The age-herald., 1902-02-07
COMMISSION MAKES
 INDUSTRIAL REPORT


 commission has submitted it's final report to Congress. It is a document of more than one thousand printed pages. The first part of which has been made pub lie deals with the progress of the nation in agriculture, mining and transporta- tion. The commission advises as to trans portation:
 That policy of governmental super vision and control of railroads, as origin ally laid down in the Senate committee report of 1886 and embodied the following year, in the interstate commerce be re- viyed and strengthened; that the author ity of the interstate commerce commission necessary for the adequate protection of shippers and clearly intended by the framers of the law, be restored. and that the powers of the commission be en- larged practically as contemplated in the so-called Cullom bill of 19OO except as to authority to prepare and enforce uni- form classification.
 Such legislation should provide:
 For more stringent regulations of the conditions under which freight and pas senger tariffs are published and filed.
 No rate of classification ought to be changed without at least sixty days mo- tice to shippers unless specifically au- thorized by the interstate commerce com mission.
 That strict adherence to published tariffs be required and rebates of discrim- ination prevented by an increase of the penalties.
 That the long and short clause be strengthened and rigidly enforced, unless the carrier be released by special order of the interstate commerce commission.
 For the definite grant of power to the Interstate Commerce Commission to pass upon the reasonableness of freight and passenger rates or charges; also the defi- nite grant of power to declare given rates unreasonable as at present together with power to prescribe reasonable rates in substitution.
 For early hearings upon complaints and for prompt decisions by the commits sion.
 For a specific grant of power to the Interstate Commerce Commission over classification, both as to items and group ing
 For the establishment of a permanent corps of expert auditors who shall have authority under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, to ex- anime periodically the accounts of all railroad companies.
 That, to further the effectiveness of the commission it's membership should be directly representative of the various in- terests concerned in the persons of ship pers or business men, traffic experts (rail and water) and men of legal train ing and the number of commissioners should be increased to seven.
 That legislation analogous to the anti stock watering statutes of Massachusetts be enacted by the several states"
 Prefacing it's recommendations re- gardng agriculture the commission says: That agriculture derived more benefit from the establishment from the Depart ment of Agriculture and from it's admin istrative work than from any other Fed eral Legislation"
 It makes the following recommenda- tions on this. subject:
 That the Secretary of. Agriculture be given authority:
 ITO inspect dairy products intended for export and to certify to their grade and quality.
 ITO fix standard grades for cereals, 1 based on season of growing, quality and weight per measure, and, when intended for export, to inspect and certify the 1 same.
 "To cause stock cars and stock yards to be cleansed and disinfected whenever he considers such action necessary.
 'To make adequate regulatins prohibit ing the shipment of uninspected or dis eased meat from one state to another or to foreign countries. ITO require and direct the proper dis l position of diseased meats. That more comprehensive penalty clause for shipping diseased meat be enacted.
 That a law be enacted to provide: For the inspection of nursery stock | intended for interstate commerce or for export, and prohibiting the transporta- | ton of diseased. infected or uninspected | nursery stock, and for rules and regula- | tiops to govern the importation of nurs- erN stock and fruit, and prohibiting the | importation of diseased, infected or un- l inspected nursery stock or fruit.
 That adequate legislation be enacted | by the several states where needed to | control such diseases as gIanders, tuber- | culosis, etc.
 That whatever changes may be made in the tariff by reciprocity or otherwise, adequate protection to the beet sugar in- dustry be maintained.
 That increased appropriations be made by the Congress for building sample stretches of improved roads in various sections of the country so as to encour- age the more rapid construction of such roads at state and local expense
 That free rural delivery be extended.
 That the policy of setting aside for est reserves, already inaugurated, be ex- tended"