The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-11
ITS FINAL REPORT
RECOMMENDATIONS OF INDUS.
 TRIAL COMBUSTION.
Treats of Labor, Immigration, Taxa. ton and Irrigation-Says Gov 2 ernment by Injunction Has
 Been 0verworked.

Washington. Feb. 1O.--The third part ,f
 the Industrial Commissions final report
 was made public today. It treats of la
 o15. immigration, taxation and irrigation.
 Regarding labcr the following recom-
 mendations arc made: Congress having
 To power to legislate directly upon the
 suooect It Is recommended that the sey-
 eral States establish uniform laws of
 iacor and also regulate the hours of em-
 ployment of persons between the ages
 Of l4 and I. The working day of all pub
 lic employment. the report says. should
 be eight hours, in the hope that it would
 bring private employment to the same
 standard The period of work in under
 ground mines should be eight hours a
 day. It Is recommended that Congress un-
 der its powers as to interstate commerce
 prevent any person under IS years being
 employed as telag1 aph operator on rail-
 roads: that all engineers and swltchmen
 should submit to an examination for
 color blindness; that 1t should be mis-
 demeanor for an engineer or switchman to be intoxicated while on duty. The r. port says the States should adopt a law providing that tabor should be paid in casn or cash orders without discount | and not in goods or due bills and that company stores should not be allowed. Provisions should be made for fair weighing at mines.
 Regarding injinctions the Commission l says "The question of the enforcement | of the labor contract injunction or con-
 
 | cult one, m 1inly so made by the abuses which have arisen from injunctions care | lessly issued by learned Judges or by unlearned Judges of inferior courts in States which confuse chancery and com mt law Jurisdiction. The injunction is | a high prerogative writ and should be awarded only after the most careful cx- l animation by a tribunal thoroughly com petent' statute to prevent intimidation at Federal elections Is recommended. Con- gross should legislate to prevent the im- portation and sale of convict made goods from one State into another without the consent of the State into which the
 goods are imported or where they are
 sold.
 Commissioners Smyth and Harris do not
 concur in the recommendations of the
 majority.
 The recommendations of the Commis-
 sion on the subject of immigration are
 General revision and qualification Of the
 immigration laws including such verbal
 changes as are necessary to make the
 existing principles of legislation effective;
 increasing the head tax from Sl to S"'
 effective inspection along the canadian
 and Mexican borders 10 be secured
 through establishment of designated iron
 tier ports of entry by the Secretary of
 the Treasury; exclusion and deportation of anarchists: renewal and continuance of the Chinese exclusion laws and the in- troduction of administrative amendments in order to render these laws less liable to evasion. but framing restrictive legis- lation so as not to hinder or seriously in- terfere with commerce with China: pen- alties upon steamship companies for bringing aliens affected with loathsome or contaRious diseases to American ports. Commissioners Penrose, Bard. Gardener, Bell. Otjeb. Lorimer. Farauahar. Kenne- dy and Litchman dissent from the quail fication on the restriction of Chinese inn migration and deprecate legislation which would make easier Chinese immigration under the guise of encouraging com merce.
 As to taxation the Commission recom- mends: That the States abandon the general property tax and raise their rev. enues bY taxes upon corporations. inher- itances and incomes, supplemented when
 necessary by indirect taxation. That corporations, public service and others. be taxed by State boards at rates fixed franchises assessed according to the ac- tual value of their stocks and bonded debts less the valNe of their real estate as assessed locally and that the real es- tate owned by them be taxed locally as other real estate is taxed. That the sys- tenn of levying graduated taxes upon in- heritances be adopted by those States be abandoned by the Federal govern- ment that taxes upon corporations. in- heritances. etc, he supplemented, by a graduated tax on incomes to be levied and collected by the States. That notes mortgages and other like property be taxed by the State at full value but at low fixed rates through appropriate list ing and recording systems. Commission CTS Harris Tompkins and aGrdner dis sent from some of the above conclusions. The Commission favors irrigation i'm provements by the Federal government.