The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-25
make NO PROGRESS
ON TRUST PROGRAM
Members OF Senate Committee Find
Little Common Ground
for Agreement.
ANOTHER APPEAL TO WILSON
May Be Made in Effort to Get His
Consent to Curtail Legislation So
That Senators Can Go Homo and
Return Prepared to Act Wisely.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.]

Washington. June 24-After ten
days consideration of the Clayton anti
trust bill passed by the House. the
Senate Judiciary Committee tonight
as to what II shall report to the SEN
ate than It was the day II took It's
first look at the measure.
Members of the committee have
round little common ground for prohi-
billion of interlocking directoratcs and
holding companies. and they have not
finally agreed on how to prevent price
fixing. The so-called labor sections
have led to endless arguments. The
prospect for an early agreement, some
members of the committee say, is not
encouraging, and sentiment against re-
porting any such measure at this time
Is growing.
new complication I'm the sltua-
tion came Tonight, when Senator Cum
MINIS offered five propositions, which
he asked the Judiciary Committee to
approve and report as amendments to
the Federal trade commission bill.
These amendments would make in
tcrlocking dircctorates and holding
companies among railroads or other
corporations unlawful where they re-
trade commission the Interstate
Commerce Commission power to de-
termine when they restrain commerce.
TALK OF ANOTHER
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
There was talk again to-day about
another appeal to be made to the
President to permit the Senate to enact
a trade commission bill and go home.
study the entire subject thoroughly in
the meantime and return prepared to
leglslate intelligently. There is little
confidence. however, that the President
will listen to this appeal.
Senator Hoke Smith. OF Georgia,
member OF the judiciary Committe e,
saw the President this evening on n
matter of patronage. and took the OPP
portunity to discuss trust legislation.
Other Senator'S will go to the White
House tomorrow and attempt to make
the executive realize the situation in
the Senate.
One Of the big stumbling blocks is
the exemption from prosecution grant
ed to labor organizations in the House
bill. Letters and kilograms In pro-
test against this are coming to Scna-
tors from every section of the country
They arc particularly emphatic from
the South. One or the most influential
Democrats In the Senate to-day received
long telegram from leading Demo
crat or his state. a business man OF
affairs. who characterized the provi-
sions of the pending bill as the most
atrocious piece of class Legislation ever
proposed. compared with which any
thing the Republicans ever fostered
was harmless. He asserted that such
law would drive the Democratic
party from power, shock the intelli-
gence and common sense of all self
respecting men and in the end work
untold harm upon labor itself
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
OF ALL MEASURES
The Clayton bill. which carries the
injunction provisions, Is one of the
most important and far-reaching of all
the measures before the Judiciary
Committee. Tonight again found the
members hopelessly deadlocked over
the exemptions relative to labor and
cooperative associations. determined.
however. to reconstruct them but not
being able TO come together.
The decision of the Supreme Court
last Monday in the lumber trust case
has called the attention of Senators
sharply to the proposed exceptions to
labor organizations. In that case the
court held that organizations of retail
lumber dealers In Eastern States had
violated the antitrust law by circulat-
ing blacklists of wholesalers who had
sold lumber direct to big concerns.
This act, the court said. restricted the
freedom of commerce by preventing
competition. And, while this court
was holding this kind OF blacklist
TO be Illegal, and violation of the
antitrust law. the Senate committee
was considering provisions In the
House bill that legnlizes the tactics
similar to blacklisting as applied to
labor organizations.
The attitude OF Republicans toward
trust Legislation was explained by
Senator Smoot to-day:
Republicans have no desire to delay
trust legislation" he said. but
whether there will be prolonged fight
over the bills will depend largely upon
tho shape in which they are reported
to the Senate. 1 am confident that no
Senate committee. either Democratic or
Republican, would report out the bills
in any such shape. as they were passed
by the House. There must be material
amendment In the Interest OF all
classes OF citizens and in the interest
of good government"