Show TRUSTS WILL VILL DO DOVELL DOWELL DOWELL WELL VELL TO KEEP HEEP OUT O OF PORTLAND NOW PORTLAND Or Aug 16 Portland Portland has taken a step among the cities titles of the United States by passing an ordinance ordinance nance nanee for tor the purpose of ot re regulating or suppressing trusts At a meeting of the Council the Belding ordinance the provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of ot which will be reaching far If it rigidly enforced was adopted The mu mu- nl now is l in possession of at a weapon with which to fight the trade combines that are said to have grown grownup grownup grownup up in tn many places In commercial life lite Interstate laws for control of ot allied firms f and corporations corporation are many but so far as Is known this is the first time that a city has essayed to take up the cudgel and apply It to those thole who are restrain Ing trade and arbitrarily fixing prices The following Is a synopsis of ot Portland's trust anti law Jaw It Is unlawful for any person firm or other organization to enter Into an agreement agreement agree agree- ment the subject of ot which shall be to re restrain reo re strain trade or competition to limit pro or Increase or reduce prices to interfere with unrestricted competition to preclude the sale of any commodity to the consumer merchants or to rebate any part art of the price of ot any article A fine of from 50 to and imprisonment Imprisonment imprisonment not exceeding six months is provided provided pro pro- vided as a a. penalty for tor violation of ot the ordinance |