Show SENATE 1 lice Xoniana Election nispale Khermani AnilTrust Sill WASUINOTON March tIn the Senate Hoar from the committee on privileges and elections reported resolutions In the cafe of the persons claiming teats as Senators from Montana two declaring Clark and Maglnnb not entitled t seats and the other two declaring San dtlang Bo ders and lower on the merits of the ease t b entitled t scale Resolutions from the minoritymak Iutons frm te mlbortymk ing an opposite report were reported ported by Gray and all ordered printed Hoar giving notice that sider lie would them ask Thursday the Senate to cn House bills were reported and placed on the calendar its follows To insure purity of elections In Arizona to authorize Ogden Utah = Zjn g to assume increased indebtedness The Senate bill ceding public pblc lands t California and other btater In aid of irrigation of dry and arid land was reported back from the Commissioner on Public Lands adversely ad-versely and indefinitely postponed Several petitions against the rati fication of lal extradition treaty with Russia having I been presented Hoar said that be would once more raise tho question as to their presentation presen-tation in open session After e bate the plot of order was withdrawn with-drawn for the time being Shermans antitrust bill w taken up and Turfile dlscutcd the constitutional points George opposed the amendment offered by Ueagan being HIS ANTITBCBT JL Teller said he was Inclined to vote for the bill although be was not sanguine of its accomplishing its purpose Unless the States took hold of the question and suppressed these trusts by limiting the amount of capital that can be aggregated in any corporatlsn the trouble would continue The bill ho said would apply to the National Farmers Alliance Al-liance and the National Farmers League which were organized with the avowed purpose of iuCriailng the price of farm products a thing which he regarded a most desirable and 0 absolutely essential t the prosperity of the country He was extremely anxious to take hold of anti control these gnat trusts and combinations of capital which were disturbing the commerce of the country He did not want however how-ever t go to the extent of Interfering Interfer-ing with organizations which he thought were alolutelyjustlCed by the remarkable condition of things in the country He referred t the Knights of Labor D another organization that would come within the scopuof the bill U cause the object etJoh was to increase crease their wage and consequently consequent-ly Increase the cost of productions Teller admitted that tub Knights of Labor and all trades unions in the country were practically included in-cluded in tho bill and suggested to the committee which reported it whether could not bo eo worded as to confine I t trusts that were offensive T WOO JIOKUS The discussion then drifted t the amendment ollered by Ingalls aimed dr dealings in futures and options Sherman opposed I as not In harmony har-mony with the bill D proposing i a lax which could not originate iu the Senate and as not having been considered by the committee Ue aka opposed Reagans amendment tlewn tlble said tho bill was Incon Hoar criticized the lilll In some of its legal aspect and claimed that it failed to atfuri any adequate remedy rem-edy hberman said that if the duty on cotton or woolen cloths was too low t protect the manufactures of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts not a month or a day would b allowed t pass before Hoar would demand a remedy in the way of raising the duty Here was a remedy for a greater wrong than any that resulted from law tariff The farmers associations throughout the country could not remove tie source of the evil but they demanded a remedy end their demand had to b heard The power of Congress was the only lower that could deal with these corporation GEORGE ASKED SHEKUAN whether Standard Oil Company was not a corporation under the law of Ohio and whether lie legislature 1 of that State could not annul its charter Sherman rcpllee uat the Standard Stand-ard Oil Company had been originally original-ly organized with a modest capital ofS2UO000 but tlero were forty or fifty companies other States corn blued with IL He had hlue wIt It been In favor of a general law declaring certain contracts null and void but bad modified his proposition t meet tho views of others who thought how ho-w to far and now his objection ob-jection t the bill was its weakness but It was a weakness drawn into the bill by objections made in the Senate Vest and Uiscock spoke against the bi which went over I tomorrow to-morrow without action adjourned After executive session the Senate |