Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-01

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most notable bill of this sort that has
been present was offered by Senator
Nelson The. wording of the amend
ment he proposes is as follows:
Congress shall have power to de-
fine, regulate, prohibit or dissolve
trusts, monopolies or combinations,
whether existing in the form of cor
poration or otherwise; congress shall
also have power to license, regulate,
and control all corporations engaged
in trade, commerce or other business
among the several states or with for
eign nations"
Senator Nelson has also presented
a bill for amending the Sherman law
not believing, as does Col. Hepburn,
be effective. This bill makes all mer-
gers or combinations in restraint of
trade illegal, and provides punish
ment for the offense by fine of $10,
600 or imprisonment for one year or
both against each person engaged in
the combination. The bill also pro-
hibits all attempts to monopolize any
part of the trade of the several states
or territories providing fine of $4,000
or Imprisonment for one year in each
case. 1t also contains strong clause
for publicity. 1t is said that some
senators are in favor of amending the
Hepburn bill along these lines when
it reaches the senate, which it will
probably do soon after congress re-
convenes.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 30-In the
opinion of many the Venezuelan con-
troversy has shown one thing conclu-
sively. That is that Emperor William
of Germany is looking for favorable
opportunity to make war on the Mon
roe doctrine and IL possible relegate
it to the past not because Emperor
William is unfrendly to the United
States, but because his monarchlcal
ideas do not approve of such policy
as the Monroe doctrine. These ideas
are beginning to have their effect on
the members of the house committee
on naval affairs. To protect the Mon
roe doctrine the United States must
have strong navy. A few days ago
the committee was inclined to d1sre-
gard the recommendations OF Secreta-
ry Moody and were not going to pro-
vide for any more ships in the coming
appropriation bill. 1t is now declared,
however, that not only will an IN
crease in the personnel OF the navy be
provided for but also more ships. The
sentiment in favor of building strong
navy, the strongest in the world,
seems to be rapidly taking hold OF
congress. 1t can not be done in a
year or several years, but the idea is
that the start should be made at once.
1t now looks as though William
Randolph Hearst of the New York
Journal and Chicago American, has
entered the political game "for keeps"
He is said to be candidate for the
democratic senatorial nomination at
Albany this winter and it seems not
unlikely that he may win that empty
honor 1t is understood that Mr.. Hill
does not want the nomination and that
the Hon. Bird S. Coler has probably;
had enough nominations to last him
for while. Still it is considered inn
probable that Mr.. Hill will sit idly by
and permit Mr. Hearst to carry off all
the democratic honors in sight in New
| York. If Mr. Hearst is made the nomi-
nee for senator this year it is predict
ed that he will demand the guberna-
torial nomination in 1904, and this
would not suit Mr. Hill at all, unless,
| of course, he has forced political
partnership with the statesman-jo Jour
nalist. If such partnership has been
struck it will be made manifest by
the editors attitude toward Mr. Hills
presidential aspirations in 1904. There
| l,rt M II p,,et
is looking wistfully at the mantle worn
| by William Jennings Bryan for six
years and if this is SO it means that
Mr.. Hill will have a hard time from
now until the democratic national
| leadership is settled. Mr.. Hearst re
ceived about 1000 more votes than
were ever cast for congressional
candidate in his >.strict and it is said
that he regards this as evidence that
he is held in public esteem as real
tribune to the people.
What is believed to be the longest
word in the English language has
| been discovered in a recent publica-
ton of the census Office. 1t occurs in
volume containing a digest of the
most important patents granted chem
ical compounds. Hydrotriamididime-
| thylphenylacrididine 1t is sort of
stuff that produces greenish yellow
when applied to cotton. From the
name one might imagine its effect
would be more violent. The number
of the patent is 395,0S0 and it was
granted December 25, 1888. This is
the way it comes about: 1t is an am
| idobenzoflavine dyestuff produced
from midoditolphenylmeth by
Transforming the Understandable
ylphenylmethan into pantaamidodito-
| lyphenylmethan then into hydrotriami-
methylphenylacridine, and finally
into the amidobenzoflavine. AT least
that's what the bulletin says.
Patent Office officials say that per-
petual motion never will be discovered
because there is no such thing. How
ever this does not deter hundreds Of
would-be inventors from trying for it
every year. In talking with one Of the
division chiefs the other day he re-
marked: THE perpetual motion
crank is with us always, knocking at
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