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Bills and debates in Congress relating to trusts
Bills and debates in Congress relating to trusts Author:United States. Congress Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. March IS, 18!0 Ordered to be printed. AMENDMENT, Reported by Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, and intend... more »ed to be proposed to the bill (S. 1) to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 3 That all arrangements, contracts, agreements, trusts, or com- 4 binations between two or more citizens or corporations, or 5 both, of different States, or between two or more citizens or 6 corporations, or both, of the United States and foreign states, 7 or citizens or corporations thereof, made with a view or which 8 tend to prevent full and free competition in the importation, 9 transportation; or sale of articles imported into the United 10 States; or with a view or which tend to prevent full and 11 free competition in articles of growth, production, or manu- 12 facture of any State or Territory of the United States, with 13 similar articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of 14 any other State or Territory, or in the transportation or sale 15 of like articles, the production of any State or Territory of 1(5 the United States into or within any other State or Territory 17 of the United States; and all arrangements, trusts, or combina- 18 tions between such citizens or corporations, made with 19 a view or which tend to advance the cost to the consumer 20 of any such articles, are hereby declared to be against public 21 policy, unlawful, and void. And the circuit court of the 22 United States shall have original jurisdiction of all suits of a 23 civil nature at common law or in equity arising under this 24 section, and to issue all remedial process, orders, or ...« less