Show SOUTH DAKOTA MAN ON WARPATH B Beef ef Trust Attacked by Con Congressman grossman gressman Martin t DEMOCRATS ARE RE WITH HIM I SIS op OF T TENNESSEE RETAINS H SET SEAT Washington Ya lI March eh The huse house t to today d day adopted a a re resolution unanimously reported b by the elections committee de daring Mr SImms Simma Dem Tenn on en entitled titled to the sot seat which was contested by F 31 1 DavIs a a Republican The cOnference report on the diplo diplomatic mt matic and consular bi bill Was Wa adopted The then went In Into Into to committee of the whole to consider the Indan Indian approprIation bi bill Mr Herma Herman Or Ore addressed the house bouse In favor of nn an appropriation bl bill for the Lewis tt Clark exposition Mr 11 Stanley of Kentucky ma made de a an alp appeal for the tobacco tl growers corn com complaininG ot of te the In the to to b bacco o trade Attack of Beef eef Trust 11 Mr Martin of South Dakota Dakota was al 81 thirty minutes for the minority when he addressed the house on his reso resolution providing for an ton tion by the department ot of commerce and labor of the cause of the difference In dressed pric price of bet beef on te the hoot hoof and when Ho prefaced his remarks with a hIgh tribute to Attorney General Knox sy say Ing he considered him the most efficient attorney general the countr country has had hadin hadin in te the prosecution of an antitrust l trust laws 11 Mr MartIn said that the western vester stock men had ben beam force forced to the con conclusion elusion that the gret great mot meat markets of the country wore were manipulated against them themo The reent recent m meetIng eUng or of the Stock Raiser Raisers association had re roe this fact by resolutions favor faor I Ig jag the establIshment of Independent packing houses Worse Tan Titan Mr Martin tuned turned his attention to the proceedIngs of the general lii in 1902 against the beef baet trust trust which In 13 now on appel appeal before the tue supreme curt court of the United Stute States But continued Mr lr Martn so far as the I right rights of the producer and aud are arc concerned they ae are even worse than before beCore this Injunction wa was place placed 01 on this trust I think there there II Is ever every Indication that ater the in inJunction Junction tO they ch Changed ng d their methods and Instead of agreeing and combinIng combining Ing i in advance their representatives go Into the market ever every day and when one buys a lot of beef the oter others r re retrain train from bidding against him and afterward divide up the purchase a e among themselves Foly Polly This metod method Mr Martin declared was as a clear violation of the terms of the Sherman antitrust law Jaw which he believed was adequate to remedy the evi evil He paid his compliments to Son Sen Senator ator Forker Foraker for IntroducinG Introducing 0 a bi bill in inte inthe te the senate to repeal the forfeiture clause of the Sherman In and gained Democratic applause by declarinG declaring that instead of f removing tat that cause clause i It should be ba enforced more rigorously Mr ro Martin related the experIence of stockmen In their efforts to dispose of th their lr stock on the Chicago maket market One he receIved a a bid on onn ona n a trainload of stock at Sout South Oman Omaha He did not acc accept Pt this bid but his cr cars were al all tIcketed by some one after he be I I had refused te the bid When lie he reached Chicago he could get n no other bid tha than te the precise one made at South Omaha He determIned not to 01 sell ad and ha had to walt wait for s some e time until finally he be ac accepted accepted te the bId of an Independent pac pack packer er r ot of Indiana Democrats Wit With Rm Rim Mr Martin saId he b wa was not one who went Into hysteria every tie time the word trust was mentioned The trust ha bad come to sta stay The queston question wa was would they let the rest ot of us stay He be a big monopoly existed in one or of orthe the food products which be In investigated by the department or of corn com commerce merce and labor In aa accordance wIt with his resolution You wi will gt get every even vote on this side sd said Mr 11 Stephens a ad addressing dressing Mr 11 Martin Mr 11 Hedge Hedges of Iowa suggesting that he had been solIcited to the Iowa Iowa idea said that that idea idea frt first con contemplated contemplated revision and nw nw reciprocity wih with Canada The lown Iowa Idea idea he sid saId had the endor endorsement ment of every Democrat in that state lIr Mr Hedges opp opposed d the Jowa Iowa idea citer either wIl with re speet to tariff revisIon or reciprocity with Canada Mr Ir Robinson o of Indiana cosed closed the general debate on the bU bill He charged that a a monopoly of the coal busIne business existed In the Indian Territory and no that people in tat that territory ha had The hous house at p m adjourned untIl tomorrow |