Il desire that the governor of Mis-
souri, shall serve upon this committee
for the reason that he represents the
statute of his state adequate to meet
the demands of the hour: and 1 hope
| IL he shall consider it essential to this
end, that he incorporate the law re-
| Gently approved by him which. If
| may trust the verbal testimony of citi-
zens of this state, permitted the COM
| pleting lines of street railway in this
| city to combine. And I desire that tho
| governor of Tennessee may serve upon
| this committee, for in private CONVEX
sation, he advised me, with eviden'
| pride. I thought, that very extensive
deposits Of phosphate had been discov-
! cred in his state, from which great for
| tunes are now being made, and he rep
| resented that many of the producers OF
| phosphate had been, therefore, driver
| from the market. I desire him to in
corporate in the BILL If he shall deem II
advisable, such provisions as will pro
hibit capitalists of Tennessee from
monopoliZing the phosphate business.
| Must Be Accurate.
1T will be necessary to direct th'
proposed bill with great accuracy, and
| like the Kentucky hunter, so aim it al
to hit it if it be deer and miss it if i
| be a calf.
1.-THE remedy suggested by implica
| ton in the two speeches of the forenoon
session-that of the repeal of the tariff
provisions and through the free coinag,
ally break the back of every trust il
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