The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-17
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TWO ANIL TRUST MEASURES
Decided Upon by a } judiciary Commit
tee subcommittee.

Washington, April 1.-TWO measures
directed against trusts were determined
upon today by the special subcommittee
on trusts Of the house udsary commit
tee. The special committee has spent
many days examining the various rene
dies proposed, and the conferences were
not concluded until a late hour today.
AS agreed upon the remedy is two-foid.
namely, constitutional amendment Civ
ing congress fun power TO deal with
trusts and a new antitrust law making
the following extensions 70 the Sher-
man act:
FIrst-Requiring the branding or
marking of trust-made goods shipped out
Of state so as to be easily identified
as the product of a trust.
Second-PrOhibiting the interstate
traffic Of trust-made goods not 50 brand
ed, and making them subject TO seizure
and condemnation.
Understanding corporations having
capital over 100000 or doing an annual
business of $l,Gy0OJ0 to file report of
their affairs with the secretary of state.
Fourth-Providing the process of in
junction against combinations sending
trust-made goods from state to state or
to foreign countries.
F1ftn-Prohibiting the use Of the mails
TO concerns and their officials proven TO
be trusts.
Judge Ray, of New York. chairman of
the judiciary committee and of the spe-
cial subcommittee on trusts, gave -out
the following summary of the measures;
The subcommittee on Judiciary agreed
to report to the full committee PROPOSED
constitutional amendment, which pro-
vides that congress shall have power to
define, regulate, control prohibit or dis
solve trusts, monopOles, or cOmbina-
tons, whether existing in the form Of
a corporation or otherwise, and which
further provides that the several states
may continue to exercise such power in
any manned not in conflict with the laws
of the United States. The necessity for
this amendment grows out of the fact
thar it is held by the supreme court of
the United States that manufacture and
production are not part of interstate
commerce and can not be reached under
the Interstate commerce clause. of the
constitution. even though monopoly in
manufacture indirectly affects or controls
such commerce. Therefore, monopoly in
manufacture is restrainable by congress
even when it control the output of an ar
ticle of necessity to all the people IN all
The state and fixes the price at will.
Another measure amends the act of
July 2, 1880, being an act to protect trade
and commerce against unlawful re-
straints and monopoly, and known as the
Sherman act. The proposed bill increases
the penalties fixed by that act and adds
thereto five new sections. The new sec
lions relate to producing and n1anufac-
turing corporations and associations or
gained or managed for the purpose Of
controlling or monopoiizing manufacture
or product so controlling their business
as to monopOlize manufacture 1t pro-
vides that a corporation and organization
occupied in carrying on business for such
a purpose shall mark goods shipped with
out the state in which produced and that
the goods shall not be transported or car
Tied without state when not s. marked.
either upon the goods themseve the
packages containing the same or tie ca
in Wnlcn snIpped.