PUBLICITY FOR TRUSTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 4

PUBLICITY FOR TRUSTS.

MR RUUiiIiVKLT'S VIEWS EMBODIED TN A BILL. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The Hill for the regulation of truMs iha-s bevn presented to Congress, with I lie names ill several members appended t" it. It* title is the '•Trust Publicity Bill." It has bein drawn up by several Republican members, on the lines of President Roosevelt's recommendations. The objeyt is to throw open llie books of all trusts to inspectors appoinU-d by the Government. They will examine into the work-ings of each public company from time to time to see that inter-State and other laws are not infringed ami that there is no undue inflation of prices by th« I slitting of competition. ! Incidentally, this Bill will give the Government the hold it requires to regulate trusts. It has been referred to a special committee, .headed by Congiess- ■ man Littlefield, of Maine, Who is the personal friend of the President, and opposed to trusts. The Wellington correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald telegraphs : The suceesful burglades m the Smith have apparently stimulated some of the genus m this locality to action, though their operations have not added very much to their material wealth. Indeed, it would appeal* as if the operations are rather the work of some hair-brained fellow, inexperienced m the "profession." No money or property appears to have been taken, and m one' place, where an effort to open the .safe did not succeed, the operator U.'ft a note upon wliicli was written "The compliments of Bill Sykcs," n«d m a more vicious spirit of mischief he turned on the water tap and a miniature flood was the result. A revolt has taken place m. America against the stage Irishman. Two variety actors who insisted upon doing the common stage caricature of the Irishman were hiw>ed from the stage (says the New York Sun) by indignant members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, m the Jacques Opera House, Waterbury (Conn.). They were not permitted to come on again, as they desired to make an explanation to the audience. The outbreak was the result of an agitation started by a convention of Irish societies m Chicago recently against allowing the Irishmen to be burlesqued m the manner he has been. Resolutions were adopted, calling upon Irishmen m all parts of the country to discourage m every way degrading burlesques of the Irishmen. The Whnkiitaki eorresjxHident of the Waira.nipa Times writes : — "Some months ago Mr Win. Harvey, carrier, of this neighborhood, brought m. from the. hills a couple of steers to add to hi.s bullock team. They were a very truculent pair, and it was with great difficulty that they were finally yoked and set to work with the tainii for a. day or two. They were then, let go and wandered at large all the winter. Tlie other day they were brought m again, and proved more troublesome than before. On Tuesday they were set to work, and nuiclif a. journey to Castlepoinl. In the evening it was considered advisable to keep them coupled, and they were turned out with a yoke on. In the night, however, or m the very early morning, they jumjnjd the fence and got clear away. Such a thing is quite without precedent heiv, and I suppose it must be ascribed to abundant feed ; but it also argues considerable unity of purpose quite wonderful m the ox tribe."