Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-06-14
CHAMP QARKIS LETTER
Judge Terry Put Repub-
licans In a Panic.
WITH A LITTLE AMENDMENT
A Complete Victory For the
Democrats.


Democrats.
LITTLEFIELD's ANTITRUST BILL.
In Eject 1t Would Have Placed La
bor Unions at the Mercy of the
Federal Courts = Republican Hy-
pocrisy Exposed - Mark Hanna's
Reign of Terror In Congress-An
Able Trio In the House-The Cuban
Scandal.
Especial Washington Letter.l
"Come up and lick saltr was the
command of the Democratic minority
in the house to the Republican major
ity on the trust question. And the ma
tority came, all except eight, amid the
jeers and laughter of the Democrats.
The eight who stood by their guns
were Amos L. Allen of Maine, Bailey
of Kansas, Butler, Calderhead, Can
non, Hit, Littlefield and Long. 1t was
a great historic scene the hurrying
and scurrying and crowding Of the
Republican friends of the trusts to get
into the Democratic band wagon. Bah
cock of Wisconsin, chairman of the
committee on the District of Columbia
and chairman of the Republican con-
gressional campaign committee, led the
break to the Democrats. Babcock has
a large labor vote in his district and
knows, or thinks he knows, on which
side his bread is buttered; hence he
vauIted at one leap from the low level
of the Republican trust quagmire into
the Democratic triumphal car. The
rest, except the eight aforementioned,
followed BeIlwether Babcock like little
Bopeep's sheep, dragging their tails
behind them. 1t was as complete vic
tory for the Democrats and as wild
panic among Republicans as this gen
Grafton has seen. The thing that de-
moralized the Republican trust created
and trust serving majority was this
small amendment offered by Judge
Terry of Arkansas to Littlefeld's anti
trust bill: Nothing in this act shall be
so construed as to apply to trade un-
ions or other labor organizations or
ganized for the purpose of regulating
wages, hours of labor or other condi-
tions under which labor is to be per
formed THAT fotch 'emw
Now let's have a clear historic under
standing as to the exact situation. The
criminal features of the much vaunted
Sherman antitrust law have never
been used by the federal courts for
any purpose except to punish, fine and
imprison some members of labor or
ganization for striving to earn sub
sistence for themselves, their wives
and little children. The chief feature
of the Littlefield bill was to SO amend
the aforesaid Sherman law as to in
crease the penalties. Consequently its
inevitable effect, if administered by
the federal judiciary as hitherto, would
be to sock it to laboring men worse
than ever, to riyet their chains upon
them more thoroughly than ever and
to let everybody else go scot free. All
this was to be done in the name of the
great body of the people. 1t was
piece of shameless hypocrisy, well cal
culated to deceive, but it did not work.
Hence the haste of Bellwether Bah
cock and his flock to jump the fence.
Bogus Trust smnshers.
The minority offered amendment
after amendment to better, widen and
improve the Littlefield bill as a trust
smasher, but as the Republicans are
only bogus, make believe trust smash
ers they voted down these amend
ments with a grim and monotonous
regularity, because they believed there
was a chance of doing enough able
bodied lying about their meaning to
humbug the people once more. But
when the little amendment above set
forth was offered Bah ct i'd omne ge-
nus couldn't stand the pressure and
rushed to cover pellmell, helter skelter.
They realized that they were up
against it hard. Now, having been
whipped into voting for it-exeept the
like toads and swear that they were
for it. It's lie!
Let's examine the facts. The repre-
sentatives of organized labor begged
the judiciary committee to incorporate
that amendment into the Littlefield
bill, which the Republican majority of
that committee superciliously and in
sultingly refused to do, thereby pub
fishing to the world that Republican
servants of the trusts believe that a
laboring man has no right which Re
publican congressman are bound to re-
spect. The Republican majority of the
judiciary committee having refused to
incorporate the labor amendment in
the bill, the Democratic minority of
that committee brought it into the
house, offered it as an amendment to-
the bill, secured a roll call on it and
drove the Republican double dealers
into supporting it all except eight
Twas a famous victory for labor and
for Democrats under the leadership of
Judge Terry of Arkansas.
When Judge Terry offered that
amendment, the following brief but
pregnant colIoquy took place. George
w. Ray of New York, Republican
chairman of the judiciary committee,
said: Against that provision / raise
the point of order that it is not in or
der, not being germain to this section"
In that historic sentence Mr. Ray
showed the cloven foot of the trusts.
To Rays objection Speaker Hender
son replied, "The chair overrules the
point of order because, although the
chair would have held the provision
out of ordey as an original proposition,
the order adopted by the house makes
1t In order.
Trust Agent.
No doubt Mark Hanna would pay al
big pile of money If the Ray Hender-
son colloquy above set out verbatim
ct literatim could be expunged from
The Congressional Record and FROM
human memory, as 1t win perhaps cost
the Republicans half a million votes.
And after all after raising the point
OF order against the labor amendment.