The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-08


facture intended Tor sale. use or consumption
IN this state; or TO establish any pretended
agency whereby the sale of any such artic a or
commodity shall be covered up and made to
appear TO be for the original Vender. Tor a like
purpose or purposes. and to enable such
original vender or manufacturer to control the
wholesale or retail price or suy such article or
commodity after the title to such article or
commodity shall have passed from such vender
or manufacturer,
s. To make or enter into or execute or carry
out any contract obligation or agreement Of
any kind or description by which they shall
bind or have bound themselves not to sell or
dispose OF any article OF trade. use, merchsn'
disc. commerce or consumption below COM
mon standard figure or card or price list, or by
which they shall agree in any manner 10 keep
the price Of such article commodity At a
fixed or graduated figure, or By which they
shall in any manner establish or settle the price
of any article or commodity between them, or
themselves or others, to preclude . Tree and
unrestricted competition among themselves or
Others the sale OF any suoh article or CON-
modify, or by which they shall agree 10 pool.
combine or unite any interest they may have
in connection with the sale of any such article
or commodity that its price might in any man
ner be affected. All trusts a. defined IN this
section are declared to be unlawful and are
hereby prohibited from carrying on business
within this state.
Sec q That any corporation holding a char
ter under the laws of this state, which shall
violate any OF the provisions Of this act. shall
thereby .Orteit its charter and franchise. and Its
corporate existence shall cease aud deternins.
Sec. 8. For violation OF any of he pro-
visions of this act by any corporation or any
association of persons mentioned herein, 10
shall be the duty of the attOrney-general or
prosecuting attorney, upon his own motion, TO
institute suit or quo uaTranto proceedings ct
any county in this state where such corporation
or association exists, does business or may have
Io,,fotIa for thu lnrfailura nf Il ahaFtaF
rights and franchise and the dissolution OF its
corporate existence.
Sec 4. Every foreign corporation violating
any of the prov siOns OF this act Is hereby de-
MED the right and prohibited from doing any
business within the state. and it shall be the
duty OF the encouragement to infOroe this
provision by injunction or other proper pro-
ceedings in any county in which such foreign
corporation does business, In the name oil the
state on his own relation.
Sec. B. Any violation OF either or all OF the
provisions of sec. / of this act shall be deemed
and is hereby declared to be Q conspiracy
against trade and misdeamOr. and any per
son who may be or may become engaged in
any such conspiracy, or take part therein, or
aid or advise in its commission, or who shall, as
principal, manager. director. agent, servant or
emplOye, or In any other capacity knowing
carry out any OF the stIpulatiOns. purposes,
prices. rates. orders hereunder or in pursuance
thereof, shall be punished by fine not less
than - dollars nor more than 5000.
Sec 6. In any indictment or Information for
an otlense named in thi. act il sufficient to
state the purposes and e. cots OF the trust oom-
binatiOn, and that the accused was q member
Of. acted with or in persusnos OF IL, vi thOut
giving its name or desori ptIOn, or how or where
10 was or ated.
Sec. T. In prosecutions under this sct 10
shall be sufficient TO prove that trust or COM
bins,On, ss defined herein, exists. and that
the deiendsn. belonged 20 It or acted for or in
ufek ~ eli all Nha
members belonging 10 il, or proving or produc-
ing any article Of agreement or any written IN
strument on which it may nave been based, or
that IL was evidenced by any written instru-
ment at all The character of the trust or COM
biDatiOn alleged may be established by proof
of its general reputation as such.
Senate bill l04 authorizing the organ
izs,ion of associations for the establish
meDt of drains in the swamp land terri
tories passed the house Thursday. There
was some opposition to it by mem bers who
thought there might be some 'job" In il
not shown on it's face.
Governor Matthews Thursday afternoon
appointed Capt. J. J. Hilligoss of Muncie
and Gen. George f McGinnis of this city
on the board of directors of the Reform
school for boys at Plainfield, TO ill the
vacancies caused by the resignation of two
OF Us members.
Friday evening the joint legislative COM
mIttee of iabOring m-E made the follow
ing statement in relation to bills efiectlng
laboring interests that have passed the
house and been hung mp in the senate:
The undersigned joint legislative board deem
IL prudent to represent 90 a constituency of
$4,000 workingmen of Indiana, whom they rep
resent, that four bills. the provisions of which
are OF vital importance to labor, passed the
house Of representatives and were sent TO the
senate, VIZ:
House bill No go, known as the co.smploye
bill
House bill No. 22O. known as the anti-insur-
ance hill.
House bill No. 415. known as the boiler in
specIon bill.
House bill No. 42l, known a. the stationary
engineers license bill
These bill passed the house by large MAORI
ties. which afforded reasonable hopes thst they
would pass the senate. al east that they would
secure IN tbs senate prompt and proper con-
sideration and not meet death by cowsrdly as
sassnHtiOn. Every endeavor on the part OF the
joint legislative board to secure their passage
through the house and action IN the senate has
been honorable. above board and without re-
sort TO ehicRnsry. duplieity or Iugglery OF any
sort We have trusted 10 reason and To argu-
ments based upon facts which in the house of
representatives secured recO. milton and sue
cess and " hich We are satisfied would have re-
suited equal y satisfactorily in the senate. pro-
a chance TO be heart upon their merits.
THIS, however has been persistently denied
then by senator IN control o the measuFe-by
a series OF distractions which their enemies
have been able. under the laws OF the senate,
to interpOse--consDiouOuslyb by Senator GTitfiths,
representing the counties of Dearborn, Ohio
and Switzerland who, being chairman OF the
judiciary committee, has with unparalleled oh
stinacy. dOggedness aud perverseness held back
the measures and protected by a rule OF the
senate has considered only the interests of the
enemies of organized labor.
Associated with Senator GrIffiths in this mat.
ter has been Senator Ntzhugh, OF Tippeoanos,
and on Thursday. March 2 these two men as
suTed the board that II we would agree TO GER
tain amendments proposed by them, towit:
Strikn out secs. and OF the eo-emDloYes'
liability bill, that they would report the bill on
Friday morning. and it should be IaW By
night To this the board agreed but on Friday
morning they informed US that certain railroad
attorneys. who had not been heard. desired to
make further amendments. and during the day
submitted to several amendments which
would destroy all the good effects Of the bill,
and which We. as the representatives of the or
gained Workingmen of the state, could not
accept.
AT 92O Friday morning the senate
resolved itself into cOmpittee Of the
whole and resumed consideration of the
general appropriation bill where it was
left of the night before upon adjourn
ment.
The question was upon the adoption Of
an amendment to item thirteenth. raising
the appropriation Tor Bloomington uni