Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-05
WILL FIGHT TRUSTS
President in Earnest in War
on Them.
BILL IN CONSIDERATION
CONFERENCE WITH MESSRS
KNOX AND LITTLEFIELD.
Latter Will Draft Measure to Be
introduced in the Next
Congress.
BILL IN CONSIDERATION
Special From a star Correspondent.

| Special From a Star Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, July 5.-President
Roosevelt's remarks on the trust question
at Pittsburg yesterday were not without
great significance. The fact is that the
President is going to steadily hammer
away at the trust question and hopes that
at the next session of Congress some def
mite legislation may be achieved that will
meet the views of the people OF the coun-
try. The President and Attorney General
Knox have talked over the trust question
with Representative LAttleheld of Maine.
and have requested him to give the subject
his most earnest attention during the re-
cess of Congress. with view of presenting
to the next session OF Congress bin that
will have back of it the influence of the
administration.
The details Of this proposed bill have not
been agreed upon. but Mr.. Littlefeld is now
working upon the subject. the Presidents
suggestions to him being that the measure
shall seek to both supervise and regulate
the trusts. He believes also that the meas
ure should provide for publicity Of the busi-
hess Of the great combinations
Favors a Conservative Course.
The President at Pittsburg, disclaimed
any desire to see demagogic legislation on
this great question, but he earnestly be-
lieves that there s a middle ground between
the demands of the agitators and the de
sires of the money power OF the country,
that there shall be no legislation OF any
kind The President has told his friends
that one class of people in the country 60
| 50 far as TO desire legislation that would
| create a revolution In financial circles. The
| other class that which controls the money
| combinations, is violently opposed to any
! change in existing conditions. Between
hes fayn 81 a h4a
! take earnest. and active ground. lie viii
| proceed along conservative lines, hut with
| that firmness and consistency which char
| acterizes his adherence to any question
! when once his mind is made up.
Attorney General Knox is not public
| speaker, and never made a political speech
in his life, but he Will make two or three
| speeches this fall. The trust question VIII
| be the paramount one in his remarks. The
| Attorney General is in most hearty accord
| with the views of the President and the
| bill to be presented TO Congress at the be-
| ginning of the next session by Representa-
! tive Littlefield will have upon II the official
! stamp OF Attorney General Knox. With
two such eminent lawyers as Knox and
| Lialefeld preparing a bill there is promise
| of some definite legislation. The President
| has not hesitated TO say that when he
! touched upon the trust question In his last
| annual message It was not his intention
| that the subject should rest with that.
Bill Unavoidably Postponed.
| Other great queSllONs' HONtNei' 4itcA-
yened during the session OF Congress to
prevent his comforting with the leaders as
to what might be done, and he was con-
tent to let the matter go over TO the next
session only upon the understanding that
by that time there should have been done
| great deal of work in getting together a
! bill that would demand strong support.
! The Presidents determination on this ques-
! tion is going to take away from the demo-
| Gratis a good part of the material they had
| expected for campaign use. The President
/ is going to devote more attention 70 the
subject in his speeches this fall ana ne IN
! tends TO push the question to settlement
| by Congress.
The President will reach Oyster Bay
| about o'clock this afternoon. He passed
! through Philadelphia on his return from
| Pittsburg after noon today. The tram left
| Pittsburg at O'Clock this morning and mas
stopped al only three places between there
| and here. Altoona was reached early this
| morning. At Harrisburg there were few
| people in the station. The President got
| off the train and walked up and down the
station with Attorney General Knox lie
shook hands with the engineer and fireman
| of the engine that pulled the train to Phila-
| delphia. Lancaster was the third stop and
| a hundred so people were there. They
! cheered the President heartily and wanted
him to make q speech. When he said that
| he had talked at Pittsburg yesterday the
! crowd continued to ask for something and
! several men suggested that II he cldnt
| want to talk to stand still and let the boys
| look at him. He smiled at this sally and
| waved adieu the train pulled out.
Pleased With His Reception.
The President is pleased with the cordial
reception given him at Pittsburg. This
trip and others taken by President Roose-
| welt show conciusively the handshaking
business on a wholesale plan will be cut
out of all future presidential tours. Secre-
tary Cortelyou will not consent TO any
| more of II. He tried to prevent 1t during
the last part of President McKinley's ad-
ministration. On the long trip to Califor-
MIA last year handshaking and receptions
were avoided, but when the people insisted
President Mckinley always gave way. This
| desire to accommodate the people led TO his
assassination at Buffalo. Mr.. Cortelyou Will
not listen to suggestions for receptions and
handshakings. President Roosevelt did not
shake hands with two hundred people at
| Pittsburg. Mr. Cortelyou believes I'm ar
| ranging these things so tnat everybody can
see the President. but that he can have
some rest from the fatigue of handshak-
ing.
The secret service office in Washington
continues to take thorough precautions for
! the President without his knowledge. Five
secret service men came along with the
train from Pittsburg. Two or three of them
had been sent to that city on duty, and
came away when the President left. A
number of them giil be stationed al Oyster
Bay until the Presidents plans are so SET
tied that two or three men can keep an eye
on his movements. At Washington only
one man was needed In the White House
while the President was In his office. At
Oyster Bay he will be out great deal, and
two or three detectives will have their
hands full in keeping up with him and talk
ing observations OF the strangers who
come into town. The President is glad to
get with his family, and spoke of his feel
ings in the few words uttered at Lancaster
He and Secretary Cortelyou will handle
much executive business at Oyster Bay,
but he will not be too busy to spend much
time with his family. w. W. p.
Celebrated Fourth at Sea.
NEW YORK July 5-The American Line