Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-18
NAGEL PLEADS
FOR INCREASED
FEDERAL CONTROL
Secretary Declares States Ale
ready Have More Than
Enough to Do.

BOSTON. March Isl am per-
suaded that many If not all the con-
ditions with which the Federal gov
eminent is now graphing, have t
grown both the boundary and the
power of the individual State. and h a
the operations of the Federal govern
ment are nothing but the legitimate
outgrowth of necessity and the fair ana
reasonable employment of vested au-
thority
ITO me it is a matter of s~atisfac-
ton that the States will at all times
and in any event have more than
enough to do. There is a domain of
government which so long as this
constitution stands Federal authority
can never invade, and which must in
the last analysis always be left to
the control of the individual State"
This sentiment was the keynote of
the address of Secretary Charles Nagel,
Of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, in his address last night before
the Commercial Club of this city, in
which he discussed the question OF
Federal and State authority. A mem
Der of the Presidents cabinet, who
has been consulted freely by him in re-
gard to pending measures in Congress
which have served to bring the ques-
ton of Federal and State authority
into prominence. the secretary's re-
marks were listened to attentively.
Federal Authority Growth.
Mr.. Nagel introduced his remarks
with an aliusion to the growing APP
prehension that the old clash between
Federal and State authority is to~be
renewed and said that it was as
sumed in many quarters that Federal
authority was -encroaching on State
rights, some of the bills now pending
in Congress serving to bring this issue
into prominence. notably the proposal
TO authorize the organization of Federal
corporations, and in a measure also
the amendment to the Constitution of
the United States to authorize the in
come tax.
The secretary her devoted himself
to a discussion of the growth of the
Federal authority since the organiza-
ton of the government and declared
that today the demand for national
regulation and for national aid is
universal, it coming from every Sec
ton without regard to station oil to
party. Discussing the questions pre-
sented the secretary sal in part:
I'm the more general field of regula-
ton, including railroad rates and man.
agement, the protection Of labor, the
character of foods as subjects of inter-
state commerce., We have Travelled to
the very brink of ownership itself, sus-
tanned throughout by the demand of
the people of the entire country. And
yet in the face of this there is a com
mon protest against Capitalization.
1T has been urged, perhaps with
some reason, that much of this growth
of national authority is to be attrib-
uted to the neglect of the States. In
my judgment that explanation is only
partially true. l do not believe that
so far the Federal government has IN
dertaken to regulate or to control in
any field which might have been left
to the States with safety or success.
II am prepared to believe, for illus
t%ration, that in the matter of regula-
ton of mines the States have been
d~erelict. No one will contend that the
miner has been protected by State au-
thority in the same measure that the
mariner has been guarded by Federal
Aubiipl n.y.
THE conditions of child labor in diff
ferent parts of this country afford ann
pie opportunity tor government, and
if those conditions are unhappy and
worse in some sections Of our country,
! still cannot concede that for that
reason the Federal government ought
or can interfere.
II repeat. therefore. that to my mind
we have perhaps beer too much 0
cerned To define and to guard the
boundary line across which neither au-
thority may pass. 1t ought instead to
be our real care to find the means by
which these two authorities may adj
v-antageously cooperate.
In my judgment the great need of
the day is tolerant and intelligent CO.
operation between the two authorities,
Federal and state. [ have no question
that unless State authority more sue
cessfully supplements the Federal gov
eminent the latter will, of necessity,
have to extend its power to the very
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