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Show I ASSAILED H LaFoIlette Refers to His HI p . Failure to Prose- H cute Trusts H Washington, Aug. 19. A 'bill to de- B fine the extent to -which ''reasonable" H restraint of trade shall be permitted H under the Sharman nnti-trust law H that whenever a combination, trust H or conspiracy is shown to exist, the H burden of proof that the combination H is not unreasonable shall rest on the flk. part who contends that the restraint H is reasonable. H Senator La Follettc. In discussing H his bill, declared tho Sherman anti- H trust law had been vigorously en- Hf forced In the years Immediately fol- H lowing Its passage. He said that in H the Cleveland administration Attor- H ney General Judson Harmon, now H governor of Ohio, was called on by H congress to say what was being done H to enforce the Sherman law. He re- H plied that two cases were being pros- Hl ccuted. R Senator Pomcrcne of Ohio Inter- B jctcd that Mr Harmon, as attorney H general, had prosecuted the first sue- H cessful an tl-i.ru st coses In the su- B premo court, the Trans-MIssourl rate H case; and that when it was decided H In the government's favor, he lmmedl- H ately instituted two more cases, n "Suits should have been instituted Hh agahibt all these institutions," said H Senator La Follotte, "before they H I grew to havo such great power and Hi influence in municipal and state gov- H crnment and In all departments of H, i tho federal government" HLl Senator La Follettc said the Incor- Hj poratlon of the word reasonable into H 1 the Sherman act came as a distinct H 1 shock. He said tho court had H ' "yielded to the importunities" of thoso H , who wanted tho act amended and H ' , had changed the law after congress K' ' had refused to do so. B I Mr. La Follettc said ho did not ex- K ' poet action on his anti-trust bill at H, this session, but hoped to have It dls- Hi cu86ed before the regular session in H; Docemher. |