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Show FIRST HEARINGS I ON TRUST BILLS I Washington, D. C, Jan. 29. First public hearings on the new trust bills IH were begun today before the house ju-diciary ju-diciary committee,. The bill defining IH restraints of trade, prohibited by the Sherman law, was taken up. Representative Stanley, who has In-troduced In-troduced a bill making every restraint of trade whether "reasonable or unrea-sonable," unrea-sonable," a violation of law, made a. long argument for clearing up the IH "twilight zone." He contended that prior to the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases, the supreme court had repeat-edly repeat-edly held thatMt was outside of it's province tq determine whether a re- IH straint was "due or undue, reasonable or unreasonable," and' declared that IH in these same cases Ihe "reasonable and unreasonable" features of the de-cisions de-cisions were merely Incidental. IH "The only act that can be effective" IH said Mr. Stanley, "is an absolute pro-hlbltlon pro-hlbltlon of all restraints of trade. For IH it is beyond power of any court to take up and determine the question of IH fact as to whether a restraint is rea-sonable rea-sonable or unreasonable." The committee arranged to hear Soth Low of New York next Wedhcs- IH |