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Show UTAH SENATOR HAS MANY BILLS WILL SEEK ABOLISHMENT OF FEDERAL TRADE AND TAR-RIFF TAR-RIFF REGULATIONS Will Inroduce National Defense Bill Which Would Do Away With War Among Nations Of The World Washington. A barrage of bills abolishing federal trade and tariff commissions, sotting up a department of national defense, granting independence inde-pendence to the Philippines, ordering marine evacuation of Hati and authorizing author-izing investigation of the navy department de-partment has' been prepared for introduction in-troduction in the senate by Senator King of Utah. King's proposals will be only a fraction frac-tion of the 100 bills or more to be thrown into the senate hopper. More than 1000 were introduced on the opening day in the house. King's national defense bill, which would abolish the war and navy departments de-partments as now constituted, similar to the one introduced in the house by Representative C. F. Curry, Republican Republi-can of California. Practically the only difference is that Curry provides for three "under" secretaries and King's for three "assistant" secretaries, for army, navy and air. King also has two resolutions prepared, pre-pared, one calling for an investigation of the Shenadoah disaster and the subsequent investigation of the navy department. Explaining the bill abolishing the federal trade commission and the tariff tar-iff commission, King said: "Both commissions were created to discourage concentration of wealth. Instead they encouraged it. Trusts are increasing fast enough in this country without requiring the aid of federal commissions." King promised an investigation by congress of the bread trust "the latest of the large family of trusts that has a strangle hold on competitive competi-tive business in this country." Another bill prepared by King would strengthen the Sherman antitrust anti-trust act, making its penal provisions stronger and more severe. The Philippine independence bill directs the presidert to negotiate with foreign powers which have possessions posses-sions on the Pacific to draw up a neutrality neu-trality treaty between those powers and the Philippine islands to prevent an invasion of the islands by a stronger strong-er nation. The Haitian resolution calls on the secretary of state to make public all correspondence between New York bankers, the United States government govern-ment and Brigadier General William Russell, American high commissioner in Haiti, with a view to learning what effects loans to Haiti by American bankers have had on internal affairs an Haiti. |