| Show WILL NOT BE IOLE IDLE CONGRESS TO ACT ON SEVERAL MATTERS OF importance THIS WINTER ALASKA RAILROAD BILL ONE public health service Servi cep report on lobby inquiry and suspension of freo free canal toll tolls among tho the other pending subject subjects by GEORGE CLINTON washington congress may not and probably will not pass any vory very drastic antitrust anti trust legislation this winter but nevertheless both bouses will find I 1 plenty to do with ith measures which Nl ilch while they are of leas loss seeming importance than antitrust aati trust beis are matters of considerable moment to the general public therefore while congress may not do any tremendously big things during tho the winter it will manigo mango go to keep busy when congress quit for the christmas recess the house had three important matters of unfinished bu busl nega on its calendar the alaska railroad bill a joint resolution providing for the tile aar apr ointment of a commission to investigate and report a plan for na nn lional aid to vocational education and the district of columbia appropriation bill the tile senate alo had a special order on the alasin railroad bill ill and 20 it seems likely that this legislation Is practically certain to pass before 1 warm weather eather sots sets in after the alaska railroad bill it t seems likely that the adamson bill to I 1 create a public health service with ath more extended powers than those now lodged in the public health and marine hospital services will be taken up for consideration and very likely passed other matters which may rece receive ve tho tile sanction of congress before the tile final adjournment of the session are the dooher bill relative to restricting interstate ter state commerce in goods made by convicts and the burnett bill regulating the immigration of aliens into the united states await report on lobby the lobby iliac matter will come before the house in a sharply pertinent way nay before very long the members now are awaiting a report from the judiciary on matters which aich may lead to action of some kind in the case of Represent representative athe james T mcdermott cDermott At of chicago and officers of the national association of manufacturers in connection with the th investigation of the charges which were made when the Mul liall lobb inquiry was as on an it probably will be remembered that in the report of the lobby committee all the present meni membris beis of congress whose names were mentioned by witnesses before the committee were cleared of lobbying blame with the exception of representative mcdermott in his case the testimony was laid before the bouse house without any reg recommendation ommen dation and it Is taken for granted apparently that the house will take some action looking elther either to the punishment or to the exoneration of this illinois congressman whose name was so frequently mentioned in connection with lobbying activities in addition to bills already on the calendar there are three other pieces of legislation certain to come before this congress which have not yet reached the calendars of either house the first of these Is the amendment to the anil anti trust law which the president will recommend to congress in a message panama canal tolls again the other measures are ohp la fol lette bill which has already passed the senate and upon which hearings have been held by the merchant marine and fisheries committee of the house and the adamson resolution ution introduced in the house just before the christmas recess providing for the suspension for two years of that provision in the panama canal act which will give to american coast wise vessels tree free tolls tho the senate may add one more measure to this list in the bill introduced by senator williams on tho the closing day of the pre holiday hollday session providing tor for the insurance of bank deposits it IB is expected that the adamson resolution will start again the fight over the tolls question which stirred congress up a 4 year ago president wilson thus far has made to announcement no of his leanings in this matter and und it likely that ho he has purposely kept from saying anything about ahe he issue involved because beca so of bis his desire to get the currency bill out of the way before tho the other matter was touched upon As A to labor legislation labor legislation Is both popular and unpopular in the house of c representatives and the senate for some reasor I 1 cr other members and senators ahw think that if ahoy vote for such legislation as an the labor leaden leaders ask they will be frare to get the support of labor at the polls in this respect therefore it may bo be raid said that a chance to vote for labor legisla uon tion Is popular but thoro there are times when representatives and senators eona tors are so convinced the legislation asked la Is not eminently proper that they make up their minds to ote against it and by eo an doing they col tool they may lose 1 notes and therefore thero foro in this reaped respect la in bor bar legislation at times may bo be said to bo be unpopular in washington officials in congress and out of it no matter to what party thoy they belong that civism is IH tho omer of tho tile day in legis bailon and tha th progressivism and bu hu frequently aro are insop arable it took congress con grosa a long while to paes pass an eight slit hour a day labor law all work nork done by tho the gov itself waa was put on an eight hour bobis basis a long timo time ago but it wai was only roc antly ano federal eight hour law was wall mad madr to apply to gov eminent work for by PH nato ato corporations it Is apparent that tho the present ad all ministration Is to fully in sympathy not only with tho the eight houi movement but with the pica plea that eight hours for work eight hours for ploy play and eight hours for sleep constitute the proper living day for man secretary redfield of the department of corn com probably pro hubly bubly would not have ox ex pressed so freely as ho he has on the tile eight hour matter if ho he were not suro sure of the sympathy of his chief mr air position at a mooting meeting of tho the american association for labor legislation held re centhy secretory secretary redfield Hedt lold said 1 I believe that when our factories aro are run so hat that the workmen work go homo home without being fatigued from overlong over hours and not till then will wo we be able to compete successfully against all comers in tho the markets of the world I 1 could not afford to employ in a factory men who aro are halt half sick who come to work after having had haa bad breakfasts who aro portly partly poisoned they would bo be economically able and yet fatigue Is part poison postal service efficient A high typo of efficiency Is claimed for the united states postal serice sen ice by undo uncle sams officials als x who ho are charged with tho the duty of its ad ministration it Is said that the single exception of belgium abre the trat fic conditions resemble those of state rather than those ot of a country the united states stands at the head of all countries in operative effle efficiency lencY this Is said on the authority of rep rev lewis leis of maryland author of the parcel post act who has been digging into the subject it is known knon that uncle sams letter rate of postage Is enough to yield 33 1 13 3 per cent profit and the postal efficiency of this country Is attained in spite of the high prices which must be paid for material stamps paper etc and the much higher wages which are paid to Arna rican postal workmen than to those who ho do the same work in europe steady increase in the service since the year 1886 not only has the number of pieces of mall mail including path domestic and foreign matter increased gradually but the number of pieces handled by each post office employed each year has increased this increase has been going on while the average handling individual bits biti of mall mail has gone down from 1886 to 1912 not only have the units of at service more than doubled in size but city and rural deliveries dell have been added thus thas virtually doubling the quantity ol 01 0 the service thus even it the cost per piece of nt mall mail naturally had bad remained it would be shown clearly that the cost actually had gone down 4 the number of pieces mailed in the year 1886 including domestic and foreign matter was while the number of employed emp loyes was in hat 3 ear the number of mall mail pieces handled bandied by each employed per annum was the cost for the average ansil ecco reckoned re in cents was 1 aa 4 eight years later in 1894 the number of employed emp loyes had increased to and tho the number of pieces of mill bad had jumped to this resulted in the number of at mall mail pieces per employed per annum reaching the figure of and the cost per average mull mall piece becoming in cents I 1 ga average cost has gone down ten years later in 1904 the num berof of pieces handled by each employed during the year had increased to and the average cost per eacia each mall mail piece had goda down to in 1912 0 the average cost had gono gone down tc to the number of employed emp loyes a below that ot of 1910 Is i tood at 2701 the estimated number of mall mail handled over and the number of pieces bandied handled by each earh employed during the year reached high water with the figure tho the explanation of this high degree of efficiency Is a be found according to mr lewie lewis in uie tle fact that the low postal rates retes have cumulated business and havo hato consequently almost automatically mati cally forced complete utilization of the plant obviously says mr air lewis tho the amount ot at traffic will depend on the rate |
