The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-10-18

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on constitutional amendment to
grant Congress power to define,
regulate, prohibit and dissolve trusts,
monopolies and combinations,
wether existing in the form of cor
porations or otherwise"
1t requires a two-thirds vote of
Congress to submit Constitutional
Amendment to the State Legislatures
for ratification,
The question to so submit it was
lost by vote of l54 yeas to 132 nays.
Of the yeas 149 were republicans
and only 5 were Democrats. The
five were Campbell of Montana, Nap
hen and Taylor of Massachusetts,,
Scudder of New York, and Sibley of
Pennsylvania.
OF the 1872 Nays, only two were
Republicans, Loud and Mccall.
Richardson, Lentz, Sulzer, Rupert,
Salmon and all the other professional
"trust killers" voted nay. They de-
clined to give Congress the power to
grapple with the Trusts. The Demo
Gratis indulged in spasms of virtue
for two days, denouncing the trusts,
and then voted to continue them.
In one of Mr.. Bryan's recent
speeches he gave the Republican
remedy as the final one he would
adopt, in case he was elected and all
other means failed.
In other words Mr.. Bryan admits
the value of the Republican idea, but
wants to try other measures first,
He has not said what those measures
are to be.
Some trusts operate all over the
country; others, like the New York
Ice Trust, operate in a single city.
The requisite power to reach each
and all and bring them within the
Federal law, was denied by margin
of SO votes, all Democratic.
Denouncing is one thing, Doing is
another. Mr.. Bryan's trust denun-
Citations in view of his party's record,
promise no better than the prophecies
he made four years ago; and as
prophet Mr.. Bryan has not succeed
ed.
The Democrats made another
brilliant pro-trust record during the
same session of Congress. Represen-
tstiye Richardson of Tennessee, Dem
ocrat, tried to assist the Sugar Trust
by offering a joint resolution to admit
Cuban and Porto Rican sugar free Of
duty.
The remission of that duty would
have amounted to about s25, 1000 a
year, and the Sugar Trust would have
benefited to the amount of at least
S15 ,0OO, 900 per year. The controller
Of the Sugar Trust is Mr.. Henry Q
I,,Ea u neyer, nerlocrat. AIr. Richard
son,s proposed gift to his friend Mr.
Havemeyer was smothered in th'
Ways and Means Committee of thu
House. L MS was dOhO Ny bhS w.
publican members of the Committee
1t was also proposed by Senato
Jones, Democratic National Chair
man and Mr.. Bryan's manager, tt
return the duties paid on Porto Rical
Sugar and Molasses, not to the Port
Ricans, but to the persons who pai'
these duties.
This amounted at the time to 81, ,4S7
S66. Had the scheme succeeded, tn
American Sugar Refining Compan
and A. S. Lasalles & Co., a part G
the same concern, would have bene
fitted by directed gift Of 81 ,25O,7
This is the first instance on recor
where direct gift was intended t
be made to trust, and the Demo
cratic manager, Senator James X
lJones, wished to make it. This wa
also prevented by the Republicans.
The money was not to be returne
to the Porto Ricans, as the dutie
paid now are, but to the Sugar Trust
All the facts are printed in the Coz
gressional Record and are part
American history.