The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-27
President labs the Solons Hard
With Another Message.
CHANGE IN ANTITRUST LAW
Would Limit! the Power Of Courts in
Matter OF iniunetions; Tsriff
Revision the Talk.

To the Senate and the House of Rep
resentatives:
/ call your attention to certain meas
ures as to which | think there should
be action by the congress before the
close of the present session. There
is ample time for their consideration.
AS regards most, if not all of the mat
tiers, bills have been introduced into
one or the other of the houses and 1t
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 and, indeed, in vari.
Gus messages to previous congresses
j have repeatedly suggested action on
most of these measures
Child labor should be prohibited
throughout the nation. At least a
model child labor bill should be passed
for the District of Col9in oia
1t is unfortunate that in the one
place solely dependent upon congress
for its legislation there should be no
law whatever TO protect children by
foTbidding or regulating child labor.
4 Employers Liability Law.
I renew my recommendation for i'm
mediate re-enactment of an employers
liability law, drawn to conform to the
Of hn
Within the limits indicated by the
court the law should be made thor
ough and comprehensive and the pro-
lection it affords should embrace ev.
cry class of employee to which the
power of the congress can extend.
in addition to liability law protect.
ing the employees of common carriers
the government should show it's good
faith by enacting a further law giving
compensation to its own employees for
injury or death incurred in its serv.
ton that ia both federal and state
legislation we have afforded less pro.
lection to public and private employees
than any other industrial country of
the world.
Limit Power of Iniunctions.
i also urge that action be taken
along the line of the recommendation
j have already made concerning in
functions in labor disputes. No tenn
porary restraining order should be is
sued 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 a reasonable time,
say not to exceed a week or there
abouts from the date when the order
was issued. 4 is worth considering
whether it would not give greater
popular confidence in the impartiality
of sentences for contempt If it was
required that the issue should be de-
cided by another judge than the one
issuing the injunction, except where
the contempt is committed in the
presence of the court or in other cases
of urgency.
Should Amend Antitrust Law.
/ again call attention to the urgent
need of amending the interstate CON-
merce law ana 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
Interstate commerce commission and
published in all of their details.
The commission should also be
given the power to make public and
pass upon the issuance of all securi.
ties hereafter issued by railroads do
ing an interstate commerce business.
A law should be passed providing in
effect that when federal court de-
termined to place a common carrier
or other public utility concern under
the control of receivership the at.
torney general should have the righ'
20 nominate at least one of the receiv-
ers; or else in some other way the
interests of the stockholders should