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* PASS TRUST BILLS ? r HOUSE SENDS WILSON'S MEASURES TO THE SENATE TAKES QUICK ACTION * House of Representatives Dispatch Much Autl-Trust I .legislat ion in Short Order?Now up Defore Senate? Summary of the Clayton Dill Delotf. All three bills on the administration trust legislation program passed , the House late Friday and were sent to the Senate lor action. Opposition melted away when the final test came and the voting went through quickly and without incident. The Covington interstate trade commission bill was passed without a record vote; the Clayton omnibus anti-trust measure received 27 5 votes to 54 against it, and the vote on the Raybtrn railroad capitalization bill was 325 to 12. Action on the trust bills came rather unexpectedly. The three measures had been agreed to in "committee of the whole", the Itayburn bill, as amended by the committee, being completed late Friday. When the trade commission bill came before tho House for a final vote Progressive Leader Murdock moved that it be sent back to the interstate commerce committee, with instructions to report the Murdock bill as a substitute. This was rejectkA ed?151 to 19?and tho pending bill was then passed without a roll call. Then the votes on the other two measures were taken in rapid succession. Representative White of Ohio ?tio me umy UUIIlOCraL 10 VOte against the Clayton 'bill, and all the Progressives voted for it, except Rep? resentative Chandler of New York. Forty-three Republicans and sixteen Progressives joined the majority in supporting the measure. The Clayton bill, a part of the administration anti-trust program, carries provisions designed to strengthen and support the Sherman law and other acts against monopolies and restrains of trade. As framed by administration leaders and considered by the House the bill contained: Prohibitions against price discrimination, or arbitrary refusal to sell k natural mineral products, and ^ against the enforcement of condltional leases, or contracts of sale WB under which lessees or purchasers agree not to deal in the products of competitors of the seller or lesser. A provision that decrees in suits brought by the government under the anti-trust law shall be final evidence in suits brought against the defendant by others, involving the anti^ trust law. Provisions against holding companies and interlocking directorates in concerns under the jurisdiction of the Federal government, and provisions guaranteeing labor and farmers' organizations their legal existence under the Sherman law, limit* ing tlie use of the injunction in labor * disputes and providing for jury trials in cases of indirect contempt of court. In addition the bill clears up various jurisdictional questions and questions of procedure which have arisen in the administration of the anti-trust laws. The provisions insisted upon by /jf- representatives of organized labor, and agreed to after conferences between them and the representatives of the administration were looked upon as the culmination of a long fight by labor to secure exemption under the Sherman law. They provide that nothing in the jk anti-trust laws shall be construed to "forbid the existence and operation of labor and farmers' unions, and that such organizations and their members shall not be construed or held to be "illegal combinations or I conspiracies under the anti-trust' laws". How far the exemption will extend was a matter of debate in the House, and many members contended the question would result in long litigation. The restrictions placed about the issuance of injunctions in the bill are close. It would provide that 110 "preliminary injunction shall be issued without notice to the opposite ^ party", and that 110 temporary restraining order shall be issued unless it shall appear from specific facts shown by affidavits that immediate and irreparable injury will result to property or a property right of the applicant before notice could be served or hearing had thereon. The bill provides that every injunction or rej^/straining order must be specific in terms, thus outlawing the so-called "blanket injunction". In labor disputes injunctions would be forbidden by the bill "un! less necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property or a property \ right", for which injury there is no adequate remedy at law. It would also forbid injunctions against striking, peaceful picketing, primary boycotts, the payment of strike benefits or the peaceful assemblage of strikers, and contains a provision legalizing such acts. The holding companies provision COVINGTON TRADE BILL 1 i PASSED BY HOUSE TO INSPECT CORPORATIONS. Broad Inquisitorial Powers Over Cor- ] porations Are Given to a Newly Created Commission. The following is a summary of one of the anti-trust bills passed by the House Friday: The Covington trade commission bill, the first measure on the administration anti-trust program as considered in the House, would create a j commission with broad inquisitorial powers over corporations engaged in < interstate commerce. The bill would 1 turn over to a commission of three i members the power now held by the bureau of corporations in the depart- j ment of commerce, and confer on the commission additional powers. The bill provides for the appointment of three commissioners, no more than two of one political party, by the president. The commissioners ' would servo six years at $10,000, and employ a secretary at $5,000. The commissioners