Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-07
HEAR HOAR AND VEST
Senators Listen to Two Nota-
 ble Speeches.
TRUSTS AND PROTECTION ATTACKED
Senior Member From Massachusetts Argues For His Antitrust Bill. Missourian Favors Free Coal.
 House Passes Stan BiII.

House Passes Stan BiII.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The day in the senate was eventful because of a notable speech by Senator Hoar on his bill regulating trusts and an attack by Senator Vest on protected industries through the operation of the Dingley law. Senator Hoar's utterances were listened to with marked attention. He said that nearly all thoughtful men in Khis country are agreed that some legis- lation, state or national, ought to be had for the regulation and control of what are called trusts and of large masses of capital accumulated by cor porations or artificial persons holding property and conducting business with out individual liability. There was, he said, general feeling of insecurity and alarm about the matter, and we were dealing with real peril and not with a fancied or imaginary danger He argued that if his bill should become law and prove effective no corpora tion engaging in the commerce which Is within the Jurisdiction of congress can keep its condition a secret. The bill, he said, depends for its validity on the constitutional power of congress to regulate international and interstate commerce. Should the bill not prove effectual he contended that it would be easy to extend it's operation by impos- ing 6 like personal liability on every stockholder.
 Senator Vest used as a text for his remarks his resolution introduced Mon day instructing the committee on finance to prepare and report bill re- moving the duty on coal. Feeble in the extreme and supporting himself on his desk, he called attention to the condi- ton of distress which had arisen as result of the shortage in the coal sup ply. There was breathless silence in the chamber as he spoke, and every senator on the floor turned in his di- rection in order to catch his words. He said that the question was no longer partisan one, but one of humanity, and that we are not on the verge of crisis, but actually in 1t. He charged the Re, publican senators with being silent and dumb to the state of affairs, having on- ly In mind the party cry, Stand pat" He characterized the Dingley tariff act as a sacred elephant" with which nothing was to be done. He sarcas- ticaIly remarked that if the whole ques- ton was one of raising money for the next presidential campaign that was the end of the discussion. r
 At 4:30 the senate adjourned after a brief executive session.
 The house passed the bill for the creation of general staff for the army by a vote of 153 to B. By the terms of the bill it becomes the duty of the general staff to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobiliza- ton of the army in time of war, to 1n- vestigate and report on all questions affecting the efficiency of the service and to render professional aid to the secretary of war and to general off, cers and other superior commanders.
 The general staff corps is to consist of one chief of staff and two general officers, all to be detailed by the presi- dent from officers of the army at large not below the grade of brigadier gen. eral; four colonels, six lieutenant colo nels and twelve majors, twenty cap tains to be detailed from officers of the grade of captain or first lieutenant, who while so serving shall have the rank, pay and allowances of captains mounted.
 A number of bills of minor charac- ter were passed, the most important being one to increase the pension of soldiers totally deaf from $50 to $40 per month. ..