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The provision denying the value Of
franchise right was stricken out and
an amendment substituted, declaring
that the owners should receive just
compensation for all property taken, ir-
respective of watered stock or other
nctitious securities. This appeared to
SATISFY the radicals and was adopted.
The committee also unanimously fa-
Vored direct popular legislation to OBJ
tain the result.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED
The platform unanimously adopted by
the committee declares for government
ownership Of oil public utilities and
natural monopolies government money,
the referendum and direct legislation
and the withdrawal of all protective
tariffs from all articles controlled by u
trust. Among other things. after urg-
Ing organization to deprive trusts Of
their power, 1t says:
We make no assault upon business
combinations. for diminishing product
I've cost or augmenting productive eff
ficicncy. What we do attack Is combi-
nations for coercinS producers and les
sening production. 1t is such combina-
tions that constitute the trust evil and
them we would abolish, root and
branch.
when oppressive trusts are exam
not for augmenting wealth, but for
hampering its production; not for maxi
Ing things plentiful and cheap. but for
making them scarce and dear.
Their strength lies in n more intense
concentration of monopoly privileges. In
come instances these privileges are
owned by the trust itself; in some
they result from conditions produced
by public policy; in others they are
farmed out in more or less secret ways
by the principal benehciaries to sub
sidiary trusts
The platform particularly attacks the
Standard OIL trust, to which it says
monopoly engendering laws have COM
mitted the regulation of the peoples
needs and rights in one department OF
industry. "Ther needs and rights in
another have been by similar laws COM
mittcd to the beef trust"
A number of set speeches were heard
at the morning and afternoon sessions
of the conference.
MASS MEETING.
The night session was in the form of
a mass meeting which, was held ut the
Auditorium. and brought out some of
the strongest speakers among the dele
gates. including John p. Altgeld. F. S.
N1onnett Samuel L. Jones, John S.
Crosby, George Fred Williams and Tom
L. Johnson.
FINANCIAL LL-C0NDEAlNED-
Resolutions introduced by Judge
Fleming, of kentucky, were adopted by
a rising vote, strongly condemning the
currency bill now before Congress.
a committee to prepare q memorial
to the United States Senate against
the bill was provided for. and the peo-
pie of the country urged to gather at
courthouses, schoolhouses and other
public places to protest against the
measure.
Immediately Amasi Thornton, Of New
York. notified the presiding officer that
he would refuse to deliver the speech
for which he was scheduled to-day.
In an interview later he explained
that he had been assured that this was
to 'De non bipartisan gathering, that
assurance being over the signature Of
President Lockwood, whom he believed
does not approve of the partisan reso-
luton against the currency bill.
Mr. Thornton will not be further
identified with the convention.
MONNETT FOR CHAIRMAN.
Thomas L. Johnson, of Ohio. chair
man of the Committee on Permanent
Organization, reported in favor of
Frank S. Monnett. former Attorney
General of Ohia, for permanent chair
man OF the conference, and permanent
vice presidents representing most of
the States and territories were recon-
mended and approved by the conven-
>'''O'o tHCiii WIS soeI1dlOr
man, for South Carolina.
Mr.. Monnett was escorted to the chair
and spoke briefly. American flags
were carried by a number of persons
in the auditorium meeting Tonight.
The stage was filled with prominent
anti-trust men.
MISSISSIPPI AGAINST TRUSTS.
jackson, Miss, Feb. 13.-The Cox
antitrust bill passed the lower House
to-day by an almost unanimous vote
only two members voting In the mega,
tive. The bill is very broad and is de-
signed to include all classes of corpor-
ations between which agreements or
mutual understandings regarding
prices exist. Civil and criminal penal.
ties are imposed for violation.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia. s. c.. Feb 13.-The House
to-day passed an antitrust bill. II
has been loaded with many amend
Inents. which are considere to mega
tive the measure even If 1t should he
come law. Considerable opposition
developed, It being considered impolite
to pass an act before some action had
been taken by Congress-.