The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-08

Followed to III logical conclusion this
means that the simplest and most I'M
Sepenaent solution Of the problem for
employe to set aside from his salary q
sun sufficient with the help ef liberal
purchase an adequate annuity for him
on retirement, this accumulation to be
inalienably his and claimable II he leaves
ment age or by his heirs Ia case Of his
death. ia.s Is HE sssrsn ei.,le%lp which
= Gillet bin 9 pending Is drawn.
and provides tina the government shall
contribute to the pension fund of those
employees who are now so advanced in
not be sufficient to create their annuities
before reaching the retirement age. In
my Judgment this provision should be
amended so that the annuities OF those
employees shall be paid out Of the salaries
appropriated for the positions vacated by
retirement, and that the difference be-
tween the annuities thus granted and the
salaries may be used for the employment
OF eftieient clerks at the owe grades.
1t the bill can be thus amended I recom-
insnd IT'S passage, as It will Initiate q VAL
great saving In the public expenditures.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
There has not been time to test the
benefit and utility of the amendments to
the interstate law contained In
the act approved June Is, 1910. The law
as enacted. did not contain all the fea-
lures which / recommended. It did not
specifically denounce as unlawful the pur-
chase by one of the W parallel and COM
petlng roads of the stock of the other.
Nor did 1t subject to the restraining influ-
ence of the Interstate Commerce commis-
sion the power of corporations engaged in
operating interstate railroads to issue new
STOCK and bonds: nor did 1t authorize the
maklng of temporary agreements between
railroads.. limited to 80 days, liking the
places.
| do not press the consideration of any
OF these objects upon congress at this ses-
probably GENERALLY covered by the anti
trust law. The second provision was in
the act fereffed to the consideration of a
commission to be appointed by the exeeu-
tive and to report upon the matter to con-
gress. That commission has been appoint
ed and is engaged in the investiga cation and
consideration of the question submitted
Arthur I. Hadley, Of Yale university, as
chairman; Frederick c. Strauss, Freder-
lex n. Judson,, Prof. B. =. Meyer, and
waiter T.. Fisher. with William q. S.
Griswold as secretary.
The third purpose led to so much mis-
construction of its object as being that of
weakening the effectiveness of the anti
trust law that I am disposed to press it
for further consideration. 1t was intend
ed to permit railroad companies to avoid
useless rate cutting by a mere temporary
same service over competing railroads,
with no obligation whatever to maintain
those rates for any time.
Safety Appliances.
The protection of railroad employees from
personal injury is a subject Of the high
EST Importance and demands continuing
attention. There hay been two measures
pending in congress-, one for the super
vision of boilers and the other for the en-
iargement of dangerous clearances. Ger
tainly some measures ought to be adopt
ed looking to a prevention OF accidents
from these. causes, 1t seems to me that
with respect to boilers a bill might we'll
be drawn requiring and enforcing by PEN
atty a proper system of inspection by the
railway companies themselves which
would accomplish our purpose. The en-
tire removal of outside clearances would
be attended by such enormous expense
That some other remedy must be adopted.
BY act of May 6, 1910, the Interstate Com
nerce commission is authorized and df-
rected to investigate accidents, to report
their causes and its recommendations. I
suggest that the commission be requested
TO make a special report as to injuries
from outside ~clearances and the best
method of reducing them.
Valuation of Railroads.
The Interstate Commerce commission
has recommended appropriations for the
purpose OF enabling it to enter upon a val
uation of all railroads. This has always
been within tho jurisdiction of the com
mission, but the requisite funds have been
railroad would be valuable for many pur-
poses, especially if we ultimately enact
any limitations upon the power of the in
bonds. as I hope we may. I think, there
fore, that in order to permit a correct un-
Outstanding of the facts, it would be wise
able the Interstate Commerce Commission
to proceed with due dispatch to the vaIu-
alton of all railroads. I AVE no doubt that
railroad companies themselves can and
Will greatly facilitate this valuation and
make 1t much less costly IN time and
money than has been supposed.
Antitrust Law.
l do not now recommend any amendment
TO the antitrust law. In other words, it
seems to me that the existing legislation
with reference to the regulation of corpor-
atoms and the restraint of their business
has reached a point where we can stop
for a while and witness the effect of the
vigorous execution of the laws on the
statute books in restraining the abuses
which. certainly did exist and which
reused the public to demand reform. If
this test develops a need for further leg
i%slation, well and good, but until then let
us execute what we have. Due to the re-
form movements of the present decade,
there has undoubtedly been q great i'm
provement in business methods and stand
ards and In the earnestness Of effort on
the part of business men to comply with
the law. They are now seeking to know
the exact limitations upon business meth
DDS imposed by the law, and these win
doubtless be made clearer by the decisions
Of the supreme court in cases pending be-
fore it.
I believe it to be in the interest of all
the people of the country that for the time
being the activities of government, in addi-
ton to enforcing the existing law, be d.
rected toward the economy of admins
tration and the enlargement of opportuni-
ties for foreign trade, the conservation and
Improvement of our agricultural lands, the
building up of home industries, and the
strengthening of confidence of capital in
domestic investment.
How 1t Felt.
From Tit-{3its.
An Irishman at a fair got poked In the