would be barred from engaging in any other vocation while serving. < After abolishing the bureau of corportions and the positions of commissioner and assistant commissioner of corporations the bill would turn over the organization and powers of the bureau to the new commission. It then provides that all corporations, with a capital of not less than $5,000000^ except those now subject to the interstate commerce commission, shall submit annual reports, records of its organization, bondholders and stockholders and financial condition" to the commission. The commission may also designate corporations having a capitalization of less than $5,0 00,000 from whom its desires reports. It may call for special reports in addition to the regular annual statements required by the bill, and would provide a penalty of $100 a day for delay in filing reports. Upon the direction of the president, the attorney general or either house of congress, the commission would be authorized to investigate and report the facts relating to any alleged violations would also recommend possible readjustments of the business of corporations so investigated in order that they might conduct their business in accordance with the larw. When the commission finds information as to any "unfair [competition or practice in commerce, not necessarily constituting a vlola| tion of the law," it is called upon to ! report to the president and aid in making recommendations to congress [for remedial legislation. The bill would authorize the commission to take charge of cases in which the courts have decided a complainant entitled to relief under the anti-trust laws, and recommend "an appropriate form of decree to the court". It would also empower the commission, on its own initiative or at the request of the attorney general, to investigate the manner in which decrees under the anti-trust laws have been carried out. A report on such investigations would be submitted to the attorney general for action. The commission is given wide authority to make public all Information secured in the course of its investigations, and is called upon to submit a report to congress on or before the first of December each year. This report would include such information as the commission has secured and such recommendations as to additional legislation for the regulation of corporations in commerce. u:ii -i? * * * * x no mil piuviues, iiowever, mat no "trade secrets or private lists of customers" shall be made public in the reports of the commission. of 'the act would prevent one company from acquiring any stock in another corporation "where the effect of such acquisition is to eliminate or substantially lessen competition between the corporations, or to create a monopoly". The provision exempts, however, corporations purchasing stock solely for investment and not attempting to lessen competition. The interlocking directorates prohibition in the bill is an effort to reach all corporations, railroads and banks over which the federal government has jurisdiction. It prohibits a director in a concern dealipg in supplies for common carriers from being a director in such common carriers; prohibits a director in a bank from being a director in a common carrier for which the bank acts as an agent or underwriter; directors in private or State banks, having de- [ . I X - ' posus, capuai, surplus and undivided profits of more than $SI,500,000, ineligible as directors in banks in the national system, and makes ineligible as national bank directors the directors of private and State banks in the same city or town. Th*? provision becomes effective two years after the passage of the law, and exempts the directors of mutual savings banks. The bill revises the proceedings in contempt of court cases. In contempts other than those committed "in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice", the bill pro PRAYS FOR QUICK PEACE WILSON HOI^ES CIVILIZATION WILL WIN IN MEXICO. President Tells Anapolis Middies That Service and Not Aggression is End of the Navy. "I pray God it may not be necessary for our boys at Vera Cruz to use any more force," declared President Wilson Friday in an address to graduates of the Anapolis, Md., naval academy. He spoke before a gathering of more than 5,000 people made up largely of present and future officers of the navy. The president referred to the American army and navy as "the instruments of civilization, not as the instruments of ag gression." "Other nations have been strong," he said, "other nations have piled wealth as high as the sky, but thoy have come to disgrace because they Used their force and their wealth for the oppression of mankind and theit own aggrandizement; and America will not bring glory to herself, but disgrace, by following the beaten paths of history. We must strike out on new paths." President Wilson said in part; "It ought to be one of your thoughts all the time that you are sample Americans, not merely sample navy men nor merely samples; and that yoV. have the point of view of America with regard to her navy and her army, that she is using them as the instruments of civilization, not as the instruments of aggression. The idea of America is to serve humanity and every time you let the Stars and Stripes free to the wind you ought to realize that that is in itself a message, that you are on an errand which other navies have sometimes forgotten, not an errand of conquest but an errand of service. "What do you think is the lasting impression that