Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-19
Prepares Message After
Receiving Reports From
Over Nation.
AIDS SMALL MERCHANT
To Urge Creation of Trade
Commission to Regulate Big
Commercial Affairs. :,

Washington. Jan. 19.--The admins
tration intends chiefly through its
trust program to facilitate processes
of accommodation as contrasted with
processes of suit President Wilson
today told callers that agreements be-
tween the department of justice and
businss concerns were not sett1emnts
which abated the law in the least de-
gree, but merely understandings as to
the method and time within which cor
porations were to conform to the law
while being allowed reasonable peri
DDS for adjustment
In that sense the word "accommo-
dation" is used, meaning accommoda-
ting the processes to the interest of
business, though not abating the law.
In that connection the president be-
lieves better machinery for the con-
Quoting of the processes and accom-
modation to the law ought to be set up.
An interstate trade commission is the
body the president has in mind to fill
for that need.
Message Tomorrow.
The presidents message went to the
printer today and will be delivered In
congress tomorrow. The president has
been receiving opinions and estimaes
on the business situation OF the coun-
try which lead him to believe general
confidence in the future exists. The
presidents letters lead him to believe
businss has been actually stimulated
by the tariff, and that the average small
merchant is in better condition than
formerly.
Review Bill Favored.
A bill to authorize the supreme
court to order up for review any case
involving the constitutionality of a
federal statute was favorabIy report
ed in the senate judiciary committee.
AT present it is only possible for the
supreme court to review such cases
when the constitutionality of statute
is disapproved by a lower court.
Representative German of Illinois
introduced a bill providing that all
widowed mothers having one or more
children under IS, and dependent by
death or disability, be placed upon the
roll for $40 to SIS a month.
Supervision of sanitary conditions
of railroad trains, stations and prop
erty of all interstate common carriers
by the federal public health service
was provided in a bill passed by the
house.
Urge Steel Cars.
Legislation to enforce the use or
steel passenger cars was taken up to-
day by the house commerce commit
tee. President Post, of the Railway
Business association, opposed Con-
gressman Esch's bill to replace ali
wooden cars by steel ones within four
years Post declared the cost of re-
placing the wooden cars with steel
cars would aggregate 1892 100000.
Manager Dunbar, of the mechanical
department of the Pullman company.
testified plants of the country at pres
ent capacity would be unable to re-
place the wooden cars within % or 80
years.
Hearing on Radium Lands.
The house mines committee began
hearings regarding proposed legisla-
tion for withdrawing from settlement
public lands containing radium-produc-
ing ores. DR.. Howard A. Kelly of Bal
timore told his own experience where
in several cases radium had made
possible the complete cures of cancer.
He said $4,000 died annually in the
United States from cancer There are
three or four times that many cases.
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