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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S-(special.)-.
No anti-trust legislation will be passed
| at the first session Of the Fifty-sixth
| congress. Many measures designed to
smash the trusts have been introduced by
members Of all parties in the United
/ States congress. The authors Of these
bills have probably presented them be-
lfeving that their course would be at
t1east agreeable to their constituents. The
| first attempt of the authors Of these
measures Is to make campaign material
for their own benefit in the coming ma
t1onal and congressional campaigns In
view of the fact that the measures in
| tfoduced have not seen daylight and are
/ probably still pigeonholed in the various
| committees. the great trusts to be dis
| turbed by legislation at this session need
not worry. II the present laws against
| trusts were enforced. there would be no
necessity for new legislation.
| Speaking Of the opposition to corpora
| tons. 1T might be stated in passing that
| attempts have been made many times in
| the past to cripple the various railroad
| corporations by the enactment of laws
/ which would reduce the income of the
roads and therefore necessarily compel
| them to curtail their expenses so that the
result would be detrimental to CONNER
1
| Union and to capital generally invested
in manufacturing and other important
| enterprises. The railroads are regarded
| as enemies by walking delegates of
! labor organizations and by agriculturists
| in some sections, but the merchant who
| is patron of the lines is not SO anxious
to cripple these railways as are the men
/ who advance and attempt to foster legis-
! lation which will indirectly injure the
/ mo no hax ocf itaJ ir1xyo tod m
railway enterprises. At this time it ts
not anticipated that any action will be
! taken during this session which will ma
! terialiy injure legitimate railway enter
| prises in this country. Were 1t not for
the denlagogues in every congress the
railroads would fare better and the
/ fayoritism that might be shown them
would rebound to the benefit of the COM
mon people. This at least Is the opinion
| expressed by the conservative members
! in both the house and senate this win
ter
| Richard Croker will return from Eng
| land to New York city in April. He is
| coming back to manage the affairs Of
/ Tamnlany hall and incidentally to dc all
| he can not only to nominate but to as
/ slst in electing William Jennings Bryan
as the next president of the United States.
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man Is not new information. 1t is a new
/ story. however, to relate that his return
to the United States within the next two
| months is purely and simply to advance
the interests of Col Bryan in the pres
| ent presidential election. He has SO in
/ formed his Heutenants in this city and
while they will not discuss the Tammany
/ boss for publication, they have told his
| purpose to their Democratic associates
| f1,0 ov,6 %1a
| paign this year Tammany hall, back of
which will be Croker, will do everything
! in it's power to endeavor to bring about
| the election of the Nebraskan as President
| McKinley's successor next November.
| The story of the practical laying, down
| of arms between the different Demo-
cratic factions in New York was told a
few days ago. The return Of Croker
| simply satisfies the leaders of the Demo-
cratic factions in New York that unit
| ed front will be presented to the Repub-
! leans in the coming presidential and con-
gressional campaigns. The influence of
| Croker will be great in New York city
/ and the influence that Tamnany hall
| Yields on Manhattan island will extend
| UP the state and doubtless result in not
only unity in the party, but may bring
about the defeat of the Republican state
! ticket as well as Of the nationaf electors
/ next November.
| The fact that Gov. Roosevelt, of New
/ York, has absolutely declined to permit
/ the use of his name as vice presidential
| candidate at the Philadelphia convention
! in June may result in the selection of
some Western man as Mckinley's run
| ming mate in this campaign. 1t was the
correspondent of this paper who first sug-
gested that If a man from the West
| vice nrGSj6ancV
| the Republican. ticket this year Senator
Woicott, Of Colorado, would be consider
| ed available timber for this office. In
| view of Wolcott's switch on the money
question he Is now in favor not only
! with many Republicans In the West, but
| with majority in the East, and Ii 1t IS
| finally decided by President Mckinley,
Chairman Hanna of the Republican ma
| tional committee, and others of the Re-
/ publican party that this nomination
| should go to the West the possibilities
| seem to favor the Colorado senator for
| the vice presidency. 1t Is impossible for
/ WoIcott to succeed himself as senator
from Colorado in view Of the change he
has made in his standing on the money
| question, and as he has made this
change. and 1t has been beneficial to the
Mckinley administration, it goes without
saving that if the McKinleyites desire
to have his running mate selected from
/ the West the Colorado senator stands a
| better chance to be chosen at the Phila-
delphia convention than any other man
tfrom that section.
| Joseph Manly, national committeeman
/ from Maine in anxious to have this con-
! gress adjourn before the national Repub-
4 lican convention meets in Philadelphia,
June 10 next. There is a possibility that
/ there may be such an outcome, but the
outlook at the present time is not at all
bright for such early adjournment Both
houses of congress have pushed work
very rapidly, more quickly than was
anticipated when congress met In De-
/ cember last, but there Is so much legisla-
/ ton still pending that must be out of the
way before recess Is taken that 1t is
extremely doubtful If Joe Manly's wish
is carried out In view of the fact that
both houses disposed of the currency
bill so quickly 1t has been thought by q
/ good many members of congress that all
routine legislation and all other matters
pending could be gotten through by July
at the latest. Some have been of the
opinion that congress might adjourn by
June l. Investigation among members
who have charge of legislation that will
come up in the future. and Is pending at
tho present time, foreshadows much
later date than June l for the usual sum-
mer recess. Within the next six weeks the
congressional prophets will be better able
to foretell when congress will take its re-
cess than at the present time.
| II s. Van Antwerp