The San Francisco call., 1903-01-19
NTI-TRUsT BILL
IS ABOUT READY
House Sub Committee
Expects to Report
1T Tuesday.
indications Are That Cuban
Treaty Will Occupy Time
Of Senate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The indica-
uons are that the present week will wit
ness the passage by the House of the anti
trust measures prepared by the Judiciary
Committee. The subcommittee which is
at work OF the bill expects to have II
ready to report 70 The full committee on
Tuesday and no delay is expected in the
full committee Il is still possible that a
separate measure viii be reported to
cover the publicity features AS soon
as the measures are reported everything
else will be sideUacked and they will be
brought into the House The question
Of opening the bill to amendment presents
many difficulties and in order TO prevent
a HCod OF propositions of all sorts the
rule probably will limit the amendments
az ieast to those pending When the time
allotted for consideration expires
Appropriation bills probably will occu-
py the time of the House 10 the exclusion
Of everything else If the antitrust bill
does not appear in the arena.
The statehood bill, the immigration bill
and the Cuban reciprocity treaty will vie
with each other in demanding the atten-
ton of the Senate during the present
week and the probabilities are that be-
fore the close of the week all of them will
be displaced temporarily by the legisla-
tive, executive and judiciary appropria-
tiOn bills The laSt-named measure has
been under consideration at the hands of
a subcommittee of the Senate Committee
on Appropriations for the past two weeks
and viii be laid before the full committee
tomorrow. Senator Allison chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations, has
given notice that he will resist all fur
ther efforts to secure adjournment of
the Senate from Thursday TO Monday, as
all the supply bills yet remain TO be
passed. The fact that Senator Cullom as
chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations has given notice that he will
ask the Senate TO go into executive ses-
sion on Monday to consider the Cuban
treaty does mot mean that there will be
any clash at that time between the treaty
and statehood bills. 1t is probable that
the treaty will be given the preference
The present indications that the Gu
ban treaty will be before the Senate for
some time to come.
After o'clock tomorrow Senator For
al1er will continue his speech in support
of the omnibus statehood bill He will be
followed by Senator Burnham in opposi-
ton. who will speak for two or three
days. All efforts looking to a compromise
on the statehood bill appear for the time
I to have been abandoned and both sides
now claim that il is their purpose to
fight il out on the lines already drawn
The opponents of the bill profess conf
dence in their ability to continue the pres
ent speech making as long as necessary
to accomplish its defeat for the present
session The friends of the measure eX-
press confidence that they will secure a
vote before the close of the session.
It was expected that the passage of the
bill removing the duty on anthracite coal
would prevent further discussion of this
subject. but some Republican Senators
have indicated a desire to reply TO the
remarks of Messrs. Vest and Tillman and
if they adhere to their decision a pretty
sharp tariff debate. not unmixed with ref
erence to the trusts, may be precipitated
at any time.