AMERICAN NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12020, 22 August 1907, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS.

New York, August 21. Mr Root, a wealthy American manufactttrefj was. motoring towards Asbley crossing, Maasaohusettcs, alongside the Pitttsfield express, and in order to avoid a high bank at a curve, with frenzied bravado he attempted to crosS aheadt of the train. The motor collided with the 6ng?ne', and Mr Root, His mother, his sister, and his aunt ware killed. £A niece was the only survivor of thetataiity, and She sustained serious injury. Mr Taft, United States Secretary for War, Speaking at Columbus,. Ohio, declared thai the inter-Sfcate Commerce Act was a failure, because it did not seoure.a fixation oi reasonable railway ratei The 1 Comuierce Commissioners ought w r osse^ power to enforce uniform classiße.v--tion of freight 'by all railroads and also power to prevent over-capitalisa-tion of railroads. , He advocated other radical reforms to prevent the absorption of all railroads into one hand. He added that if the abuses were riot stopped a movement in favour oi Gfofernment ownership of railroads would become formidably He further advocated a more stringent amendment of Anti-Trust law and a thorough revision of the protective tariff by tho Republican Congress immediately after the next Presidential election. J