those boys down at Vera Cruz are going to leave? They have had to use some force?I pray God it may not be necessary for them to use any more?but do you think that the way they fought is going to be the most lasting impression? Is these anything new in using force* The new things in the world are tho things that are divorced from forcoThe things that show the moral com pulsions of the human conscience, those are the things by which we have been building up civilization, not by force, and the lasting impression that those boys are to leave will be that they exercised self-control. "You must bear in mind that you are the champions of what is right and fair all around, no matter where you are, and that it is for what is right and fair for public welfare that you are ready to fight and not merely on the drop of a hat or upon some slight punctilio.7 The president praised Admiral Fletcher, saying he had been on duty longer at Vera Cruz than the other commanders and that ho had the qualities of a statesman. 1 WANTS ARBITRATION. + Senate Committee Votes to Submit Canal Free Tolls to Hague. Just when a vote on the Panama canal tolls exemption repeal bill seemed certain to come within a few days, the Senate foreign relations committee Wednesday surprised the Senate and complicated the situation by reporting favorably a resolution designed to lead to the submission of the dispute with Great Britain to arbitration by an international tribunal. There was no discussion of the resolution, but it will be taken up before a vote is reached on the repeal bill itself and its appearance before the Senate undoubtedly will lead to further debate. So far as administration leaders know, President Wilson opposes arbitration unless the repeal bill previously is passed and n A \xrr\ ??/! hn /I ? i- ? Al. 1 1 - 1 1 1 * iiu hui u mm uuiut) LO II1U CiipilOl llllll he had changed his position. Many senators believe without the president's approval no arbitration proposal can receive a majority. ? Killed by Tobacco Fumes. Ell Sawden of Detroit, Mich., aged fifty-one, is dead as a result of being locked in a Jury room two hours while the other eleven smoked. Nicotine poisoning caused his death. He had never smoked. ? Clinkscales Files Pledge. Prof. John G. Clinkscales of Wofforcj college Thursday filed his pledge and paid his assessment as a Democratic candidate for governor. i Krskln? College Closes. Thn olrvot" ^ ?1 ? - * ??\? v.iuoiiifs cAciuiaen or rxrsKine college were held Tuesday nigrt. The graduates numbered 29. 1 Murder and Suicide. Mrs. Fred Roab of Long Reach, Cai., Thursday killed her two little girls and herself. ides the machinery for a trial by jury as in criminal practice. As to direct contempts the procedure is left unchanged. The other two bills will be found summarized in other articles in different columns of this paper. FACE NEW CRIC1S HUERTA'S BLOCK NOW TANGLES MEXICAN AFFAIRS ? OERTA SENDS GUNBOATS Federal Ships Are to Seek to Prevent Landing of Arms Consigned to Rebels, and Momentarily Expected at Tampico?U. S. Cruisers Follow Mexican Warships for Observation. Another crisis in the Mexican difficulty laced the Washington government Sunday night, a situation tr>r> i, ..-I-, ? ...til. i 1 ~ a * itaugm ? in! pei ii? lur uieuiuuon unci with possibilities that might precipitate actual warfare between the United States and Mexico. Gen. lluerta has brought about the new crisis by ordering his gunboats to blockade the port of Tampico and to seize a cargo of ammunition en route there for the Mexico Constitutionalists. The shipment is aboard the steamer Antilla from New York, flying the Cuban ag. The Antilla is due at Tampico Wednesday. Huerta has notified the powers of his intention to blockade the port and that he proposes to seize the cargo consigned to the belligerents against his sovereignty as contraband of war. The purpose of the United States to suppress the attempt to blockade and prevent interference with the Antilla was indicated Sunday night when Secretary Daniels issued an official statement announcing that while no new orders had been given Rear Admiral Radger, there had been no change in the policy of the government in reference to its desire that the port of Tampico shall be open to all commerce. The statement follows: "The navy department has issued no new orders to Admiral Radger since the Mexican gunboats were reported to be leaving Puerto Mexico. The department has at no time contemplated furnishing a convoy to the Antilla, or any other ship, nor have any orders to that effect been issued. No word whatever has been received as to whether or not the warships of other nations have been notified of the blockade at Tampico or what their attitude will be towards such a blockade. There has been no change in the policy of the government in reference to its desire that the port of Tampico shall be open to all commerce." As to whether "all commerce" in this instance includes contraband of war, no official of the government will discuss. So far as known the only orders relating to Tampico that have been Issued went to Admiral Badger on May 18 in a message informing him that, while it was not believed the Huerta gunboats would return to Tampico, it was deemed advisable that the commanders of American naval vessels understood that the government desired that there be 110 interference with commerce at that port. That an attempt to carry out the blockade decreo will be made was verified by Admiral Badger in a report to the navy department from Vera Cruz, announcing that the Mexican gunboats Zaragoza and Bravo, which left Puerto Mexico Saturday night, had passed Vera Cruz and were steaming towards Tampico. The America cruiser Tacoma and gunboat Sacramento are following the Huerta ships. The message from Admiral Badger received by the navy department as follows: "10 a. m., Sunday, June 7. Position of Mexican gunboats Bravo and Zaragoza at 9 a. m. latitude 1943, longitude 9 0-3, headed for Tampico, making about nine knots. Shauld arrive off Panuco river about 5 a. m. t.o-mnrrnw. Tammo ar?