People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — A NEW ANTI-TRUST BILL. [ARTICLE]

A NEW ANTI-TRUST BILL.

Senator Pettigrew Want* an Amendment to the Tariff Law, Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has introduced an amendment to the tariff bill. It provides that all articles on the dutiable list shall be admitted free of duty if said article or articles of a like character of domestic production are manufactured, their sale controlled, or the price affected by a trust or combination to prevent competition. Every contract, combination in the form of a trust or to restrict the quantity of production or affect the price of any article or conspiracy in restraint of trade shall be considered a trust. Provision is made for application by any citizen to the United States courts for a determination on the existence of any trust, and if the courts decide that a trust exists an order is issued to the customs officers directing them to admit free of duty articles similar to those made by the trust. A proviso is made . that when a duty is levied on raw material or on any article improved after importation, the duty on the raw material or unrefined or unimproved article shall be collected, but the differential duty shall not be collected if the improved or refined product is subject 1 of a trust. —Silver Knight Watchman.