The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-10-18
Every Line Of Legislation Now on Our Statute Books
Was Placed There by the Republicans, and
the Democrats Voted Against a Consti-
t%utionaI Amendment to Regulate
Them Only Four Months AGO.
How the Democratic National Chairman Tried to
Help the Sugar Trust-Facts from the
Congressional Record.

& 1veiS He OIL eg1Salonn w on the statute books of the United StateSd directed
LEANS SG
cratic party. %HS
The last occasion on which the parties, as represented in Congress, went IN
record N the: trust. question was On June l., 1900.
IN nat day a mai yotew was taken Q a constitutional amendment o grant
Congress power to define, regulate, prohibit ant dissolve trusts,m onopoIes and
1t requires twothirds vote of Congress "a submit a constitutional amend.
ment to the State Legislatures for ratification.
oF + a9% YEAS S 19e sW1m i RE EPa 1sIt ! { y as 3 q oNE EsaS ) tS WE'RE YER aY Dem
OCRATs: The FIVE were Campbell of Montana, Naphen and Taylor of Massa-
OF THE 1872 NAYS, ONLY TWO WE'RE REPUBLICANS, Lour and Nc
@trustk hlrs"v voted NAY. They declined to give Congress the power to Crap
pie with the Trusts. The Democrats INDUCED in spasmso of virtue for two days.
denouncng the trusts and then voted to continue them. rs
In one. of Mr. Bryans recent speeches he CAV the Republican remedy al the
final one he. would adopt in case he was elected and all other means failed.
wants to try other measures first. He has not said what those measures are
to be. % a&1
Trust, Operate in a single city. The requisite power to reach each n all and
bring them within the Federal law, WAS DENIED BY A MARGIN OF SO
Denouncng is one thing. Doing is another. Mr. Byans rus denunciaions
in view Of his pary's record, promise n o better than the prophecies he made four
years ago; and as a prophet Mr. Bryan las not succeeded.
Senator Jones and the Sugar Trust.
The Democrats made another brilliant pro-rust record during the same
session of Congress Representative Richardson Of Tennessee, Democrat tried to
assist the Sugar Trust by offering a joint resolution to admit Cuban I'M Porto
Rican sugar free of duty. .@Ht
The remission Of that duty would have amounted to about s25O0oOoo a year,
and the Sugar Trust would have benefited to the amount Of at least $15Oooooo
per year. The controller of the Sugar Trust is Mr.. Henry o Havemeye, Demo
.crat Mr. richardson's proposed gift % ais friend Mr.. Hayermeyer wass moth-
cred in the Ways and Means Committee of the House. This wa done by the
Republican members Of the committee. %5 #sEM#&Z
1t was also proposed by Senator Jones, Democratic national chairman and
Mr.. Bryans manager, to return the duties paid on Porto Rican sugar and To-
aas@s.n not to the Porto cans. but to the persons who paid these duties.
This amounted att he time to $1,4sIS66. Had the scheme succeeded, the
same concern. would have benefited by a direct gift Of $1,25o774: This is the
first instance o. recordw where a direct gift was intended to be made to a trust
and the Democratic. manager, Senator james K. Jones' wished to make it.. This
was also prevented by the Republicans.
The money vas not to be returned to the Porto Ricans, as the duties paid
are, but to the Sugar Trust
All the facts arep printed in the Congressional Record n are prt of Amer
lean history.