HOUSE BILL.

SEC. 10. That upon the direction of the President, the Attorney General, or either House of Congress the commission shall investigate and report the facts relating to any alleged violations of the anti-trust acts by any corporation. The report of the commission may include recommendations for readjustment of business in order that the corporation investigated may thereafter maintain its organization, management, and conduct of business in accordance with law. Reports made after investigation under this section may be made public in the discretion of the commission.

SEC. 14. That any person who shall willfully make any false entry or statement in any report required to be made under this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for not more than three years, or both fine and mprisonment.

For the purpose of prosecuting any investigation or proceeding authorized by this section the commission, or its duly authorized agent or agents, shall at all reasonable times have access to, for the purpose of examination, and the right to copy any documentary evidence of any corporation being investigated or proceeded against.

If any corporation subject to this section of this Act shall fail to make and file said annual reports within the time above specified, or within the time extended by the commission for making and filing the same, or shall fail to make and file any special report within the time fixed by the order of the commission, such corporation shall forfeit to the

SECTION 10.

PASSED BY SENATE.

SEC. 9. The district courts of the United States, upon the application of the commission alleging a failure by any corporation, or by any of its officers or employees, or by any witness, to comply with any order of the commission for the furnishing of information, shall have jurisdiction to issue such writs, orders, or other process as may be necessary to enforce any order of the commission and to punish the disobedience thereof.

SEC. 7. Any person who shall willfully destroy, alter, mutilate, or remove out of the jurisdiction of the United States or authorize, assist in, or be privy to the willful destruction, alteration, mutilation, or removal out of the jurisdiction of the United States of any book, letter, paper, or document containing an entry or memorandum relating to commerce, with the intent to prevent the production thereof, or who shall willfully make any false entry relating to commerce in any book of accounts or record of any trade association, corporate combination, or corporation, subject to the provisions of this Act, or who shall willfully make or furnish to said commission or to its agent any false statement, return, or record, knowing the same to be false in any material particular, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 6. That if any corporation subject to this Act shall fail to file any annual or special report, as any annual or special report, as provided in subdivision (b) of section three hereof, within the time fixed by the commission for filing the same, and such failure shall continue for thirty days after notice of such default, the corporation shall forfeit to the United

CONFERENCE AGREEMENT.

SEC. 10. That any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commission, shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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Any person who shall willfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made under this Act, or who shall willfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by any corporation subject to this Act, or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make, or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such corporation, or who shall willfully remove out of the jurisdiction of the United States, or willfully mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any documentary evidence of such corporation, or who shall willfully refuse to submit to the commission or to any its authorized agents, for the purpose of inspection and taking copies, any documentary evidence of such corporation in his possession or within his control, shall be deemed guilty of an offense against the United States, and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, to a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for a term of not more than three years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

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If any corporation required by this Act to file any annual or special report shall fail so to do within the time fixed by the commission for filing the same, and such failure shall continue for thirty days after notice of such default, the corporation shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such

HOUSE BILL.

United States the sum of $100 for each and every day it shall continue in default in making or filing said annual or special reports. Said forfeitures shall be recovered in the manner provided for the recovery of forfeitures under the provisions of the Acts to regulate commerce. [NOTE. This is a part of Sec. 9.]

SEC. 15. That any officer or employee of the commission who shall make public any information obtained by the commission without its authority, or as directed by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SECTION 10—Continued.

PASSED BY SENATE.

States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States brought in the district where the corporation has its principal office or in any district in which it shall do business. It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of forfeitures. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts courts of the United States.

Any employee of the commission who divulges any fact or information which may come to his knowledge during the course of his employment by the commission, except in so far as it has been made public by the commission, or as he may be directed by the commission. or by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

CONFERENCE AGREEMENT.

failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States brought in the district where the corporation has its principal office or in any district in which it shall do business. It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of forfeitures. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States.

Any officer or employee of the commission who shall make public any information obtained by the commission without its authority, unless directed by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.