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Show ANOTHER ANTI-TRUST CONVERT. It is evident that the impression which has prevail. pre-vail. J that Speaker Henderson is a trust man and 13 about to close a contract with an "octopus". to act as its attorney, is not well-founded. The Speaker Speak-er during his recent visit to the White House told the Tresident that he believes the chances are that fotae anti-trust . legislation can be passed at this session of Congress. The expression of such an opinion means that the Speaker7 will give his Bup-Iortsto Bup-Iortsto the measure that has been agreed upon. That being the case the Tresident has apparently made, a most distinglished and influential convert. The Speaker's changed attitude is no doubt due to a desire to'remain in public life.' The gossip has it that he would like to go to one of the court's of Euro? Eu-ro? as a diplomat and, that the President is certainly cer-tainly willing to reward the General by giving hjm the choice of either an Embassacrbrship or membership mem-bership on the Isthmian Canal commission. V While the fame of a canal commissioner may not be as great as that of an Embassador or that of Speaker it is a vastly more profitable place.. The salary will be $12,000 a year and the allowance for expenses will be very large. The Speaker is not a rich man and he will need something of that kind. - Tly? willingness of the Speaker to think about some other place in the Government service is indicative that it was really fear of .being defeated for a reelection- which caused him to withdraw f rota the race for Congress last fall. The adhesion of the Speaker to the programme of the Administration should make the passage of an anti-trust bill almost a certainty. But at' his stage of operations theN greatest menace to anti-trust legislation is that Congress will forget to discipline the iniquitous trusts in its stampede to line up in the coal fight, j ; : i |