The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-07
REPORT MADE PUBLIC
WORK OF THE INDUSTRIAL COM
 MISSION.
Many Recommendations to Congress on the Matter of Transportation Beet Sugar Industry Should
 Be Protected.

Washington, Feb. 6-The Industrial Commission has submitted its final re- port to Congress. IL Is document of more than 1000 printed pages. The first part. which has been made public. deals with the progress of the nation in agri- culture. mining and transportation. The commission advises as to transportation:
 That policy of governmental super vision and control of rsilroad as origin ally laid down in the Senate committee report of 1886. and embodied the following year in the Interstate Commerce act. be revised and strengthened; that the au- thority of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, necessary for the adequate pro teotion of shippers and clearly intended by the framers of the law, be restored and that the powers of the commission be enlarged practically as contemplated in the so-called Culiom bill of 1900. except as to authority to prepare and enforce an uniform classification. Such fegisla- ton should provide: For moreS Stringent regulation of the condition under which freight and passenger tariffs are pub ifshed and fiied.ts9So IfGfe or, cIassi Heat tisa ought to be changed without at least six ty days notice to shippers until speci- fically authorized by the Interstate Com merce Commissions; that strict adherence to published tariffs be required and re- bates or discrimination prevented by an increase of the penalties; that. the long and short haul clause be strengthened and r!gidly enforced, unless the carriers shall be released by special order of the Interstate Commerce Commission; for the definite grant of power to the commits sion to pass upon the reasonableness of freight and passenger rates or charges: also the definite grant of power to declare given rates, unreasonable as at present together with power to prescribe reason able rates in substitution; for early hear ings upon complaints and for prompt de- cisions by the commission; for specific grant of power to the Interstate Com merce Commission over classification. both as to items and grouping; for the establishment of a permanent corps of expert auditors who shall have authority under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce Commission to examine peri odlcally the accounts of all railroad com panies; that, to further the effectiveness of the commission its membership be di- rectly representative of the various tn- terests concerned in the persons of ship pers or business men. traffic experts( rail and water), and men of legal training. and the number of commissioners should be increased to seven; that legislation analogous to the anti-stock watering statues of Massachusetts be enacted by the several States: that railroad com panies be prohibited by law from /mak- ing lower freight rates upon imports billed to the interior of this country in connection with ocean transportation or otherwise. than are made from one i'm land point to another. when the distance is not greater"
 Prefacng its recommendations regard ing agriculture. the commission says that haS dAriyad hanaHf from the establishment of the Depart ment of Agriculture and from its admin istrative work than from any other Fed eIal legislation"
 It makes the following recommends tions on this subject:
 That the Secretary of Agriculture be given authority: To inspect dairy pro- ducts intended for export and to certify to their grade and quality; to fix stan dard grades for cereals, based on season of growing, quality and weight per measure and when intended for export, to inspect and certify the same. To cause stock cars and stock yards to be cleansed and disinfected whenever he considers such action necessary; to make adequate regulations prohibiting the ship ment of uninspected or diseased meat from one State to another or to foreign coun- tries; to require and direct the proper disposition of diseased meat; that a 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 transportation Of diseased infected or uninspected nursery stock and for rules and regulations to govern the importation of nursery stock and fruit and prohibiting the importa- ton of diseased, infected or uninspected nursery stock or fruit.
 That adequate legislation be enacted by the several States where needed, to control such diseases as glanders, tuber- culosis. etc.
 That whatever changes may be made in the tariff, by reciprocity or otherwise, adequate protection to the beet sugar industry 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 encoura ge the more rapid con- struction of such roads at State and local expense: that free rural delivery be extended; that the policy of setting aside forest reserves, already inaugural ed, be extended"
 Exhibits from Mexico.
 Mexico City Feb. 6.-The States of Puebla and Oaxaca will send fine exhibits of native marbles to the St. Louis Expo sition,