The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-02

his favor. He got but twenty-eight
votes You have a reputation as a.
mathematician. Here is a problem for.
/ you: If Mr.. MOnett for fighting one
trust got only twenty-eight votes, how
many votes would he have received if
he had fought all the trusts?" (Ap-
plause and laughter)
Mr.. Pearce (Tenn.) read a signed in
terview with General GrOsvenOr. print
ed some time ago. declaring that a
! constitutional amendment was unnec-
essary to deal with trusts
De Almond Closes For Democrats.
After further remarks by Mr.. Reeves
! CID and Mr.. Clayton IN. ". Mr.. De-
/ Almond IMo) closed the debate for his
side with speech an hour and a half
/ IN length. The proposed amendment,
/ he said, bore upon its fact irrefutabIe
/ evidence that it was not intended to
! be placed in the constitution to control
! trusts, but to be placed 81 the cam
/ paign to delude voters.
Il am willing to amend the coDsti-
4 tuition" said Mr.. De Almond but
! am not willing to amend it so as TO
/ take from our states the power they
now possess to create and control cor
/ pOrations."
In conclusion Mr.. De Almond ap-
pealed to his Democratic colleagues
not to vote for the resolution.
Mccall Against the Resolution.
A surprise was in store for the Re-
publiCans when a few minutes were
yielded to Mr.. Mccall CMass.) who said
he would vote for the Littlefeld bill
but would vote against the resolution.
THE resolution" he said. brings
the promise to the ear, but breaks it to
the hope" Democratic applause)
PT0pPpF4Inu "a
the amendment was more far reaching
than might be supposed at first blush.
1t might be used to place all individual
combinations under the ban. 1t would
strike deadly blow at individual lib
erty and might be used to destroy la
Dor organizations. No amendment was
necessary until every weapon in the
constitutional armory had been ex-
hausted, prolonged Democratic ap-
plause).
Mr. Cummings IN. " said under the
guise of an effort to destroy trusts is
really measure drawn in their in
terests. 1t is being used 10 tide over a
presidential election. I know it is al
legged that William Jennings Bryan ad-
vOcated a constitutional amendment to
down trusts. but this no more resem-
bfed the amendment advocated BY him
than deck of cards resembles the BIZ
bic.
LittlefeId Contrasts Records.
Mr.. LittIefeld CMe) closed the de-,
bate for the resolution. He cOntrasted
the records of the two parties on the
trust question to show that such leg
islatiOn as had been enacted against
trusts had been placed upon the stat
ute books under the auspices of the
Republican party Republican promises
he said, were never outiawed. Demo-
cratic promises were never fulfilled
The vote was taken by ayes and noes.
both sides rising en- masse to second
the demand for a roll call.
Speaker Henderson had his name
called when the roll was concluded and
voted for the resolution, which was de-
feated, 154 to 131. the requisite two
thirds not having voted for it. The an
nOuncement was greeced with Demo-
cratic applause.
At 5:35 p. m. the house recessed until
8 o'clock.
At the night session the bills to rat
ify the treaties made by the Dawes
commission with the Cherokee and
Greek Indians were passed and at 9:45
p. N. the house adjourned.