The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-02

ACT IN CONCERT.
States Attorneys Will Present
a United Front
In Dealing With Corporations
in the Future.
WANT FEDERAL LAW.
That Will Prevent Interference
Of U. s. Courts.
WANT FEDERAL LAW
Gen. Jackson of Kansas Named
on Executive Committee.

st. Louis, Oct. faction that will
nave far reaching effect in antitrust
and corporation 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
mere. committee 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 a
resolution which is expected to remove
thorn in the flesh of state officers,
the interference by federal circuit court
with the operation of state laws. Per-
manent organization was also effected
under the name of the National asso-
citation of attorneys general of the Uni
ted States and 2 united front will be
presented in legal actions brought by
different states against the name cor
poration or trust.
The resolution is in the shane of a
memorial to congress and is as follows:
Whereas, The efficient administra-
ton as well as the preservation of our
dual system of government requires
each sovereignty be permitted to exer-
else Its functions as defined by the fed
eral constitution unhamPered by the
other; therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the convention of at
torneys general of the several states
here assembled that we earnestly rec
ommend to the favorable consideration
of the president and the congress of
the United States, the enactment of
federal law providing that no circuit
court of the United States or any Judge
exercising powers of such circuit courts
shall have jurisdiction in any case
brought to restrain any officer OF a
state or any administrative board of a
state from instituting in a state court
any suit or other appropriate proceeding
to enforce the laws of such state or to
enforce an order made by such admin
istrative board, but allowing any per-
or corporations 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.
1--WE also recommend that suits in
federal circuit courts by persons inter-
ested in corporations to restrain such
corpora lions from obeying the laws of
states in which they are doing business
be prohibited
on recommendation of the committee
on organization, the following were
chosen as officers:
President H. s. Hadley of Missouri;
vice president, Dana Maline of Massa-
chuSetts; secretary and treasurer, Will
lam H. Dickson of Colorado. Attorney
General Dickson of Colorado asked that
the next convention be held in Denver,
but it was finally decided to leave the
matter to the executive committee of
which F. s. Jackson of Kansas and Mr..
Dickson of Colorado are members.
President Hadley appointed a COM
mittee to draft a scheme for antitrust
lie gislation, F. S. jackson of Kansas be-
ing a member President Hadley also
announced that with two or three ex-
ceptions all the attorneys general in the
Union had expressed a desire to partici-
pate in future proceedings of the
ISOLATION and in any course of action
that might he decided uDon.