The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-27


cessions they demand on the part of
| the majority as to the price of refrain
ing. from an organized f1llibuSter
| throughout the remainder of the ses-
sion.
Mr.. Williams says:
Insofar as the things urged by the
president are good things 1 would like
the country to know that all he has to
do is to deliver 20 or % Republican
house votes in favor of them. These
conjoined with the solid Democrat vote
will put them through"
Mr.. Williams notes the following
measures as the ones which will com
mand virtually the solid Democratic
vote within constitutional limits"
To compel publication of campaign
contributions.
Prohibition of child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories.
An employers liability law, drawn to
conform to the recent decisions of the
supreme court.
Federal liability to government en-
ployes.
A law to prohibit the issuance of in
functions without notice to the party
enjoined.
Removal of the tariff on wood pulp
and printing paper.
Imposition of a federal charge for
every water power right granted on a
navigable stream.
ThOS6 principles ana measures urged
by the president with which Mr.. Will
Jams as minority leader takes issue are
enumerated as follows:
The penalizing of the boycott.
The right of the attorney general to
nominate receivers when common car
rierS are thrown into the hands or a
receiver.
Modification of the Sherman anti
trust law so as to- permit within liIni-
tations the maintenance of trusts and
the making of trade agreements be-
tween combinations of capital.
Appointment of committee to pre-
pare data for revision of the tariff.
Mr.. Williams frankly states that he
does not know whether a majority of
the minority favors the creation of a
permanent waterways commission.
Commencing the president for his
| recommendation for the immediate re-
enactment of an employers liability
| law, Mr.. Williams says:
There is no excuse for the delay on
the part of the Republican members of
the house judiciary committee to re-
! port an employers liability law. Their
delay at least arouses, If it does not
| Justify, a suspicion that they are hav-
ing a lot of useless hearings simply for
the purpose of using that bill as a
| buffer to prevent serious consideration
of other bills before the committee. For
| example, the Clayton bill to put an end
| to temporary restraining orders OF
| court invalidating state laws and the
| various bills there pending to recognize
| the police powers Of the states in deal
| ing with alcoholic stimulants when in
| troduced into prohibition territory. I
have given notice in the house that no
| legislation shall be enacted by unan-
imous consent until an employers la
| bility bill is at least reported for the
consideration of the house,
! After quoting the presidents declara-
ton that nothing should be done to
legalize a blacklist or boycott that
would be Illegal at common law, Mr..
Williams says:
TT is a sad commentary upon this
utterance Of his that while the federal
courts have held that a boycott Is a
combination in restraint of trade and
therefore illegal, they have virtually
!, upheld the employer in his assertion OF
| a right to blacklist. Because one fed
: eral court went so far as to say that
because the employer had a right tc
discharge without giving notice at all
therefore he had a right to discharge
because the discharged man was {
member of a labor union. 1t is a poo,
rule that does not work both ways
Another decision of a federal court
the decision by Judge Gould-has gone
: SO far as to say that a laboring mans
newspaper should not publish the name
Of firm under the heading We Dom
Patronize.' A man has a right tt
I patronize anybody according to hi,
own free will and he therefore has tn,
right to publish those whom he doe,
not patronize.'