Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-09-20
REJECTED BY CONGRESS
List of Good Bills That Failed
of Passage.
MANY EVIL MEASURES ADOPTED

Record of Republicans That Will
Not Bear Inspection Outrageous
and Wholly IndefensibIe-Why the
President Defends His Party Assoc
ciates-Fortune In Graft.
The letter of President Roosevelt to.
Congressman James e. Watson of In
diana is an extraordinary illustration
of his heXibility and utter disregard
FOR facts when it suits his purpose to
pervcrt them. He says that the Fifty
ninth congress at it's first session eff.
fected more good legislation thar my
other congress in many years. The
truth is that it effected nothing of any
permanent value, while it rejected
more good measures and adopted more
bad ones than any other congress in
the history of the United States.
1t rejected the Tillman bill to pre-
vent contributions by corporations to
party campaign funds, although that
excellent bill passed the senate.
1t rejected the Williams bill to re-
duce the tariff on all articles on which
the duty now exceeds 100 per cent, the
Philippine tariff bill and all other tariff
propositions.
1t rejected the ant%i-injunction bill.
which had passed the house of repre-,
sentatives unanimously on May 2, 1902.
1t rejected the eight hour bill after
the committee on education and labor
had reported it favorably.
1t rejected the bill relating to suits
for injuries brought by employees of
railroad and mining corporations.
1t rejected the bill relating to con-
tempts in federal courts and providing
for trial by jury in cases of indirect
contempt.
1t rejected the prison contract labor
bill.
1t rejected the bill relating to hours
Of labor of railroad employees.
It rejected the La Toilette amend
ment to the railroad rate bill, a prop,
osition Endorsed by organized labor de.
fining the liability of employers for in
juries to employees while engaged III
the performance of duty, and passed 9
separate bill, opposed by organized la
Dor, deceitfully styled the employers
liability bill"
1t rejected an amendment to the rail
road rate bill to provide for excluding
watered stock from the valuation pu'
upon railroads by the interstate com
merce commission in determining rea
sonable compensation for capital in
vested.
1t rejected another amendment to tn
same bill intended to prevent fedora
judges from enjoining, restraining o.
setting aside orders of the interstate
commerce commission fixing reason
able rates.
1t rejected the immigration bill.
It defeated the Beyeridge amendment
to the agricultural appropriation bill
requiring beef packers to pay the ex
penses of federal inspection and placed
the cost of such inspection on the tax
payers.
1t rejected the amendment offered by
Mr.. Bailey to the same bill intended tt
prevent federal judges from enjoinlng
restraining or setting aside orders O.
the interstate commerce commission
fixing reasonable mates.
All these measures and many more
Of similar character congress refused
to pass.
Congress did pass the Aldrich reso
luton for the protection of the stee
trust and either trusts by requiring al
material and equipment for the con
struction of the Panama canal to b.
bought from the trusts.
1t did pass al amendment to the ur
gent deficiency bill ;abolishing the eigh
hour law, the alien contract labor Law
and the Chinese exclusion act as to til.
laborers on the Panama canal.
The president recommended and the
senate passed the ship subsidy in thu
interest of the steamship trust, and il
a Republican congress is elected thi.
year that Infamous measure, opposed
by all Democrats and by organized la
Dor, will become "a law next winter.
This congress has appropriated fol
all purposes $S79,5S9,1S5 and Mr.. Taw
ney, chairman Of the house committed
on appropriations, says that $39,119,
246 of this enormous total was made
necessary by unbusinesslike admins
tration"-by the ~inef6ciency of the pres
ident's appointees.
This congress gave the president $25.
600 a year for travelling expenses.
Taken all in all, the record Of the
present congress LIS outrageous and in
defensible. But it suits the president
year by way of graft.
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