The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-06-07

WASHINGTON. June l-Couerc,, is ol
H. last lap, but j, not making cNtraordi
nary speed. However, there j.. httlo or
caSion for rush. The senate has agree,
that the Nicaragua Canal bin shall b,
taken mp December 10. and have the RICH
OF ~ap until voted upon, the hill amend
ing the extradition laws To cover th,
Nicely case has been passed, and all other
important pending bills are TO 20 over IL
the neNl session. That leave, nothing To-
/ bc disposed of except 4 few disputed item,
IN appropriation bills. The House re-o-
luton tor adjournment names the Gin
inst 1t - not certain Al this time that
the Senate VII adopt that without change
but IT is certain that Adjournment viii
take place during the week
The House passed the Lutlchch bill.
amending the sherman anti trust Law. b.,
what would have been unanimous vote.
had not Representative Mann. ct IT,. east
hi, vote against IT,
The Senate Committee ON Relations
with Cuha ha, gone far enough To dis
cover that its Investigation of the receipts
and expenditures in Cuba i, going to be
very difficult task, owing to the method
which has been followed in keeping the
accounts. Tle Committee will have to
wade through an enormous mass OF docu
ments to get at the facts, and it is not an
enyiabIc summer job.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment, giving Congress authority to legis-
late for the control of trusts. failed ia the
House because it got - votes less than
the two-thirds required 10 adopt The
failure was caused by the sharp drawing
of partisan lines, and most of the speeches
for and against were political stump ora
tiou-, intended toy both palties Tor cam
paign circulation Whether that partic-
ular amendment was a good one Is mat
ter el opinion, but the number of those /
who believe that relief from the cNactions /
of trusts must ,ooner or later come from |
Congress rather than from the several |
states, Is surely increasing, and when /,
there j. no presidential campaign pend |
ing, when everything J., twisted TO parti- I
san advantage, iics may get action from
Congress The situation Was very fairly 1
stated 10y Representative Hamilton, If /
Mich, who SAID "torpordtiou, are Great
ure, of law and legislatures, which make
Courts aud construe Laws. 81 would seem,
ought 10 he able to restrict, control, OF an
nihilate creature, Of Law This sounds
reasonable but wc are forty five state,
and at present. when one state prohibits.
another invites, and SO long as a single
state exists from which, los virtue Of inter.
state comfy, trust combinations can trade
over the rest OF the Union, the states can
not control combinations, except by COM
blnation among themselves therefore,
na,much IS trade constant, flow - beyond
state boundaries, there ought to be Fed
.ral law for the control OF industrial cor
oorations, which can follow and regulate
hem alNayo and everywhere. To this end,
H. amendment to the Federal Constitution
> necessary.
Justice BERNARD, presiding over the
Equity branch OF the supreme Court of
he District OF Columbia cenaurcd Nr. +
). Siggcrs and imposed fine Of 800 and
.osts Tor his failure to obc, IN order Of
'ouIt, forbiIdtng him to represent himself
Is successor to or a. connected with the
irm of c. A. Snow 4 Co., the widely known
Washington Patent Lawyers.
Representative Liulcheld, Of Me, who
made two great speeches against the pol
cy of his party, made a third one in favor
f his party's policy. lie ia, established
he fact that he is one OF the best speak
r. in Congress, aud that no matter which
ide OF a question be takes, ii will he ably ,
resented, and that T., great deal for
IAN to do in his first term.