The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-12-06
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the problem of securing in our cur.
rency such elasticity as is consistent
with safety. Every silver dollar
should be made by law redeemablc
in gold at the option OF the holder.
Merchant Marine.
/ especially commend to your i'm
mediate attention the announcement
Of our merchant marine Dy appro-
pirate legislation.
Protection of Elections.
protect the integrity of the elections
OF it's own officials is inherent and
has been recognized and affirmed by
repeated declarations Of the Supreme
Court. There is no enemy of free
government more dangerous and none
SO inSidious as the corruption of the
electorate. No one defends or excus.
es corruption, and it would seem To
follow that none would oppose Wig
orOuS measures to eradicate it. l
recommend the enactment of a law
directed against bribery and corrup-
tion in Federal elections. The details
of such a law may be safely left to
the wise discretion of the Congress
but it should go as far as under the
Constitution it is possible to go, and
should include severe penalties
against him who gives or receives &
bride intended to influence his act or
opinion as an elector; and provisions
for the publication not only of the OK
penditures for nominations and cleo
lions of all candidates but also of all
contributions received n expendi
lures made by political committees.
Delays in Criminal Prosecutions.
No subject is better worthy the at
tention of the Congress than that
portion of the report of the Attorney
General dealing with the long delays
and the great obstruction to ~justics
experienced in the cases of Beavers
Green n Gaynor. M Benson. We're
these isolated and special cases. /
should not call your attention to them
but the difficulties encountered as re.
gard these men who have been indict
ed for criminal practices are nor OK
c%eptional; they are precisely similar
in kind to what occurs again and
again in the case of criminals who
ho un Cnf7aiQnf nnoonc fn nnohlo fhn~,
to take advantage of a system OF pro
cedure which has grown up in tho
Federal courts and which amounts in
effect to making the law easy of on
no money, and difficult of enforce
ment, even to the point of sometimes
securing immunity, as regards the
man who has money. In criminal
the writ of the United States
should run throughout its borders
The wheels of justice should not he
clogged, as they have been clogged
In the cases above mentioned, where
It has proved absolutely impossible
TO bring the accused to the place APP
pointed by the Constitution for his
trial. or recent years there mas been
grave and increasing complaint of the
difficulty of bringing TO justice those
criminals whose criminality, insteod
OF being against one person in the Re
public. is against all persons in the
Republic. because it is against tho
Republic itself. Under any circum.
stance n from the very nature of
he case 1t is often exceedingly dim>
cult to secure proper punishment OF
those who have been guilty of wrong ,
doing against the Government. Ey
the time the offender can be brought
into court the popular wrath against
him has generally subsidized; and there
Ii lii most instances very slight dan
ger indeed Of any prejudice existing
in the minds Of the jury against him.