Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-23
TO CONTROL COMBINES
Proposed Recommendations OF
Industrial Commission.
WIDE DIVERSITY OF OPINIONS.

Made to COngress-Publicity One OF
the Plans PrOpOsed-ImprOvem II t
Of Present System, State Control
and Federal Control.
Wide division of opinion in the in
dustrial commission will be shown in
Its report to congress on trusts, says
the Washington correspondent Of the
New York Herald, and there will be at
least three diverse recommendations,
as follows
First.-Stricter antitrust legislation
by the several states and by congress,
without altering the present relations
between their respective Jurisdictions.
Second.-The delegation by congress
to the states of its interstate COM
merce Jurisdiction, SO as to allow the
states to regulate manufacturing or
trading corporations engaged in inter-
state commerce.
Third.-The assumption by the ma
tional government Of larger and per-
haps exclusive control of all such cor
porations, and their regulation by act
of congress.
These three methods Of meeting the
trust problem have been designated for
convenience by the commission as,
first, the present system improved;
second the state control system, and,
third, the system of federal control.
Publicity is a conspicuous and i'm
portant feature Of each of these sys-
TENS. 1t will be recommended in each
Of the three reports that trusts be re-
quired to show not only their gross
and net earnings, but also the charac-
ter Of receipts and expenditures and
the form of the agreements under
which the constituent companies are
operating.
This subject of trusts is the rock on
which the commission will split. The
members have been discussing the mat
ter with view to securing majority
report. but it has become evident to
all that their divergence of opinion will
prevent this.
The commission will recommend the
enactment of more stringent immigra-
ton laws. Considerable attention has
been given to this subject and the
members are practically unanimous In
their view on how the existing statutes
should be amended. The assassna-
ton Of President Mckinley by Leon
Czolgosz has inspired a strong recpn-
mendation.
The commission will urge the eStab-
lishment Of a system of inspection Of
all immigrants at the ports of en-
barkation in Europe, with a view to
detecting persons Of anarchistic tend
ences. who intend to sail for the
United States, where they may have
more freedom in advancing their
propaganda of assassination. This sys.
tenn, it is proposed. shall be operated
in conjunction with the governments
Of Europe.
Two ct ICY methods of preventing the
arrival of anarchists from abroad will
be suggested. The first is to apply to
cabin passengers the same rigorous
rules of inspection to which steerage
immigrants must submit on arrival at
the point of debarkation in the United
States. The second is to extend the
period of possible deportations from
one year to two or more years. Under
the present law any alien who has re-
sided in this country twelve months is
exempt from deportation. These propo-
sitions are calculated to affect other
undesirable foreigners than anarch-
lists. There is little sentiment in the
commission in favor of an educational
test for the average immigrant.
Another recommendation is that
Congress re-enact the Chinese eXclu-
sion law. The Geary act will soon eX-
pire by limitation. and the members
Of the commission have given heed to
the urgent requests of labor organiza-
tons that the bars against oriental
immigration shall not be lowered.