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Show WOULD ELIMINATE RULE OF REASON IN TRUST GASES Bill Drawn to Meet Views of the President Presi-dent Introduced in Congress by Kentuckian. Washington. Representative Stanley Stan-ley -of Kentucky, after a conference with President Wilson, introduced late Friday an amendment to the Sherman law, which would make illegal the monopolization or restraint of trade "in any degree." It is designed to eliminate the rule of reason" laid down by the supreme court in the Standard Oil case. The amendment also would invest the circut courts of the United States with jurisdiction to restrain and prevent pre-vent violation of the act, irrespective of the attorney general. It was drawn to meet the wish of the president, expressed ex-pressed in his last message to congress, con-gress, to reduce the debatable area surrounding the Sherman act. Representative Stanley discussed the measure with the president on Friday and previously had corresponded correspond-ed with him on the subject.' The Kentucky Ken-tucky congressman, who was chairman chair-man of the special committee which investigated the United States Steel corporation, does not offer the measure meas-ure as an administration amendment, but believes it will be of service to the committees of congress which will draft the anti-trust legislation. |