Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-07-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondence

W ic'-'
Editor Press
'"There is absolutely nothing in
the Democratic claim that the Re-
publican party cannot make good'
their promises in regard to the
trusts and the Panama canaP' said
Senator Foraker, whom | met at
the temporary White House on
Friday. "On the contrary,
believe that Congress will warmly
support the President in his desire
to secure legislation which will
enable the government to curb the
tendency of certain trusts to adj
vance prices beyond reason. / am
not prepared to say that all trusts
are pernicious and | have never
heard the President make such q
claim. The Sugar Trust, for in
stance, has materially reduced the
price of sugar to the consumer and
at the same time has employed a
large number of American working
men at good wages. The Standard
Oil Company has reduced the price
of oil to the consumer to the
minimum. 1t stands to reason
that institutions doing q large
business can afford to employ
experts in all their departments and
with their help reduce the cost of
production to the lowest figure and
at the same time realize the greatest
returns from the by-products. The
Beef Trust, on the other hand, has
brought public condemnation on
itself, and as q result the federal
government is now prosecuting it
in the courts. If the Attorney
General deems the present law
indequate to enable him to accomp-
lish proper supervision and Re-
straint over the trusts, Congress
will stand ready to uphold his
hands oy the enactment of legisla-
tion which will prove eflicien4."
Referring to the Canal, Senator
Foraker said that, in as far as he
has been informed, everything
possible was being done to facilitate
its construction and that he be-
lieved there was nothing but
demagogery back of democratic
claims to the contrary. The Sena-
tor frankly admitted that there was
a time when he feared that the
democrats might gain control of
the House at the fall elections but
stated that now he had every
confidence that such would not be
the case. He regarded the demo-
cratic handling of the Philippine
question as bongling and offensive
to the people. He said that the
remarks of Senator Spooner, on the
last day of the session, represented
the position of nine-tenths of the
people of the United States who
stoood ready to repudiate the
condemnation of the army for
political purposes.
Greatinterest attaches, in Wash
ington, to the statement of Senator
Burton of Kansas, made at Topeka
a week ago to-day, in which he said
that, had thirty-fve Republican
Senators come to the beet sugar
senators and said: "We are going
to pass that bilF', meaning the
Cuban Reciprocity Bill, they
could have done so," Senator
Burton also said: "There are not
fifteen Republican Senators out of
the fifty-four who are in favor of the
present bill, at heart" The charge
is made that either a number of
senators played the part of traitors,
appearing to take sides with the
President when they were really op-
posed to his policy, or else Senator
Burton is vastly mistaken in his
statement and there is some talk of
"round robin" requesting the
Kansas Senator to make good his
allegation by the publication of the
names of those whom he claims
encouraged the beet sugar Senators
to hold out.