The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-04-27
AIMED AGAINST TRUSTS.
Radical Measures Framed by House
Subcommittee.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Two meas
ures directed against trusts were deter
mined on today by the special Sub-Com-
mittee on Trusts of the House Judiciary
Committee. The subcommittee has
spent many days examining the various
remedies proposed, and the conferences
were not ended until late hour today. |
AS agreed on the remedy is twofold,
namely, a constitutional amendment |
giving Congress full power to deal with |
trusts, and a new antitrust law, max |
ing the following extensions to the |
Sherman act:
First-Requiring the branding or
marking of trust made goods shipped
out of a State, so as to be easily identi-
fed as the product of trust.
Second-PrOhibiting the interstate
traffic of trust made goods not so brand
ed, and making them subject to seizure
and condemnation.
Third-Requiring corporations hav-
an annual business of 81, ,OOO, 900. to file
report of their affairs with the Secre-
tary of State.
FOurth-PrOviding the process of in
junction against combinations sending
| trust made made goods from State to
State or to foreign countries.
Fifth-PrOhibiting the use of the
mailstO concerns proved to be trusts
and. their officials.
MR.. RAY EXPLAINS THE MEASURES.
Mr.. Ray, of New York, chairman of
the Judiciary Committee and the Spe-
cial Subcommittee on Trusts, gave the
following summary of the measures:
The subcommittee of the Committee
on Judiciary today agreed to report to
the full committee proposed constitu
tional amendment which provides that
Congress shall have power to define,
regulate control, prohibit or dissolve
trusts, mOnOpolies or combinations,
whether existing in the form of cor
poratiOn or otherwise, and which fur
ther provides that the several States
may continue to exercise such power in
any manner not in conflict with the
laws of the United States.
The necessity for this amendment
grows out of the fact that it is held by
the Supreme Court of the United States
that the manufacture and production
are no part of the interstate commerce,
and cannot be reached under the inter-
state commerce clause of the COnstitu-
tion, even though monopoly in manu-
facture indirectly affects or controls
such commerce. Therefore, monopoly
in manufacture is not restrainable by
Congress even when it controls the out
put of an article of necessity to all the
lpeople in all the States and fixes the
Iprice at will.
Another measure amends the act of
July 2, 1890, being an act to protect
trade and commerce against unlawly re-
strains and monopoly, and known as
the Sherman act. The proposed bill
increases the penalties fixed by that ac1
and adds thereto five new sections. The
new sections relate to producing ant
manufacturing corporations and as
lsociatiOns organized or managed fOl
the purpose of controlling or monopoliz
ing manufacture or production, or 81
conducting their business as to monop
olize manufacture. 1t provides tina
corporations and associations organized
and carrying on business for such ;
purpose shall mark goods shipped with
out the State in which produced, ant
that the same shall not be transported
or carried without such State when no
marked, either upon the goods them
selves, the packages containing tn
same or the cars in which shipped.
Articles of commerce not marke'
may be seized and condemned whel
made part of interstate commerce.
1t further provides that corporation
and associations organized with, o
having a capital stock of 1000, 600 o
lover, or doing business of 81, 900, 90
or over per annum, shall, before beinI