The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-04

man antitrust lawn by a single United
states statute that rsluired any corpora
reduce it's rates so per cent. to and from
every point where competition has been
mon control or agreement. Congress can
enact that any corporation or individual
VINO engages In interstate commerce must
furnish Its services or, supply its goods at
lower rates wherever by any combination
competition Is prevented than where COM
petition is left free.
ter the Industrial field as a producer and
restore the force of competition to It's for
mer supremacy by becoming itself a com
petitor of the great trusts.
Proposals Cause a Fight.
The report is signed by all members
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 re-
port.
Judge Ketcham of Indiana requested
that Judge Hammond of Georgia be
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
" AZ VIC ASpoil, saying liidl I WAS d
most encouraging thing that a body
like the commerce committee had seen
fit to grapple with such a great quss-
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 lone to the pub
lie by trusts vas through unreal com
petition, that is, the giving away of
goods to destroy weak rivals, or by
selling goods below cost for the same
purpose Stop this, he said, n the
trusts power for evil Is ended. His
remedy was that congress pass a law
establishing a corporation commission
in each state n territory, having COM
plete authority, on complaint Of any
person that mis- rival is trading dis
honestly by giving away his goods, or
selling them below cost, for the pur-
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 pretense,
If it chooses to. enter into trade. He
found authority for this act in the COM
merce clause and the fourteenth
but he recommended an
amendment to the constitution, giving
congress power by appropriate legis-
lation to suppress and prevent dishon-
est competition In. trade.
An Animated Discussion.
There was very animated discussion
over a motion to table the, report. There
was great excitement on the floor and
finally 1t was agreed the report should
be taken up at the night session.
AT the night session William A. Glas-
of Roanoke, Va, read a paper en-
titled "a Dangerous Tendency Of Legis-
The paper endeavored to show that
state legislation a a tendency toward
p~aternalism n cited many instances
In support of this position. Il
Discussion of the report Of the COM
merc1al law committee was then re-
sumed. f. II. Busoy of North Caro-
lima moved that the report be recon-
mltted so far as that portion referring
TO combinations was concerned, and.
a committee be appointed to re-.
port remedies for trust evils alleged to
exist. This was seconded by George,
of Baltimore a member of
the committee, but Seymour D. Thomp-,
OF New York offered a resolutions,
to the one proposed by Mr..
6usby, with the exception that it pro- |
posed to refer the report back to the
on commercial laws, with
Instructions to report also on Mbor
muscle trusts" as the
speaker termed the labor unions.
over two hours were spent in parlla- |
nentary Wrangling, but finally a reso- |
.utlon by f. NJ. Judson of Missouri. was
adopted, directing hat the report be
'ecommftted with instructions to the
committee to report remedies for IL; |
egal combinations which threaten
commercial intercourse.