The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-13
PRESIDENT
WILSON TALKS
Regular Monday Morning In.
terview With United Press
Correspondent is
Held.
[By John Edwin Nevin, stan cores.


pond ant of the United Press.I
WASHINGTON. April 13.-ln the
opinion OF President Wilson there is
a general disposition On the part on ;
big business to force REIMBURSEMENT
by congress of the administration
trust program. 1t is this attitude, ne
made plain to those with whom he
talked today, that is responsible for
numerous stories indicating that the
administrator will abandon its plan
to regulate the trusts until the next
session OF congress. He said there
was no foundation whatever for such
q report and that It newer had been
suggested by the administration thaa
It even hesitated about its program.
The president says 1t is absolutely
necessary that the trust bills be pass
ed at the present session in order TO
keep faith with the country. With
this in mind he conferred today with
Representatives Clayton. Carlin and
Floyd, ths subcommittee Of the house
judiciary committee which Is prepar-
ing the antitrust bills. AS a result
OF the conference, 1t is expected that
the antitrust bills will be in such
shape to be acted upon by ths fuii
judiciary committee within short
time. The president held that 1t would
| be necessary for congress to ADOPT
I an express" instead OF freight
schedule in order to get the trust
! bills and other necessary legislation
/ out Of the way for adjournment IN
June or July.
The president does not want de-
bate on the bills curtailed, but thinks
steady application on the part OF
| members will be necessary He today
| defended members OF the committee
from charges that the had been dila'
tory. They have been considering
I. the stills for ten weeks which In ths
Il Gpirif5nr u sthsnp president 4Eala
being 4 long time in which TO study
4 the needs OF the business OF the coun
try.
4 So far as the new Colombian treaty
is concerned the president said today
that it must be accepted by Colombia
before this government will take any
4 action to legalixe 1t. The president
/ would not comment today on any
/ criticism OF the suggested treaty. In
sisting that there is much misappre
!hension in the country at large re-
garding the document which will be
:: clsared up when its secret text Is
made public this week.
That the fight on the tolls repeal
bill is already won in the senate, was
the position assumed by President
Wilson today. He held that the re
peal situation had improved very ma
i terially from his point Of view curing
the last week. The fact that many
of the persons who had originally
promised to appear before the senate
committe on inter-oceanic canals 10
opposition to the repeal have tecfdec
i; NOT TO do so. greatly cheered the
, executive He intimated that they
had gotten cold feet" and 1t was
very plain from his attitude that ne
believed the referendum carried b,
Senator Gore to the delegates to the
baltimore convention is telling blow
: In favor of his repeal policy. Whef
, the entire delegation to Baltimore i
, h card from. the president and his al
visers expect that ninety percent VII
: be on record as declaring that. hat
, thev known all OF the facts, the,
!. would no thave voted to include th'
free tolls plank in the pratform a
originally adopted.
The president is not inclined Il
favor suggestions of amendments o
the repeal bill to include the feclara
ton that the United States reserve