Show id TO PROTECT THE THIE SHIPPERS 4 Industrial Commission Recommends Recommends Recommends mends New Legislation t TO PUBLISH TARIFF LISTS AND GIVE MORE MOR IOB POWER TO THE TEE T TCO COMMISSION CO SION f i Feb 6 The indus V VV trial has hr submitted sub its it final fm report lepot to t congress congress s It is isa isa Isa a a of f more more than ta 1010 1 printed pages The first frt part which has been made public deals with the progress of ot de te pre the nation naton agriculture mining m and transportation Recommendations are re made on the subjects of transportation and ad agriculture agriculture ture The commission n advises as a to transportation That Tha the policy of gov governmental governmental supervision and aD control of ot o railroads as originally laid down in the senate committee report of 1886 and embodied the following year ear in the in commerce act be revived and strengthened that the authority of the Interstate commerce commission necessary nece necessary sary for the adequate protection of shippers and clearly intended by the framers of the laws be restored and that the powers and functions of the commission be enlarged practically as I contemplated contemplated in the te scle Cullom bill bi of 1900 19 except as to authority to toI prepare and enforce a uniform classi classification clas i I I Strict Control of of Tariff Lists Such legislation should provide For more stringent regulation of the condi conditions conditions tons under which freight fre ht and passenger sen ger tariffs are published and filed fled No Norte rate rte of classification ought to be changed without at least leat sixty days notice to shippers unless specifically authorized by the interstate commerce commission That strict adherence to published tariffs be required and rebates or dis discrimination discrimination crimination prevented by an increase of penalties That the long and short haul h ul clause cause In section 4 of the act of 1887 be strengthened and rigidly en enforced enforced forced unless the carriers carrer shall be b re released released leased by special order of the inter interstate interstate interstate state commerce commission For the definite denite grant of power to the interstate commerce commission never on its it own Initiative but only on formal complaint to pass pas upon the te reasonableness of ot freight and passenger passenger ger rates or charges also aso the definite grant of power to declare given ghen rates unreasonable as at present together with wih power to prescribe reasonable rates in substitution For early hearings hearing upon corn com complaints Cm plaints and for prompt decisions decision by the commission the purpose being beng to ob oh obviate vi at intolerable delays For a specific grant of power to the interstate com corn commerce commerce merce commission over classification II both as a to items and grouping Corps Cors of Expert Exer Auditors I Coupled Couple with wih this however we dis dissent dissent sent from the te section of the Cullom bill bi requiring requiring the interstate commerce commission within a certain period to promulgate a uniform Cas classi classification for the United States State For the establishment of a a permanent corps cors of expert auditors who shall have authority under the te supervision of the interstate commerce commission to ex examine e examine I amine periodically the accounts of all aU railway companies TS heither t r operating w or financial nacIal in their nature That violations of the act respecting the te keeping and filing fUng of annual reports by carriers should be b made misdemeanors ors aIS and promptness in making such returns should be required That hat to o further the te effectiveness oC of the commission its it membership should be directly representative of the vari various various van vanous ous interests interest concerned in the persons of shippers shIpper or business men traffic ex ei experts e ert rt rail rai and water and men of legal training and the number of commis commissioners commissioners commissioners should be increased to t seven seen Prevent Watering nr oi f stock That legislation analogous to the an statutes of Mama Massa Massachusetts asa chusett be enacted by the several states That railroad companies be prohibited by law from making lower freight rates rte upon imports billed bied to t the interior of this country countr in connection with wih ocean ocea transportation or otherwise than are made on similar simlar articles artcle from the seaboard to the interior or than tan I are made from one inland point to an another another another other when the te distance is no greater grater Prefacing Its It recommendations re regarding regarding I garding agriculture the commission says that tat agriculture has derived more benefit from the establishment of the I department of ot agriculture and from its It administrative work than from any other federal legislation It makes make the th following recommendations tons on this subject That the secre secretary tary t tai of agriculture be b given authority To inspect products intended for ex cx export and to their and port ad to certify grade quality To fix t standard grades for cereals based b on OU season s n growing going quality and weight per pr measure and an when intended for export to inspect and an certify the same saie To cause cuse stock stockcars stok stockcars cars and stock yards yd to be cleansed I and disinfected whenever he considers such action necessary Strict Neat Meat Inspection To make adequate regulations prohibiting Iring the shipment of ot or diseased meat from one state st st te to an another another another other or to foreign countries To re require require require quire and direct the proper Hoper disposition of o diseased meats That a more com coat comprehensive comprehensive penalty clause for shipping s diseased d meat be enacted That a law be enacted to provide For the inspection of nursery nunery stock in intended Intended intended tended for interstate Inter tate commerce or for export and prohibiting the transportation tion of diseased d infected or 01 nursery stock and aNi for rules and regulations regula to govern the importation tation of nursery stock and fruit and prohibiting the importation of diseased infected or nursery stock or fruit That a pure food section in the chem chew chemistry chemistrY division in the department of ag agriculture agriculture be established to prevent the adulteration fake fa ie branding and tive the imitation of foods beverages can dies drugs and condiments in the Dis Dt District triet of Columbia and au the territories and for regulating interstate traffic therein That adequate legislation be enacted by the several states where needed for the control CO of such diseases as S glanders ers tuberculosis etc That he ever change ebanes way Mar be made in the tariff by 1 7 reciprocity or 01 otherwise ade adequate adeQuate adequate quate protection to the beet Sug sugar r in m industry be maintained That increased sed appropriations be made by congress for building sample stretches of improved roads in ht various sections section of the country so no as to t en encourage courage the more rapid construction of such sueh roads at state and lid local expense That the tM w of fr free e rural delivery deliver be extended as recommended by the postmaster general in his bis latest annual report That the policy of setting aside forest already inaugurated ted be bt extended and th the three bureaus of 0 the government have charge cherge of investigations and administrative work wont connected with forestry fOt be consoli consolidated dated |