The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-02-19

| administration had assumed power ana
the Dinglsy law had gone into effect. two
hundred o, saoh "monsssrs" had raised
their heads In the country with q capt.
tai aggregntlng seven billion doliars.
Mr.. Sulzer, after diIeoting attention
to the recent antitrust conferences held
In Chicago. declared that trusts were not
only doing irreparnble injury but were
doing It through the backing Of Repub-
iicsn administration. "The administra
ton IL responsible fer the trusts" said
Mr.. Sulzer. ait stands sponsor for them
and refuses to do anything to suppress
them. 1hs greatest OF ali these trusts Is
tbs money trust and the conference at
Chicago unanimously condemned the gi-
gsutic iniquity. II the attorney general
Of the United States was honest enough
TO do his duty every trust In the country
would be broken and II mir. Monett had
been backed by his party. the Standard
OIL monopoly wou Id now be out Of bust
ness"
In conclusion Mr.. Sulzer dared the Re-
publ.oans to pass the financial till. 1t
would be signal to the American people
to rise mp and put In the White House
that "pserless stat ssmsn and man Of ir-
reproachable oharsuter, william J. Bry-
an"
Mr.. Grosvenor replied In o humorous
vein, adverting to Mr.. Sulzer's aspira-
lions to the vics Presidency and saying
that after Mr.. Sulzer had been "hippo-
droming about the country" he had come
back to Washington loaded down with .
lot of political garbage"
In answer to question OF Mr.. Sulzsr.
he 81 i'd that Mr.. Monett had not hsen re-
nominated for attorney general OF Ohio
because he had already served two terms
and stepped aside In response to an un-
written law Of Ohio Repu bliosns. He re-
ferred to MIR. Monett as a livery bright
young man" and declared that Senator
Hanna had not the slightest thing to do
with what Mr.. Sulzer had termed Mr..
Mopstt's turning down.
The Ohiosn paid a tribute to Attorney
General GrIggs declaring that "a better
lawyer and a clearer headed sdministra-
| tor Of justice has never been known In
the department of justice"
He had CLOSED by saying that the Dem
ocrats had had ample opportunity he
tween 1892 and 1896 to enfogos the anti
| trust Law but had failei to do 50.
"The American psople KIN low that" he
said, land they know too, that between
| 1892 and 1896 business broke down, people
starved and everything in general went
| to the devil"
MFR. BromwelI OF Ohio offered an
amendment providing that the head OF
any department upon the rolls OF which
the name of any employee or clerk perma.
rently incapacitated from performing
service appears shall report those names
to the civil servios commission in order
that an employee of proper capacity may
be designated for the service. Ihs amend
ment was adopted.
An amendment was offered by Mr.. Hit
CT Illinois providing that permission be
given TO J. d. Richardson, Republican OF
Tennessee, to compile, edit and publish
the state papers ana diplomatic CORE
spondence Of the late Confederate states
and It was adopted aitsr an explanatio
that no expense attached to the govern
msnt.
The committee then rose and the bill
WAS favorably reported to the House.
The amendments we're agresd to with the
exception OF that striking out the sp-
preparation for the civil service.
| On rising vote the smendmen. was
defeated SO to IS. The yeas and nays were
ordered. The amendment WAS lost n to
| %. TIE bill WAS then passed without di.
vision and at IS p. m. the House ad-
journed