Gilpin observer., 1903-03-05

cussion of the Eight Hour Labor bill.
He mas prevented any discussion OF the
tariff schedules SO profitable to the
Pennsylvania interests which retein him
in the Senate. He has prevented con
sideratlon of the Littletield snti-trust
bill now on the Senate calander and
which contains the only adequate anti
trust legislation proposed at this session
of Congress These are a few OF the
ends which Mr.. Quay has accomplished
by enlisting the democrats and few
republicans in the Statehood fight and
then abandoning them at the eleventh
hour to subscribe to an impossible COM
promise bill. The democrats have at
least found out they they have been
made the puppets of the willy senator
from. Pennsylvania,
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Material progress has been made by
the House during the past week in the
clearing Of it's calendar. All the appro-
priation bill have nov been sent to the
Senate. The Philippine coinage bill has
been accepted and the Fowler currency
bill, which has no chance in the Senate,
is now under consideration The. Sen
ate appropriation committee has dis
carded the House provisions fer com
pleting the Capitol and erecting an of
fee building for representatives and it
is known il they can be saved in con-
Tho Ia rich hill q
under consideration by the Senate and
and the House leaders assure your cor
respondent that if the measure is passed
by the upper chamber it will be enacted
by the House. The bill receives no
sympathy from the democrats although
they may permit it to pass. 1t meets
with their disapproval because it is a
makeshift to correct condition of af-
fairs which should not exist. A pro-
tective tariff bill with rates far in excess
of what they should be continues to
take from the people, in tho form OF
tariff taxes, great annual surplus and
store it the Treasury. The logical
remedy would be the reduction OF the
tariff but that is opposed by the pro-
tected interests who are waxing rich on
the spoils drawn from the people. So
therefore. Mr.. Aldrich, with view to
preventing in somo measure the evil
consequences to commerce and industry
thus arising. proposes to establish
method whereby the Secretary of State
can restore to circulation, by means
Of loans to the banka, the funds un-
necessarily and wrongfully collected
from the consumers.
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A decision just renderd by the Su-
preme Court in regard to lotteries is re-
Rarded Of the utmost Importance in de-
fining the power OF the Federal govern
nent over interstate comerce. Without
going into tiresome, technical details it
may be said that by the decision, Con-
,ress may exclude from interstate COM ,
merce any commodity which it may deem
prejudicial to the public welfare and
hat its motives are beyond Judicial in
luiry. This decision must destroy the
ts OF those who have ridiculed
al attempts at anti trust legislation
through the interstate commerce. OF the
as being unconstitutional.
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It will be matter OF relief to most |
democrats and t, an immense numbers
4 republicans to know that the Ship
Subsidy bill has finally been killed. This
md was accomplished by Senator Han
la's iusistanco that the house committee
AXE vote on the bill, something it has
voided for more than year. The vote
L the committee was ten to six, two
emocrats being taken from sick beds to
he Capitol TO vote against it. to the ut
or consternation OF Mr.. Hanna, who
'ss Counting on their absence to secure
favorable report