The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| WA>lIlNGTON, ID. c.. April 70. 1900
| The Secretary of the Interior has for
several days been considering the cases
ON appeal from the opinion of the Com
| missioner ot the General Land Office
/ known as the white pine contests" in
! North Idaho. About half OF the cases
| have been disposed of, all of which have
| been decided III favor of the settlers, as
against the State of Idaho
six ships of the United States navy
are to 90 out of commission because
/ there is not a sufficient number Of Off
GERS to furnish compliments for the
! vessels actually required. There are
fully 100 vacancies in the line of the
navy. and the total number OF officers
is less than it was fifteen years ago. not
Withstanding the great increase i'll the
number OF ships.
Representative circuit of Vermont
has introduced in the House Il resolution
calling upon the Treasury Department
to furnish to Congress information as
| to the kinds and amounts of ingredients
used III the manufacture of oleomar-
garine. 1t is alleged by the dairynIen
that the oleomargarlne manufacturers
get the support of Southern interests
by claiming that cotton seed oil is the
largest part of oleomargarine: that they
enlist the cattlemen by claiming that
the by-prOductS of the beef cattle fur
nish the principal constituents of ole
omargarine; that the hog ralSerS are
allured by the tale that a great market
for lard is made by the manufacture OF
oleomargarine The dairymen say they
believe the report will also show the
use of some deleterious substances,
notably stearine, which, they claim, is
an indigestible product resembling tai
low from which candles are made.
The special subcommittee on trusts
of the House Judiciary Committee has
agreed upon a new antitrust bill, in
effect as follows:
First Requiring the branding or mark
ing of trust-made goods shipped out OF
a State. so as to be easily identified as
the product of a trust.
Second. Prohibiting the interstate
traffic of trust-made goods not so brand
ed. and making them subject to seizure
and condemnation.
Third Requiring corporations having
dplLdl vi over Sl uOlllS dtil CIR
nual business of S1,0Oo,000. to file
report of their affairs with the Secretary
of State.
Fourth Providing the process of in
junction against combinations sending
trust-made goods from State to State
or to foreign countries.
Fifth. Prohibiting the use of the mails
to concerns and their officials proven to
be trusts.
Stories being circulated to show that
American shipyards are crowded with
work are designed to discredit the ship
ping bill Almost all of the present
construction is to replace the vessels
bought by the United States and re
tanned for transport service, or for our
cOastwise trade, from which foreign
vessels are and always have been ex-
Guided.
The assertion that the Standard Oil
Company will secure the greater share
of the compensation provided in the
shipping bill is maliciously untrue. Not
a dollar of that money goes to that
company Their vessels engaged in the
carrying of oil are ineligible to any COM
pensation under the bill. The assertion
that the Standard Oil Company con-
trolls the only American line in our
transatlantic trade, made by the enemies
of the shipping bill, is utterly devoid of
truth.