Evening star., 1915-12-11

| ment against Collins ct al. d. c.. the
| Attorney General recites that indict-
| ment was returned September 4, 1914
| against thirty-one commission mer-
chants, charging them with engaging
| in a combina ton to fix arbitrarily and
without competition the prices az
| which country produce is bought ana
| sold in the District of Columbia. a
demurrer was overruled by the court
! May l last and the case is awaiting
| trial.
OF 4.o21 United States prisoners in
| confinement. there are 116 commtited
| to the National Training School Tor
Boys and 126 in the Government Hos
pital for the Insane, here.
Training School for Boys.
The report of the board of trustees
| of the National Training School for
Boys shows that there We're confined in
the school on June 80. 1915. 3S1 juve-
nile offenders. as comapred with 4o5
on June 80. 1914. There were received
during the year 1915. EOS juvenile Of
tenders; during 1914. 1Ss. OF this
number. l03 We're committed by the Ju-
! veniie Court of the District of Colum-
bia. 13 by the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, and 81 by the
tHilcu States court. lneFe were Ie-
turned to the school 80 paroled boys
and escaped boys.
The farm products have exceeded
those OF any previous year. and have
been material factor in reducing the
cost of running the institution. The
work of construction on the new school
building is a: :proaching completion.
during the year 4 tract of approxi-
mately hfty-seven acres of land was
purchased by the board of trustees, at
nf 1,,-
the act of Congress approved June 90,
1913. which appropriated Sal, 900 for ad-
ditional land. The board reports that
negotiations are now pending for the
purchase of additional land needed to
carry the boundary line of the school
land to the District of Columbia line on
the north. 1t is proposed to make this
purchase from the rema inder of the
appropriation.
Girls Department.
The report of the trustees Of the
National Training School for Girls
shows that on June 80. 1915, there were
eighty-six inmates. During the year
there were twenty-one commitments
and twenty-seven paroles. OF those pa
rolled fourteen were returned to the
school.
heretofore the school has received
been no legal objection to receiving
both white and colored. The board re-
ports that 1t has now decided to receive
and care for white girls. and that it is
desirable that an additional building or
buildings be erected for this purpose
to be located at some distance from the
present group. it recommends the ac-
QUESTION of additional land for this
purpose.
Law to Punish Neutrality Violation.
New laws to protect the United States
against neutrality violations such as
have marked the progress of the war
in Europe and the Mexican revolutions
are asked of Congress by Attorney Cen
eral Gregory. The Attorney General
suggested amendments to the present
neutrality statutes to make it speci-
IDEALLY u crime against the United
States to place bombs or other ex-
plosives on vessels sailing from Amer
lean ports and that 1t should be made
a crime for any person to escape or
attempt 10 escape from an interned
warship of belligerent nation; and
in any event authority should be given
to some government department to
arrest and return any such person to
the place of internment. Another sug-
gestion was that authority. be given the
government to seize arms and ammuni-
tion about to be exported in violation
of a presidential proclamation of an
embargo on shipments of that char
acter and to seize arms and ammuni-
ton about to be used in connection
with military expeditions which them
selves are now prohibited by law.
Would Amend Commodities Clause.
The Attorney General again recon-
mends an amendment to the commodi-
ties clause of the interstate commerce
act to prohibit a railroad from trans
porting In interstate commerce articles
which it manufactures or produces, or
which are manufactured or produced
by any corporation controlled OF affili-
ated with it by having the same con-
trolling stockholders, irrespective of
whether such railroad or such con-
trolled or affiliated corporation has an
interest in the articles at the time Of
transportation.
ut is also necessary" he added in
this connection, III transportation and
production are to be completely di-
vorced, that Congress prohibit any
railroad owned or controlled by a
producing or trading corporation, and
not operated merely as plant facility,
from transporting in interstate COM
merce articles produced or owned by
such corporation"
Another recommendation would
change provisions for the removal of
persons indicted in federal criminal
proceedings to the district where the
indictments were returned SO that a
federal warrant may run after indict
ment to any part of the United States
with the privilege that the defendant
may give bail.
Mr.. Gregory asked for no changes in
the antitrust laws. When decisions
have been rendered in the Harvester,
Steel, Steamship Pool, Lehigh Valley,
United Shoe Machinery and other cases
now before the Supreme Court under
so-called area of debatable ground in
the law of restraint of trade will have
been greatly circumscribed."
HANGER 0E nIpTHERIA