The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-02-02

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| Whatever the cause. whether Col.
Bryan's visit, Bourke Cockran's latest
output of opinion or some other cause
or causes the Republican leaders in
| Congress are giving much considera
| ton to the subject OF trusts. So called.
They are seriously discussing the ex-
| pediency of taking some sort of action
at this session of Congress in advance
of the Presidential and Congressional
campaign this year, and if it is de-
cided to take action what form it
shall assume, whether an act of Con-
gress or an amendment to the Con-
stitution. Numerous bills and joint
resolutions bearing on the subject
have been introduced and referred to
appropriate committees in House and
Senate. the members whereof are
seriously studying the question in al !
it's phases, economical, social. and
political, and the one of these three
phases which gives the statesmen the
most concern at this juncture is the
last, as is natural in the year of a |
general election. 1t is fair to presume
that all these labors will yield some
attempt at solution of what is re-
garded as a rather perilous question,
as there is no reason to think that it
will be treated in either a spirit of
levity or evasion. On the contrary
the general disposition is to treat it
with the gravity the subject demands
as directly as possible.
General Grosvenor, chairman of the
House Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries, which has charge of
the Hanna Payne Shipping Subsidy
bill, continues to express confidence
in the final success of that measure
He insists that instead of the Ship
ping Subsidy Bill being an element of
weakness in the coming campaign it
will be an element of strength. For
that reason, if no other. he says he
wants it to become law before the
summer recess. He says he believes
the same view of the measure that
he does and act accordingly. He ar
CUES that the people of the United
States want to see the np-building of
great American merchant marine
service and that as it can be done in
no other way than that provided i'll
the Hama Payne bill the enactment of
that measure into law will find favor
in the eyes Of patriotic and intelligent
voters. General Grosvenor is so CON
fident that he is right in the matter
that he will not listen to talk of de-
lay.
Col. Bryan having invaded the
"enemy's country with more or less
success and lent himself to q dinner
by Ollie Belmont in his palatial Fifth |
avenue mansion in New York, re-
turned here for a couple of days and
then departed on another round of
talk intending to wind up in Texas
about the middle of February, where
he expects to spend the rest of the
winter While here he said his mail
during tho past two years had aver
aged 1000 letters a week. He saip
that during the past month the mum
Der of letters he received had doubled, |
reaching total of 4, 900 weekly This |
increase in his mail he attributes to
aroused interest in the approaching
Presidential campaign. He says this |
enormous correspondence enables him |
to keep in closer touch with the seuti-
mentt of the people especially of the
Democratic masses. than anythinp
else; that it is his method of keeping
his ear to the ground. He declares
that the great burden of the letters
he now receives is imperialism -
that it even overshadows the trust
question and is much more written
about than free silver. He believes
from this that he is on the right track |
and will continue to stand on that
track as long as it seems to he a win !
ner. He may find that communica-
tions from letter-writing cranxs are
as misleading as to the real views
and opinions of the voters as were
his observations from the rear plat.
forms OF flying trains in 1896. when
he actually believed he was going To
be elected President and was only
undecelved When he woke the morn
ing after the election 10 find himself
beaten by great majority of the
popular vote and in the Electoral
Colleges.
The Senate Committee on Com.
merce Is taking favorable view of
the bull to create new executive de-
partment to be known as the Depart
ment OF Commerce and Industry. II
was introduced in the Senate hv mr.
Frye, of Maine. Mr.. Nelson. of Mime.
sofa has had it in charge as q sinh.
committee, working out the details
The result impresses the COMMITTEES
favorably, especially the PROPOSAL tn
add a provision for Bureau NJ
Manufacturers and Mining. Th;e
provision is warmly endorsed nv ali
engaged i'll those pursuits. If The
measure should become law 4
would add one more to the eiobt
Cabinet officers now provided ~ law
| or custom. E. w. BRADLEY