Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Measures Relating to
Inter=locking Direct
crates to Be with
held at Present.
Alterations, Extensions and EN-
DhaSiS viii Be Made.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The antitrust
; legislative program as outlined in bills
made public yesterday is not the last
word n the proposed remedial legis-
lation t, regulate big business. That
the tentative measures submitted may
he altered or extended was empha-
sized today in both branches Of Con-
gress, and the President let it be
known that he did not consider that
the forms IF the bills drafted were
closed.
/. Pursuant to the purpose Of admins
traticn leaders TO consider the subject
thoroughly. the House judiciary and
' Senate Interstate commerce commit
tee decided not "a introduce at this
time the measures relating to inter
, locking directorate prohibition. defini-
tions of restraints Of trade and spec
ification of cut throat competition.
Hearings are to be held before the
bills go to Congress. The Interstate
Trade Commission bill introduced yes
terday will lie taken up next week by
the House interstate and foreign com
merce committee which may see fit
to alter the provisions suggested by
the judiciary subcommittee and SEN
, ator Newlands. chairman of the Sem
ate Interstate commerce committee.
The fifth of the proposed bills-that to
/, authorize federal regulation OF rail-
road securities probably will not be
drawn for several weeks. AS a basis
, for this measure, however, bill in
trodueed some time ago by Rep.
Adamson Of Georgia probably will be
taken up.
Plans for the hearings now are en-
gaging attention of the legislative
leaders.
Representative Clayton has called a
. meeting of the judiciary committee to-
morrow to determine upon course or
procedure. When the Democrats OF
, the Senate interstate commerce com
mittee today to discuss the subject
the suggestion was made that hear
, ings should be conducted jointly by
House and Senate committees in or
der to expedite consideration of the
. bills. This idea received very little en-
couragement, however, from the
House leaders in charge of the anti
! trust program. and the plan hardly Will
work out, unless strong pressure
should be brought to bear on the
ground that everything possible
should be done to expedite business
of Congress so there may be an early
adjournment.
With two committees in the House
, already engaged in preliminary con-
sideration of the subject and with the
prospect of another division of juris-
diction in the Senate between the Ju-
dietary and interstate commerce COM
mittees IL was pointed out that joint
hearings could not be conducted with
out considerable difficulty. Democrats
of the Senate interstate commerce
committee were inclined today to in
sist that all the trust measures be re-
ferred to them when the bills are IN
troduced in the upper branch. Late
TODAY Reps. Clayton, Carlin and FLOYD
of the judiciary sub b-committee con-
ferred with Senator Newlands and
other Democrats of the Interstate
commerce committee, including Sena-
tors Smith of South Carolina, Pomer-
enc Thomas. Myers, Robinson, Sauls-
bury and Thompson.
I'VE are to exchange views" said
Rep. Carlin, later, going over the
bills studiously with a view to deter
mining where they may be improved
and insuring harmonious action upon
any changes that may be suggested.
Members of both committees after
discussing the question of making the
bills party measures through caucus
action, expressed the hope that 1t
would not be necessary to handle them
in this way, as was done with the tar
iff and currency bills. In this connec-
ton, Senator Newlands pointed out
that all minority members would be
given an opportunity to participate in
deliberations on the bill at hearings
and through eonservations with the
committees. Other joint conferences
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