law the imprisonment before indictment found of a person accused of a crime or offence, or the time during which a person so accused may be held under recognizance before indictment found." An act, approved April 5, 1910, provided that an act entitled "An act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employes in certain cases," approved April 22, 1908, be amended in Section 6 so that said section shall read: Amendments to "Sec. 6. That no action shall be maintained under this act unless commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued. "Under this act an action may be brought in a circuit court of the United States, in the district of the residence of the defendant, or in which the cause of action arose, or in which the defendant shall be doing business at the time of commencing such action. The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States under this act shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several states, and no case arising under this act and brought in any state court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United States." Said act was further amended by adding the following section as Section 9: "Sec. 9. That any right of action given by this act to a person suffering injury shall survive to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employe, and, if none, then of such employe's parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employe, but in such cases there shall be only one recovery for the same injury." Automatic Couplers and Brakes. An act, approved April 14, 1910, provided that the provisions of that act should apply to every common carrier and every vehicle subject to the act of March 2, 1893, as amended April 1, 1896, and March 2, 1903, commonly known as the "Safety appliance acts." On and after July 1, 1911, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to haul, or permit to be hauled or used, on its line any car subject to the provisions of this act not equipped with secure sill steps and efficient hand brakes; all cars requiring secure ladders and secure running boards shall be equipped with such ladders and running boards, and all cars having ladders shall also be equipped with secure hand holds or grab irons on their roofs at the tops of such ladders: Provided, That in the loading and hauling of long commodities, requiring more than one car, the hand brakes may be omitted on all save one of the cars while they are thus combined for such purpose. Within six months from the passage of the act the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hearing, shall designate the number, dimensions, location and manner of application of the appliances provided for by Section 2 of this act and Section 4 of the act of March 2, 1893, and shall give notice of such designation to all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act by such means as the commission may deem proper, and thereafter said number, location, dimensions and manner of application as designated by said commission shall remain as the standards of equipment to be used on all cars subject to the provisions of this act, unless changed by an order of said Interstate Commerce Commission, to be made after full hearing and for good cause shown; and failure to comply with any such requirement of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be subject to a like penalty as failure to comply with any requirement of this act: Provided, That the Interstate Commerce Commission may, upon full hearing and for good cause, extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this section with respect to the equipment of cars actually in service upon the date of the passage of this act. Said commission is hereby given authority, after hearing, to modify or change and to prescribe the standard height of drawbars and to fix the time within which such modification or change shall become effective and obligatory, and prior to the time so fixed it shall be unlawful to use any car or vehicle in interstate or foreign traffic which does not comply with the standard now fixed or the standard so prescribed, and after the time so fixed it shall be unlawful to use any car or vehicle in interstate or foreign traffic which does not comply with the standard so prescribed by the com mission. Any common carrier subject to this act using, hauling or permitting to be used or hauled on its line, any car subject to the requirements of this act not equipped as provided in this act, shall be liable to a penalty of $100 for each and every such violation, to be recovered as provided in Section 6 of the act of March 2, 1893, as amended April 1. 1896: Provided, That where any car shall have been properly equi ped, as provided in this act and the other acts mentioned herein, and such equipment shall have become defective cr insecure while such car was being used by such carrier upon its line of railroad, such car may be hauled from the place where such equipment was first discovered to be defective or insecure to the nearest available point where such car can be repaired. without liability for the penalties imposed by Section 4 of this act or Section 6 of the act of March 2, 1893, as amended by the act of April 1, 1898, if such movement is necessary to make such repairs and such repairs cannot be made except at such repair point; and such movement or hauling of such car shall be at the sole risk of the carrier, and nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve such carrier from liability in any remedial action for the death or injury of any railroad employe caused to such employe by reason of or in connection with the movement or hauling of such car with equipment which is defective or insecure or which is not maintained in accordance with the requirements of this act and the other acts herein referred to; and nothing in this proviso shall be construed to permit the hauling of defective cars by means of chains instead of draw bars, in revenue trains or in association with other cars that are commercially used, unless such defective cars contain livestock or "perishable" freight. Except that, within the limits specified in the preceding section of this act, the movement of a car with defective or insecure equipment may be made without incurring the penalty provided by the statutes, but shall in all other respects be unlawful, nothing in this act shall be held or construed to relieve any common carrier, the interstate Commerce Commission or any United States attorney from any of the provisions, powers, duties, liabilities or requirements of said act of March 2, 1893, as amended by the acts of April 1, 1896, and March 2, 1903; and, except as aforesaid, all of the provisions, powers, duties, requirements and liabilities of said act of March 21803, as amended by the acts of April 1, 1896, and March 2, 1903, shall apply to this act. An act, approved May 6, 1910, provided that