Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-12-06 | Page 9 | Safety Appliances

SAFETY APPLIANCES , Again Calls Atteution to Need of Block Signals. In my annual message to the Fifty-1 Fifty-1 eighth Congress, at ll third session, 1 called attention to the necessity for legislation leg-islation requiring the use of block sig nals upon railroads engaged in interstate commerce. The number of serious . ol-llsluns ol-llsluns upon unblocked roads that have occurred within the past year adds foice j to the recommendation then rnad'. The Congress should provide, by appropriate legislation, for the introduction of block signals upon all railroads engaged In Interstate In-terstate commerce at the earliest practicable prac-ticable date, as a measure of Increased safety to (he traveling public. Law Is Strengthened. Through decisions of the Supreme Court of the t'nited States and the lower Federal Fed-eral courts In cases brought before them for adjudication 'he safety-appliance law has been materially strengthened, and the I fj. verrimeni has been enabled to secure I Its effective enforcement In utmost all oases, with the rctmlt that the condition I of railroad equtiririeni. throughout the 1 country Is riiuoh improved and railroad j employees perform their duties under afer conditions thun herttoforc. Most Effective Aid. I Th.- Government's most effective aid in 1 at living at this result has been Its Inspection In-spection service, and that th'e Improved I conditions are noi moro general Is due to I the Insufllclent number Of Inspectors employed. em-ployed. The Inspection service has fully demonstrated Its usefulness, and In appropriating ap-propriating for Its maintenance tho Ccn-gress Ccn-gress should make provision for an Increase In-crease In the number of Inspectors.