The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-12-12
NO EFFORT TO AMEND
The SHERMAN Law
Leading Republican Senators
Say Roosevelt Offers No
Concrete Suggestion.
U SOLID NO LONGER
Senator Pritchard Says North Carolina
Will Go Republican -Addicks'
Chances Go Giimmerins-One
Effect of Payne's Order.

VIII 1o republican -AddickS
Chances Go Giimmerins-One
Effect of Payne's Order.
Washington, Dec. S.-.As sentiment in
congress crystallizes on the subject OF
trust legislation it is beginning to- be
more and more apparent that no seri-
GUS effort will be made during the
present Sc. ion to amend the Sherman
act or adopt a joint resolution Tor 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.
eral and other lawyers of his cabinet,
has made a more complete mvestiga-
ton t~hansany inember,of' congress-, and
that his failure to suggest u single
scheme for amending the Sherman act
Is due to 'inabiiiryto his Part to 90 SO.
= Senator Hoar, chairman of the COM
mlttee on judiciary. said that while he
was in favor of enacting trust legisla-
ton hetdid not deem 1t 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
that he does not believe In
trust legislation. at all, or, at any rate,
his words We're, so construed by those
OF his colleagues who heard them.
Pritchard oh ""Lily White" Movement.
Senator Pritchard Of North Carolina.
who headed the Lilly White move-
ment in;that state, and later offered en-
couragementto the republicans OF Ala
baina 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
! proven by the returns OF the late cleo
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 a~Iconvention, North
Carolina will be as reliably republican
as Pennsylvania or Ohio, and there will
, be mo. question about the state giving
her electoral vote to Roosevelt in 1904.
Senator Pritchard 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
%squarely for the proposition that the
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 q
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 had threatened to
do. This was his privilege, Of course.
but his desertion of his party aroused
so much feeling, as to bring TO the sur
face an extraordinary proof Of his po-
litical perfidy. .u ,..I,-st ~. IL
There has been a runor 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 on to say,
Quay would be enabled to secure the
support Of he democrats. and 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 sue a let
ter, said:
lit is quite true there is such a let
ter in existence, and not only that, but
it is here in Washington. 1 have seen
and read it, and it ~substantiates
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 mex session Of the
Delaware Legislature, said: mi. Ad-
dicks will never be a senator from
Delaware by the vote of the legislature
that Is 10 meet in that state next
month. Whether a senator or two SEN
ators will be elected will be deter
mined later. l cannot say whether the
democrats and regular republicans will
join forces in the legislature and elect
two senators. That is talked about q
great deal. But l do believe that they
will do whatever is best to forever give
a pack seat to Addicks. No n 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 n will continue until he is no
longer a factor in politics in Delaware.
Nothing can call this fight off"
Gives Up Husband for Job. s*g
AS a result of the recent order 4,
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 di-
vision:
my husband and I have talked tba
,o1n r. Ar y nUar ~ "a n n /. ~