Show ANTITRUST U sT BARRIERS MAY BE SWEPT ASIDE ASID ASI IDEAS CHANGE ON RESTRICTED COMBINATIONS Retain Sul Supervision Su- Su Will l 0 Over ver C Combined om b. b me d J Action Though Y By SAM 1 BLEDSOE Associated d Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON May liay 5 5 The The Roosevelt administration is hammering hammer hammer- ing g significant bre breaches ches in the antitrust anti anti- trust legislation walls p One On almost complete would allow r 1 agriculture and related industries to pass through the barriers Another has hs been started Which would give the tho railroads an outlet and there may fc b. one soon for tor or general business and The government however intends to lay down definite conditions and to keep strict supervision over the events that take place in the long forb forbidden for for- b hidden bidden domain of ot combinations in n restraint of ot trade The farm bill enactment gives the secretary o of agriculture wide power to exempt handlers of ot the basic commodities from rom the Sherman District Ch Chief ef 9 4 II o. o Guy Cardon and Clayton antitrust acts The railroad railroad rail rail- rau-I rau road bill bilI introduced yesterday would give the tho federal coordinator similar powers jowers President Roosevelt's ad ad- address before the chamber of ot commerce com corn merce a of the United States Indicated a measure may follow to include other other oth er business There has been little major trust busting of at late the p period roughly speaking extending from 1890 the the year the Sherman act was passed passed to to towar I war tune time Theodore Roosevelt was one of its most vigorous exponents and his attacks on trusts were front page news and material for many cartoons cartoons cartoons car car- showing Teddy wielding the big stick In that stretch of years cars the government government govern govern- ment reinforced the Sherman act with the Clayton law and set up the federal trade commission to keep an eye ee on combines and threatened monopolies The federal authorities busted a good many trusts over the years among them the Standard Oil on Company Corn Com pany of New Jersey United States Steel the packers and other giants But re recently especially in the depression depression depression de de- de- de years complaints cropped up business grumbling that the laws hampered hampered ham ham- pored efforts to give economical service ser ser- ser ser- vic vice The idea took hold that there might be flaws in the good old doc doc- trine trifle of unregulated competition The changed attitude has been noted In more than one high seat of at government government government govern govern- I II ment lately The supreme court recently recently recently re re- re- re held that the formation of a selling agency gency by a large group of coal producers was legal The admin admin- I has shown that it believes the laws are standing in jn the way of the he planned production it feels Is necessary necessary essary for permanent prosperity The holes that are are being made however will not let business have an absolutely tely free hand but rather allow allow alow al al- al- al low ow it to follow a path charted by President resident Roosevelt and his advisers 4 |