Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-19
h The Halls of Congress
BY TAV.
Special Washingtop Correspondence.

getting to be an old man. have seen the great corporations and the trusts and combinations grow in this country at rapid and e-nigh irresistible pace, and they will grow faster and faster until we shall be absolutely helpless unless we adhere faithfully to the provisions of the antitrust law. The pending railroad regulation bill will give the railroad companies immunity from the antitrust law and will confer on them unlimited power to effect mergers. I for one can never consent to such legislation
 in what was probably the most remarkable speech in his career, United States Senator hnute Nelson of Minnesota thus spoke of the Taft Wlckersham railroad regulation bill. Thar such an attack should be made by republican senator upon bill which the president has de- clared to represent true republican policy and doctrine, and support of which Attorney General Wlckersham and all the reactionaries have de- clared IS test of true republicanism, indicates how far apart the stalwarts and progressives really are.
 The Minnesota senator was listened to with marked attention. The reactionares were SO amazed they forgot to even make interruptions, as IS customery when progressive republicans have the floor. It was obvious that Senator Nel son was deeply impressed with forebodings of disaster to the nation in the event of the pass age of such bills as the one under consideration. that the speech was strangely effective The oc- cupants of the galleries silent and attentive and all eyes were centered upon the picturesque Minnesotan.
 Senator Nelson related how the western sec tion of the country had suffered under railroad oppression and the long fight that had been made, until the legislation of 1906 was formed Iloc Ho toll, Jof+ +Lo law as the shield which had been created to pro- tee the public against further oppression by trusts and combinations of all sorts, and then proceeded to show how the pending bill purposes to destroy that protection and to give the rail roads unrestricted power to resume their op- lpressive methods
 "I If we are not wise,'' warned the Minnesota | senator, If we are no wiser than the French were in the days of Louis XIV and Louis XVI and allow these trusts and mopoloies to grow and go on untrammeled the day will come-it will not be in our day, but the day will come when the American people will resort to revo- lution as the people of France had to do, but it will be peaceful revolution-an American rev olutlon-not as violent and repulsve as the French, but as thorough and effective in its re- suits.
 "Mr. President, I am very much obliged to the senators for listening to me without inter rupting me. My opinion of this bill as it came here from the committee in the first instance is that Ill essence its chief aim was to protect the railroads against the antitrust law I can come to no other conclusion, and being a plain, blunt man, 1 can not help expressing this opinion in this chamber and before this body.'
 Many reports are being received in Washing ton to the effect that the amount of democratic sentiment that has developed in the New Eng land states since the passage of the Payne Aid rich bill is little less than astounding The fol- lowing letter from resident of Torrington, Conn.,, is a sample of many similar letters: ''I live in Representative E. J. Hills district and our town generally gives MT. Hill 1900 to 1900 majority, it being one of the strongest republi- | can towns in the district for its size But we have just had our annual spring election and for the first time in the history of the borough the entire republican ticket was defeated, which I think is very good sign of how the people of Connecticut feel toward the Payne Aldrich law. I believe MT. Hills place will be filled by dem ocrat if a good live campaign is carried out this fall''
 United States Attorney General Wickersham was once more revealed as having dropped an important suit against corporations when Sen ,ator LaFOllette had concluded his speech against | the Taft -Wickersham railroad regulation bill The speech was chiefly the story of monopoza- tion of transportation facilities throughout New | England by the New York New Haven &