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asass directors and separate stock
hoidsrs
.Mr. wlekershan further ask the
court. after dlssolving The irast 10
leave opea the Government the raxhs
TO come IN and move for further or
dess os the court any time daring |
the next are years He states iAas
thas xill hare . beneficial effect n
haviag The decision Of the court car
risd out In good faith. and vii! also
gire the Government the poSer 10
see how the plans that are adopted
work. 30 that IL the results do no; re-
move the evils denounced by the Su-
preme Court decision that the Gov
ernment can ask for further orders
from the court TO accomplish such
results.
Safety Appliance Law Upheld by
Supreme CoErt-
The Supreme Court of the United .
States has handed down a very i'm
portant decision upholding the con-
gtitutionality of the safety appliance
law passed by Congress. The decis-
ion goes further and upholds the
right of the Interstate Commerce
Commission TO enforce the safety ap-
pliance act on cars that are hauling
| goods from one point in State 10
| another point in the same State, even
when the car on any special trip Is
/ not going to cross State lines
! This case arose or the Southern
I Railroad. The Southern Railway
| contended that the Interstate Com
merce Commission did not have the
power to force them to put safety
appliances on cars that were hauling
State freight that did not cross State
lines. The Interstate Commerce COM
mission. on the other hand, contend
ed that a road that was doing an
interstate commerce business should
have all of it's cars equipped with
safety appliances, for car that was
hauling freight to-day within State
lines would tomorrow naturally be
crossing a State line. The Southern
Railway appealed from the decision
of the Commission and contendec
that no authority could force then
to put safety appliances on cars haul
ing intra-state freight except the va
: r;ous State Railroad Commissions
I The Supreme Court has upheld tn
:, Interstate Commerce Commission ol
every point.
= A few partisan advocates OF 80
called Estate rights" have been join
ing the railroad in opposing the rign
of the Interstate Commerce Comms
; sion to thus exercise its authority
Tt is noticeable that every big col
poration that is violating the law
~ depressing the public in any way ma
- become a strong advocate OF stat
- rights. They are opposed to bein
regulated by the Federal Governmer
and want to be left to be regulate
"A or not regulated by the State Go'
~ ernments. The great railway CON
panies are talking State rights an
- getting every Democratic political
=, with whom they have any inhuent
~ to do the same. They are as anxiot
=. to be regulated by the State Cover
ments as was the American ToDacf
Company to be dissolved by Cove
nor Kitchin under his sham Sta
antitrust law.
A New Era for China.
% The revolution in China by the n
m tive Chinese to throw off the rule
ar the Manchu dynasty has made SUI
ch headway as to frighten the imperi
10 government into granting wonderf
I'D concessions to stop the revoiutlo
-at An imperial edict has been issued
Of the Emperor of China declaring |
his the establishment Of constitution
nj he framed by a Congress to be ele
ed by the people and has also
clared in favor of removing the Ma
~ chu officials and replacing them wi
an prominent native Chinese oficia
~ ~, Indeed, the Emperor OF China I
'no declared that he will submit to
ni form of government as liberal as
parliamentary government OF CIR
sit Britain. where the ing is ki
mas only in name and has less poV
ore than the President of the Uni
lth. States. The concessions made
are the royal family meet every dems
ter of the revolutionists except the
ad- tablishment of genuine repul
bile with a president to be elected by
One people. 1t is doubtful whether e
{ IL these great concessions VIII sat
ago the revolutionists and stop hos
30 tiles.
mas The native Chinese who have b
- forced to wear a queue as badg'
.oi subsection to the Manchus who
ioie quered them nearly four hund
gov years ago are cutting OF their que
oh as an evidence of Independence
eternal hostility to the Manchu
rust nasty.
has The wonderful upheaval In Cl
10 nna ~ the most striking eyidei