Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-14
A TRUST SYMPOSIUM
AND REPUBLICAN
CoSGREssMEN DISCUSS THE
GREAT PRoBLEM.
ONLY; FOUR vIRGINlAAs TALK
Jones, Maynard, Lamb, ana Flood
Expres. Their Opinions.
WANT CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION.
None Think It Exhausted It. Power
when It Enacted the shermaa
tLaw-Jones and Maynard F.vo1
Constitutional Amendment to Give
Congress Control OF Trusts5 Flood
and Lamb Oppose. .l
Jones, Maynard, Lamb, and Flood
Expres. Their 0pinio1s.
WANT CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION.

NEW YORK. Oct. 3-(SpeciaL)-Bscause
of wide interest shown at present IN tho
trust problem and the probable action
of Congress in regard to it. the Evening
Post has sent to all the members Of the
United States Senate and House Of Rep
resentatives a blank containing these
questions:
% Do you think that the powers Of
Congress, under the Constitution. for cona
trolling or restraining Industrial corpo<
rations have been exhausted In the so~
called Sherman antitrust act?
(2) Are you in favor Of amendments
to the Constitution to give Congress ado
ditional powerr to control corporationsI
(3) Do you favor reduction or re>
peal of import duties on articles whose
production in the United States Il con.
tro1reu oy-monopones.
a, Do you favor the appointment Of
tariff commission to prepare changes OF
tariff for consideration of Congress?
g) Do you favor the ratification of rex
ciprocity with France, now pending ii
the Senate?
There were 70 WAC replied. from 4A4 meu.>
pers Of Congress. Replies Of Virginian4
are as follows:
VirKinans Talk.
w. A. JONES. First District 0s0e.
craft:
% I do not.
(2) I am, provided it Is stipusatedk that
this shall in no wise deprive the several
States Of the power now residing In
them.
(3) do.
ca I do not
H. L. MAYNARD. Second District:
q No.
(2) Yes
(3) Yes.
(D No.
90 Yes.
JOHN LAMB. Third District:
% No, indeed.
(s) Am not.
60 Yes.
(D No. because they have hitherto
failed, and will again.
60 No voice there. Let Republican,
say why they have not ratified.
H. D. FLOOD. Tenth District:
% I do not.
(2) T am not.
C) I do
(D do not.
North Carolina.
There is only one answer from North
Carolina. as follows:
CLAUDE KITcHIN, Second District:
% No.
(2) Not until all remedies under tho
Sherman act and all other powers OF
Ef~ k1x~
Sherman act, and trusts and monopolie3
will be destroyed.
(3) Yes.
(D I favor reduction Of tariff to reve-
nue. basis by Congress.
(5) Haven't studied It.
west Virginia.
From West Virginia, two ara heard
from, as follows:
B. 3. DovENER. First West vlrgtnia
District RepublicaD:
% No.
(2) No.
(3) Nothing but a general revision
Would oppose any class modification In
our tariff laws.
tD No.
(5) Not if it hurts any productions.
either grown or manufactured.
A. G. DAYTON, Second West virgini4
District (Republican):
% I am inclined to think so.
(2) Yes.
90 I am not in favor of tariff tinkerinE.
and I do not believe the tariff RESPONSE
BILE for the monopoles.
"a When changes in tariff scheduled
are required. I favor their careful cons
sideration by commission. I do not be-
lieve the time has come for changes td
be made.
(5) No.
Republicans Won't Talk.
The greater willingness of Democrats td
put their views of the trust problem on
record at the present time was seemingly
indicated by the fact that forty-nina
answers came from 1s2 members of that
party in the two houses. and only fortya
nine from 254 Republicans.
In Massachusetts. to take an extreme
case, there are three Democratic and ten
Republican representatives. Answer1
came from ali the Democrats. but from
only one Republican But two Of fifty.
four Republican senators answered ques-
tions at all.
Examination OF these answers shows
plainly that party lines have not yet been
closely drawn ON these particular ques-
tions Thus. while thirty-eight represen-
rativeS and senators express themselves
in favor OF q constitutional amendment
giving Congress power over corporations
thirty-seyen are against 1t. Fifteen of tha
affirmative replies came from Democrats
and 1--WE Of the negative replies came from
Republicans. Several OF the affirmative
answers. moreover. carry some auahhca-
ton The appointment OF tariff COM
mission to report changes In the tartn
to Congress is not favored. SO far as tha
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