The reform legislation of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, though from different parties, were pretty similar in regards to limiting big business. During Roosevelt’s administration, the largely ineffectual Sherman Antitrust Act and Interstate Commerce Act increased in power due to his creation of the Bureau of Corporations. The Bureau was set up to collect evidence of illegal business practices and through it the Justice Department was better able to file suits against trusts. Roosevelt also pushed the passage of the Elkins Act (1903) and the Hepburn Act (1906) which regulated railway rates to promote fairer prices. (Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, and Self. "Antitrust Legislation." America A Concise History. 6th ed. Vol. 2. 594-95.)…show more content… Brandeis (p.603). The belief that competition produced efficiency in a free market became the guiding principle of new policies. Acts such as the Clayton Antitrust Act, which amended the Sherman Antitrust Act, included practices that ‘“substantially lessened competition”’ into reasons that businesses could be tried under. The Federal Trade Commission was also created during this time to decide what was fair and to issue injunctions to companies that promoted anti-competitive practices. Wilson also reduced big business power by passing laws that benefitted labor. The Adamson Act, that established an eight-hour workday, and the Seamen’s Act, that improved the safety and security of merchant sailors, were only some of the bills he endorsed to help labor. (Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, and Self. "Economic Reforms." America A Concise History. 6th ed. Vol. 2.