The sun., 1903-01-11
TIE RIVAL TRUST.BUSTERS.
TRrCE BETWEEN BUSTER LITTLE.
FIELD AND BUSTER JENKINS.
The Maine Buster Temporarily Withdraws
Ills BiiI. Bclnx Assured Tt,at the Com.
n,Ittee. instead Of Itcp0rting Back the
Knox Bllis. win incorporate some OF
Their Provisions In the Litticfeld Btll.

truce has been declared between the rival
xould-be trust busters OF the House of
Rcora>entativeS Ths two warning fac.
ton, Of the Judiciary Committee who
claim the honor OF being reco ,nized as
trust.bustels by the authority Of the Ad-
,nini,traiion. the one under the lead Of
Charles Edgar Littletield of Maine, and the
other led by John James Jenkins Of Wis
con~n. will make a determined Effort In
the meantime. pro bono pubIico, to swallow
their pride as well as their convictions and
10 map out n campaign Of harmony. the
result Of which will be the framing Of some
kind Of gcne"1l IL around trust-buster.
# they succeei ''lr b i'll be reported
e. the House with srDrova, OF the
whole committee and .or the nominal
leadership, of course. OF Chairman Jon-
kin, But II II Is found that the feelings
of Buster Lttlef,ld's subcommittee have
been ,red beyond repair by the thought
les action OF the Attorney(ieneral In
handing his bill to Buster jenkins to pre-
sent 70 the House. instead of requiring
Buster Littefeld to perform that per-
fIncr ory duty. the pour parlers. as they
sav in tho State Department, will ioe dis
continued and the war in the committee
room will go on
The committee met this morning, ac-
cordinz to an order made before the Ad-
niui,tration's d. blast was sounded
And had it not ~ that blast a trust
busting measui Al have been at once
reported TO the dI committee so radical
h. il, provisions that it must Of necessity
have been acceptable to the most deter
mined and irreco cl1ble trust-buster in
b,. LAa roxl
by the industry and wisdom Of Buster
Littlefelds subcommittee. ar. to use the
expression of one OF them this morning.
III was lust a peach OF trust-buster.'
Il was drawn with such care and in such
great detail that not the largest or the
smallest trust in the United States could
hope to escape being busted, no matter
how hard it might try.
And the keynote of II all was publicity.
Publicity is what President Roosevelt
suggested in his trust-busting speeches.
and recommended in his trust busting
message to Congress. And publicity Is
VIII ( the bill Of Buster Littleheld's sub
committee proposed to give them. But
having pa tislly recovered this morning
from th,. shock Of yesterday, when they
read in the newspa pers about Chairman
Jenkins's trust-busters that make no refer
ence to publicity. the sub-committee lost
a little Of their he no mitted that they
viewed the subje, no" more In sorrow
thsn in ger. They. therefore, agreed
for the sehe Of encbiing the members of
the Republican party in the House OF hep
resentetivcs to dwell together In that spirit
of unity which is always beco ming to states
men, whether they are trust busters or not.
TO put their little trust-buster back In the
pigeonhole for a few days, so that when II
emerRes for the second time II will bear
the imprint. however faint. OF the Admins
tration's approval.
Buster Littlefeld his n idea Of allowing
Buster jenkins to walk away with the laurel
wreath that was self placed upon his own
brow lest spring. and he means to see to 1t
the judiciary Committee to the House Of
Representatives il will be plain. even to
blind man, that Charles Edgar Littefeld
end his sub-committee ere the authors OF
it and not John James jenkins, who, when
he dropped the Attorney-(ieneraTs bills
into the h ,pper in such a way that the House
did not becomC q are of the fact until after
the newsps pcrs aid. swallowed his own
oft-expressed belief that the Constitution
must be busted before the trusts could be.
and declared that he would stand for the
Administrations programme.
In order to soften the anger and lessen
the sorrow Of Chairman Little field and his
sub-o ommittee. the semi oftt ial announce
ment is now made that the Auorney-tien.
erals bills were not intended as the exact
formal wording of the buster or busters
that the Horse Of Representatives are ex,
pected TO edopt, but was merely INTENDED
as suggestions for the guidance OF the COM
uittee in it's wo
cue, and instead of reporting bae the
Knox bills. they will probably inc orporate
some Of their provisions in the Littleheld
buster, already prepared. and put the whole
thing into the House in the shape OF one
complete. comprehensive and IN every way,
branch Of the subject and provide Tor every
contin gency. 80 that no trust in all the land,
great OF small, can ESQ ape its penalties.
The new bill will be ready to be voted
upon in the committee and reported 70
the House in about ten days and the Re
publican leaders win then set to Work TO
arrange a pr ogremme for it's consideration
and passage under a special rule;
There is no doubt that the Presidents
announcement that an extra session OF the
new Congress will be called II the present
one fails to enact trust buster. has oaused
the belief to become quite general IN both
houses OF Congress that some action on
the trust question will be taken me situ-
alton is comparatively simple IN me house
of Representatives, but what will happen
,o any trust buster that they may send
over to the Senate it is not easy 10
foretall 49,
Whether the Senate will proceed TO con.
slider the House bill or get up buster OF
It's own is VI cert ain. 1t is not Impossible.
however. that the preliminary step OF what
ever measure is to be considered VIII be
n skirmish over the right Of the Judiciary
Committee to consider any bill on the trust
busting subject. II Ia possible that the
Committee on Interstate Commerce, OF
which the Hon. Stephen Benton Elkms OF
West Virginia Is chairman, may put IN
claim for the honor OF tackling the question
Of trus, busting.
As all OF the bills 50 far talked OF relate
directly to the ques, ion Of interstate COM
merce, and as il il this feature OF the ques-
ton that is dwelt on most particularly
by the President and the .A'torney-Gen-
eral in their various public utterances,
there il Just ification for the claim that
the Committee on Interstate Commerce
and not the G ,mmi,tee on the Judiciary
should have jurisdiction over the subject.
senator Elkins may not be as much OF a
trust -b,ister as Senator Hoar, but ne is
generally quite "a successful in passing
through his committee and through the
Sehate Lills in which he is particularly in-
'orcsted Moreover, he has reputation
Tor skill in not passing those to which he
l. opposed
preventative Grosvenor, one OF the
Members of the Committee Oh Rules, said
Tonight thst that committee would re-
port A resolution ine.aii.S sccctr' crdfr