Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-16
New Citizens Admitted
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and conditions Of operation, similar
to that which the Interstate Com
merce Commission now exercises with
respect to railroads and their rates
In other words, there Is a strong ten,
dency to disregard the fundamental
distinction between q public carrier
and a private enterprise" K
At the outset at least, in the judg
ment of Mr.. Nagel, the general pow
ers and the degree Of discretion OF
the commission should be carefully
restricted.
TO make more effective the work OF
the Bureau of Corporations and pave
the way for constructive legislation
regulating business, the secretary
urges that congress provide for the
automatic submission by corporations
engaged In Interstate trade Of certain
fundamental data, such as facts re.
lating to capitalization, property, bust.
ness, investment, profits, officers, di.
rectors and controlling interests.
Such information, subject to due pro.
lection against unnecessarily disclos.
ing matters OF no real public concern,
adds the secretary, would permit more
prompt publicity than is possible un.
der the present method of labOrious
investigation In each specified case.
Mr.. Nagel believes the Bureau of
Corporations should act In an advis-
DRY capacity to the federal courts in
formulating plans of reorganization
of corporations found to be in viola
ton of the Sherman ANTITRUST law,
because he says the questions involv-
ed in restoring competition in a great
business depend as much upon init
mate knowledge of conditions in an
industry as upon questions of law.
Although he thinks the bureau al
ready has authority to render this
assistance, he suggests that it be
specifically authorized by statute.
In connection with the awakening
Of the world by the Titanic disaster,
to the urgency of greater safeguards
of life at sea, Mr.. Nagel endorses the
proposition to hold an international
conference and calls attention to the
need of Jaws governing personel of
crews with a view to better guaranty
of the fitness of men so employed.
The interest of the United States
in this subject is keener than any
other country in the world, not ex-
GLIDING Great Britain and Germany,
the secretary points out, because g.
900, 900 persons annually cross the
ocean to or from this country.
A years operation Of the act Of
August Is last requiring the licensing
of all wireless apparatus will demon
strate, in the judgment Of Secretary
Nagel, whether in this country, as
abroad, the government should take
over all seacoast wireless stations and
operate them jointly for public and
commercial purposes.
A board Of Cancellation and arbitra-
ton to take the place Of the provis-
ions of the Erdman Act for the settle
ment of disputes between railroads
and their employees is suggested by
Mr.. Nagel. The secretary points out
that as Dr.. Charles P. Neill, commits
sioner of Labor, and Judge Knapp,
Of the commerce court, who consti-
tute a board Of mediation under the
Erdman Act, will in time have to re-
tire, there is danger that with the
retirement of one or both the ad-
vantage of the very admirable sys.
tenn which they have built up may be
Y
immigration port conditions, espec-
tally at New York, where the quarters
are declared Inadequate, are still un.
satisfactory, says the secretary in
urging larger appropriations for the
service.
One feature Of the s%ecretary's re-
port indicates that some American
citizens VINO formed part Of the great
emigration to Canada during recent
years are probably contemplating re-
turning. Many of them are applying,
the secretary says, for bulletins issu.
ed by the division of information of
his department setting forth the la.
Dor needs, and small investment op-
portunities in the United States, es.
pecially in the agricultural districts.
During the fiscal year 1912, there
were admitted to the United States
immigrant aliens, a decrease
of 4O,415 as compared with the pre-.
vious year. On the other hand, $685.
262 emigrant aliens departed, an in.
crease of 1856 over 1911. OF the
1912 immigrants more than IA years
of age, about 24.5 per cent were illit.
crate, the same percentage as 1911.
Southern and Eastern Europe still
to supply the greatest pro
portion Of immigrants to the United
States. Nearly 10000 aliens yer nat
uralized during the fiscal year.
The arrangement with Japan gov.
erning the admission Of Japanese and
Koreans to the United States is CIV
ing satisfactory results, the secretary
says. During the last fiscal year, $3.50.
oaJpanese were admitted to this coun.
try proper and 3,231. to Hawaii. The
Department admitted 5,374s Chinese
during the same period.
Secretary Nagel asks that congress
repeal the provision of the recent fur
seal law imposing a closed season in
Alaska for five years. Two Of the ma.
tions which signed the fur seals treaty.
with the United States, he says, have
dissatisfaction, as the law
is a substantial liquidation by this
government of the position 1t has
maintained for twenty-five years that
the depletion Of the herds was attrib-
utable to pelagict sealing and in no
measures to land killing.