Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-13
Needed For Regulation Of
Interstate Commerce.
Government Must Step in Where
State Laws Are Inadequate.
Central Thought Of Sec. Roofs Ad.
dress to Pennsylvania Society.

vote of 142 to % the following will be
adopted as a substitute to the iterl
reported by the appropriation commit
tee in the legislative. executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill.
After discussing the causes for the con-
tinued maintenance of the union of the
said in Part:
ut is plainly to be seen that TIE coun-
try is coming to the conclusion that IN
certain important respo cts the local laws
of the separate states (which were AIDE
quate fer the due and just regulation and
control of the business which was trans
acted and the activity which began and
ended within the limits OF the several
states, are inadequate for the due and
just control of the business and activi-
ties which extend throughout all the
states, and that power or regulation and
control is gradually passing into the
hands Of the national government. Some
times by an assertion of the intcrstat"
commerce power. sometimes by an assn
ton Of the taxing power. the national
government is taking up the performance
Of duties which under the changed con-
ditions the separate states are 10 longer
capable Of adequately performing.
Under the conditions which now ex-
list, no state can live unto itself alone
and regulate its affairs with sole refer
ence to it's own treasury. dts own con-
venience. it's own special interests. Every
state Is bound to frame its legislation
and its administration with reference not
only to its own special affairs but with
-,.,Arx
states. Every individual is bound to reg
ulatr his conduct with some reference to
its effect upon his neighbors. and the
more ropuious the community and the
closer individuals are brought together,
the more imperative becomes the neces-
sity which constrains and limits indvid-
ual conduct. IF any state is maintaining
JARVIS which afford opportunity and au-
thority for practices condemned by the
public sense Of the whole country or
laws which. through the operation of our
modern system Of ccmmunica ion and
business. are injurious to the interests Of
the whole country, that state is violating
the conduct upon which alone car its
power be preserved
mo money appropriated in this act
shall be used in connection with print
ing documents authorized by law or
ordered by Congress OF either branch
thereof unless the same shall conform
by generally accepted dictionaries OF
the English language"
1.-The intervention of the national gov
e~nrlert in many If the matters Which
T. s, recently undertaken would have
boon Nll"ity unnecessary if the states
tht.1s..ly,. mad been alive TO their duty
towards t.c general body of the country.
1t is useless for the advocates of state
rights to invegh aEair st tho supremacy
Of the constitutional laws of the United
States or against the extension of the
national authority in the fields Of necaS-
Sary &C ntrol W here the states themselves
fail In the performance Of Their duty.
The instinct for self government among
the people of the United States is too
stroAg to permit them long t" rcspcc-
any ones right TO exercise a power
which he fails to exercise. The goveri,-
mental control which they deem lust and
necessary they will have. 1t MA" be thai
such control could better be exercised in
particular instances by the government.
of the states, but the people will have the
control they need either from the states
or from the national government. and if
the states fail to furnish it in due meas
IRE sooner or later constructions of the
constitution will be found to vest the
power where it will be exercised. in the
national government. The true and only
way to preserve state authority is to be
found in the awakened conscience of the
states. their troadened views and higher
standard of responsibility to the general
public. in effective legislation by the
states in conformity to the general moral
sense Of the country. and in the vigorous
exercise for the general public good of
that state authority which is to be pre-
served"
For hours today the debate on SIM
plified spelling held the attention of the
House and a score or more members
took part in the discussion.
Representative Crurlpacker of Indi-
ana made point of order against the
original para graph in the bill. which
provided that public documents should
be spelled as Webster's or other gen.
orally adopted dictionaries spell them
This provision was held to change eX-
listing law and the point of order was
sustained. Representative Bingham of
Pennsylvania in charge Of the bill then
offered the amendment on the bill,
which was adopted.
During the discussion Mr.. Sullivan of
Massachusetts, remarked that if the
President by unimperial ukase could
change the spelling of 300 words Of the
English language he would have the
authority to change 10000 words, or
every word in our language. If this
could be done, he thought a new court
language might be established by ex-
ecotive decree for the new American
ompaIA
We got along very we'll with the
English language until the reign of
Inc present President Of the United
states. said MIR. Sullivan.
Mr.. Lacy of Iowa thought the nara
srapn as originally reported, should
remain In the bill. He said the ne,y
j words We're offensive. to the eve "bnt
purcnance by constant association We
".snt get used to them,
3, To put them by executive order into
! ene laws Of the land before thew hava
Ia literature" remarked Mr.
Lacy, is 49,