The Forrest City times., 1910-12-09
Economy and Efficiency

" D0Noille LhoTe ellcient puhlio servants.
 Economy and Efficiency
 The increase in the activities and in the annual expenditures of the tad. eral government has been so ,oria and so great that the time has com. to check the expansion of government activities in new directions nnti IT. have tested the economy and efficiency with which the government of todav i, being carried on. The responsihili., rests upon the head of the administrs tlon. He is held accountable by tbs public, and properly so. Despite tbs unselfish and patriotic efforts of tbs heads of departments and others charged with responsibility of govern ment, there has grown up in this couD. try conviction that the expenses 0, government are too great The fun damental reason for the existence uD. detected of waste. duplication, and bad management is the lack of prompt, ac eurate information.
 T have requested the head of each department to appoint committees ou economy and efficiency in order to Sc cure full cooperation in the movement by the employees of the government themselves.
 T urge the continuance of the ap propriation of s1000e0 requested for the fiscal year 1912.
 My experience leads me to believe that while government methods are much criticized. the bad results--it ws do have bad results-are not due to lack of zeal or willingness on the paT of the civil servants"
 Interstate Commerce.
 There has not been time to test the benefit and utility of the amendments to the interstate commerce law con tained in the act approved June M 1910. The law as enacted did not con tain all the features which l recon mended. It did not specifically de nounce as unlawful the purchase H one of two parallel and compeuai roads of the stock of the other. N" did 1t subject to the restraining ihHa ence of the Interstate Commerce cVu mission the power of corporations ~ gagged In operating interstate raiiroaa, to issue new stock and bonds; nor aa 1t authorize the making Of tempol1! agreements between railroads iini." to 30 days, fixing the same rates !" traffic between the same places
 '1 do not press the considerauon any of these objects upon congress- this session. !.
 "The interstate commerce eoipn sion has recommended appropriauu.D,, for the purpose of enabling II to erI. ,. upon valuation of all raliroaus' lr, has always been within the ]ufSuD tion of the commission, but the Iesa site funds have, been wanting o'a' ties to the value of each railroad NV-,, be valuable for many purposes e1r, 'r ciallv if we ultimately enact an' itations upon the power of 'ne and k state railroads to issue slocA bonds. as l hope we may. ovu
 For the protection oi ou' m, people and the preseryalioh nrou credit in foreign trade, l uls' 1T a congress the immediate enac'in' Iu soOd a law under which one Who' II, aa sDon faith. advances money or creu" m mn a bill of lading issued by 'er so-sjrn carrier upon an interstate or |. lisSs shipment can hold the carfiei ,a..rIsed for the value of the goods sascIsea in the bill at the valuation .. st ot ths in the bill, at least to the eA.ea aor f. advances made in reliance ups nupiss
 q further recommend tna' a, he in ment of fine and imprisohinsa.d a.d ship posed upon railroad agents .a.ston n ners for fraud or misrepreSel,hi 2, hills
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