Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-06 | Page 2 | Legitimate Trade Secrets Respected

LEGITIMATE TRADE SECRETS RESPECTED WASHINGTON, March 5. With limitation to protect legitimate trade socrots, President Wilson and members mem-bers of the congressional committees agreed today that tho powers of publicity pub-licity to bo given to tho proposea interstate in-terstate trado commission should bo as broad as possible, Tho prosidont lot this bo known when explaining tho status of pending anti-trust measures. Asked whothor tho commission should consist of three or five members, ho said ho did not sco much difference and that tho committees would determine. Tho president gave tho impression that some of tho bills which seek to define tho Sherman law might bo aban-donod. aban-donod. Ho spoke of tho danger of do-fining do-fining a law upon which there alreti" had been many decisions. Tho difficulty, diffi-culty, he pointed out, was to make any sunnlementary laws useful without with-out making tho prohibitions they carried car-ried conilict with tho Sherman law itself.