The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-02
CYST or BILLS ON SOCIAL. WELFARE Congress Will Be Asked to Prepare for Nation s
 Progress As Well As Defense
Rv GRAHAM RONfEYN TAYLOR fI1xcIusfve Service The Survey Press Bureau)

1 s2,OOO,OOO was spent in the entire preventive campaign. They cite the success of pr. GOrgas in erad1cat1ng l yellow fever in Cuba and urge that | if tuberculosis is attacked similarly | by the federal government the next decade will see as marked reduction
 in the mortality from tuberculosis | as we have already seen in smallpox
 and yellow fever.
 The plan is for a commission of | eminent specialists vested with au- 1 thority and financial support to make an intensive investigation into 1 the etiology of tuberculosis. An Interstate Problem.
 The care of tubercu1ous patients
 who come from other regions of the country has long concerned certain | western states, and Congress will be | asked to recognize that the care of l such consumptives is an interstate 1 problem The California Association l for the Study and Prevention of Tu- l bercu1osis is prom oting a bill design ed to provide federal Subsidies to To-.
 cal hospitals which care for such pa | tients.
 Industrial measures are expected to
 include those before the last Con
 gress and several new, ones. Among
 the recommendations of the Commis- sion on Industrial Relations, those
 which will be pushed are probably i'm dicated in the announcement made by Chairman Frank P. Walsh who laid l emphasis on the need for a federal i law or, if necessary, constitutional l amendment. limiting the power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutionz al, for an act prohibiting interstate l shipment of armed guards, machine | guns and other similar weapons ex- cept when consigned to the military 1 authorities of the state of nation, and
 for act requiring the Federal
 Trade Commission to consider as un-
 fair competition the exploitation of
 labor through long hours, low wages,
 unsafe or insanitary conditions. The bill providing adequate com l pensation to all civilian, employees of l the government for occupationa1 dis
 eases as well as injuries, will be in
 troduced again, drawn on the same
 lines as the Kern-McGil1icuddy bill 1 last year. The American Association for Labor Legislation plans to make
 a special campaign on it's behalf. Protection for Immigrants. l Federal regulation of employment 1 agencies will be proposed again to do 1 away with interstate abuses, particu-
 1arly in the case of immigrant work
 CTS sent by employment agencies to work in other states. A federal 1i-
 cense is proposed for employment l agencies doing an interstate business
 and federal control through a. com l missioner of labor exchanges. The Committee for Immigrants in Ameri- ca is interested in securing this 1egis- 1 lation.
 Another bill for the protection of
 immigrants would enable federal au- thorities to enforce the treaty rights t of foreign subjects and give federal l courts power to act in all cases of 1 treaty violations.
 Several other bills modifying the
 immigration law are expected to come
 up. Some of these deal with a situa- 1 ton created by the war and provide l for letting. down the bars to Belgian
 and other refugees who come to
 America because of military conquest of their countries. Another effort is
 expected to extend to all Asiatfcs the present exclusion laws against Chi 1 nese 1aborers.
 Effort will again be made to secure 1 the adoption of the Smith-Hughes vocational education bill It's two large aims are to extend federal help | to the states in providing vocational education and training teachers in this 1 field, by grants of money and by es- i tablishing a Federal Board for Voca- l t1onal Education to work with state l boards. The proposed appropriations range from $500,0OO the first year to 1 $3'000,00O the eighth~year thereafter Favorable action is to be sought for | the Abercronbte bill requiring the
 commissioner of education to promote I plans to eliminate ilIiteraey.
 1 The campaign for the safety of passengers on steamships, in which the Consumers' League has, been in terested. will be further pushed, and l at it's meeting in November the League votei te take the initiative l in obtaining an investigation of the Esast1and disaster.