Show STATEHOOD FOR WYOMING halls fair nei gabor will ifill come into the alie union MR SPRINGERS FOOLISH REMARKS senator edmunds expresses himself on trusts Trus tf combinations and trades unions ho opposes tho antitrust anti trust bill A pension measure washington march 27 in the senate tho the flouro hill bill amending tho the act to allow special agent 53 93 a day tor for subsistence when traveling trai BOS Us pawed A bill was passed authorizing the secretary of war to purchase 2500 toots to shelter willa driven out by tho the goods floods in tho the alsi valley among the bills reported and on the bo calendar londar cu wore tho the following the tha son sea ato bill to reorganize rind and establish the oun anti toms collection district of puget sound bound abo house bill for the of john jobo C fromont fremont as a major tho the senate bill appropriating additional dit ional for for the mouth of the columbia river was passed the senate bill suspending for ODO cue year the statutes requiring steamers camers ei to be provided with certain lifesaving life saving appliances guns uns for throwing throw laff lines etc air passed the anti truse bill was then taken up W when hen the tae amendment accepting accept log from the prohibitions of the law combinations of workmen and farmers camo came up edmunds e at omo me ho a f favored going ua its tar far as aa the constitution permitted la in suppressing and breaking up trusts und and monopolies tho the people could n ol 01 shut their cym ey to the fact that if cupat i t combined if grou great industrial combined to regulate wages the workmen also alo combined to defend themselves and so 60 this country and other countries for tile luct forty years bad boon turned into great camps as oppositions whom there ought to boobly onu one crimp of it co operating friends even in washington where congress has baa extensive jurisdiction all the trades trader had combinations chich were armed camps carfaro agalos abo thereat rest of linan mankind klad clyod as ao incident ill the caso of a skilled printer who wanted employment lu ln tho the public printing office but could not nob he hired as ho he did not lelong to a particular combination tho the public publeo printer was threatened with a strike if the man were employed it if this sort of thing were not tyranny edmunde Edmunds know what tyranny was edmunds went onto on to argue that it if labor combinations put up wages 50 per cent tho the people who ho owned the mines und furnaces to etc etaf bad right bright to bloo to protect wo themselves h e m so avei so eo risto aa to got such fuch prices as 1 would t dd mako maka up tip tor for the ibo increased cot coot of production believed it were better to endure the partial evil of grinding grind lne monopolies than to attempt to step over the clear boundary line established and maintained between congress aud and the legislative powers of the sweet attacked attach wl tho the bill A motion by walthall to refer the mil bill and amendments to the judiciary committee to report back bacic in twenty days was then than agreed to the senate bill granting Kran pensions pon alons to e ex soldiers BoId lorB and sailors incapacitated for manual labor rind to dependent rola relatives tives of deceased soldiers and sallon was taken up sad plumb argued in favor of b his is amend ment mado made somo some time BRO ago extending tho Pre provisions nellous to all ft ho he served three months or more etc berry opposed the amon amendment dment as another form of tho the service rensina bill davis of the committee on pensions also opposed it IL ho was not ready it to go to tho the extent of pensioning everybody irrespective of dependence the tha bill reported by tho the committee would make an appropriation of ono necessary in IA addition to the now no plumbs amendment was rejected and the bill went over the house Adel admission lloa bill for wyoming was ordered printed adjourned |