Show TRUST I Rep Introduces n a 1 Resolution tion Culling Calling for fOI One Washington March 18 tie tio Hearst of ot New Nev York today Intro Intra Introduced Introduced a resolution providing for tor an nn In Investigation n of or tho the trust tract question by a n committee e of ot five members of ot the tho house hOIl rho Tho resolution contain 10 clauses cs reek reciting lag ing In the evil 1 II effects of trusts on all the among allons them being the follow tollow following followIng ing Ins Numerous Illegal combinations known knowlI as an Units trusts tru have hava been formed fanned to absorb or eliminate competition and es establish s virtual monopolies with a n I view I to controlling production and raising tho the price Nice of at their products Such extortionate trusts as all the beef trust and the tho coal trust and the tho Ico ice trust have arbitrarily Increased tho the cost COAt of ot the necessities of or life lira to the public Such speculative trusts as tho the ship liMn shipyards yards ard trust and the steel trust have haO In tinted Hated their stock tock to 10 many times Its ac nc actual value and sold Bolli to 10 the public trans transferring ferring the tho peoples money from tram banks and legitimate I Investments Into tho the pockets of ot trust promoters and speculators Industrial unrest has been bC n fomented by the Increased cost com of ot living and amt by bythe bythe bythe the consequent necessary efforts of at labor la laIor laII bor II to make Its wages keep pace Paco with the he Increased It cost of at living Such trusts as the steel trust In spite of ot the Increased cost of or living ha haia n ruthlessly cut down dow the tho wages wagen of ot hun of or thousands of ot In I order arder to pay nay dividends on watered stock and other trusts have havo wholly ed throwing hundreds of ot thou stands of ot workmen out of or employment The purchasing of or the tho com u alt line hall been diminished by b tho o In creasing crea demands demand of nf tho the rusts by hy unsound un unsound I sound and reprehensible methods which have Ime misled the tho people swindled 1 them and robbed them of at their savings All classes cusses of at the tile community are arc be beIng beIng Ing mode made to feel the evil oIl Influences H of ot the tho unrestrained greed and lawless practises of at the tho trust The committee Is directed to Inform the tho house houle fully tull on Oil the tho trust situation to the tho end that more mora effective laws In ws may ma 1110 be prepared and passed ell by Con Rn gross M regulating and restricting com corn bi allons The Tho committee Is III ered to send for and vapors papers An additional resolution states that thal It 11 Is the th sf sense BOUse use of or this house and It 11 does rec recommend that tho the laws lawn already existing against the tho trusts bo be In the meanwhile enforced by lIy tho Iho executive branch of ot this tads government mind the tho legal representatives thereof I Tho resolutions r were referred to tho the committee on rules rule |