Show FOUGHT 01 ILSON EXEMPTION OF LABOR UNIONS AND FARMERS FROM TRUST LAWS PLANNED IS AWKWARD FOR PRESIDENT if it paragraph Is I 1 inserted in anti monopoly no poly measure consistency would require that he veto the entire legislation by GEORGE CLINTON washington it Is 13 possible that president wilson may be obliged to use his personal pe influence to prevent hie his partly in con congress grest from inserting la in ono one of the antt anti trust bills a para pars graph which may cause trouble the president it la Is known la Is opposed to any legislation which will exempt certain organizations from prosecution under the antitrust antl truet Is law a but it is believed that the majority in congress la Is preparing to insert just such a provi slon sion into pending legislation lelal atlon and mr wilson ft it Is eald said wants to atop stop 11 it it la in the intention of these democrats who bo probably can dominate the house to secure the insertion in one of the matl antitrust trust laws of a sk provision which ahalt shall exempt from prosecution labor unions and farmers far mera organizations it Is of cour course arthe the intention of the democrats to make some exceptions the organizations of the kind named of course can be prosecuted it I 1 they do certain things but they drat first are not to be prosecuted tor for entering ent wring into any con combination or agreement having in vl an increase of wakes a shortening of hours a bettering of the conditions of labor or and most important for any act dono done in furtherance thereof that Is not in itself unlawful aa As tor for the farmers far mera organizations it Is intended to exempt them from prosecution when they cooperate in to an effort to obtain and maintain a air fair and reasonable price for their products 0 fear it will be abused on the face of things this legista don may look fair and square perhaps it Is for many of the legislators legle latora and thousands of their constituents are coming to the belief that labor and the farmer should be put into classes by themselves and should be helped by legislation which would be perhaps unconstitutional if it enacted in favor avor of AA 4 19 i any other classes clae ees or division divisions it you will of the citizenship of the united states the objections which coill be entered to the legislation rest upon what some men say Is the certainty that at it will be abused and that if it becomes a pan part of ahk law of the land jand labor unions will be allowed to do what hat they will ill unchecked and that the farmer will be allowed to raise prices to the sky provided he can do I 1 it t through operation cooperation co with bis his fellows lows last year the democrats did what they could to exempt labor an the ampier armer from prope prosecution cutIon under ibo anti trust law in the sundry civil bill which was passed one year ago this month there was inserted a provision forbidding that any of at the to money voted for or the use of the attori ney generals office in prosecuting the trusts should be used to prosecute it fa 0 bor onions and farmers farmere organizations engaged in such lines of endeavor as those drawe above mr taft vetoed 0 this bill as one of the last acts of his i administration t in to march last lot the democrat democrats re ro passed the sundry civil bill in virtually tbt th form la in which it was seat sent to mr tift president wilson approved the me measure asuro lint but attached t to 0 it a memorandum condemning the principle of special exemption of lations of ot farmers or laboring men from prosecution for maintaining Q combinations in of trade and I 1 t commerce 0 would tie mcreynold hands after president Prel deot wilson had signed 3 the sundry civil bill including the ex rf emption clauses attorney general started a prosecution of 2 labor unionists in fit west virginia he was w not allowed to use any ay of the sundry civil bill money motey la in the case 30 bat but there thore WOT wort funds at his 41 disposal enabled him to secure if f indict 10 meets kils carry the matter into bourt and start the trials this was pointed to by the administration as AN showing that it bad no intention of exempting 3 labor unions from the operation of taj anil ant trust law Q A it the showe vcr fairy carry 1 out their present Inte intention ution and exempt the unions and the farmere far merc WWI eions from pro by means ui vi an crual law of exemption the hands of he be president and his attorney general 01 fi will be tied As thing things are the lahl it lies ties simply against the use of corwin money to pay for prosecutions of ahr kind the paragraph of ex sipito Sipi tn in one of the anti laws laws actually will prevent the bringing of any suite suits against labor unions and faruera far aera organizations for acts which 4 C oa on the part ot 0 other combinations a would be criminal l some of seem to t L rethink think that it their party shall insist upon legislation of the kind outlined mr wilson will veto steven