The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-13
BRANDIES URGES
 AID TO CONGRESS-
MATTRESSES NECESSITY OF 5Usl- NESS MEN ADVISING ON THE
 TRUST LAWS.
Believes Practical Men Should Aid Members of Congress in Framing the Proposed Statutes.

| to congress during the shaping of 1 the trust bills by Louis D. Brandeis Of B ston in a speech today closins q session given over by the annual | convention of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States, in dis. cussion of pending bills affecting the l business world. Mr Brandeis toIi i the delegates that the measures now being considered by house and sen ate committees repr esented only the | groundwork of the administration pro- gram and that in the work of per l fecting them along lines suggested | by President Wilson aid from the outside would be welcome.
 These bills that have been intro duced are not administration bills, 1 he said They are the bils of those members who introduced them. find much in them that l would see amend ed or corrected and have found the greatest desire among their authors to get suggestions from you business men that will aid them in carrying out the presidents program"
 Free and unrestricted competition was not the presidents object, Mr. | Brandeis said but rather regulated l competition. Absolute divorce of transportation from industry, he con | tinued was essential to any legisla- | tive action that would set business ! free Every great monopoly has been built mp by privilege and discrimina- | ton in its favor hy transportation companies, he believed, and whiie great strides had been made towaro l curbng this, the small manufacturer still was at a disadvantage because the bulk of the business done by this great competition carried with it rar.
 way preferences.
 In closing. MT Brandeis pleaded fer industrial democracy. Business
 would and could be put. he believed,
 upon the same plane as the medical
 or engineering professions.
 Henry R. 1owne, former president of the Merchants Association of New
 York City. told the congress he saw
 in the proposed interstate trade com
 mission the education of a body of
 men fitted to cope with business prob
 lems and to adjudge business disputes
 in the light Of greater personal knowi-
 edge than any court of law could bring
 to bear.
 Tonight the delegates attended the
 annual banquet of the chamber, See
 retary Redfeld of the department of
 commerce, and Dr. Karl Rathgen Of 1 Hamburg, Germany, being the speak
 CTS of the evening. Dr. Rathgen told of Germany's struggles with trade combinations and paid high tribute | to American business ideals as he | had heard them expressed during the convention.
 Secretary Redfeld discussed the various activities Of his department In the reorganiezd bureau of domes- | tic and foreign commerce, he said, an adequate though small force was now in the foreign field obtaining in. formation that would prove of vital importance to the extension of Amer ican commerce
 Speaking of the discovery of an inn mense supply of edible scaiops, Mr Redfield said thorough survey of the fishing banks of the north Pacific coast was now proceeding and that the bureau of fisheries was aGoHt | open an office in Seattle where the interests of the northWe stern statns and Alaska would be cared for T hope myself" he added, "at no very distant date to make personal eX- animation of this entire territory, in cluding the seal islands of Boring sea.
 The Alaska raiIrf ad project. he said was fine thing, bnt the useful ness could not be fully realized ua- til Alaska's coast was made safe for navigation. Additional appropriations for lighthouse and survey work had been asked for this purpose, he add ed, as well as to equip lighthouse ten. ders with wireless telegraph appara- tus.
 III pAtpdli iu6 tttt tOiNhNOiifA5 NtA sus of manufactures, which includes the year 1914, MT Redfeld said the aid of chambers of commerce and similar organizations had been sought by the census bureau in order to ednI. mate much of the delay which mark ed the last report five years ago. Suggestions from senators propos- ing possible expediency by consohdat- ing administration antitrust and commerce regulation measures will be received favorably by the house committee on interstate commerce. Members of that committee intend t> press separate bills to create an in- terstate trade commission and to con trol the issue of stocks and bonds | by corporations
 Gustavus A. Rogers. New York, counsel for independent motion pic ture film interests, discusesed the pro- posed antitrust bills before the house