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membership OF the national chamber,
Lad been incorporated In sthe meas
iire The report approved the cur.
leney law as a long step in the right
direction and declared that bankers
and business men the country over
now accepted 1t in that light. d
Today IS expected to be the most
important day Of the convention
Men of great business experience
will discuss trust regulation bills
now pending in congress. There will
Ee eight speakers. including secre-
taryf Redfield Of the Department of
Commerce and President Van Hise.
of the University of Wisconsin.
z WASHINGTON, d. c.. Feb. 12.@
President Charles R. Van Iise, of the
University Of Wisconsin, proposed be-
foer the Chamber Of Commerce Of
America here today that the Sherman
antitrust law should be supplement-.
cd by an act which would forbid only
combinations and contracts In re-
straint Of trade that are detrimental
TO thc welfare Of the people. He
charged that for political reasons
laws against monopolies and re.
straints Of trade are enforced only
against "big business" the small
Z dealer. the farmer and the laborer be-
ling permitted to combine and monop-
ollie at will.
Under the enforced competitive
system,s President Van. I1ise; said, !
esare cklessiy 1 sEiniming tie
cleamspf the natural resources of "a
virgin continent, with 4 ~ ID concern
Ter the future" a's s. &'o1'si
Support INSTRUMENTATION. the
SPEAKER said that the coal mines
could produce 20o,0oO,O0O tons more
GOAL per year than the market de-
!, lnaadod, but that the operators, regu-
lated by the Sherman act, were COM
PEELED to handle their mines, with
cut cooperation in limiting the out:
put dividing territory, or Regulating
prices. Such practices result, he
said, in! mining in a wasteful fash
ion, working thick veins and neglect
ngstheStilin veins in order to get coal
10 the market at the lowest possible
cost
lfSthe operators could agree upon
limitation Of output, SO as to reduce
freight" consumed the speaker,
and could arrange for reasonable
prices, which would give them no
more than their present profits, they
would exploit coal conservativcly,
andSthey would be the gamers in pro-
longing the life. of the mines for fIv
ture, generations.
4 $50 far as the public is concern
: cd in the separation. Of the Union
Tactic and Southern Pacific rail-
ways. the only effect Is that there will
be fewer through trains, greater cx-
pense in accounting, and less close
cooperation between the two sys-
tens, In handling the freight and
passenger business.
4. y am willing to stand for enforce
! ment Of the law when it is enforced
Z alike for all, but when some one is
PICKED out because it is good politics
/. to attack him, and the others are al
lowed to escape, say, 1t is a pro-
foundly immoral situation. To have
q statute which requires the Off
Gals of justice to close one eye when
ever they pass by the men in con-
troll of some industries and. at the
same moment see other men not one
whit more guilty is not justice. And
that f IsI Exactly the sxisstig Situation
insthis Country ''.gsas'n ~ !. Eve 4
The speaker SAID IL hadsbeen gen
orally assumed that the only viola
tors of the Sherman act were combi-
nations such as the Steel and Tobac-
co Trusts. and that the small bust
ness men and small producers were
y net dealt with under the law al
though they cooperate in exactly tho
same way as the more powerful or
1 CARNATIONS. f4
IA Congress well understands this
situation" he continued. a.'and at a
recent session paragraph contain-
ing an appropriation OF $500, 900 for
the enforcement of tho anti-tr,Sst |