Millard County Chronicle | 1913-01-23 | Page 4 | Would Curb the Telephone Trust

1mm tie TELEPHONE TRUST REGULATION BY COMMERCE COMMISSION COM-MISSION WILL BE MEANS OF SOLVING VEXED QUESTION. Will Investigate Charges of Unfair Treatment of Independent Companies Compan-ies and of Employment of Methods Meth-ods Destructive of Competition. Washington. Regulation by the Interstate In-terstate commerce commission of the American Telephone k Telegraph company, com-pany, and not the compulsory competitive compe-titive provisions of the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law, will be th means of solving solv-ing In large measure the so-called "telephone trust" problem, according to Attorney Oeneral WJckersham, who announced Monday that he had referred refer-red the whole question to the commission com-mission for Investigation and action. Thla move terminates the Inventlga-slaa Inventlga-slaa be the department of Juat.te of hie alleged I600.000.000 telephone trust against which independent telephone ewtnpanles have made charges of unfair un-fair treatment and of the employment of methods destructive of competition. The commission's Investigation will be far-reaching In effect and out of it is eipeoted to grow the outline of a governmental gov-ernmental policy with respect to the telephone and telegraph.