Show INTER STAli COMM1 HCT BILL Ilaf road men and investors in railway shares appreciating tlio tact that the Inter Stuto Commerce bill Is to become a law are Interested discussions the probable elltcls of the law llnultlreet of the J2d Instant says I The passage pas-sage of the bill b > no means produced the break which the I active bears predicted It Is astonishing with what ripidd Wall Street has become accustomed to the measure There are of course prognos tlsitlons of trouble arising out of the dls Plltel 1 clauses of the hill but in general more interest ittuchcs In Wall Street to the personnel and methods of the Commission Com-mission which will ho thu result of the bill Presuming tint the Commissioners will bo chosen with regard to their knowledge and experience in railway management it is claimed that good l nm tonal cannot be obtained at the salary Oofixed bj the bill This only shows that that class of men aro already paid exorbitant salaries by the com panics 4o long as the shareholders and subordinate olficpri and responsible employees of the companies aio paid meagre dl ulends and salaries good management would seem to require that thu salaries of the higher odicers of the road should bo kept within reasonable bounds When salaries for quite ordinary business men range ten 10000 to t 23000 per annum it indicates that there is something rotten in Denmark Den-mark and that u mutual admiration society have the ordering of their own renumeration The first requisite of the commissioners to bo appointed IM i that they shall unpurchasablo What over they may lack in the technical knowledge of railway affairs under the present pooling and extravagant administration admin-istration of the companies will como to them in the prosecution of a broad and liberal interpretation of a confessedly ambiguous law It is evident that thu higher courts of the Nation will be called upon to settle its meaning trod 1 unravel its intricacies |