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Show OPENS FILIBUSTER AGIST ANTITRUST CQNFERENEREPQRT Washington, Sept. 28. Charging his Democratic colleagues with handling hand-ling the trusts with soft gloved hands and proposing that instead of trust exterminations 'no rude sheriff or mnrshal Is to lay callous fingers on tho perfumed collars of captains o Industry," Senator Heed of Missouri today assaulted the conference report re-port on tho Clayton antitrust bill In an all day speoch. ' 1 Tho Missouri senator declnred that tho bill as agreed to In conference Should be called "tho confcreo'B capitulation," capi-tulation," that in removing penalties, tho conferees had treated with monopolies mon-opolies us under a white ling nnd to the Boothlng melodies of "poaco on earth; good will to tho trusts." "When tho Clayton bill was first written, ho added, "It was a raging lion with n mouthful of teeth. It has. degenerated to tabby cat with soft gums, a pialntlvo mow nnd anaemic uppciranto. It Is a sort of legislative apology to tho trusts, Delivered hat In hand nnd accompanied by apologies apolo-gies that no disregard Is intended." Senator Iteed contended thnt Sonata Son-ata regard has so emasculated tho bill that tho Democratic platform was void. "The President in his messago asked ask-ed relief for oppressed and outraged business and now como tho conferees with soft gloved hands nnd tender delicate words proposing to cut tho injured business man off from tho right to usb decisions 'hcretoforo 'rendered 'ren-dered against wrongful corporations and practically putting him oft from Ithe uao o(jJgplaJoim in caso now pend Tho"mcmb'ersrof this Congress, in cases now pending tho decision of tho Sherman law, nro a lot of wet nurses (.gainst soldiers In tho field of buttle, swords in hand. John Sherman Sher-man and other Republicans of that day woro fcnrless In their stand against tho trust. Their llttlo Ilugors woro stronger than our loins." Tho conference agreement, tho senator sen-ator asserted would bo welcomed by men who orgnnlzo the Standard Oil company, tho tobacco trust, tho sugar trust, or "tho men who looted tho Now Haven railway, and they would stand around It llko scores of witch-cb witch-cb singing around tho caldron, bubble, bub-ble, bubble, bubble and oil, this business will cause us no trouble." Tho light on tho roport will con tlnue tomorrow. Senator Heed to be , assisted by Senators Nelson and Burton Bur-ton for tho Republican sldo. Tho fight today assumed tho general character of a filibuster. |