Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-01-09
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent, }

kfTOlu our Mex u1aT CORRESPONDENT
Washington, Jan. 5.-The criticisms
and protestations which have greeted
Senator Hoar's anti trust bill furnish
ample evidence of the unwllIingness
of Congress to carry into effect, in a
single instance, any of the recommen-
dations of the President in regard to
the control of the trusts. No sooner
had the terms of Mr. Hoar's bill been
made pnblic than Representative Jen-
kins. chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee, made public a statement in
which he declared that the trusts had
nothing to fear and the people nothing
to gain by the passage of the bill, which
was merely the old ideas rehabilitated
in new phra seology. The Hoar Bill
provides for the publicity so earnestly
advocated by the President and for
bids, under penalty of $1,000 fine or
not more than years imprisonment.
or both, combination in restraint of
trade, the selling of goods below a fair
market price for the purpose of de
stroying a competitor and the owner
ship by one corporation of the stock in
other corporations.
1t is evident from the views express
ed by senators and members of Con-
gress that the passage of the bill de-
ponds entirely On the dictum of the
trusts. Ii their attorneys advise them
that the bill will prove innocuous thew
will gladly see it passed with the hope
that. as was the case with the Sher-
man law, it will prove sop to popular
clamor. If, however, it is found that
it's passage will prove detrimental to
the interests of the trusts neither the
Senate nor the House will pass it. In
fact, the position of the House is fairly
we'll represented by the statement of
Mr.. Jenkins. That Mr.. Jenkins is op-
posed to all trust legislation has for
some time been apparent and even the
earnest efforts of Representative Lit
tlefield are destined to meet defeat at
Mr.. Jenkins hands, whom it is claim
ed, was selected as chairman of the
Judiciary committse because of his
known opposition to trust legislation.
Already the attention of the demo-
Gratis is turning to the possibilities of
1904. Realizing that the republicans
are afraid to enact any legislation in1
mical to the trusts and that the PEG
pie are daily growing more urgent in
behalf of such legislation, they argue
that the people will turn to the demo-
cratic party for relief in 1904, if a suf-
ticiently strong man heads the demo
cratic ticket. Three names are now
being generally discussed in this con.
nection, Judge Parker of New York.
Elk Secretary OIney and Senator Cor.
man. Senator Carmack pins his faith
to Judge Parker, who might havebeen
governor of New York this time had
he accepted the nomination. On the
other hand, there are many who would
pass the Judge by because he was I'm.
willing to make the race in. his own
state. Representative Underwood of
Alabama, recently told your CORES
pendent that be favored Mr.. Olney, as
a man who had demonstrated his abb
lily and had served his party well. He
said that Mr.. Olney had always been
regular" and he believed that he had
the confidence of the people generally
and of the business men of the coun-
try in particular. With regard to Mr..
Gorman's chances, doubtless much d..
ponds on the session of the Senate. His |
friends says that be will promptly as.
sumo the democratic leadership al d
will command so mr. aspect in that; |
positlon tnat ne wi the inevi-