Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04
THE COURT REVIEW CLAUSE m TWo I'm
P0RTANT MEASURES, Ii,
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and complaining about the meat in
spection bill, President Roosevelt said:i
81 can not even promise to sign it, be-:
cause the provisions !(about che court, !
as we'll as about other matters) are so,
bad that, in my opinion. if they had
been deliberately, designed to prevent
the remedy .at-the evils complained of ]
they could not have been Rorse.''
The court provision in the meat. in.l
spection bill is similar to the court pro-
vision in the railway rate bill, and the
protest by President Roosevelt withi
respect to the meat inspection BILL. is:
similar to the protest which the demo
Gratis made respecting the railway rate
bill. In the opinion of democrats ''the
provisions about the coarts'' in the
railway rate bill, are so bad that IF
they had been deliberately; designed to-
prevent the remsdying Of evils com
planned of, they could not have been
worse" 10 fact it is generally believed
that this court provision ih the railway
rate bill was deliberately Designed to-
protect the special interests rather than
the public interests. Evidently Mr.;
Roosevelt did not agree with the dem
ocrats on that proposition when it af.
fected the railway rate bill. Evidently
he does entertain that opinion with
respect to the meat inspection bill.
Replying to President Roosevelt's
criticism of the court review clause,
Chairman Wadsworth says: .'The
worst that can be said of the clause. liz
that it Is, perhaps, unnecessary, that it
is already covered by existing laws
have been taught always to honor the
judiciary of my country. | have been
taught always to respect the rights of
its citizens, and to respect the right of
property, and 1 can not believe that
the mere repetition of a provision which
guarantees to the c,'iz-n tta privilege
of the courts of the land wnen he be.
lieves his property rights are threatened
can be justly or properly objected to, ,,
In language almost identical with this
Senator Aldrich and his associates
with the apparent approval OF President
Roosevelt = answered the criticism
made by democrats on the court review
clause of the railway rate bill.
In his reply to Chairman Wadsworth,
Mr.. Roosevelt reiterates hi. criticism
of the court provision. He says 1.-The
court provision is the one to which I
most object" and referring to that pro.
vision, he repeats: deliberately de
signed to prevent the re medy ing of the
evils complained of, this is the exact
provision which the friends of the
packers and the packers themselves
would have provided" He protests
that IN the framing of the meat in.
spection bill you would put on the
judge who had no knowledge whatever
of the conditions, the burden of stating
whether or not the secretary was right.n
He also says: I'm Chicago. for in.
stance, you would make any Judge
whom the packers choose to designate,
and not the experts of the department
OF agriculture, the man to decide ON
any question Of any kind which the
packers thought it worth while to dis
pute." The president also says: on
may possibly remember the recent iu
dicial decision in Chicago, in which the
packers were concerned" and concern.
ing the court review clause, he repeats:
Ihls provision is, in my Judgment.
one which by enactment into law will
nullity the major part of the good
which can be exnected from the ena ct
ment of this law"
Mr.. Roosevelt's objections to the
court review clause of the meat inspee
ton bill are substantially the same as
the objections that the friends of rail.
way rate legislation raised to the court
review clause advocated BY Messrs.
Aldrich, Allison and their associates
and supported generally by the repub,i.
cans and. apparently, endorsed by Mr..
Roosevelt himself. The effect of thar
provision was to make the judges and
not the interstate. commerce com
sion, the men to say practically when
and how the orders Of the commission
were to go into effect and when and
now, II ever, the people were to obtain
relief from excessive railroad rates
II Mr.. Roosevelt had shown one hal,
or the determination with respect to the
court review clause of the railway rate
Dill that he has shown in connection
with the court review clause of the
meat inspection bill, a much better rail
road measure would have been assured