The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26
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Political Wiseacres Hazard
Guesses, but Show Wide
Conflict of Opinion.
WALL STREET MAY BE in
FOR A DISAPPOINTMENT
Department Lawyers Agreed on
Prediction That High Court
Will Rap Trusts.
BY RALPH M. wFIITEsIDB.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune
WASHINGTON. March 25.-washing
ton Is the home OF the rumor. One car
hear anything he wants to here on any
question. There are more people TO the
thousand at the nations capital who know
or think they do just what is going to
happen than any other place on the west
ern hemisphere.
Take the work OF the next session. for
instance. Here arc a few things 1 an,
informed which are surely going to hap
pen:
Congress will pass the Canadian reci-
procity treaty as 1t stands and adjourn.
Congress will rip tho wooden, cotton
and steel schedules 10 pieces before pass
ing the reciprocity agreement and will
refuse to pass that agreement at all il
President Tart vetoes the new tariff
schedules: the reciprocity agreement will
be loaded with tariff for revenue amend
ments. so that the president must agree
TO them or veto his pet measure.
Congress Will pass a general tariff law
on revenue basis.
AL OF these things are going to be done
according TO high authority.
As a matter OF fact, there is just one
certain thing: congress VIII meet in eX-
ira session April 4. Beyond this not
even the leaders themselves are certain
as TO what will be done.
Shaking Up in Senate.
There will be tho biggest shaking up
this session in committee arrangements in
the senate that has been seen In that
august body for many day. Practi
caly all the important committees have
been einasculated by the retirement, vol
UNFAIRLY or otherwise. OF the old time
leaders. There is likely 10 be n lively
time in the filling of these vacancies and
this may have an influence on legisla-
ton.
With the normal Republican majority
reduced 10 eight the radical insurgents
hold the balance OF power in the senate.
BY combining with either the Democrats
or the stand-patters they Will control The
situation. They know the game OF poll
tics from soup 10 nuts and may be de-
pended upon TO utilize their power to
place themselves. So far as committees
effective. Taking IL Dy and large. the
senate is going 10 be a mighty interest
ing body 10 watch Tor the next month
or so.
II is the belief Of practically every
lawyer in the department OF justice that
big business will he disappointed when
hands down its decisions in the oil and
tobacco antitrust cases Everything
they hear from Wall street is that big
business has been advised that there
Will be decisive construction OF the
antitrust law contained in the opinions
and that the great flnanciers are conf
dent the supreme court will lay down q
rule which VIII enable them to so shape
their operations that they will be free
from any apprehensions on the score OF
prosecutions under the antitrust law.
The departments lawyers believe that.
in the Wall street sense, there will be no
decisive construction OF that every
body. from Attorney General Wicker
sham down to the youngest special as
sistant, is fully convinced They base
their belief on Information and inference.
While the deliberations of the court are
secret there are ways by which lawyers
in the department may honestly come
by fairly accurate information as to the
ideas of the justices.
Wall Street Mistaken.
That information, with inferences they
arc able 10 draw from the utterances of