The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-03-25
President Tells Congress What
Legislation is Urgent at
This Session.
Antitrust Law Amendment
Must be Enacted.
HOPES FOR CURRENCY BILL

Washington, March President
Roosevelt today sent the followir :
message to congress concerning legis
latlon urgent at this session.
To the senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiyes:
call your attention TO certain meas
ures as 20 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 matters
bills have been introduced into one or
the other OF the two houses 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, and. indeed. IN yari-
Gus messages to previous congresses,
! have repeatedly suggested action on
most OF these.
Child labor should De prohibited
throughout the nation At least
model chlld-labor bin should be pass
I'd for the District OF Columbia. II Is
unfortunate that in the one place
solely dependent upon congress for
IT, legislation there should be no law
whatever TO protect children by for
bidding or regulating their labor
| renew my recommendation for
the immediate re-enactmont Of an en-
ployers' liability law. drawn TO con
form to the recent decision Of the SUI
preme court. within the limits indl-
Gated By the court, the law should be
made thorough and comprehensive,
and the protection It affords should
embrace every class of c~nploye TO
which the power OF the congress eau
extend
In addition to a liability law pro-
tcct.ng the employees of common car
r.crs. the government should show its
good faith by enacting a further law
giving compensation to Its own en-,
ployes for injury or death incurred in
It's service Il Is a reproach 10 us as
"a nation that In both federal and state
legislation we have afforded less pro-
lection TO public and private employees
than any industrial country In the
world.
also urge that action be taken
along the line Of the recommenda
tions have already made concerning
iuiuRctions In labor disputes No
temporary restraining order should
htt .VN usifh
and the petition for permanent In
Junction apea ~h."h sech '"ssfersr..
restraining order has been issued
should be heard by the court issuing
the same within a reasonable time
say. not 10 exceed a week or there
ahouts from the date when the order
was issued II Is worth considering
whether Il would not give greater
popular confidence in the impartiality
of sentences for contempt IL Il 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 pres
ence OF the court, or in other case OF
urgency.
again call attention to the urgent
need of amending the interstate com
morce 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
,terin 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
in effect that when a federal court de-
termines to place common carrier
or other public utility concern under
tie control of receivership, the at
torney-general should have the right
to nominate at least one of the re-