The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
FRON OTHER PENS
cANADA's WAY WITH TRUSTS.

CANADA'S WAY WITH TRUSTS
The Dominion is no mere fmitator in
legislation. Just now the Canadian
parliament is considering an extraordi-
nary bill for the control of trusts and
the prevention of serious restraint of
trade. The progress of this measure
will repay attention.
What the Dominion government pro-
poses is, in a nutshell, this: When six
or more persons complain of a trust,
or extortion, or unfair competition for
monopoly purposes, court shall order
an investigation. The compliments
shall name one member of the board IF
inquiry, the defendant another, and the
government a third. The board must
make a searching investigation and re-
port its findings, with definite recon-
mendatiOnS for the discontinuance of
Objectionable and illegal practices, If
any are found to exist. II any convict
ed corporation shall fail to heed such
recommendations, 1t shall be liable to a
loss of any benefit it may enjoy from
protection.
The bill Is singular, and some Of its
features require elaborate explanation.
But it is plain that Canada has great
faith in the virtues Of open inquiry and
publicity, and does not expect to be
driven to resort too frequently to the
penalties of the bill.-Chicago Record
Herald.
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BROTHERS IN CONGRESS.
Cases of two brothers serving togeth-
er in congress, like Representative
George Edmund Foss, Of Illinois, and
Representative Eugene N. Foss, of
than they are generally supposed to
have been. In their instance, however,
the striking circumstance is added that
they belong to different parties, the
Illinois Foss being Republican and
the Massachusetts Foss a Democrat,
though only newly f1edged.
In the Thirty-seventh congress, which
marked Lincoln's first appearance in
there were three brothers from the
same state. Maine was represented in
the senate by William Pitt F,essenden,
who succeeded Salmon p. Chase in Lin
coins cabinet as secretary of the treas
ury, and in the house by Samuel c.
Fessenden and Thomas A. D. Fessen-
den. In a previous congress three
Washburns had served, but they were
from different states.
In 1849 Senator Dodge, of Wisconsin,
and Senator Dodge, of Iowa, father and
son, were members of the same body.
The former was the first territorial
governor Of Wisconsin, holding office
from 1886 to 1871, and from him Dodge
VILE. the county seat of Iowa county
wis, takes its name.-New York
World.
RAILROAD AND MIND DISASTERS.
Prior to the quarter ending Decem-
Der 81, 1909, railroads had made en-
couraging progress in reducing the
number of accidents, but reports for
those three months disclose a diScour-
aging increase in the number of casu-
alties. One thousand persons were kill
ed in those 80 days by our American
railways and %, 491 were injured, an in
crease in injured of more than $1,000.
On the same day that this report is
issued we read of 40 miners being en-
tonlbed IN a southern shaft. This is
only one OF a number of similar mine
disasters coming in quick succession in
the last year, the most appalling of
which was the Cherry havoc
It must be that culpable negligence is
somewhat involved in the train of these
daughters. AT least the conclusion is
unavoidable that the same amount of
trained and scientific effort is not put
into minimizing the possibilities of ac-
cident in the mine and on the railroad
as is put into the management and de-
velopment for the purpose of giving eff
flcient service and producing maximum
earnings. This Is a subject that must
receive saner consideration in this
country.-Oma:na Bee.