Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-29

sands OF miners work by creating the
bureau of mines. This bill was passed
for the purpose of establishing an eff
Client governmental instrument for inves-
tigation, examination and report to the
world of the kind OF safety appliances
that will prevent the awful losses of life
in the operation of mines, and especially
of coal mines. A second purpose of the
bureau is to perform the same office in
respect to the great industry of mining
that the department of agriculture per-
forms In respect to the farming interests
of the country-that is. by experiment and
Investigation to determine the most eff
fective methods of mining and the best
means of avoiding the d~eplorable waste
that now obtains in the present mining
methods.
No more important legislation in the
interest of human life has ever been en-
acted by congress than the laws of the
recent session giving to the interstate
commission ampler powers to
define the needed safety appliances for
the prevention of accidents to employees
and passengers and after a hearing to re-
qutre their adoption by interstate rail-
ways. Other legislation with respect to
the removal of dangerous overhead OBJ
structtons awaits the consideration of the
next session of this congress-, and / hope
that it may speedily be passed. The en-
DIOISIS lliDAliIJ u "o5 W
needed amendment so as to enable in
tured employees more easily to recover
Just damages.
But in one sense the most forward step
taken In the interest of the worker was
the creation of a congressional commits
sion to report g. practical bill for the fix
ing of workmen's compensation for inju-
ries received in the employment of inter-
state railways as risks In the
business to be fxed by speedy arbitration
and to be graduated according to the ex-
tent of the injury and the earning capac-
ity of the injured person. This Is impor-
tant not only as affecting interstate COM
merce railways, but If adopted as fur
nishing a model to the country for a ben
efcial change in the legal relation be-
tween employee and employer. This re-
form would put an end to the veXations
and costly litigation through which an
injured employee must go in order to re-
cover damages-litigation which on ac-
count of the poverty of the employee fire.
quently serves to defeat the ends of Jus
tice and in other instances leads to exor-
bitant and unjust verdicts.
Conservation.
One of the great questions which has
been made a national issue and aroused
public interest through the insiStence of
President Roosevelt Is that of conserva-
ton of our national resources. From the
federal standpoint this concerns the pres
| ervation of forests, the reclamation of
arid lands of the government and the
proper treatment and disposition of our
government coal lands. phosphate lands,
4 oil and gas lands and of the and known
as water power sites at the points or
| the streams where the water power mus
be converted in order to be useful. Dur.
ing Mr.. Rooseyelt's administration mil.
hons Of acres of lands included within
the classes described were withdrawn II
the United States proper and In Alaska II
order to await proper legislation.
Doubt arose as to the executive power
to make these Withdrawals, and therefor
as to their legality should they be con
tested in court. The present administra
ton continued the executive Withdrawals
but suggested as a matter of wise precau
ton securing from congress express pow
er to make them. By Republican MAORI
ties in both houses a withdrawal bill TO
this purpose was enacted, and now owe
70. 10000 900 of acres have been reYtthdrawi