Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-12

Aldrich, Foraker, Elkins, Crane, Lodge, Spocner, the leaders. and a majority of the republican side of the
 senate. would have prevented any
 Legislation if they could have afforded
 to do so, and most of them tried open I ly to do so by emssculating the bill. The democrats worked with the presi- dent and minority of the republi-
 cans, headed by La Toilette and Dolli- yer, until it came to that point at 1 which the other republicans had sLth-
 CT to concede a bill or wreck their party by placing themselves openly in opposition to an adequate govern
 ment regulation of the vast railroad
 power.
 It is true that the completed law is not as strong as most of the demo- crats would have it, and true that the president left the democrats when
 he had used them to compel party submission. The official record has l it that the result was accomplished by republicans and yet, as a matter of
 history and not of politics, the demo
 crats did it.
 The importance of the legislation of the fifty-ninth congress is apparent al
 most without the saying. The pure food law applies a government sur veillance of the manufacture of spe- cial foods and strikes at the danger
 ous and too frequent practice of mis-
 branding and adulteratiop. The meat | inspection effects the same supervi- sion of the great packing houses. The consular bill puts the American
 consular and diplomatic system on
 basis approaching the merit system,
 doing away to a large extent with the
 grating compensation by. fees. Linn iting the hours of railroad employees will help to prevent life-destroying railroad wrecks, numbers of which
 have been caused by the fact that en-
 gineers, train dispatchers or tele-
 graph operators had been kept at work so long that they could not log ically be held responsible for nlis- takes.
 Japanese Exclusion. The joint resolution excluding the Japanese is conceded to be the fore
 runner of a general act excluding Jap anese coolies. The currency bill is
 step, if a short one, in the direction
 of more leastic currency, which has
 been so vigorously advocated by the
 bankers of the country.
 National employers liability, if h-
 nally approved by the supreme court La test case on appeal is now pend- l ing in the highest tribunal-stands
 among the most forceful illustrations
 of the length to which the congress
 has gone in the direction of legisla-
 ton intended to curb and bring great corporations beneath the law. Government appeal in criminal
 cases is designed to permit of the su- preme court passage on cases, Ike
 the beef trust prosecutions In Chi ccgc, which were thrown out of court
 on a point of law.
 | More of politics centers in the bills which have been killed. The demo
 crats count upon capitslizing their
 successes in defeating ship subsidy | bill The republicans also gill have
 to answer to the labor vote for again
 throttling the eight-hour and anti-in- | junction bills.
 | Of course, the long session of the sixtieth congress beginning next De- cember precedes the national cam paign, and the republicans may do
 something calculated to gain the labor
 vote. There is not much likelihood.
 however, of the majority party acting