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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK.
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON!
Senator Quay Finally Secures Test Vote
on Statehood Bill.
Anti-Trust Ieg-islatioii IKeceiviiig
illicit Attention Other Xews
and Gossip of tlie Capitol.
From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 29, 1903.
Senator Quay has finally succeeded in
securing the test vote in the Senate for
which he has long been striving and has
thus demonstrated that the Statehood
bill has a clear majority of ten votes, 25
democrats and 12 republicans outvoting
27 republicans, with eleven pairs and
two absentees recorded. The test vote
came on a motion to go into executive
session for the consideration of the
Cuban treaty. After the vote, Mr.
Quay consented to the introduction of a
number of bills and then demanded the
regular order. The significance of the
test vote lies in the fact that the oppo
nents of the Statehood bill are now placed
in the position of filibustered opposing
the will of a majority of the Senate, thus
proving a charge long made by Mr.
Quay and utterly refuting the charge of
Senator Beveridge that the Senator from
Pennsylvania was "bluffing"
In view of the difficulties attending the
displacement of the Statehood bill the
republican leaders are seriously con
templating a compromise proposition
which so far as framed, provides for the
admission of Oklahoma as one state,
Congress reserving the right to attach
thereto the Indian Territory when the
Dawes Commission shall have concluded
its work of allotting the Indian lands ;
and, the admission of Arizona and New
Mexico as one state. Just how Mr.
Quay would regard this proposition is
not known. He has said that he would
accept any reasonable compromise which
would meet with the approval of the
people of the territory but it is claimed
that it would be most repugnant to
Arizona and New Mexico to be combined
under one state government. As the
situation now stands all legislation in
the Senate is blocked although it is held
that the advocates of Statehood will not
prevent the consideration of the regular
appropriation bills.
The sub-committee of the House ap
pointed to draft an anti-trust measure
has concluded its labors and will today
report to the Judiciary Committee a
measure which has received the sanction
of the President and the Attorney-General.
The bill provides that power of
supervision over corporations doing an
interstate business, shall be vested in
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and there is likely to occur conflict with
the Senate which desires to place such
powers in the hands of the Bureau of
Corporations of the proposed Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. The
House sub-committee anticipates that a
favorable report on its measure will be
submitted. The committee on Rules
has already drawn up a special order
which will facilitate the passage of the
bill in the House.
In the Senate the subject of anti-trust
legislation is receiving an amount of at
tention most remarkable in view of the
fact that early in the session the leaders
predicted that there would be none such
during the short term. Three bills are
in course of preparation. Ever since
the Senate determined that some anti
trust measure must be enacted there has
been strong rivalry among the Senators
as to who should reap the glory of deal
ing with the octopus. Senator Hoar, by
tactics unpredecented in the procedure
of the Senate, secured the reference to
his committee Judiciary his anti-trust
bill notwithstanding the fact that it dealt
largely with interstate commerce. This
was accomplished by having his bill en
tered on the record and securing leave to
print with the statement that the bill
had been "read twice in the Senate and
referred to the Judiciary Committee"
before the measure was even drafted.
Senator Elkins, chairman, and other
members of the committee on interstate
commerce, regarded themselves as par
ticularly slighted by the reference of
the trust bills to Mr. Hoar's committee
and a short time ago they met in secret
session and appointed a sub-committee
to draft a trust bill which would meet
with the recommendations of the Attor
ney General in so far as they affected in
terstate commerce, rebates on transpor
tation charges, etc. This bill was intro
duced and referred to the committee and
will shortly make its appearance on the
floor of the Senate.
Just after the holiday recess Senator
Hoar appointed a sub-committee to draft
a trust bill but determined to wait the ar
rival of the House measure with a view
to using that as the basis for the commit
tee bill. Learning, however, of the
plans of the Elkins committee the Judic
iary sub-committee has gotten to work
and is now preparing its own bill. The
committee on Commerce has also deter
mined that it ought to take a hand and
accordingly when the bill creating a De
partment of Commerce was sent over
from the House it was referred to that
committtee with the expectation that
the powers of the proposed Bureau of
Corporations would be defined in an
amendment along such lines as to meet
the recommendations of the Attorney
General that a commission be appointed
to exercise supervision over all corpora
tions doiug an interstate business. With
this wealth of trust bills, however, it is
not certain that any but the latter will
pass and that will meet with serious ob
jection in the House.
Minister Bovven has arrived in Wash
ington from Venezuela, with plenipoten
tiary powers to conduct a settlement.
Unfortunately the conditions he finds
here are not as encouraging as he had
hoped they would be. The Powers still
insist that the claims of each shall be
settled separately and ad referendum;
that is that the home governments must
be consulted with regard to every move.
The first and most earnest effort of Mr.
Bowen will be to secure the removal of
the blocade, but even that promises to be
a tedious undertaking unless the attitude
of the Powers changes materially. The
hope is expressed in official circles that
the belligenency of Germany may so dis
gust Great Britain as to prompt the lat
ter to seek an early escape from the com
promising attitude in which Germany
has succeeded in placing her.
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