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Show fjSsBROU(jH'S RESOLUTION RAISES STORM IN THE SENATE anW -,trA3TTTNTGTON". .Tan. 22. Senator m xrWA?murh of North Dakota today I cJ8' HnvorS to havo nulliliefl the effect SdrJS3utlon offered by him and ojrfK Orirt,?foil bv the fccnute on December 1aMar " 'iDOG (lircctinp the department of ' iiniproc and labor to investigate the ifl:4& & of the International Harvester 8$ ?Snv, in order, ho said, that the J"aIf Scnaninent. ofstieo might proceed 'at In prosecute tne company., ire cx-nlaincd cx-nlaincd that there exists between tins nJ H qcvernl departments a certain courtesy h4iir' of comity whiali makes them desire -firjHtf to net i hnnn-ny and for that rca-' rca-' .Tl on the department of justice is hold-'' hold-'' tiM inir ''nc'c ts proceedings while another mc department is under direction of the ts3k cvnnte to make an investigation of the 1 "fy h trusts it contemplates to prosecute. "tli . Tho resolution called forth a storm '4WJ?' of protests, during which Mr. Hans- fbromjh declared that the International Harvester company is taking a hand in politics in North Dakota and is K trving to capture delegates who arc Sto represent that state in the Iia-ft Iia-ft publican national covention. V! k "Not alone that," said Mr. Iluns- brooch, "the ediet has gone forth ay. S- from this monopoly that I am to be 1 th defeated for the Senate of the United W I States because I had the temerity to : . offer a resolution to investigate it. ; : "The political fortune of a man is lAiS a grain of sand, compared with the ttfft " iniustice that may be wrought by an Urit ' institution of this kind. I brought this k I challenge and am ready to meet it. ftfilfi' 'If the people of my state desire to have this monopoly control their state they do not want mo as their representative. repre-sentative. " Senator Beveridge declared the statement state-ment of the activity of tho "harvester trust" was inuch more important than tho resolution to stop the investigation investiga-tion of the trust. The resolution was, on motion of Senator Fulton of Oregon, Ore-gon, referred to the committee on agriculture. agri-culture. Senator William James Bryan of Florida made his maiden speech, endeavoring en-deavoring to kill the resolution outright, out-right, instead of Bonding it to a committee. |