it shall be the duty of the general manager, superintendent or other proper officer of every common carrier Reports of Accidents in Interstate and Foreign Commerce. engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by railroad to make to the Interstate Commerce Commission, at its office in Washington, District of Columbia, a monthly report, under oath, of all collisions, derailments or other accidents resulting in injury to persons, equipment or roadbed arising from the operation of such railroad under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the said commission, which report shall state the nature and causes thereof and the circumstances connected therewith: Proviced, That hereafter all said carriers shall be relieved from the duty of reporting accidents in their annual financial and operating reports made to the commission. Any common carrier failing to make such report within thirty days after the end of any month shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 for each and every Tence and for every day during which it shall fail to make such report after the time herein specified for making the same. The Interstate Commerce Commission shall have authority to investigate all colstens, derailments or other accidents resulting in serious injury to person or to the property of a railroad occurring on the line of any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by railroad. The commission, or any impartial investigator thereunto authorized by said commission, shall have authority to investigate such collisions, derailments or other accidents aforesaid, and all the attending facts, conditions and circumstances, and for that purpose may subpoena witnesses, administer paths, take testimony and require the production of books, papers, orders, memoranda. exhibits and other evidence, and shall be provided by said carriers with all reasonable facilities: Provided, That when such accident is investigated by a commission of the state in which it occurred the Interstate Commerce Commission shall, if conventent, make any investigation it may have previously determined upon, at the same time as. and in connection with, the state commission investigation. Said commission shall, when it deems it to the public interest, make reports of such investigations, stating the cause of accident, together with such recommendations as it deems proper. Sach reports shall be made public in such manner as the commission deems proper. Neither said report nor any report of said investigation nor any part thereof shall be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in said report or investigation. The Interstate Commerce Commission is authorized to prescribe for such common carriers a method and form for making the reports herein before provided. The act entitled, "An act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission," approved March 3, 1901, is hereby repealed. The term "interstate commerce," as used in this act, shall include transportation from any state or territory or the District of Columbia to any other state or territory or the District of Columbia, and the term "foreign commerce." as used in this act, shall include transportation from any state or territory or the District of Columbia to any foreign country and from any foreign country to any state or territory or the District of Columbia. The act took effect July 5, 1910. An act, approved February 4, 1910, provided that any bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States hereafter issued shall be payable, principal and interest, in United States gold coin of the present standard of value; and that such bonds may be issued in such denominations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Issues of Any certificates of indebtedness hereafter issued shall be exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal or local authority; and that a sum not exceeding one-tenth of 1 per centum of the amount of any certificates of indebtedness issued is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the expenses of preparing, advertising and issuing the same. An act, approved May 16, 1910, established in the Department of the Interior a bureau, to be called the Bureau of Mines, and a director of said bureau, who Federal shall be thoroughly equipped for the duties of said office by technical education and experience and who shall be appointed Bureau of Mines. by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive a salary of $6,000 per annum; and there shall also be in the said bureau such experts and other employes as may from time to time be authorized by Congress. It shall be the province and duty of raid bureau and its director, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to make diligent investigation of the methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, and the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the treatment of ores and other mineral substances, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to said industries, and from time to time make such public reports of the work, investigations and information obtained as the Secretary of said department may direct, with the recommendations of such bureau. The Secretary of the Interior shall provide the said bureau with furnished offices in the city of Washington, with such books, records, stationery and appliances and such assistants, clerks, sterographers, typewriters and other employes as may be necessary for the proper discharge of the duties imposed by this act upon such bureau, fixing the compensation of such clerks and employes within appropriations made for that purpose. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to transfer to the Bureau of Mines from the United States Geological Survey the supervision of the investigations of structural materials and the analyzing and testing of coals, lignites and other mineral fuel substances and the investigation as to the causes of mine explosions; and the appropriations made for such investigations may be expended under the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Mines in manner as if the same were so directed in the appropriations acts; and such investigations shall hereafter be within the province of the Bureau of Mines, and shall cease and determine under the organization of the United States Geological Survey; and such experts, employes, property and equipment as are now employed or used by the Geological Survey in connection with the subjects herewith transferred to the Bureau of Mines are directed to be transferred to said bureau. Nothing in this act shall be construed as in any way granting to any officer or employe of the Bureau of Mines any right or authority in connection with the inspection or supervision of mines or metallurgical plants in any An act, approved June 17, 1910, reorganizing the lighthouse service, provided In Section 4 to 7 that