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Show FUNERAL tXPEHSES OF RHAD MEN WASHINGTON, Nov 10. Tho piop-er piop-er funeral expense of the averago railroad employe foimcd the subject of a brief colloquy today between i -Frank V. Whiting, claims attorney " for the New York Central railroad, and D. L. Ceaso, special representative representa-tive of the employes on the employers' liability and workmen's compensation Mr. Whiting, who was engaged In tho presentation to the commission ot tho details which he thoughi should enter into the .proposed legislation on the Insurance of railroad men against accident and increases of death, incidentally mentioned $100 as proper allowance for a funeral. Mr. Cease took Immediate Issue with him, sajlng he did not believe a man could be decentlj burled for less then $125 or $150. In reply Mr. Whiting cited the fact that the Italian authorities had flod $50 ns the limit of funeral expenses of Italian subjects klHod on American roads. "But," responded Mr. Cease, l"I was not speaking of Italians, I wa speaking speak-ing of American citizens." t Mr Whiting gavo the piesont total to-tal expenditure of the railroads of the United States as compensation to injured employes as almost $12,-000,000, $12,-000,000, or about 1 per cent of the aggregate ag-gregate payroll of the ibads. He placed the number of railroad employes em-ployes at 1,0 18,033. Of this numbor, he said, 3.G02 hud been killed and 126,039 Injured during tho last fiscal year. Charles A. Emery, counsel for tho National Association of Manufacturers said that G.000,000 men are employed. In the various manufacturing industries indus-tries of tho United States and argued that they .bo Included in the proposed law. Chairman Sutherland said that at the next meeting of the commissiqn, Nov. 27, a draft of the bill agreed upon by tho commission will be presented for consideration. B |