Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-24
BRILLIANT PLEA FOR
RIGHTS OF STATES
Senator Baggnsr Says Democrats
Should Plant CO'0rs On Tenth
Amendment.
R00sEVElls UsURPATlUa SCORED
Maryland Senator Declares That the
Executive Encroa0hmcnts Are the
Most Startling and Dangerous Doc.
trIne Ever Announced Before Am
erican People.
tBy Associated Press,


WASHINGTON, d. c.. April % IL
Senator Rayner. of Maryland, dcli'-
cred one of the most brilliant and
impasscncd addresses in the Senate
today that that august body has heard
Ibis session. His suhjet was "Modi-
crn State Rights He said in part:
81 will define what mean Inv state
rights democracy. mean that The
rights of The states must be maintain
cd inyiolatc as intended by the fran
crs of the constitutions. that there
must be no perversion of the dc,sga.
ted powers so as 10 strike down tins
reservation OF the states. and that
whatever rights the states possess I'M
der the constitution, and under the
amendments. must remain intact ana
nnimparcd until, IL ever the constl-
tuition should be changed by the vote
OF the people according to the meth.
DDS that II provides, ana the struc.
inlre of our government should be
directed from It's present conception
and design.
AS an example of the distortion OF
the delegated powers of the consti
tuition, Mr.. Rayner cited the Beyer-
idge child labor bill, which, he said,
was framed mot TO regulate conir
merce. but to regulate the labor that
produces the commerce" He claimed
Mr. Bevcridge was far in advance o:
his party in this matter, ana that al
though the President at FIRST sup
ported it. he has in his recent mes.
sages, sounded slow retreat
Monstrous Proposition.
Advancing a step beyond the prin-
ciplc embaced in this bill, we have
another doctrine, and regret to say
sustained by high Democratic autno..
ity. that Congress ought to pass a
law providing that col porations should
be limited in the amount of product
that they can consign into other
states, and that Congress has the
right TO place an arbitrary figure upon
their business transactions when they
enter into the channels of interstate
commerce. The constitution makes
no classification of corporations. or
any distinction between them and in.
dividuals. anu if we have right TO
do this with corporations, we have
precisely the same right to do IL with
individuals
I'VE have a bill now pending be
fore the senate that substantially en-
bodies this principle. 1t is a monstrous
proposition and one that would finaiiy
place every commercial transaction
and every enterprise under Federal
supervision IL such bill should
pass. have no doubt that the ST.
premc Court would declare it uncon-
stituiional and as | understand tha.
an amendment will be made to lncor-
poratc this provision in the Demo
cratic platform, the people should be
made to understand as soon as possi
BE that their representatives in this
body at least still have a glimmcrIng
recollection of what the constitution
means. and that the Democratic par
; ty has still Il bodyguard of faithful
watchers, who will see TO It that the
party is not thus dismcmbcrcd in hcr
coming platform while there is yet
Il spark of life within her veins.
INVASION of The State.
"rhis brings me to another propo-
siifon that is more startling than
hose have just referred TO. Con.
gress Is given the right by The con-
stitution to establish postoGiccs ani
inost roads. The President dcduces
from This grant that the power 10
control the interstate railroads of the
United States that do not pass he !.
You'd the boundaries of the state that
created them.
| "if his construction is corrcCt. 1t
places the government of the United
States right within the boundaries oil
the state. and gives ii complete juris-
dicticn over every internal highway in
that country. No Judge. no purist nu
I court. no text writer no expoundcr Of
commentator whom have ever heard
Of, ever conceived of such an Inter
probation as this, and the President