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ton engaged in Interstate commerce. to
reduce its rates 80 per cent. to and from
every point where competition has been
mon control or agreement. Congress- can
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lower rates wherever by any combination
competition Ii prevented than where CONS
3. II necessary, the state itself can n
ter the industrial field as g producer and
restore the force Of connection to its for
petttor of the great trusts.
Proposals Cause q FIGHT.
The report is signed by all members
OF the committee, consisting Of Walter
S. Logan. Henry Budd, Gardiner La
throp, George Whitelock and John
Morris. jr.
There was applause when Judge Lo-
gan concluded the reading of the res
Judge Ketcham. Of Indiana requested
that Judge Hammond OF Georgia b
asked to speak.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. BUS
by of North Carolina providing that
the report be received and filed, accom-
panied by a note that it did not express
the Views Of the association.
Judge Hammond spoke briefly In
dorsing the report. saying that it was a
most encouraging thing that a body
like the committee had seen
fit to grapple with UGH a great Ques-
ton as industrial combinations.
William L.. Royal of Richmond, Va.
offered as a substitute for the report
a paper, the essential ideas of which
were that the injury done to the pub
lie by trusts was through unreal COM
petition, that is, the giving away OF
goods to destroy weak rivals. or by
selling goods below cost for the same
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trusts powe for evil is ended. His
remedy was that congress pass a law
establishing a corporation commission
In each state and territory, having com-
plete authority, on complaint of any
person that his rival is trading dis
honestly by giving away his goods, or
selling them below cost, for the pur-
pose of destroying the complainant, to
fine the offending corporation to such
an extent as will make it offer its goods
for sale, in fact, instead of in p~retense,
If it chooses to enter into trade. He
found authority for this act in the cons
merce clause and the fourteenth
amendment. but he recommended an
amendment to the constitution, giving
congress power by appropriate legis-
lation to n prevent dishOn-
est competition in rade.
An Animated Discussion.
There was very animated discussion
over u mOLlOH TO laOle the report. Iher0
was great excitement on the floor and
finally it was agreed the report should
be taken up at the night session.
At the night session William A. Glas-
gov OF Roanoke. Va, read a paper en-
titled "A Dangerous Tendency Of Legis-
lation."
The paper endeavored to show that
state legislation had a tendency toward
p%aternalism and cited many instances
in SUPPORT of this position.
Discussion of the report of the com
mercial law committee was then re-
sumed. F. H. Busby of North Caro-
lima moved that the report be recon-
mitted so far as that portion referring
to combinations was concerned, and
that a committee be appointed to re-
port remedies for trust evils alleged to
exist. This was seconded by George
Whitelock of Baltimore a member of
the committee, but Seymour D. Thomp-
son of New York offered a resolution
similar to the one proposed by Mr..
Busby, with the exception that It pro-
poseu to refer the report back to the
committee on commercial laws, with
instructions to report also on labor
monopoliess muscle trusts as the
speaker termed the labor unions.
" two hours were spent in parlia-
mentary wrangling, but finally aSreso-
luton by F. M. Judson of MissourigWasg
adopted, directing that the report be
recomn1itted with instructions to the
committee to report remedies for ILL.,
legal combinations which threaten
commercial