Milford chronicle., 1903-01-09
REMEDY FOR TRUST ETII
Administrators Attitude Oh t.
Subject Made Public.
~HELEelsLATloNR RECOMMENDS

Should Be Directed Against Thos
Who Give Or Receive Illegal Aa
Vantages 70 Destroy competitibn
Investigating Commission Propo5ed
Washington, Jan. THE follow j..
abstract of Attorney General KnE
recommendations regarding trusts Ma
combinations. which We're made pD
lie at some legnth yesterday, was lirn
out at the White House last mig ttIt
+ represents the general attitude Of ne
administration on this subject and vas
authorized by the president.
The people do not desire the br1i-
ness of the country to be interfeFel
with beyond the regulation necessary
to control combinations where t4ey
act improperly, and to correct any
tendency toward monopoly.
Small enterprises have certain ad-
vantages over large combinauoas, and
will live and thrive if assured Of all
open and fair field. Rebates and dis
criminatory rates constitute one o. the
chief restrictions on competition. They
unjustly swell the earnings of favored
concerns and, supporting a vast vol
ume of capital stock, which represents
nothing but unfair advantage over
rivals, contribute largely to the up
building OF a mopopoly.
The situation respecting transporta-
tion determinations and the entry Of
Independent capital into new indus
tries has lately been improved.
Recommendations for immediate
legislation are: That all discrimina
tory practices affecting Interstate
trade be made offenses to be enjoined |
and punished. Such legislation to be |
directed alike against those who give |
and those who receive illegal advan
tages, and to cover discrimination il
prices as against competitors in par
ticular localities, resorted to for the
purpose Of destroying competition.
In order to reach producers guilty
of these Offenses a penalty should be
imposed upon the interstate and for
eign transportation Of goods produced
by them, and Federal courts should be
given power to restrain such trans
portation at the governments suit.
The casus omissus in the interstate
act should now be supplied
by imposing a penalty upon carrier
and beneficiary alike, and by giving to
he courts the right to restrain all such
nfractions of the law.
It should be made unlawful to trans
port traffic by carriers subject to the
commerce act at a less rate
han the published rate, and all who
participate in violating the law should
Je punished.
Provision should also be made to
each corporations and combinations
which produce wholly within a state,
nut whose products enter interstate
ommerce. -FhisepFOvision should re-
ate, first. to concerns which fatten on
second. to concerns which sell
Ommodities below the general price
I particular localities or in any other ]
'ay in particular localities seek to de- ]
troy competition.
There should be a comprehensive
Ian to enable the government to get
all the facts bearing upon the or
anizatiOn and practices of concerns
lgaged in interstate commerce, not
ith a view to hampering any legiti- t
ate business of such concerns, but in y
der to be in position to take action t
necessary. C
To this end a commission or a spe- f
al bureau in the proposed depart v
ent of commerce should be created, t
hose duty it should be to investigate n
e operations of concerns engaged in
ter-state or foreign commerce, to e
ther in formation and data enabling il
ii make recommendation for addi- Il
'nal legislation to report to the presi-
mt This would be a first step in Sc d
ring proper publicity. This commits s.
IN should have authority to inquire 81
to the management of any concern al
ing an interstate business when m
er it becomes necessary or deslr- b.
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