We passed a workmen's compensation law for the protection of Government employees; a law which did not go as far as I wished, but which was the best I could get, and which committed the Government to the right policy.

We provided for an investigation of woman and child labor in the United States.

We incorporated the National Child Labor Committee.

Where we had most difficulty was with the railway companies engaged in inter-State business.

We passed an act improving safety appliances on railway trains without much opposition, but we had more trouble with acts regulating the hours of labor of railway employees and making those railways which were engaged in inter-State commerce liable for injuries to or the death of their employees while on duty.