it if in so j doing he ho guht veto all ct c the anti att trust which goes va with it 11 if it the matter Is put up to the prest dent he be will be troubled to sign the bill 11 contAin hig it and be consistent 0 i with bis his utterances of tit last march when he virtually virt pally rebuked his party tor doing what t it did through the melt mett i daum of the sundry civil bill f Convent convention lors right fight due f shortly and the ranks of iho militant conservationists of the i lillee lates ates will be arrayed poll against each other on the subject of control of the water power tn in the navigable streams ms la Is uncle sam to have control over water power leases or ie Is it to be vented her hereafter Vatter in the legislatures of the individual state states the majority ta in congress be lieres in states right rights the conserva say ay that it the matter be turned over entirely to the states monopoly will rejoice and the public will be robbed in december there waa was a national conservation congress cong reea held in wash ington it was supposed aup posed to be corn com posed of delegates devoted entirely to the plan to keep the command of a ter power sites lu the hands of uncle sum Ilo however weer there were a good many delegates present who it t waa was charged were representatives of the water power people and who wee wele present tor for the sole purpose of trying to thwart conservation under federal authority there waa was a hot hat controversy in the conservation congress but finally a resolution introduced by gifford pinchot pinchat pledging the congress to the principle that the people would draw a sk revenue from rom their heritage heritages waa was put through by an almost unanimous rote vote it waa was evident that those who were opposed to the plan did not care to put themselves on record as a voting against something tom ething which it put into affect seemingly will give the entire people a return for the power alte site rights which the government may grant water power lease bill there in la today before congress a bill which la Is intended to give to the andl vidual states the right to lease water power altea sites on navigable streams with in their borders border uncle sam la 18 supposed to have control of navi navigable streams and therefore the conserva buy that giving the staten power to govern in n the matter Is taking away tram the federal government a constitutional illonal right and that the result iu ill be state V lala turca being more easily reached than a national legislature that monopoly will get got hold bold ot of the water power sites and the people will get ket no return for that which la Is heirs elx six months the united state states supreme court has hai banded handed down two decisions which p ove as conclusively as supreme court deel decisions alons can that the united states hap complete control of the jr or la in navigable streams and that it can exact payment for its use one case came out of michigan and the other out of ot utah recently intimations have been printed thata the president of the united states la Is in entire sympathy with the democrats in congress who want to give water howerto power to corporations without payment to the whole people for its use the president Is in a states rights man but it Is not bell believed eved bs he has express expressed fd himself as in favor ot ad such ouch a plan the pinchot men say the report almost la to being spread in order to the people ale of the country believe thata thai man in whom they have confidence thin thinks the scheme as outlined by the majority in congress is righteous on guard the conservationists in washington are wakeful to I 1 the situation they everything that la in going on an and it Is known that if it congress attempts to do what a subcommittee ii apparently intends that it shall do will be another fight in the center of 1 field with as much interested onlookers ere ae sa there were when mr pinchot and hie his follower followers attacked mr ur Ballin lr and hie big followers follwe rs v the Demp Dempe crata rats say that they an progressive and are an the followers of the school of gifford deny that the democrats a are rs telling the truth the tx say that to put be water kite bits matter in the hands of the states la in to throw a away WILY money and to make monopoly certain it water power legislation la in the form in thlu the majority in congress seem to want to enact it ie Is pat put through and signed hy olt th president itla declair by that one in the democratic Demoen tle plat plo form rill have been bebis hat terud that monopoly will rejoice and that the people of the united states will have their potties picked on the ou er hand the democrats say that tales slates fan van b depended upon to safeguard their own right rights and that there ie Is no reason why the th federal should enter in inte to the be confines ot of any one on state to r regu late the affairs of its people in the w ter power matter |