The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-19
POWERS OF
 COMMISSION Urged That They Be Ex-
 tended. NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE
 -e Resolutions are Adopted al Washington Meeting.
NATIONAL B0ARDoH TRADE
sie.aI Power upea the s.ssr- state commeree cem-

Washington, Jan. 1s.---When the Ma tional Board of Trade met for this af- ternoon. discussion of the question of recommending amendments to the ir- terstafe commerce law was resumed. F B. Thurber of New York. President of the United States Export Asaocsa- tion. spoke against the adoption of the majority report presented by Afr. Coates. He said that transportation was an intricate problem and that 1t would take a bureau larger than the Treasury Department to decide rates. He declared 1t would be a mistake to place judicial powers in the hands Of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the members of which represented sec- ttonal and political interests to some extent. and whose tenure of uface would be changed more frequent than the courts.
 Mir. HutzIer of the Baltimore Board of Trade declared that the whole mat ter was now being considered by tho President of the United States, and he urged that the question be recon- mitted with instructions to report at the next annual meeting of the board. At this point the committee on amend ing the interstate commerce. law was allowed to retire from the meeting for consultation. later presenting the fol- lowing preamble and resolution. which were unanimously adopted:
 The National Board of Trade, be- lieving that the interests of the people demand not only that rates of trans portation should be reasonable. and there should be no unjust disorimina- tons or preferences. but also that there should be a more effective government tai supervision of ali transportation agencies; express the earnest hope that Congress. in It's wisdom. and as speed fly as possible, will enact such legis- lation as will. with justice to all in- tereets concerned. secure a most speedy and more effectual correction of any abuses In transportation methods of opefntidns Hhae1 may. opun da1e in- quiry. be found to exist. and to that end that power be given to the Inter- state Commerce Commission to revise any rates found to be unreasonable or discriminating. the revised rates not to go into effect until the action ~of the commission shall have been, upon re- view, confirmed by the Circuit Court of the United States of competent turis. diction.
 LegisIaticn Urged.
 Resolved. That the National Board of Trade earnestly advocates legtsia- ton by Congress to amend the inter state commerce law so as to permit reasonable trafac agreements by raii- roads under the supervision and control of the Interstate Commerce. Commis- sion to the end that unjust discRfminA~ tion be prevented and reasonable, uni- from and stable rates be established.
 '.Resolved, That the act to regulate interstate commerce be amended to wit: That private car lines and ter. minal or originating railroads engaged in interstate commerce be considered as common carriers and subject to the interstate commerce act"
 A preamble and resolution reported from the Committee on the American Merchant ~ Marine. of which H. D. Boulder, of Cleveland was chairman. was adopted. It commends the work of the Congressional Committee which during the recess of Congress examined into the question of American shipping and the remedy proposed for it's re- mobilization in the bill presented to Congress and urges it's enactment as early as possible Another resolution adopted urges the needs of strenuous local efforts in the work of building up again the American merchant marine and considers the great valley of the Mississippi with the natural outlet at New Orleans as one of the most tm- portant fields for such local effort The board recognizes the resolutions of the Board of Trade of New Orleans on this subject as a commendable effort in the direction of building up the merchant marine Other resolutions adopted favored one cent postage. uniform bill of iading, a reduction of tax on grain alcohol and the establishment in the state Department of a school for train- ing young men to ill minor positions in the consular service.