Show 4 WORKINGMEN'S i COMPENSATION LAW IS TOPIC Senator Sutherland Explains Workings of Bill Aimed to t Protect Employees Special to The Herald Ogden No Nov 2 United United States Senator George Sutherland a addressed a large audience at the meeting of or the Women's omens Republican club this afternoon Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Sutherland was ns requested to e ex explain cx- cx plain thc the compensation law to which he lie devoted the greater L part of ot his address The Junior senator said the com pen pen- k law was va recommended by y lent l- l lent dent Taft Tan and passed the thc Senate at the tile Jast 1 ast session but Is now being held helt Inthe in inthe the House of or Representatives Continuing he lie said in iii part Under the old common la law s system the employer er had only a few servants under his employ Thc rhe machinery or 01 appliances rather with wilh they worl worked cd were of a simple character There was none of or the tho complicated machinery ma ma- chinery that we have toda today today today-it It It was before the age are of electricity and of steam Now ow under modern conditions l lall all that has hns been changed Tho The modern railroad company for tOl example tho the New NewYork York Central lines employs employees em em- plo under tinder one control Other railroads employ vast numbers of ot men These men arc not brought Into contact with one another as the they were under the simple conditions that existed at common law thc they have ha not riot tile the same opportunity of or jud judging of the tile character of ot the supervision pf cit the employer em that the they had at common law so that In the opinion of thoughtful r people the time has arrived to tear up UI the old common law liability which is lg entirely based upon nc negligence WhICh root and branch and ancI put in the p picc of it a a. law which will compel tho the employer to toc c pay 3 ay a reasonable compensation atlon to th tho employee employee- whenever he is wholly wholly ly h Irrespective of how the accident occurred oci oc- oc i whether It was due to the tau faut t toC of oC the employer to the fault of the employee ee or to nobody's s fault at allIn allIn all aU In uIn other words it Is proposed to treat tho the employee as though ho lie were ere the human part pait of or the machine with which he works worl s and to compel the Indu In- In du elms try which Is deriving an Income from the tho operation of this machinery to compensate injured employees and to bear the expense of or that just lust as it itI I l. l bears ears tho tim expense of oC a 3 broken piece of r machinery or an any other expense Incident incident inci Inci- dent to the operation of I Its s business Now acting under that theory theon the Con Congress ress of the United States some two or three years car a ago o authorized the appointment appointment ap up- of a commission consisting of six men two of them to be appointed appoint appoint- ed b by the vice fee president from rota the tho Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate two from rom the House of oC Representatives and two to b by tho President outside outside outside out out- side of oC either elthel house of Congress There were sero appointed on that committee two tWI L senators Senator George Chamberlain of Oregon and m myself from rom the Senate from the House Jud Judge e BranUe Brantley BrantIe of It F G Georgia and Jud Judge e Moon of ot Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania anla The President appointed W. W C. C e Brown Blown who Is the president of the New York Central lines JInes as representing representing- the railroad side of ot the question and 1 D. D L. L Seese editor of the Railroad Trainmen's Trainmen's Train Train- mens men's Journal as representing representing- the lie railroad rail rail- road employees 1 f II Vow Now this law Jaw which was framed and ami which I r had the honor to introduce passed the Senate by a vote vole of or I G-I to 15 G l' l every Republican having ha voted In fa favor a a. a vor vol of it H and more than halt half of ot the tho Democrats having voted in favor of oC It it the thc only votes otes against it being the hf- hf tr- tr teen Democrats and the majority of or them from the southern states The Tho senator then explained the workIng work- work Ing of or the proposed law in comparison with the old system of handling such matters He Hc was waR attentively heard by tho the large audience and the speech was w greeted with heart hearty evidence of or ap ap- ap |