Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-04-16
WILL NOT AMEND
ANTITRUST LAW
Currency Measure. Government
Liability Law. Child Labor Bill.
Tariff Revision Inquiry and
Waterways Work Are
Slated to Pass

W Npis ENpiil uh'iS ~
Congress have notified President
Roosevelt that several laws which he
desired enacted at this session will not
be put through. A recapitulation
shows that when the session ends
Congress will probably have failed to
put through many important meas
ures. Some of them are:
Restricting the power of the fed
eral courts in the issuance of injunc-
tions in labor disputes.
Amending the sherman antitrust
law so as to establish a system of
federal license for interstate corpora
tions.
TO enable railroads to form traffic
associations 80 as to secure greater
stability in rates and returns.
To remove restrictions from combi-
nations of labor.
TO prohibit railroads from black
listing union employees.
Empowering the Interstate Com
merce commission to control future
issues of stocks and bonds on railroad
property.
To permit the attorney general to
name one of the receivers appointed
for an insolvent railroad.
To remove the duty on wood pulp.
To provide for the construction of
four battleships instead of two.
To ESTABLISH 4 system OF postsa
savings banks.
Things They VIII DO.
While the above list will In all
probability not be taken up the lead
ers who have told the president that
they will not be passed have agreed
to put through the following meas
ures, if possible:
A measure providing for a more
elastic currency.
Granting compensation to employees
injured while in government service.
Prohibiting child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Authorizing the ways and means
committee of the House and the fl
nance committee of the Senate to give
hearings preliminary to a revision Of
the tariff.
Appropriating a sum sufficient to
enable the inland waterways comm :
sion to carry on the work begun last
year.
President Roosevelt has told callers
dl Nilt w ililt i1OuSG llldl II tOll6 'soS
should fail to provide four battleships
he would veto the public building
bill. on the other hand, the House
leaders have given notice that it
would be politically unwise to impose
the drain upon the treasury that
would accrue if Congress should pro-
vide four battleshps at $4,000, 900
and public buildings at $2O.OOO.O0O.
May Veto Buildings Bill.
There is good reason to believe.
however that the leaders will be
BOWED over If they attempt to stop
the public building bill, even If an
amendment is inserted in the naval
bill making appropriations for four
battleships. Republicans as well as
Democrats are much in earnest in
their demand that public buildings
shall be authorized at this session. on
both sides Of the House it is agreed
that the public building bill shall be
passed, battleships or no battleships.
If the battleship program fails and
the president, as result, should veto
the public building bill, that measure
would undoubtedly BE- passed over his
veto.
~ NJ 7 '' ~ lp'7N'u anu N-4lf'd 80
bankers are working to defeat the 500
called "Aldrlch temporary makcshift"
OF a currency bill.
Tho railroads are opposed to rate
being suspended pending decision
of the Interstate Commerce cumm.S-
sion as 10 its reasouablouoss.
EIkius viii report to postpone the
penalties Of the commodity clause of
the rate law til January ]. 1910.
Then big fight will start
Washington, April 10 The senate
committee on postofhces today voted
TO report fayorably the postal savings
bank bill drafted by a subcommittee
of which Senator Carter is chairman
An amendment was adopted, chang
ing the name OF the proposed meas
ure 10 postal dcpositaries," which
meets the objection raised against the
bill by bankers. The amendment
does not alter the purposes of the
bill, the object of which is to furnish
depositaries for small saw
ings of people remote from adequate
banking facilities
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