| Show I ANTITRUST LAWS LS BEfORE CONGRESS Senator Knox Preparing to Take Active Part in New Legislation Legisla lon IT IS NOT HIS FIRST MOVE As AP Attorney General Keystone Scoured tit tuE I Itts Acts In lit ot of Carriers Curriers Special correspondence Washington D C e Feb 8 President Roosevelt In iii his hili recent to Congress strongly recommends addi additional legislation to malta make alo effective thu tho Not on only only n nb antitrust laws Ho SIc says SO 8 ly b should there be le such action on 01 certain certain tain lain laws affecting wage Igo earners there should also bo he such much action on omm laws lairs bettor belt r to secure control over oer time the th great grat business concerns engaged In II Interstate commerce and especially over oem the time great common carriers Time The recommendation of at the time PrOst president president dent Is quite likely to 10 bo he carried Into Inlo effect during durIn the present Congress anti erect If I legislation Is undertaken along this timis line Senator Philander Ph dol C Knox lne of ut Pennsylvania will wi have havo hove nn li Import Important ant part In It It Senator Knox was the time pioneer government offIcial In time the work of ot bringing time the transportation corporations under federal control and amid andIs ald aldIs Is conceded to be tIme the best Informed mon man In the tho country upon this sub math subject STEPS It I was Mr lr Knox then eral elal era who In 1902 I 02 to Con Congress COI gress gross that In respect to railroad re to rebates bates balos a 0 mm penalty should be imposed upon time the Incorporated carrier and amid the beneficiary alike nw and ald that tho tights rights of ut it the thc courts to restrain such practise tise nt mit the suit of ot time the United States Slates should be provided l for tOl In now legis legislation legislation lation laton Ho lIe recommended that Clint it I should be mode ma o unlawful to transport traffic by b t carrier subject to tho timo Act to Reg neg Regulate and at any rate less than such carriers published rate and that nil ni who participated in the tho violation of ot such ouch laws should hould be lIe pun lumn punished He lie le recommended that compre comprehensive platte plans should bo Ito framed tramel to en enable enable able the tho government to secure all 11 the timo facts bearing hearing upon the organization and practise of ot concerns engaged In II Interstate and ard foreign commerce essen eRsen essential that to a mm full understanding thereof He le Ie recommended the net act ne to suspend the tue te final decision of ot cases under the time thenn antitrust nn trust law l All Al of or these cases were promptly acted upon and became laws before the tho expiration of ot that sos ses session fes sion slon of or Congress NORTHERN SECURITIES Tho The act to expedite the tho hearing and determination of ot suits lulls under the tho anti antitrust ant antitrust trust and Interstate commerce acts was passed pas d Feb 11 1903 Under Under Its Is pro provisions provisions visions tho the Northern Securities case casO was aset set down for tor argument before time tho th circuit Judges of ot the tile Eighth circuit and argued In March Mach 1903 On Fob Feb Fol 14 1 1903 tho the department of ot commerce and labor was a created and andIn In that department the time bureau of ot cor corporations corporations established completing th the tho governments power to mako Investigation tion ton Into tho the organization conduct management and business of ot nil all ni cot cor corporations cor engaged In Interstate and foreign commerce Along tho the line lne of ot his suggestions al nl already ready reny Indicated pursuant to oth others others ers er which ho lie made Congress also amended tho the Interstate commerce law by b providing that anything done dono or omitted to 10 bo be done domme rone by a I corporate com cons common common mon men caner carler subject to time the Act net which If Ir done by an atm thereof would constitute a mr n misdemeanor under tinder tile thu law should also alo bo be held to be a mis misdemeanor misdemeanor demeanor committed b by such luch corpora corporation tion ton requiring every overy common carrier subject to time the law to publish his tariff rates rate or charges and to maintain them making It Jt unlawful for tor any nn per peu person pelsOn son muon or ot corporation to 10 offer oror grant or give or to solicit accept or receive any ammy un rebate concession or discrimination tion lion In respect to the time transportation of any property In hum Interstate or cm foreign commerce whereby such property properly shall shah by ii h any Iny device whatever ho bo transported at a ui I less rate than Ihan the tho rate rte published by tho the carrier mind and also making the time rate Ito published and Hied with wih the In commerce commission tho Iho le Ic legal gal ol rate I I f It St I provided also aiso for or the production of ot all al books book and papers both by car carrier tier rier and shipper which directly or In 11 directly relate to tho time transactions and tho the giving of ot testimony whether such documents can Incriminate the tho party or not The Tho Inseparable Identification of or Mr Knox with wih all these measures Is proven not only by tho the recommendations which too lu made from romis time to time but bul by time the fact that he ime 18 prepared P d bills bis embodying I every Idea Ido in the time legislation laton enacted for tor the correction of ot the tha evils over eIB splendid which limo tho triumphs government has hM gained its |
