Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-25
president DEMANDS
THAT CONGRESS AC1
Sends Another Message Asking
For Enactment Of Needed
Legislation
TO REMEDY THE lNJuNcTIoNs
Amendments to Liability and lnjunc-
ton Laws Observation-Disclosures
Says Time Has Come for Tariff Re-
vsion-PIea for Rights of Both La
Dor and Capital.

| Washington, March 25.-The antici'
| pated special message of Presiden'
Roosevelt to congress- asking for leg
| islation previously recommended. wa'
transmitted to both houses today. The
message is strong document, and il
| it the president pleads for remedia
legislation that will secure to bot
capital and labor rights that have, thru
various causes, been somewhat re-
strcted. The president also recon
mends that steps be taken looking te
| revision of the tariff.
! The message was closely followed
and in the house the declaration thai
the time had come for revision of the
tariff ELECTED handclasping on the part
of democratic members. Democratic
approval also was given to the sugges-
ton that congress could with advan-
tage forthwith remove the tariff on
wood pulp, with corresponding re-
duction upon paper made from Wood
pulp. The republicans waited and
confined their applause to the message
as whole. In the senate the mes
sage was received without comment
of any kind.
The message follows in full:
ITO the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives: 1 call your attention tc
certain measures as to which l think
there should be action by the congress
before the close of the present session
There is ample time for their consid-
GRAFTON. AS regards most if not all OF
the matters, bills have been intro
duced into one or the other of the two
houses, and it is not too much to hope
that action will be taken one way OF
the other on these bills at the present
session. In my message at the OPEN
ing of the present session. and, indeed
in various messages to previous con-
crosses, 1 have repeatedly suggested
action on most of these measures.
"Child labor should be prohibited
thruout the nation. At least model
child labor bill should be passed for
the District of Columbia. 1t is un-
fortunate that in the one place solely
dependent upon congress for its legis-
lation there should be no law what
or regulating their labor.
Il renew my recommendation for the
immediate re-enactment of an en-
ployers' liability law. drawn to con-
form to the recent decision of the SUI
preme court Within the limits indi-
Gated by the court, the law should be
made thorough and comprehensive, and
the protection it affords should en-
brace every class of employe to which
the power of the congress can ex-
tend.
"In addition to liability law pro-
tecting the employees of common car
riers, the government should show its
good faith by enacting further law
giving compensation to its own en-
ployes for injury or death incurred in
it's service. 1t is a reproach to us as a
nation that in both federal and state
legislation we have afforded less pro-
lection to public and private employees
than any other industrial country of
the world.
As to lnjunctions.
'I also urge that action be .aken
along the line of the recommendations
have already made concerning in
functions in labor disputes. No tenn
porary restraining order should be
issued by any court without notice;
and the petition for a permanent in
junction upon which such temporary
restraining order has been issued
should be heard by the court issuing
the same within reasonable time
say. not to exceed a week or there
abouts from the date when the order
was issued 1T is worth considering
whether it would not give greater pop
ular confidence in the impartiality of
sentences for contempt if it was re-
uuired that the issue should be de-
cided by another judge than the one
issuing the injunction, except where
the contempt is committed in the pres
ence of the court, or in other case OF
urgency
Give Roads Power to Agree on Rates
81 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 interstate COM
merce law should be amended so as
to give railroads the right to make
traffic agreements, subject to these
agreements being approved by the in
terstate commerce commission and
published in all Of their details. The
commission should also be given the
power to make public and to pass upon
the issuance of all securities hereafter
issued by railroads doing an interstate
commerce business.
"a law should be passed providing
i'm effect that when federal court
determines to place a common carrier
or other public utility concern under
the control of a receivership. the at
rorney general should have the right
to nominate at least one of the re-
ceivers: or else in some other way the
interests of the stockholders should
be consulted SO that the management
may not be wholly redelivered to the
man or men the failure of whose policy
may have necessitated the creation OF