...methods of competition in commerce. Whenever the commission Shall have reason to believe that any such person, partnership, or corporation has been or is...commerce, and if it shall appear to the commission that a proceedlng'by it In respect thereof would be to the interest of the public, it shall issue and serve...

...commerce, and If It shall appear to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof would be in the interest of the public, it shall issue and serve...corporation a complaint stating its charges in that reapect and containing a notice of a hearing upon a day and at a place therein fixed at least thirty...

...exception. Under the-unfair-mcthods-of-competition section of the Trade Commission law appears this clause: "and if it shall appear to the commission that a proceeding...in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public." This clause was put into the act in conference between the two Houses of Congress. It becomes...

...reason to believe that any person or concern is using unfair methods of competition it shall proceed, " if it shall appear to the commission that a proceeding...in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public." The language just quoted was incorporated in the bill in the conference and was not in it...

...Trade Comm. Act). Power is also given to the Commission to suppress "unfair methods of competition .... if it shall appear to the Commission that a proceeding...in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public." (§ 5 Fed. Trade Comm. Act.) * See Report of Senate Committee on Judiciary reporting Clayton...

...reason to believe that any person or concern is using unfair methods of competition it shall proceed, " if it shall appear to the commission that a proceeding...in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public." The language just quoted was incorporated in the bill in the conference and was not in it...

...Held, That the method of competition complained of having been permanently discontinued, it does not appear to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public. 2. Public interest — Competitive method discontinued. — On application for the issuance...

...section 5 of the Trade Commission law: "That when the Commission shall have reason to believe that any person, partnership or corporation has been or is using any unfair method of competition, and it shall appear to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof mould be to the interest...

...identical, except that a clause in the first sentence of the third paragraph in section 5, namely, so specified, nor extend to any " contract in restraint of trade public," is not found in section 11 of this law. In this connection it may be noted that sections 2,...

...understand the significance of that decision. The law creating the Commission contains this clause: "And if it shall appear to the Commission that a proceeding...in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public." In other words, the Commission has the power to throw cases out without a public investigation...