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TRUST RESOLUTION
IS KNOCKED OUT
House Defeats The Republican Pro-
posal for a Constitutional
. Amendment.
MEASURE LOSES ~ 90 VOTES.
Falls That Many short OF Necessary
Two-Thirds =. Five Dcnaocrats
Vote for It. Two Repubii.
oan against.

Washington. June 4.-The house Of
representatives yesterday. after y lives
" debate extending over two days. de-
feated the joint resolution proposing
q constitutional amendment empow-l
ering congress to regulate trusts. 1t
requires q two-thirds vote under the
constitution TO adopt an amendment.
to the constitution.
The vote stood: Ayes, 1874; nays,
131.
The affirmative vote, therefore. was
SO short of the requisite two-thirds,
1872.
Five democrats, Messrs Campbell of
Montana, Naphen of Massachusetts,
Scndder Of New York, Sibley of Penn
sylyania, and Thayer of Massa-
chusetts, and one siiyerite, Mr.. New
lands Of Nevada, voted with the repub-
licans for the resolution, and two re-
publicans, Mr.. Loud of California and
Mr.. Mccall of Massachusetts, with the
democrats.
These were the only breaks from
party lines.
The populists voted solidly against
the resolution.
The debate preceding the vote had
a strong political flavor throughout,
and was at times very personal. The
features were the closing speeches by
Mr.. De Almond of Missouri and Mr..
Littlefield Of Maine, for their respect
i've sides, and the short speech of Mr..
Mccall of Massachusetts against the
resolution.
Mr.. Thayer of Massachusetts de-
fined a trust as n business BASTARD"
which Mr. Hanna could not palm off
as the result of thrift, push and fair
dealing of the American people.
MI Grosvenor of Ohio devoted q
few minutes to explaining that the
failure of the Ohio republicans to
nominate Attorney General Monnett
in Ohio did not indicate that they
were opposed to the prosecution of
trusts. Mr.. Monnett had had two
terms, and it was the well established
rule that no man should be a candi-
date for that Office a third time. Be
sides Mr.. Monnett was not a candi-
date for reelection.
Mr.. Lentz of Ohio said it was ex-
ccedingly pleasant for him to hear
Mr.. Grosyenor apologize for the third
time for the treatment of Attorney
( General Monnett by the republican.
party of Ohio. Mr.. Monnett, he said,
had prosecuted one trust in Ohio in
spite of the Temptations of a bride of
$500, 900 md in spite of the brow-beat-
ing of the republican press of the
state. Mr.. Lentz had read an inter-
view of the date of Maybe, 1900, with
Mr.. Monnett, in which he predicted
that the republicans of the state
would be punished for their treat
mente Of the trusts.
This constitutional amendment
was a fraud, continued Mr.. Lentz, md
the democrats would prove the
hypocrisy of the republicans before
Saturday night. ELECT William Jen-
nings Bryan" said he, sand he will
place Mt the head of the department
of Justice mn attorney genernl-not
from the trust ridden state of New
Jersey-who will keep the trusts SO
busy they will not have time to pur-
sue their rapacious vocation"
Mr.. G~rosvenor, replying, said that if
the democrats elected their president
as Mr.. Lentz predicted, and proceed
ed to destroy the trusts, that destruc-
tion must take place under republican
law placed on the statute books
against democratic opposition. Later
touching on All incident in the polit-
ical history of Ohio, he referred to the
way the democrats had driven out q
Republican official as democrats in nm
other state had hurled out q repub-
lican governor.
"But they did not&murder him."
cried Mr. Rhea of Kentucky.
Neither did they put up 100000
10 -,,rsc1E SON, n1ar1r s,h n h. 1voc ~ not
guilty" retorted Mr.. Grosvenor.
Mr.. Pearce, of Tennessee, read a
l.signed interview with General Gros-
venor, printed some time ago, declar-
ing that a constitutional amendment
was unnecessary to deal with trusts
After further remarks by Mr..
Reeves. of Illinois, and Mr.. Clayton, of
| New York, Mr.. De Almond, of Mis-
souri,, closed the debate for his side
with a speech an hour and a half in
length.
This opinion the republicans We're
thinking, not of destroying the trusts,
but of the coming election. When o n
gresssassembled the republican leaders
rushed through under whip and spur
the financial law which they really
intended should 20. on the statute
book. Now at the end of the session
they proposed a trust remedy, MOTTO
remedy the evils of trusts, but to tide
them over the campaign. He was OPP
posed to the hollow mockery of going
through the motions of sending it to
the senate to be buried there. The
trust evil was a serious, all important
problemetob be solved, and no mere po-
,itical trick would be satisfactory to
our people. The proposed amend
ment.ghe said, bore upon its face irref-
utable evidence that it was not intend
ed to be placed in the constitution TO
control trusts, but to be placed in
the campaign to deludc voters. In
conclusion Mr.. De Almond appealed to