| Show ON FEDERAL CONTROL I Necessary Over for Commercial Preservation I Of the Country I IS NO QUESTION OF POWER lIe H Regards System m of State lolls Laws liS as Intolerable able Chicago Feb control or of corporations Is necessary to the tho commercial preservation ot of the tho COUO COUII tr try declared Charles Charlos Nasel Nagel secre secretary secretary tary ot Of Commerce and labor ot of the tho UnIted States In an address before the Industrial club here hore tonIght As to the power ot of the natIonal gov government government to authorize the organization of federal corporations Mr Nagel salt Bald I there thoro could be no questIon The cx x I istine s system stem of clashing state laws a system on all sides at war with It regarded as intolerable and ho hI assured his hearers that the con consequence sequence ot of a federal corporation laW such as President Taft had proposed could make for tor nothIng but the gen oral good The purpose of oC tile the government to regulate the corporations corporatIon In the tho Ion of the secretary could not be con considered as an attempt to encroach upon state authority but as a deter determInation to employ old authority for tor forthe the solution ot of now new problems A change ot of attitude regarding the re lation or of national to state authority he believed had come corne over the coun t try wIth the development of problems problem too big for tor the states IndIvIdually to meet I Among the more Important problems hems lems said Secretary Nagel appears to be the tho question whether or not the national government may and should authorize and regulate the and conduct or of federal corpora corporatIons corporations Only 1 a few tew years ears ago ngo the tho barn baro suggestion or of such an Idea filled the tha public with dismay The was denied and the POliCY Today the Irreconcilable conflicts to which ordinary business organIzations are subjected In our states have forced a general recognition that something must be done to relieve the situation The Idea Is not limIted to any par particular locality ot of our country or to tonny any special class From nil all parts east enst and west sest north and Buth cIty and country countr come the suggestions that thal some lome relief relict upon these lines must be worked out The proposition has now been squarely put before tho country countr The Tho president of oC tile the United states ha has macle macic a dIstinct recommendation In a message calling attention to the needs and submItting for consideration a form to which legislators and constituents constituents ma may gIve theIr attention |