hereafter there shall be in the Department of Commerce and Labor a bureau of lighthouses and a commissioner of Establishing a Bureau lighthouses, who shall be the head of said bureau, to be of Lighthouses. appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of $5,000 per annum. There shall also be in the bureau a deputy commissioner, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a salary of $4,000 per annum, and a chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of chief clerk and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or by the commissioner. There shall also be in the bureau such inspectors, clerical assistants, and other employes as may from time to time be authorized by Congress, and there shall also be employed one chief constructing engineer at a salary of $4,000 per annum and one superintendent of naval construction at a salary of $3.000 per annum, both to be appointed by the President. The commissioner of lighthouses shall make an annual report to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, who shall transmit the same to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; and such commissioner, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine all claims for damages, where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $500, hereafter occasioned by collisions, for which collisions vessels of the Lighthouse Service shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof, through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor. All employes of or in the lighthouse board or the lighthouse establishment are transferred to the bureau of lighthouses, excepting, however, army and navy officers. All duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the lighthouse board, under any provision of law not hereby repealed, are transferred to and imposed and conferred upon and vested in the commissioner of lighthouses, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The commissioner of lighthouses shall, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, have charge and control of the construction, maintenance, repair, illumination, inspection, and superintendence of lighthouse depots, supply stations. light and signal stations, lighthouses, light vessels, lighthouse tenders, fog signals, submarine signals, beacons, buoys, day marks, post-lantern lights, and seamarks and their appendages, and generally of the lighthouse service; and the charge and custody of all archives, books, documents, drawings, models, returns, apparatus, and other things appertaining to the lighthouse establishment. Section 11 provided that the commissioner of lighthouses, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, as soon as practicable, shall rearrange the ocean, gulf, and lake coasts and the rivers of the United States, Porto Rico, and the naval station in Cuba into not exceeding nineteen lighthouse districts, and a lighthouse inspector shall be assigned in charge of each district. The lighthouse inspectors shall each receive a salary of $2,400 per annum, except the inspector of the Third District, whose salary shall be $3,600 per annum. The President may, for a period not exceeding three years from the taking effect of this section, assign army and navy officers to act in lieu of the appointment of civilian lighthouse inspectors, but such army and navy officers shall not receive any salary or compensation in addition to the salary or compensation they are entitled to as such army or navy officers: Provided, That in the districts which include the Mississippi River and its tributaries the President may designate army engineers to perform the duties of and act as inspectors. The President may detail officers of the Engineer Corps of the United States army for consultation or to superintend the construction or repair of any aid to navigation authorized by Congress. These sections took effect on July 1, 1910. An act, approved June 25, 1910, provided that the term "Interstate commerce, as used in this act, shall include transportation from any state or territory or the District of Columbia to any other state or territory or the The "White District of Columbia, and the term "foreign commerce,' as used Slave" Traffic. in this act, shall include transportation from any state or territory or the District of Columbia to any foreign country and from any foreign country to any state or territory or the District of Columbia. Any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, or in transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any territory or in the District of Columbia, any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or to give herself up to debauchery, or to engage in any other immoral practice; or who shall knowingly procure or obtain, or cause to be procured or obtained, or aid or assist in procuring or obtaining, any ticket or tickets, or any form f transportation or evidence of the right thereto, to be used by any woman or girl in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any territory or the District of Columbia, in going to any place for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent or purpose on the part of such person to induce, entice, or compel her to give herself up to the practice of prostitution, or to give herself up to debauchery, or any other immoral practice, whereby any such woman or girl shall be trans orted in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any territory or the District of Columbia, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment of not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Any person who shall knowingly persuade, induce, entice, or coerce, or cause to be persuaded, induced, enticed, or coerced, or aid or assist in persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing any woman or girl to go from one place to another in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any territory or the District of Columbia, for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose on the part of such person that such woman or girl shall engage in the ractice of prostitution or debauchery, or any other immoral practice, whether with or without her consent, and who shall thereby knowingly cause or alo ог assist in causing such woman or girl to go and to be carried or ransported as a passenger upon the line or route of any common carrier or carriers In interstate or foreign commerce, or any territory or the District of Columbia, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Any person who shall knowingly persuade, induce, entice, or coerce any woman er girl under the age of eighteen years from any state or territory or the District of Columbia to any other state or territory or the District of Columbia, with the purpose and intent to induce or coerce her, or that she shall be induced or coerced to engage in prostitution or debauchery, or any other immoral practice, and shall in furtherance of such purpose knowingly induce or cause her to go and to be carried or transported as a passenger in interstate commerce upon the line or route of any common carrier or carriers, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Any violation of any of the above sections shall be prosecuted in any court having jurisdiction of crimes within the district in which said violation was committed, or from, through, or into which any such woman or girl may have been carried or transported as a passenger in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any territory or the District of Columbia, contrary to the provisions of any of said sections. For the purpose of regulating and preventing the transportation in foreign commerce of alien women and girls for purposes of prostitution and debauchery, and in pursuance of and for the purpose of carrying out Allen "White Slaves." the terms of the agreement or project of arrangement for the suppression of the "white slave" traffic, adopted July 25. 