Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-21
58TH CONGRESS-.
Senate Completes Considera-
ton Of Sundry Civil Bill.
A Long Speech on the Trusts BY
Senator DoIIiver.
House Sends Naval Bill Back to Con.
ference.

Washington. April aO.-The Senate.
today. listened TO a set speech Of al
most two hours duration, on the trusts
by Dolliver. and completed considera-
ton of the sundry civil appropriation
bill, again devoting much time to the
provisions for an extension of the east
front of the Capitol and for and addi-
tional Office building for the Senate
The Office building amendment was
agreed to as reported from the COM
mittcc, but the extension paragraph
was SO modified as practically to pro-
vide for plans only. the appropriation
being reduced to $4,000.
At the regular opening of today's ses-
sion of the Senate, Hale from the
committee on appropriations. reported
het general deficiency bills with which
| the committee has to deal and taht he
would ask to have the bill considered
| as soon as other appropriation bills
| now in the calendar can be disposed of.
Warren from the committee on mill
| tary affairs stated that the military
| academy bill. the only appropriation
bill remaining unreported. had been re-
ferred to a subcommittee and gave rs
fore the other appropriation bills can
be passed.
Dubois introduced and the Senate
passed without comment resolution
|instructing the postmaster general TO
ascertain as far as possible for report
to Senate what. if any, postmaster in
Idaho are living in polygamy.
Messrs Dryden and German were APP
pointed visitors on behalf of the SEN
ate to the Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis. Deliver then addressed the Sen
ate on the trust question.
He referred the attitude of the demo-
cratic party toward the tariff SAYING
that for the first time In our national
history since 1916 the policy of protco-
ton stands approved. its enemies them
selves being the judges by the COM
| mon consent of the American people.
The attitude of Senator German and
representative John S. Williams on thu
| tariff was referred to at length. The
Dingley bill he said would be MEM
orable because of the universal employ
ment working forces of the country
the general level Of high wages the
multiplication of new Industries the
prosperity of the farm and the activity
of the domestic trade and the volume
ana net results of the foreign com
merce under it,
He defended republic an policies from
the charges that they fostered trusts
and contended that every trust is cir
culnscribed by natural laws which It
is impossible for them to over ride. Ona
of these laws for instance was the law
(gt yinnJln nj u.
Not even those which like the Ameri-
can sugar refining company have APP
preached most nearly to monopoly
arc exempt from that law. The trusts
watch more diligently than ever the
signs of the market. for they know
better than anybody else that their
profit it i'm the sale and not in the
manufacture of their goods.
He also spoke of the operation Of the
law of competition and said that all or
nearly all of these unwicldly creations Of
the Incorporating laws Of the country
would hc worn out BY the internal resist
anccS of the market place. cvcn ir they
represented n legitimate investment OF
honafdc capital.
He denounced speculative trusts. but ex-
pressed sympathy for business interests
which by reason of business conditions
were forced to combine in order to live
Continuing he said:
There is only one sense in which the
protective tariff can he held Responsible
for the trusts. and that is that without
tie protective tariff there would have
been fewer industries to combine and
therefore fewer combinations. So uni
formly has the approach of our tariff law
To the basis of free trade been accom-
panied by national prosperity that it's ac-
ccptancc now might safely be relied upon
to induce conditions which would effcctu-
ally discourage the trust movement
lie declared that the effect OF the abo-
lition of the tariff would be TO turn our
markets and our industries over to other
nations.
Mr.. Dolivcr in closing said we ap-
proach this presidential campaign united
in the bonds of our historic faith We
did not originate it. we inherited It from
our fathers.
IF changes are required to bring the
tariff law of 1897 into more perfect rela-
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