The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-10-03
SEEK TOrPRESERVE
RIGHTS OF STATE
ATTORNEYS GENERAL ADOPT A
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
TO STOP INTERFERENcE
Ask Law Checking Federal Courts
Committee Named to Draft
Scheme Of Antitrust
itisA Litigation. tal,

st. Louis, Oct 2.--Action that will
have far reaching effect in anti
trust and cooperation litigation and
which will bear fruit in almost every
state in the union was taken by the
convention Of attorneys general in its
final session here Tuesday. A COM
mittee was appointed to draft
scheme of antitrust legislation to be
sent to all attorneys general, and as
climax for the entire meeting the
attorneys general assembled adopted
resolution which is expected to re-
move a thorn in the flesh of the state
officers, the interference by federal
circuit courts with the operation of
state laws
Permanent organization was also
effected, under the name of the ma
tional Association of Attorneys Gen.
< Al of the United States" and a
united front will be presented in
legal actions brought by the different
states against the same corporation
or trust.
The resolution is in the shape of a
memorial to cong ess and was framed
by the committee composed of Attor-
neys General e. T. Young, of Mime
sofa; Dana Malone of Massachusetts,;
A. NJ CARRIER, of Alabama; w. T.
Thompson, Of Nebraska; w. H. Dick
son, of Colorado, and H. S. Hadley, of
MISSOURI.
Text of the Memorial,
The memorial is as follows:
Whereas, the efficient administra-
tion as well as the preservation of our
dual system of government requires
that each sovereignty be permitted to
exercise its function as defined by the
federal constitution unhampered by
the other; therefore be 1t,
Resolved, by the convention of at
torneys general of the several states
here assembled, that we earnestly
recommend to the favorable consider
alton of the president and the con-
gress OF the United States the enact
ment of a federal law providing that
no circuit court OF the United States,
or any Judge exercising powers of
such circsit courts, shall hare juris-
diction In any case brought to re-
strain any officers of state or any
administrative board of a state from
instituting IN state court any suit
or other appropriate proceeding to
enforce the laws Of such state or to
enforce any order made by such ad-
ministratiye board but allowing any
person or corporation asserting in
any such action in state court any
right arising under the constitution or
any laws of the United States to have
the decision of the highest court of
such state reviewed by the supreme
court of the United States as now
provided by law.
I'VE also recommend that suits in
federal circuit courts by persons in.
terested in corporations to restrain
such corporations from obeying the
laws of states in which they are doing
business be prohibited"
Officers Are Elected.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on organization the following
were chosen as officers: President,
H. S. Hadley, of Missouri; vice presi-
dent, Dana Malone, of Massachusetts;
secretary and treasurer, William H.
Dickson, of Colorado.
Attorney General Dickson, of Colo
RADIO. asked that the next convention
be held in Denver, but 1t WIS finally
decided to leave the matter TO the
executive committee.
President Hadley appointed as the
committee to draft scheme for anti.
trust legislation the following: R. B.
Davidson, of Texas; James Bingham,
of Indiana; Wade Ellis, OF Ohio; F.
s. Jackson, of Kansas r. v. Fletcher,
of Mississippi, and S. H. Clark, of
South Dakota.
President Hhdley also announced
that with two or three exceptions all
the attorneys general in the union
had expressed desire to participate
in future proceedings of the associa-
tion and in any course of action that
might be decided upon.