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DID OIL KING WIRE?
SENATORS MAY NEVER HAVE RE-
CEINED ROCKEFELLER
TELEGRAMS.
DEMOCRATS DOUBT STORY.
SOUNDS LIKE \ TRUST ROMANCE
TO BALL.

Congressman from Texas Does not
Relieve That Any Trust Mngnnte
Would Raise Protest Against Bills
No More Harmful TO Trusts Than
Soothing syrup - Richardson, OF
Alabama, Also Jumped ON Depart
mcnt of Commerce Bill, but IL
Passed without Trouble - Nelson
Amendment DeIusion and snare.
Washington, Feb. 10.-The House to-
day adopted the conference report upon
the Department of Commerce bill by
a vote of 251 to 10. One Republican,
Mr.. Littlefeld, of Maine. and nine
Democrats, voted against this action.
When the report was presented, Mr..
Richardson of Alabama said he did not
believe the Nelson amendment was
aimed at the trusts. He said it was "a
travesty upon what it claimed to be.
1t was. he said, an ltra-dilutioned
dose" Its purpose. he declared, was
not to authorize the President to pro-
coed against the trusts, but simply to
secure information upon which he
could base recommendations.
This, he said, was a puerile re-
Spouse to the bold threats which We're
heralded abroad that an extra session
would be called, unless effective legis-
lation were enacted. 1t was a pretext
and a subterfuge. He called attention
to the language of the amendment
that the information obtained by the
of Sc, oh,
thereof as the President shall direct
shall be made public" Was that the
vaunted publicity, he asked. He did
not doubt the honesty of the present
executive. he said, but suppose another
man more friendly to trusts should be
elected. Then. what would the Mel
son amendment amount to? He con-
cluded by saying that the amendment
was artistically framed to defeat what
the people wanted-proper regulation
of the trusts.
Were kilograms Sents
Mr.. Ball of Texas. who followed Mr..
Richardson, ridiculed the programme OF
the administration regarding antitrust
| legislation. The administration, he
said, was represented as anxious to Sc
cure the passage of the Nelson and
| Elkins bills, and 1t was pretended that
the Standard Oil Company was sending
kilograms to prominent senators against
their passage. He did not believe it.
Il do not believe" Mr.. Ball said,
that John d. Rockefeller, or any other
trust magnate, has raised a protest
against the homeopathic doses in those
bills. They are no more harmful to
trusts than would be Mrs. Winslow's
soothing syrup"
DelusiOn and Snare.
Mr.. Adamson of Georgia said that
while he realized the Nelson amend
ment was a delusion and a snare, thin
ner than thin air. yet as notice had
been served that it was the only meas
ure on the programme of the trust
busters" it would receive his vote
The previous question was then or
dered, and the roll was called on the
adoption of the conference report.
The report was adopted, 251 to 10,
Those voting in the negative We're:
DeArmond, Democrat, of Missouri;
Fleming, Democrat. of Georgia; Les
ter, Democrat. of Georgia; Littlefield,
Republican. of Maine; Little, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas Reid, Democrat, of
Arkansas; Robertson, Democrat, of
Louisiana; Shackleford, Democrat, of
Missouri, and Vandiver, Democrat, of
Missouri.
Several Democrats took the position
that the Nelson amendment to the Blu
reau of Corporations was a weak and
Intellectual attempt to provide the ma
chinery for corporation publicity. Mr.
Mann Of Illinois, on behalf of the Re-
publicans, commended, on the contrary,
that 1t was better measure of public
ity than had been presented in any
her hill