Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — Liability Bill Is a Law. [ARTICLE]

Liability Bill Is a Law.

The president signed the employers’ liability bill, upon receiving an opinion from Attorney General Bonaparte that the measure was constitutional. In his opinion the attorney general indicates that the bill is confined In its scope to “common carriers by railroad,” as distinguished from the act declared unconstitutional by the supreme court, which embraced “all common carriers engaged in Interstate commerce and foreign commerce.”