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Show ira TRUST mm probe Will Be Investigated Like So-Oalled So-Oalled Steel and Sugar Monopolies. Mo-nopolies. POSTER OFFERS RESOLUTION To Ascertain if Company Has Destroyed De-stroyed or Restricted Its Competition. WASHINGTON". Aug. 15 Another comprehensive congressional investigation, investiga-tion, this time Into the nffalrB of tho International Harvester company, will bo under way In the next regular session of congreso, If a resolution Introduced today to-day by Representative Foster of Illinois Is adopted by the house. Mr. Foster suggests an Investigation by a. committee of nine members of the house, to be elected In the same way as the committeos of inqulrv Into the so-called so-called steel and sugar trubts. The Foster resolution was referred to the rules committee. It contemplates a determination as to whother the harvester har-vester company has violated tho Sherman anti-trust law. either by tho relation of the company to Itn subsidiary companies und corporations, or otherwise, Many questions would coino within the scope -of the inquiry. It Is said. Among them would be whether tho harvester company has destroyed or restricted competition: com-petition: whether It has Increased the prices on farm Implements or machinery and what has been Its policy In obtaining obtain-ing control of the Kcystono Manufacturing Manufactur-ing company, the D. M. Osborne Harvester Harves-ter company and other Independent concerns. |