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and proper exercise of Congressional authority to the 

 end that such evils should be eradicated. 



I believe that monopolies, unjust discriminations, 

 which prevent or cripple competition, fraudulent 

 overcapitalization, and other evils in trust organiza- 

 tions and practices which injuriously affect interstate 

 trade can be prevented under the power of the Con- 

 gress to "regulate commerce with foreign nations 

 and among the several States" through regulations 

 and requirements operating directly upon such com- 

 merce, the instrumentalities thereof, and those en- 

 gaged therein. 



I earnestly recommend this subject to the con- 

 sideration of the Congress with a view to the pas- 

 sage of a law reasonable in its provisions and ef- 

 fective in its operations, upon which the questions 

 can be finally adjudicated that now raise doubts as to 

 the necessity of constitutional amendment. If it 

 prove impossible to accomplish the purposes above 

 set forth by such a law, then, assuredly, we should 

 not shrink from amending the Constitution so as 

 to secure beyond peradventure the power sought. 



The Congress has not heretofore made any appro- 

 priation for the better enforcement of the anti-trust 

 law as it now stands. Very much has been done 

 by the Department of Justice in securing the en- 

 forcement of this law, but much more could be done 

 if the Congress would make a special appropriation 

 for this purpose, to be expended under the direction 

 of the Attorney-General. 



One proposition advocated has been the reduction 



