The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-12-24
Passage Of Eight Legislative
Acts Asked by International
Reform Bureau.
INTERESTING INQUIRY BEGUN
Commission Trying to Devise Law
for the Compensation Of Injured
EmpIoyees-Many House EN-
ployees Soon to Lose Jobs.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


lative acts, the advocates of which
call them moral measures" The
International Reform bureau is at
work with a 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 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 DIR. 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;" ITO prohibit saloons In Ha-
waii;" ITO prohibit the United States
district attorneys from engaging In
private practice" ITO forbid liquor
selling in shops and buildings used
by the United States government"
an ITO restrain the traffic in opium"
On so-called moral measures con-
gress never divides politically and the
reason for this is apparent. There al.
ways is division, however, on meas
ures which touch the liquor traffic in
any way. Into this question, for 1t ia
an interstate commerce one largely,
enter the questions of states rights
and of per. onal liberty.
New England Enjoys Mosby.
Colonel John S. Mosby. who in the
civil war days was called guerilla
and who now is called "a Noted con
federate cavalry leader" has been lee
turing in New England, section oil
the country which forty-seven years
ago was demanding that he be cap
tured and treated like a pirate. The
years that have gone by have softenet
the animosities of war time and nov
New England is listening with keer
kind of pleasure it is said to the ole
veterans raiding stories Of the civil
war.
Colonel Mosby Is a noted figure II
the capital. His face is that of thu
novel and picture book soldier. HI
is hawk nosed, sharp eyed and lith'
figured. 1t was only year ago tina
the colonel was in the hospital under
going a severe operation. The sur
geon said the colonel would die. TIT
colonel said he would not die, and h
did not.
Has Interesting Task.
A commission composed of six mem
bers of congress and two non-officia
associates is just now engaged In al
investigating work which several o
the members declare Is the most inter
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 with
out recourse to the courts and withou
the tremendous cost which even small
damage cases infiict upon the county
the state, or 1t may be the fedora
government.
In many countries In Europe Their
are laws which provide that the en-
ployer shall pay a fixed sum for ir
juries, and the laws have been foun
to work well. In the United State
there Is constitutional difficulty 1
the way of the passage of laws lik
those Of Europe, and one OF the labor
of the commission will be to find
way Of getting around the obstacle {
the constitution without injuring tn
integrity of the Great Document itsel
To take a case in point which wi
show the problem which the commi
sion Is trying to solve II may be sal
that workman In Pennsylvania sue
for damages because OF an injur
which he had received. H was awar'
cd $1,000 by the court. OF thl
amount he was compelled to pay $50
to his attorney and he had left onl
$500 to support his family and to pa
the bills which had accumulated Will
he was incapacitated. The suit col
the taxpayers $4,000 before It We
completed. In other words. the worl
man in order to get $500 caused a
expense to the county Of i've time
the amount which he received
There are thousands Of such CASE
in the courts every year. Several
the states already have appoints
commissions to consider the gener
subject OF effective laws which wi
cover the matter and do away with 9
pense and injustice to employer an
employee. New York already hi
passed law which helps little
the solution Of the difficulty. II
congregational committee will repo
early IN the next session.
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