The Government in its Relation to Industry

SPECIAL ANNUAL MEETING NUMBER

PHILADELPHIA

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

1904

Copyright, 1904, by the American Academy of Political and Social Science

CONTENTS

PART I

THE ANNUAL ADDRESS

SOME AGENCIES FOR THE EXTENSION OF OUR DOMESTIC

AND FOREIGN TRADE......

Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Labor,

Washington, D. C.

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I

PART II

THE GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF BANKS AND

TRUST COMPANIES

GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES..

Hon. William Barret Ridgely, Comptroller of the Currency,

Washington, D. C.

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CONTROL AND SUPERVISION OF TRUST COMPANIES..

27

Hon. Frederick D. Kilburn, State Superintendent of Banks,

Albany, N. Y.

THE FINANCIAL REPORTS OF NATIONAL BANKS AS A MEANS

OF PUBLIC CONTROL..

Professor F. A. Cleveland, New York University

STATE REGULATION OF INSURANCE

L. G. Fouse, Esq., President of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance

Company, Philadelphia

THE RELATION OF TRUST COMPANIES TO INDUSTRIAL COM-

BINATIONS, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE UNITED STATES

SHIPBUILDING COMPANY

L. Walter Sammis, Esq., Associate Editor, New York Sun

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PART III

THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF FEDERAL ANTI-

TRUST LEGISLATION

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THE FEDERAL POWER OVER TRUSTS.

Hon. James M. Beck, late Assistant Attorney-General of the

United States

87

THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION

AGAINST THE TRUSTS...

Charlton T. Lewis, LL.D.

III

Hon. Frank P. Sargent, United States Commissioner of Immigra

tion, Washington, D. C.

THE DIFFUSION OF IMMIGRATION

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Eliot Norton, Esq., New York City

SELECTION OF IMMIGRATION...

Prescott F. Hall, Secretary Immigration Restriction League,

167

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IMMIGRATION IN ITS RELATION TO PAUPERISM

Kate Holladay Claghorn, Tenement House Department, New

York City

185

AUSTRALASIAN METHODS OF DEALING WITH IMMIGRATION.. 207

Professor Frank Parsons, Boston, Mass.

PROPOSALS AFFECTING IMMIGRATION....

John J. D. Trenor, Chairman of the Committee on Immigration,

Appointed by the National Board of Trade for 1904, New York

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PART V

PROCEEDINGS OF ANNUAL MEETING....

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