The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-02-05
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senate Invites Suggestions Re
garding the Regulation
OF Trusts.

antitrust legislative programme, mem.
bers Of committees OF the house and
senate predicted that the bills sug.
gested in President Wilson's message
would be ready for congress before
March /.
Hearings before the house judiciary
and interstate committees, 1t was an.
nouAced, would be prolonged and the
senate interstate commerce commit
tee, with the approval Of the president
will receive suggestions by mail from
men Of affairs interested in the sub
3ect instead OF conducting formal hear
ings.
Besides giving the trade commission
authority to regulate the size of cor,
poratfons. Senator Cummins has pro
posed amendments which would also
empower it to determine whether any
person or corporation is violating the
law with respect to sales below actual
cost for the purpose of inflicting in
jury upon a competitor, and whether
any corporation is violating the law
with respect to the amount OF its capi
talixation as compared with the value
Of its property.
Monopoly Of Wires Urged.
Government monopolization of tele
graph, telephones and wireless com
munication, and such other means OF
transmission of intelligence as may
hereafter develop" is recommended
In q report submitted to the senate
by Postmaster-GeneralB BurleDn.
Immediate government ownership OF
telephone lines is recommended. with
q system of license for the other agen
cies of communication, establishing Q
government monopoly even where
there is not actual ownership.
The report recommends immediate
acquisition by purchase at appraised
value of the commercial telephone
network" except the farmer lines.
Waiting Treaties Ready for Action
Responding to President Wilson'S
appeal, made at the white house con
ference last week, the senate commit
tee on foreign relations ordered -
vorsble report ON q large number OF
arbitration treaties between the Unit
ed States and the leading countries
Of the world.
The far-reaching character OF this
group of treaties is shown by the long
list of first-rate powers with which
they are made, including most OF the
great powers OF Europe. South Ameri
ca and the orient.
Aside from the importance OF these
treaties in the cause OF arbitration
some of them have a larger signifi
canoe in affecting the political and IN
dustrial relations between the United
States and other countries.
Women disagree in Fight For Bill
Suffragist leaders are divided ovei
the proper methods to pursue IN tnen
campaign for universal suffrage
amendment to the constitution. The
National Suffrage association, led D.!
Mrs. Medill Mccormick, is opposed to
militant tactics advocated by the con
Rressional union under the Leadership
of Misses Lucy Burns and Alice Paui
who trained under Mrs. Pankhurst III
England. Some of those interested IL
the campaign are striving to make int
suffrage question a partisan poEtica
issue. in the hope Of forcing the demo
cratic majority in congress TO pu'
through a bill granting the women INT
right to vote at congressional anu
senatorial elections in all states, oi
~,se to pass a resolution looking u
an equal suffrage amendment 10 tnt
federal constitution.
National Capital orsvities.
A total OF s3O5. 900. 900 is provided
for in the record rd-bresking postoliics
appropriation bill passed by the mouse
The house passed the annual fortlli
cations bill, calling for $6,l7s.2oo io'
use In the country's defenses.
bill in equity to dissolve the Amer
lean Smelling & Refining company IL
being drawn by the department %
tustice according to reports
Omission of Asiatic exclusion IRON
,be Burnett immigration bill precipi
tated lively discussion in the house
The Observation-Disclosures Dill au
,oorixiug the construction OF the fort
,and.yancouver bridge across the 70
,umbia river has passed the senate
sud now goes to the president Tor sie
nature. ,p
with assurance that the place VIII
no accepted, President Wilson SEN
- tho senate the formal nomihat'oi
=, colonel Goethsls to be governor u
the canal zone. .,,,rsd h,
The senate was much stirred u'
.,s charge of Senator Lane. OF oregon
.ns, rsport Of the interstate co@@src.