Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-12-13
NO EFFORT TO amend
The SHERMAN LAW
Leading Republican Senators
Say Roosevelt Offers No
Concrete Suggestion.
SOUTH SOLID NO LONGER
Senator Pritehard Says North Carolina
Will Go Republican - Addicks
Chances Go GIimmering-Ons
Effect of Payne's Order.

Washington, Dec. S.-As sentiment In
congress c~rystallizes on the subject OF
trust legislation it is beginning to be
more and more apparent that no serf-
Gus effort will be made during the
present sc: ion to men the Sherman
act or adopt a joint resolution for an
amendment to the constitution.
Leading republican senators are
unanimously of the opinion that the
president has offered them no concrete
suggestion as to the course congress
ought to follow. They assume that the
president, through his attorney gen.
Caal and other lawyers of his cabinet,
has made a more complete investiga-
ton han any member Of congress-, and
that his failure to suggest a single
hem for amending the Sherman act
Is due to inability on his part to do SO.
Senator Hoar, chairman Of the COM
mittee on judiciary, said that while he
was in favor of enacting trust legisla-
ton he did not deem IL wise or prudent
to do anything that might be consid-
cred hasty or which might affect seri-
ously the business interests of the
country. This was the senator's way
of saying that he does not believe in
trust legislation at all, or, at any rate,
ms WV D ~ ~ 49,
of his colleagues who heard them.
Pritchard on LILLY White" Movement.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina,
who headed the Lily White" move
ment in that state, and later offered en-
couragement to the republicans Of Ala
bama to take the same course, has CIV
en- out a lengthy statement defining
his views and declaring that the sue
cess of the movement is undoubtedly
80. l.. thn at,tY,, 90 fha Infn A1aa-
ton. He adds that there is a movement
among the progressive people of North
Carolina to break away from the demo-
cratic party, and he says that il his
party address to the policy adopted at
the recent state convention, North
Carolina will be as reliably republican
as Pennsylvania or Ohio, n there will
be no question about the state giving
her electoral vote to Roosevelt in 1904.
enator P%ritchard also states that
the majority of the negroes entitled to
vote at the recent election cast their
ballots for the democratic ticket. In
his statement Pritchard comes out
squareiy for the proposition that he
national convention shall restrict rep
resentation from the various states to
the number of votes actually cast by
the republicans.
THE real republicans of the south"
says he, are willing to stand or fall
in the future by the record which they
make up with respect to getting votes"
Quay Charged With Treachery.
There are hints of an unfortunate
scandal circling around the name of
Senator Matt Quay OF Pennsylvania.
The statehood committee agreed on a
favorable report for the proposition to
admit into the sisterhod of states the
territory of Oklahoma, combined with
what is known as the Indian territory.
Quay was the only republican who
kicked over the traces. he voted with
the democrats, as he hal threatened to
DO. This was his privilege, Of course,
but his desertion of his party aroused
so much feeling as to bring 10 the sur
face an extraordinary proof of his po-
litical pcrfidy.
There has been a rumor that Quay
wrote a letter to some of his friends in
the southwest urging them to see that
the democrats carried the territories.
In this way, the letter went or to say
Quay would be enabled to C the
support of the democrats, II then, by
picking up a few republicans, could
pass the omnibus Statehood bill over
and in spite Of the protest o. every re-
publican leader of the senate. One of
these party leaders, when questioned
regarding the existence of such a let
ter, said.
1T is quite true there is such a let
ter in existence, and not only that, but
it is here i'm Washington. l have seen
and read it, and it Su~bstantiateS
charges Of the grossest political treach-
cry.
Addicks Fight in Delaware.
Representative Ball of Delaware,
who was the candidate of the regular
republicans in Delaware in November
for congress-, asked the probabilities Of
Gas Magnate Addicks coming to the
senate after the next session Of the
Delaware legislature, said: Mr.. Ad-
dicks will never be a senator from
Delaware by the vote of the legislature
that is 10 meet in hat state next
month. Whether a senator or two sem
ators will be elected will be deter
mined later. | cannot say whether the
democrats and regular republicans will
Join forces in the legislature and elect
two senator's. That is talked about a
great deal. But l do believe that they
will do whatever is best to forever give
a back seat to Addicks. No one wants
to get an idea that there is any re-
Taxation of the fight on Addicks in my
state. Really the fight is just begin
ming and will continue until he Is no
longer a factor in politics in Delaware.
Nothing can call his fight Off"
Gives Up Husband for Job.
AS a result of the recent order of
Postmaster General Payne that after
the first of the year women employees
of the department who marry must
leave the service, a clerk in the de-
partment has given up her husband.
The woman said to her chief Of d.
vision:
MY husband and l have talked the
matter over and we could not figure
out how we could get along without
the two salaries. We have lived rather
independent of each other and have not
been particularly congenial, and we
agreed that the best thing to do was
to = parate.
Il cclld not TAX the risk Of dis
missal merely because l had a husband.
1t cannot now be said that / have any
one to support me, and in truth | am
now entirely ~dependen. upon my own
exertions."
The husband OF the clerk also has a
place in the postoffice department at
81 500 a year.