Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-12-30
MORAL MEASURES
UP TO CONGRESS
Passage Of Eight Legislative
Acts Asked by international
Reform Bureau.
INTERESTING INQUIRY BEGUN
Commission Trying to Devise Law
for the Compensation of Injured
Employees-Many House En-
,ployees Soon to Lose Jobs.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


Washington.-Congress has been
asked to pass this winter eight legis-
lative acts, the advocates of which
cali them moral measures" The
International Reform bureau is at
work with militant uplift spirit
which refuses to be cast down. The
house and senate are not always
ready or willing to pass these moral
measures" but they are always very
anxious not to appear to be antago-
nistic to the bills except on the ground
of unconstitutionality or for some 9TH
er reason which cannot be considered
as springing from q desire to stand
against morality.
Former Senator Henry w. Blair is
the president of the Reform bureau
which has for it's secretary and NOV
ing spirit DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts. The
bureau has Endorsed and commended
to churches and reform societies for
support these legislative measures:
ITO remove the federal shield OF in
terstate commerce from the original
packages imported into dry terri
tory" ITO prohibit Interstate trans
mission Of race gambling odds and
BETS" ITO prohibit Interstate trans
portation of pictures and descriptions
OF prize fights" ITO prohibit Sunday
toll and traffic in in the District of Co
lumbia:" "To prohibit saloons in Ha-
WALL" ITO prohibit the United States
district attorneys from engaging in
private practice" TO forbid liquor
selling In shops and buildings used
by the United States government
an ITO restrain the traffic in opium
New England Enjoys Mosby.
Colonel John 8. Mosby, who In the
civil war days was called a guerilla
and who now is called "a noted con
federate cavalry leader" has been lee
turing in New England, a section o.
the country which forty-seven years
ago was demanding that he be cap
tured and treated like a pirate. Tn,
years that have gone by have softenet
the animosities of war time and nov
New England is listening with keel
kind of pleasure 1t is said to the oil
veterans raiding stories of the civil
war.
Colonel Mosby is noted figure ii
the capital. His face is that of tn
novel and picture book soldier. H
is hawk nosed, sharp eyed and 18th
figured. 1t was only year ago tina
the colonel was in the hospital under
going a severe operation The SUI
geon said the colonel would die. Tn
colonel said he would not die, and b
did not
Has Interesting Task.
A commission composed of six men
bers of congress and two non-officis
associates is just now engaged in a
investigating work which several c
the members declare is the most intel
esting which ever took their attention
The commissions endeavor is to fin
some means by which damage suit
brought by injured employees agains
their employers may be adjusted witt
out recourse to the courts and withol
the tremendous cost which even sma
damage cases inflict upon the count,
; the state, or it may be the feeders
government
In many countries In Europe ther
are laws which provide that the en-
ployer shall pay a fixed sum for Il
turies. and the laws have been foun
to work well In the United State
there is a constitutional dificulty !
the way Of the passage OF laws lii
: those of Europe, and one of the Labor
2 OF the commission will be to find
= way OF getting around the obstacle ,
q the constitution without injuring IL
+ integrity Of the Great Document itsel
t To take case In point which w
i show the problem which the commi
= sion is trying to solve 1t may be sa
J, that workman In Pennsylvania SUI
for damages because of an injuI
which he had received He was awar
ed $1,000 by the court. Of til
z amount he was compelled to pay So
J. to his attorney and he had left on
T. $500 to support his family and to pi
O the bills which had accumulated viii
he was incapacitated. The suit &C
r the taxpayers $4,000 before 1t w
n completed. In other words, the wor
man In order to get $500 caused
expense 10 the county of f1ve tim
the amount which he received.
There are thousands of such cas-
= in the courts every year. Several
the states already have appoint
"a commissions to consider the genel
81 subject of effective laws which "
cover the matter and do away with ,
c. pense and injustice to employer a
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