’ Bellefonte, Pa., January 14, 1910. URGES CONTROL OF RAILROADS. Washington, Jan. 8. — President Taft's expected special message on | the subject of further legisiation deal- | ing with trusts and railroads went to | congress Thursday, but was read in only the house, as the senate was not in session. On the whole the message was well received by the house. By a good many members it was regarded as be- ing radical as anything of the same character proposed by Mr. Roosevelt. There is a pretty general belief in congress that while there is a good | show for legislation amending the in- terstate commerce law along the lines recommended by the president, his proposal of a law for the federal in- corporation of interstate corporations was not likely to be acted on at the present session of congress. To Control Corporations. The longest step forward taken by the president is his recommendation that congress enact a general law | providing “for the formation of cor- porations to engage in trade and commerce among the states and with | foreign nations, protecting them from undue interference by the states and regulating their activities so as to prevent the recurrence under national auspices of those abuses which have arisen under state control.” He would have such a law provide that such corporations. should issue stock only to an amount for which cash has been paid, or if issued for prop- erty to have the federal government pass on its issue. He would require also that such corporations shall file full and complete reports of their op- erations with the department of com merce and labor and prohibit them from acquiring and holding stock ir other corporations except for special occasions approved by the govern- ment. The first part of the president's message is devoted to recommenda- tions for amending the interstate commerce law. The only important change made applies to the proposal to forbid railroad companies from ac- | quiring additional stock in competing raflroad companies which they con. trol. As originally outlined railroad | companies were either forbidden to acquire any additional stock whatever in competing companies controlled by them: or must possess 80 per cent. of the stock of the competing company in order to acquire some or all the remaining 20 per cent. As a resnlt of the representations made by the six railroad presidents last week the messag: of the president was changed i ' ulleged excessive rates made by rail- | : permitting ‘road 80 as to recommend that a railroad company holding less than 56 per cent of the stock of a competing rail- road company could be permitted to ‘ acquire the balance of the stock of that competing company. { Urges Creation of Commerce Court. | One of the important recommenda- | | tions of the president's message is for | the creation of a United States court | . of commerce to hear appeals from de cisions of the commission. interstate commerce | Other recommendations | ' are that the interstate commerce com- | mission be empowered to investigate | road companies of its own initiative, | without waiting for complaint to be | filed: giving shippers the right to de- mand a statement from any railroad | i company of the through rate on any shipment and imposing a fine for fail- | ure to comply or for misinformation: | the commission to post | pone for sixty days the time within | which an announced rate is to be | come effective and prohibiting a rail | company from issuing capital | stock without previous payment for it | of not less than the par value, or issu ing bonds or other obligations ex- ' cept one-year promissory notes with- out the previous payment of not less than the par value of such bonds or the reasonable market value as ascer- | , tained by the interstate commerce | commission. i In that part of his message relat- ing to the anti-trust law the president | presents arguments for a belief on hie | part that no amendments to this law | are necessary. His general argument | is that the United States supreme | court has construed the law in such | a way as to render unnecessary any | legislation to exempt from jprosecu- | tion interstate business combinations | which, while they may seem to vio | late the letter of the law, do not vio- | late the spirit of it through having an | undue restraint on trade, The president lets it be known that | it is his purpose to have the depart ment of justice make an investigation | through grand juries or otherwise in- | to the history, organization and pur poses of all the industrial companies “with respect to which there is any. reasonable ground for suspicion tha. they have heen organized for a pur. poge and are conducting business on | a plan which is in violation of the anti-trust law.” Raw Pork Kills One; Poisons Nine, | Mrs. B. F. Kroeger®is dead and | nine members of the families of B. | F. Kroeger and C. Dake, farmers liv- | ing near Fairbury, Neb., are ill from | trichina poisoning. More than a week | ago the twe families ate raw pork ! sausage, The illness was first supposed | to be la grippe. Saturday Mre. Kroe- | ger died. and two others, it is said, | cannot recover. Physicians say the ill. | ness is due to trichina, a parasite that | sometimes infects raw pork. i Shoes. i i Yeager's six months but prices of 1908. Bush Arcade Building, Shoe Store Rubbers have advanced thirty per cent. in the last in the line of Rubbers at the Come to Us For your Rubbers. YEAGER'S SHOE STORE. successor to Yeager & Davis. , BELLEFONTE, PA. we can sell | you anything you may need | . Helped Him to Hurry. Prince Bismarck once told a story of the battlefield of Koeniggratz. The old emperor, then king of Prussia, had expesed himself and his staff to the enemy's fire in a very reckless fash- fon and would not hear of retreating to ut safe distance. At last Prince Bis. marck rode up to him, saying: “As a responsible minister | must insist upon your majesty’s retreat to a safe dis- tance. if your majesty were to be killed the victory would be of no use to us.” The king saw the force of this and slowly retreated. but in his zeal returned again and again to the front. “When | noticed it.” Prince Bismarck went on. “1 only rose in my saddle and looked at him. He understood it | perfectly and called out rather an- grily. ‘Yes. | am coming.” But we did not get on fast enough, and at last | rode close up to the King, took my | foot out of the right stirrup and se- cretly guve iis horse an energetic kick, Such a thing had never before hap- pened to the fat mare, but the move | was successful, for she shot off in a fine canter.” Actions Speak Louder Than Words. The Sundiy school class was sing. fog “1 Want to Be an Angel.” “Why | don't you sing louder, Bobby?" “I'm singing ax loud as | feel” ex. plained Bobhby.-Dellneator. 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