The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-10
SENATOR LOCKHART REPLIES
TO GOV. KITCHENS LETTER
That Gov Kitchn Did Not Want to Send Any Messafe
sslature Fsvorins Anti Trust Law-Representatives
v.,v.r and Gideweli Say Governor Went Back Oh His
Promises

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! trust. Legislation. His campaign
could have meant nothing les. In
stead OF pursuing that course. he
Joined hands with those xho opposed
Antitrust Legislation and secured
the enactment Of a bill which | and
others at all times denounced and
never endorsed. and which he per-
mitted Senator's 10 advocate in his
name. and which he afterwards en-
dorsed.
1t Is the duty OF the Senator to en-
force laws. On the 9th Of March.
| seven OF US members of the Senate
signed a protest stating that the
claim had freely been made that the
measure enacted had the endorse
ment Of the administration; that that
claim had never been denied; that il
was then up TO the administration TO
proceed.
1t Is late day for the Governor
to claim that I favored that bill or
that he favored stronger one. That
protest was published in the News
and Observer on March Eth, and is
as follows:
I'VE, the undersigned Senators
herewith submit our protest, hum
bic and respectful, against the action
Of the Senate in killing the substitute
| offered by the Senator from Arson
| upon the second reading Of the bill,
Senate bill No. 116 and the substi-
! tute offered by the Senator from An
son upon the third reading, upon
said bill, and the passage of the
worthless, toothless, useless bill
which was enacted into a law.
| 'The amendment offered would, in
North Carolina, have prevented mo-
nopoly; it would, if enacted into the
law, have prevented one set Of indi-
viduals or corporations from success
Efully carrying out any crime or con-
spiracy to Cypress other people, or
| deprive them in any manner of the
just proceeds of their labors. 1t
would not have interfered with any
| honest business nor have disturbed
| any proper employment, but it would
have said to those who, by superior
| power or greater wealth desired to
obtain that which was not justly
theirs, You shall not ply your nefa-
rious traffic within our borders nor
here acquire what is not your due
| ''The bill which was enacted into
law has been denominated as the
| Blowout Subterfuge'; this is scarce
| ly rank enough condemnation, it is
too bluff fake to be even called
that Baron Munhcausen in his an
nails conjured wild dreams. Dean
Smith in Gulliver's travels was en-
| abled to picture to us the Lilliputs,
the Brobdignags, the Homoygens and
! others equally as fantastic; De
Quincy in his memoirs pictures the
visitations that appear to those who
consume the product of the poppy,
but no man heretofore has possessed
the flights of imagination either ac-
tual or stimulated, so great as to
think of such a bill as we have pass
ed as being actually effective and op-
erative in the prosecution Or in the
destruction of any monopoly or any
trust. 1t is rot, it is stuff.
you Senators have given power
to the Attorney-General to examine
the books, papers and records of the
corporation, but you have by the de-
feat of the Spence amendment, re-
fused to give him the power to ask
of those officers and agents one
single question about the entries and
contents of those books, papers and
records or what they may mean.
"It is well known that there are
trusts operating in North Carolina.
Those who advocated this bill claim
that it meets the desires Of the ad-
ministration. That claim has not
been denied. Now, if it is a sufficient