The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-25
Employers Liability Law is
Also Strongly Urged by
President Roosevelt.
CHILD LABOR LAW
Is Another Thing He Urges, al
50 Tariff Revision at Next
Session of Congress.
ny Aanociatea Prerr.1

WASHINGTON, ID. g.. Mar. 25
President Roosevelt sent the follow
Ing message to Congress today:
~ the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives:
call your attention to certain
measures on which / think there
shuula be action By the Congress be-
fore the close OF the present session.
mere IS ample time for their consid-
Grafton As regards most, IL not all
of the matters, bills have been intro
dueed into one or the other OF tho
Two housesT and II Is not too much to
hope that action will be taken one
way or the other on these bills at the
present session. In my message at
the opening of the present session,
anu, indeed, In various messages to
previous Congresses, hnve repeated
" suggested action ON most OF these
measures.
Child labor should be prohibited
throughout the nation. AT least a
model hild-lahor bill should be pass
ed for the District of Columbia. 1t
Is Unfortunate that in the one place
solely dependent upon Congress for
rs legislation there shold be no law
whatever to protect children by for
bidding or regulating their labor.
renew my recommendation for
the Immediate reenactment of an ems
plogers liability law, drawn to con-
form to the recent decision of the Su-
prenae Court Within the limits indi-
Gated lby1 the court, the law should be
made thorough and comprehensive.
and the protection Il affords should
embrace every class of employees TO
which tlle power of Congress can ex-
tend,
Employers Liability Law.
In addition 10 II ilnbiiity law pro-
tas Jus the employees OF ronli:l,tn car
tiers the Government should know as
gicd fnith by etlactii:s Il iUrther law
gisfis compensation to its own en-
pirsts for inil'. Or leatis incurred
Y in Is service. 1t y reproaeh 10 Us
as +. Nation that In battl E'e1er u aad
STATE legislation We have afforded less
prate ction TO public ana private em-
ployes than any other Industrial
country in the world,
also urge that action he take
along the line IF recommendations /
have already fnltde concerning in
functions In labor disputes. No tenn
pOrary restraining order should be
issued by any court without notice;
and the petition for q permanent IN
( junction upon which such temporary
restraining order mas baen issued
be heard by the court Issuing the
not to exceed week or thereabou.s
from the date when the ordar was Is
sued. 1t Is worth considering wheth-
er X would not give grsa:er popular
confidence in the impartialltv Of SER
tences for contempt if 1t were required
that the issue should he decided by
another Judge than the one issuing
, the Injunction, except where the con-
tempt Is committed in the presence OF
the court. or in other cases Of urgen-
cy.
Antitrust Law.
again call attention to the urgent
need Of amending the interstate com
merce law and especially the anti
trust law along the lines indicated in
my last message. The inter state
commerce law should be amended so
as to give railroads the right to make
traffic agreements, subject to these
agreements being approved by the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
and published in all their details.
The commission should @also be given
the power to make public and pass