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lation  of  the  anti-trust  acts,  to  make  investigation,  upon  its  own  initiative,  of 
the  manner  in  which  the  decree  has  been  or  is  being  carried  out,  and  upon 
the  application  of  the  Attorney  General  it  shall  be  it's  duty  to  make  such  inves- 
tigation. It  shall  transmit  to  the  Attorney  General  a  report  embodying  its 
findings  and  recommendations  as  a  result  of  any  such  investigation,  and  the 
report  shall  be  made  public  in  the  discretion  of  the  commission. 
The  Commission's  findings,  together  with  the  evidence,  have, 
therefore,  been  submitted  to  the  Department  of  Justice  for  its  con- 
sideration and  for  such  action,  if  any,  as  it  may  deem  advisable  under 
existing  law.1 
II.  With  a  view  to  preventing  or  remedying  such  conditions  as 
obtain  in  the  oil  industry,  the  Commission  suggests  various  plans  for 
legislation,  as  follows : 
1.  A  law  providing  for  the  reopening  of  antitrust  cases  on  the 
application  of  the  Attorney  General  by  a  bill  of  review  for  the  pur- 
pose of  securing  such  modifications  of  decrees  as  new  conditions 
may  require. 
1  Section  6  of  the  dissolution  decree  (U.  S.  v.  Standard  Oil  Co.,  173  Fed., 
199-200)  provides  as  follows  : 
"  Sec.  6.  That  the  defendants  named  in  section  2  of  this  decree,  their 
officers,  directors,  agents,  servants,  and  employees,  are  enjoined  and  pro- 
hibited from  continuing  or  carrying  into  further  effect  the  combination 
adjudged  illegal  hereby,  and  from  entering  into  or  performing  any  like  com- 
bination or  conspiracy,  the  effect  of  which  is,  or  will  be,  to  restrain  commerce 
in  petroleum  or  its  products  among  the  States,  or  in  the  Territories,  or  with 
foreign  nations,  or  to  prolong  the  unlawful  monopoly  of  such  commerce 
obtained  and  possessed  by  defendants  as  before  stated,  in  violation  of  the 
act  of  Jul}'  2,  1890,  either  (1)  by  the  use  of  liquidating  certificates,  or  other 
written  evidences  of  a  stock  interest  in  two  or  more  potentially  competitive 
parties  to  the  illegal  combination,  by  causing  the  conveyance  of  the  physical 
property  and  business  of  any  of  said  parties  to  a  potentially  competitive  party 
to  this  combination,  by  causing  the  conve3'ance  of  the  property  and  business 
of  two  or  more  of  the  potentially  competitive  parties  to  this  combination  to 
any  ' party  thereto,  by  placing  the  control  of  any  of  said  corporations  in  a 
trustee,  or  group  of  trustees,  by  causing  its  stock  or  property  to  be  held  by 
others  than  its  equitable  owners,  or  by  an3<  similar  device,  or  (2)  by  making 
any  express  or  implied  agreement  or  arrangement  together,  or  one  with 
another,  like  that  adjudged  illegal  hereby  relative  to  the  control  or  manage- 
ment of  any  of  said  corporations,  or  the  price  or  terms  of  purchase,  or  of 
sale,  or  the  rates  of  transportation,  of  petroleum  or  its  products  in  interstate 
or  international  commerce,  or  relative  to  the  quantities  thereof  purchased, 
sold,  transported,  or  manufactured  by  any  of  said  corporations,  which  will 
have  a  like  effect  in  restraint  of  commerce  among  the  States,  in  the  Terri- 
tories, and  with  foreign  nations  to  that  of  the  combinations  the  operation  of 
which  is  hereby  enjoined." 
