The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-19
TRADE BOARD TO Be
AID OF BUSINESS
Members Insist That There
Will Be NO Campaign
Of Annoyance.
SrryENS TO BE COUNSEL

w~,suiSGroN. March iS--The Fed
.-,i Trad, Commission held an execu'
,,,s session to-day and deliberated on
.,,,. chairman Davies and the menu
80 NJ the commission have informally
.u.sel the act which created the
.omrission with officials of the Depart
,,s,, Of Justice and 1t can he said that
,s. commission will not make rulings in
ADVANCE on specific plans which may be
admitted by business men.
II will he made PLAIN that while the
commission or its individual members
,Al he glad to confer with business men
-, ali times IL cannot burden or obli-
ala itself formally to consider plans
n,.s.rted. Doubt is expressed also that
- under the act Itself there Is authority
for such formal consideration
The Department Of Justice will urn
cy.r 10 tho Trade Commission many in
oui-es which II has received relative
N the law, as TO what can and cannot
~ done The formal regulations to I've
promulgated will answer many of these.
Additional regulations will he issued as
necessity requires.
Members of the commission want 1t
made clear that there Is no intention
an It's part of starting a campaign that
would annoy or harass the business in
,AresIS of the country, but that II IL
rlanned by constructive work to assist
concerns doing an Interstate business 80
ina, their activities will be in conform
liz with the act creating the commission
ard the antitrust acts.
Il II probable that Cnc Of the first
injuries to he made by the commission
will Re to obtain information as to the
common selling agencies or trusts au-
ihorized by foreign Governments to per-
nit their manufacturers to meet COM
PETITION abroad.
Commercial organizations throughout
The United states have advocated simi-
lar agencies by American business men
ard corporations to sell abroad on the
same terms as their foreign competitors
E-Representative Stevens Of New
Hampshire. who as a membe VI the
House m oil Interstate and For
eign Commerce helped to frame the
unfair methods Of competition pro-
vision Of the act, Was designated to-day
BY the commission as special counsel at
salary of $4,000 a year.
Frank l.. Jones. private secretary 10
Chairman Davies. was designated as
temporary secretary. The m ssion
has decided that this position. which
pays $4,000 a year, should be filed BY
lawyer.
Until the cor mission has made Other
Arrangements II will use the small ball
room OF the New Willard Hotel In which
70 hold It's meetIn-s.
The board OF directors OF the Chamber
Of Commerce Of the United States has
announced the personnel OF a com
mltiee which will act in cooperation
with the Federal Trade Commission
The committee is composed OF nine
members. As follows:
Henry 4. Wheeler OF Chicago. chair.
man, vice-president of the Union Trus,
Company Of Chicago and formerly pres!.
dent OF the Chamber of Commerce o.
the United States.
Alfred u. Koch OF Toledo. Ohio. mer.
chant. president OF the National Retail
Dry Goods Association.
Rush e. Butter OF Chicago. lawyer
o. the firm OF liutte" X i.ynde.
W l. Saunders Of New York, eng.-
neer ana manufacturer. president OF the
lnsersol- Rand Company.
Guy T. Trpp of New York. chair
man Of the board OF the Westinghouse
Manufacturing Company.
Henry K Seager Of New York
professor Of political economy at Colum.
ba University
Alex. W. Smith OF Atlanta. Ca. law.
yer
Joseph p Cotton OF New York. law,
yer. OF the firm % Spooner & Cotton
Dr. W 9. waite, of Morgentown. w
Va, expert In mining conservation anC
, member of the faculty OF tn. Uni.
Nersity # Yves, Virginia.