*i Sacramento following in obseration. (Signed) Badger." Three possibilities were discussed in official quarters as likely to arise in view of the problem that Gen. Huerta's decisivo action has presented. (Should the order to Admiral Badger be construed as to include delivery of contraband of war, Admiral Mayo at Tampico would be compelled to open fire on Huerta's gunboats, if necessary, to prevent interference with the Antilla. If this were considered an overt act of war and a violation of the agreemtn to cease hostilities it probably automatically would end the peace conference at Niagara Falls. In the opinion of many in close touch with the Washington administration, this would mean the beginning of actual hositilities against the Huerta government and signal the advance r\f an V A mnflnnn w j aiiiQi ivnu hi iny ii uin V t?ril Cruz toward Mexico City. Another possibility, however, suggested in ofhcial quarters is that this government may bring influence to bear on the owners of the steamer Antilla to change her course and make no attempt to deliver her cargo at Tampico pending the outcome of mediation negotiations, and efforts to induce Oen. Carranza to participate in the peace conference. Should the Antilla change her course or return to an American port, danger of an immediate clash would be averted. Agents of Oen. Carranza in Washington said they had no ofhcial word | RAILROAD REGULATION i NEW HILL WOULD REGULATE ISSUANCE OF STOCK. I Idea is to Make Railroads Show the Reason and I*urpose of Their InI dehtedness. The following is a summary of one of the anti-trust bills passed by the ' House Friday: Close regulation and control of the stocks and bonds of railroads by the interstate commerce commission is proposed by a substitute for the Itayburn bill, prepared by the House interstate and foreign commerce com-1 mittee, and considered by the House as the last measure of the administration anti-trust program. The i committee divided tho Rayburn measure into two sections, in order that one might stand if the consti- < tutionality of the other failed in the courts. The bill makes it unlawful for any common carrier to issue stocks, bonds, notes or evidence of indebtedness without the approval of the commission. The bill broadens the powers of the commission to require information from railroads and other common carriers, and prescribes an elaborate system of reports. Tho commission would bo authorized by the bill to require periodical or special reports on the financial condition of railroads, balanced statements of receipts and expenditures in relations to hospital accounts, and all other financial transactions. Refore issuing stocks or bonds the bill would require railroads to filo with tho commission a certificate of notification, showing in detail tho character of the securities, the purposes for which they are to bo issued, and the disposition to be made of them. Such certificates tho Hill makes public record and open to inspection. Tho bill would givo the commission wide authority for tho examination of the books of railroads, and would provide penalties for the concealing of information from the commission. Giving the commission authority to oup^i vihts issues or securties tiro bill said: "It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the act to regulate commerce to Issue any capital stock or certificate of stock, or any other bond or other evidence of indebtedness, or to assume any obligation as lessor, guarantor or surety for the securities of any person, natural or artificial, even though permitted by the authority creating the carrier corporation, except for some purpose within its corporate powers necessary to the proper performance of its service for the public, and not tending to impair the financial ability of the carrier to discharge its duty to the public. "It shall likewise be unlawful to issue any such stocks or bonds for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, or for any other purpose, unless and until upon aplication and after investigation in the premises by the interstate commerce commission of the purposes and use of the issue and the proceeds thereof, such issue is approved by said commission as necessary and appropriate for the purpose stated: Provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to imply any guaranty or obligation as to such issues on the part of the United States." The bill exempts from this provision notes maturing not more than two years after their issue, when they do not aggregate more than 5 per cent, of the outstanding obligations of tlio lacnliii* mi.? ? - v..v >uuuin^ tuiiun. lilt" measure provides that the commission in investigating proposed stock issues shall hear the authorities of the states through which the railroad desiring to issue securities passes. The bill carries a prohibition, effective two years after the bill becomes law, against one director acting on more than one railroad under