The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-04-21
TO STRIKE AT TIE TRUSTS;


Washington, April 1.-Two meas.
ures directed against trusts were de-
termined upon yesterday by the sPe.
ciai subcommittee ON trusts OF b
house judiciary committee. The spe-
eiaI subcommittee has spent many
days examining the various remedieS
proposed, and the conferences were
not concluded until a late hour yester.
day. As agreed upon the remedy u
two-fold, namely, a constitutions
amendment giving congress full pow
er to deal with trusts, and q new antr
trust law making the following ex'
tensions to the Sherman act:
To Extend the Sherman Act.
First-Requiring the branding OF
marking of trust-made goods shipped
out of a state, so as to be easily identi-
fed as the product of a trust
Seeond-Prohibiting the Interstate
traffic of trust-made goods not so
branded, and making them subject 20
seizure and condemnation.
Third-Requiring corporations nav
ing a capital over 100000 or doing
an annual business of s. ,0OO,0 00, to file
q report of their affairs with the sec
rotary of state.
Fourth-Providing the process of i'm
junction against combinations sending
trust-made goods from state to state
or &c foreign countries
Fifth-Prohibiting the s of the
| mails to concerns and their officials
proven to be trusts.
Summary of the Measures.
Judge Ray, of New York, chairman
of the judiciary committee and OF the
| special subcommittee on trusts, gave
out the following summary of the
measures:
THE subcommittee of the commit
tee. on the judiciary yesterday agreed
to report to the full committee a pro-
posed constitutions amendment which
PIorides that congress shall have pow
er to define, regulate, control, prohibit
or dissolve trusts, monopolies, or COM
b~iDations, whether existing in the
form of a corporation or otherwise,
and which further provides that the
several states may continue to exer-
else such power in any manner not in
conflict with the laws of the United
States.
To Meet Supreme Court Decision.
1.-THE necessity for this amendment
grows out of the fact that it is neld
by the supreme court of the United
| States that manufacture and produc-
tior are no part of interstate COM
merce, and can not be reached rader
| the interstate m clause OF the
constitution, even though monopoly
in manufacture indirectly effects d
controls such commerce. Therefore,
monopoly in manufacture is not re-
strainable by congress even when 1t
controls the output of an article OF
necessity to all the people in ali the
states and fixes the price at will.
Amends the Act of July 2, 1880.
Another a amends the ac.
of July 9, 1890, being an act to pro-
tect trade and commerce against IN
lawful restraints and monopoly, auI
known as the Sherman act. The pro-
posed bill increases the penalties fixed
by hat act and adds thereto five new
sections. The new sections relate tn
producing and manufacturing cor
| porations and associations organized
ind managed for the purpose of con-
trolling or monopolizing manufacture
or production or so conducting their
business as to monopolize manutac-
ture. 1t provides that corporations
and associations organized ard
carrying business for such q ptr-
pose shall mark goods shipped with
out the state in which produced, aud
that the same shall not be transport
ed or carried without such state when
not SO marked either upon the goods
themselves, the packages containing
same or fhc cars in which Skinned.