1902, for submission to their respective governments by the delegates of various powers represented at the Paris conference and confirmed by a formal agreement signed at Paris on May 18, 1904, and adhered to by the United States on June 6, 1908, as shown by the proclamation of the President of the United States, dated June 15. 1908, the Commissioner General of Immigration is hereby designated as the authority of the United States to receive and centralize information concerning the procuration of alien women and girls with a view to their debauchery, and to exercise supervision over such alien women and girls, receive their declarations, establish their identity, and ascertain from them who induced them to leave their native countries, respectively; and it shall be the duty of said Commissioner General of Immigration to receive and keep on file in his office the statements and declarations which may be made by such alien women and girls, and those which are hereinafter required pertaining to such alien women and girls engaged in prostitution or debauchery in this country, and to furnish receipts for such statements and declarations provided for in this act to the persons, respectively, making and filing them. Every person who shall keep, maintain, certrol, support, or harbor in any house or place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, any alien woman or girl within three years after she shall have entered the United States from any country, party to the said arrangement for the suppression of the "white slave" traffic, shall file with the Commissioner General of Immigration a statement in writing setting forth the name of such alien woman or girl, the place at which she is kept, and all facts as to date of her entry into the United States, the port through which she entered, her age, nationality, and parentage, and concerning her procuration to come to this country within the knowledge of such person, and any person who shall fail within thirty days after such person shall commence to keep. maintain, control, support, or harbor in any house or place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral pur se, any alien woman or girl within three years after she shall have entered the United States from any of the countries, party to the said arrangement for the suppression of the "white slave" traffic, to file such statement concerning such alien woman or girl with the Commissioner General of Immigration or who shall knowingly and wilfully state falsely or fall to disclose in such statement any fact within his knowledge or belief with reference to the age, nationality, or parentage of any such alien woman or girl, or concerning her procuration to come to this country, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. In any prosecution brought under this section, if it appear that any such statement required is not on file in the office of the Commissioner General of Immigration, the person whose duty it shall be to file such statement shall be presumed to have failed to file said statement, as herein required, unless such person or persons shall prove otherwise. No person shall be excused from furnishing the statement, as required by this section, on the ground or for the reason that the statement so required by him, or the information therein contained, might tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture under any law of the United States for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing, concerning which he may truthfully report in such statement, as required by the provisions of this section. The term 'territory," as used in this act, shall include the district of Alaska, the insular possessions of the United States, and the Canal Zone. The word "person," as used in this act, shall be construed to import both the plural and the singular, as the case demands, and shall include corporations, companies societies, and associationɛ. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person, acting for or employed by any other person or by any corporation, company, society or association within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such other person, or of such company, corporation, society, or association, as well as that of the person himself. An act, approved March 26, 1910, provided that Section 2 of the act entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February 20, 1907, be amended so as to read as follows: Amending the "Sec. 2. That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded Immigration Law. from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded persons, epileptics, insane persons and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such allen to earn a living: persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into he United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons who are supported by or receive in whole or in part the proceeds of prostitution; persons who procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women or girls for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; persons hereinafter called contract laborers who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, expressed or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled; those who have been, within one year from the date of application for admission to the United States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, either directly or indirectly; all children under sixteen years of age unaccompanied by one or both of their parents, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or under such regulations as he may from time to time prescribe: Provided, That nothing in this act shall exclude, if otherwise admissible, persons convicted of an offense purely political, not involving moral turpitude: Provided further, That the provisions of this section relating to the payments for tickets or pas |