Show HILL SIGNED BY 01 THE PRESIDENT first received assurance from attorney general that measure was not repugnant to constitution washington president roosevelt on wednesday signed the employers liability bill upon receiving an lion ion from attorney general bonaparte that the measure was constitutional the bill makes railroads or other common carriers while engaged in interstate ter state commerce liable for tho the injury or death of an employed I 1 if the injury or death re results stilts in whole or in part from the negligence of any of tire the officers agents or employed emp loyes of suen carriers or by reason of any defect or insufficiency lit in equipment this provision Is made applicable to carriers lit in the territories the district of columbia the Par panama fania canal zone and other possessions of the united states it Is provided that in any action brought under the provis provisions lons of tho bill the injured employed shall not bo be field to have assumed the rask of oc his employment in any case where tho the violation by the carrier canler of any statute enacted for the safety of employed emp loyes contributed to the anju or death of the employed emp loye any coni con ct rule regulation or device to enable the carrier to exempt itself from liability under the act Is as rendered void by a specific declaration to that end provision Is made however that the carrier receive credit tor for any contribution made to the employed or his family in the form of insurance relief benefit or indemnity an action for the recovery of damages must be commenced within two years from the date of the cause of the suit in his opinion the attorney general indicates that the bill Is confined in its scope to common carriers by railroad as distinguished front from the act declared unconstitutional by the supreme court which embraced all common carriers cair lers engaged in interstate commerce and foreign commerce the attorney general then shows through court decisions and constitutional interpretations that this restriction does not make the act repugnant tr tc the constitution but I 1 Is in line with slate statutes which have been upheld in th the e highest tribunals |