Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABLE PERSONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABLE PERSONS

E. E. Clark, Interstate Commerce Commission Head.

The ruling by the interstate commerce commission against the 5 per cent increase in rates is held by the railroads to be a serious menace to their prosperity. Samuel ltea, president of the Pennsylvania, in a recent report to the stockholders said in this connection: “What is the present situation? The railroads are prevented from charging reasonable rates; they have sustained a serious loss in revenues; they are prevented from furnishing facilities so as to be prepared to meet the reasonable transportation needs; every occasion is being used to publicly discredit them, and the result is that there must be enforced economies. "If large numbers of railroad men and others depending on railroads for every character of supplies and work are out of employment and a general loss of confidence exists and suspicion has been engendered no attempt must be made to place this responsibility upon the railroad management.” The head of the interstate commerce commission, Edward E. Clark, was appointed a member of the board in 190 G. He is a native of Lima, N. Y., fifty-eight years old and for sixteen years was employed as brnkeinan and conductor in the railway service. In 1889 he was elected grand senior conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors and two years later became head of the order. During the great anthracite coal strike in 1902 he was made a member of the commission appointed by President Roosevelt to settle the issues involved in that controversy. Mr. Clark is recognized as a specialist in railroad affairs. Commissioner of Immigration. Anthony Caminetti, commissioner general of immigration, whose comments on Asiatic exclusion attracted Wide notice, is a “character’'—not that he does anything wrong, but lie contravenes the niceties of social usage. He is accused of eating oranges in street cars, of never having worn a silk hat and of being oblivious to the existence of a frock coat. Mr. Caminetti, though of Italian descent, as liis name indicates, is a

native son of California. He was horn at Jackson, Amador county, on July 30, 1854. and lias lived there ever since. After getting a public school education he studied law and was adihitted to the bar. and it was not long until lie was actively engaged in politics. • From 1878 to 1882 he was district attorney of Amador county and in 1882 wan elected to the California assembly. Two years later he was elected state senator. In 1890 he was elected to con gress. and after serving two terms he went back home and was again sent to the assembly and later to the state senate. > His home town of Jackson is located in the heart of the mining district of California, and early in his career he ♦•Spoused the cause of the workingmen And thenceforth has been Known as a sympathizer with organize 1 labor.

ANTHONY CAMINETTI.