the jurisdiction of the commission's without the commission's approval. It also would make it unlawful for any director or oMlccr of a railroad to profit by the sale or disposition of stocks or bnds. relating to the proposed determination of Iluerta to blockade Tampico nor any communication from Gen. Carranza. As to Gen. Carranza's expected answer to the proposal from the South American mediators the Constitutionalist chief's advisers said it might not beforwarded before Tuesday. A third possibility discussed is that Admiral Badger's ships would not in4 ? lit. * * * lerieru wiia uen. uuena a purpose to I blockade the port of Tampito against! importation of ammunition but that they would insist on keeping the port open to ordinary commerce. This might avert serious consequences So far as could bo learned no orders were sent to Admiral Badger to send any war vessels to Tampico except the two following Huerta's ships. The only Americans ships now at Tampico are the battleship Minnesota, outside the Panuco river, and the monitor Ozark in the river, which temporarily serves as Rear Admiral Mayo's flagship. These vessels, however, would be more than adequate I to cope with any situation that might I Arise. REFUSES TO ENTER ?* STATE DEPARTMENT IS INFORM ED Of REBEL'S ATTITUDE BARS INTERNAL AFFAIRS Constitutionalist Head Notifies This Country Informally That He Will Accept Arbitration Principle, Hut Uiiiit Scope of Mediators to International Phases. Gen. Carranza, first chief of tho Moxican Constitutionalists, notified the State department informally Saturday of the conditions under which he will participate in the mediation conferences at Niagara Falls. The information conveyed to the state department substantially will be Gen. Carranza's reply to the mediators. Substantially, it is as follows: An acceptance of tho principle of mediation, but limiting the scope of the A. U. C. mediators to international phases of the Mexican troubles. No internal features will be considered. The state department received these advices from Durango, where Gen. Carranza has established temporary headquarters, direct from tho Constitutionalist leader. The state department has accepted it as tho final declaration of the revolutionalists as to their general attitude and position with recard to the mediation conference at Niagara Falls. The message is considered a tlat declination by Carranza of tho mediators' invitation to participate in the sessions at Niagara Falls, as tho mediators enveloped tho invitation in conditions which Carranza refuses to accept. Immediately upon receipt of the information Secretary Bryan hurried to the White House and held an extended conference with the president. Mr. Bryan showed plainly he was disturbed by the tenor of the message, and now holds little hope for the success of mediation. Iin fact, it was reported around the state, war and navy building Saturday afternoon that the United States government had concluded mediation had failed, and henceforth the revolutionists would receive the strongest moral support the United States could give them in their efforts to force the elimination of Gen. Huerta. President Wilson over the long dis tance telephone conferred with Justice Lamar in Niagara. It is understood he outlined the position of this country toward the recognition of Tampico as an open port. It was stated if mediation has failed by Wednesday, the day the Antilla with her cargo of arms aboard arirves at Tampico, she will be allowed to land the cargo. If Carranza joins in the mediation conference the administration will probably declare the port closed and prevent the Antilla from delivering her cargo. Whether the Constitutionalists receive the cargo of arms depends entirely on conditions the day the vessel arrives. Stato department ofllcials are not concerned about any action the government may take to prevent the Antilla delivering her cargo because she flies the Cuban flag. It is generally understood that the Cuban government is backing the United States in its Mexican policy and would make no protest if the United States forcibly stopped the Antilla. Late Saturday evening Mr. Ilryan reiterated that the administration had received any protest from the mediators, directly or indirectly, concerning the shipment of arms and ammunition from the United States to Mexico. HMl O of O A A /I *-* r% mrxr rl ,-v rv 1 ** X Iiu Dime cilivt 11(1 V jr lit" [Hill infills wore without advices concerning the reported delivery of arms and ammunition at Tampico by the Sunshine. Agents of tho Constitutionalists said they know nothing of such a ship or of the landing of arms or ammunition at Tampico. ? ? ? Went to Sleep oil Track. The bodies of J. W. Shackelford and James Potter of Hickory, Miss., were found on a track near there Tuesday. It is believed they fell asleep on tho track. I Student Returns Mesial. A Wofford student who several years ago won a gold medal returned it to tho president of the college ThtirflflflV Tim onHmi?IHnn .1 - ? ? - >iv uiimui uiuo uov.ll Ut'U to divulge the name. i Praise for Wilson. The Virginia State Federation of Labor in session at Norfolk Wednesday indorsed the Mexican policy of President Wilson, paying him & high tribute. I 1 ? | Drowned While Bathing. Anderson George, a thirteen-yearold boy of Parolet, stepped into a deep hole while swimming Tuesday and was drowned. ? Duncan in as Usual. John T. Duncan has authorised the announcement that he will be in the race for governor again this summer.