The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-27
House Minority Declares What Legislation it Demands as Price of Keeping
 Quiet.
BACKING UP THE PRESIDENT
Practically Solid Democratic Vote Promised for Seven of RccOm-
 mendations of Recent Message.

Washington, March 6-Representa- tive John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, as leader of the minority in the house of representatives issued to the press tonight a written statement defining precisely the attitude of the Democra- tic party in the house toward legisla- tion urged by President Roosevelt in his messages to congress at the pres ent session. The statement describes what Republican legislation the Demo- crats will support, what they will op- pose and what concessions they de- mand on the present majority as the price of refraining from an organized filibuster throughout the remainder of the session.
 MT. Williams opens his statement by saying:
 Some things in the Presidents re- cent message are so immediately im- portant to the interests of the entire country as to pass the bounds of par tisanship and to make it excusable, If not necessary for me to say something concerning them with the view of as- suring the President himself and req sonably inclined Republican members of the house and the country of the support and endorsement, or the oppo- sition of the Democratic minority. In so far as the things urged by the Pres ident are good things, I would like the country to know that all he has to do Is to deliver 20 or 25 Republican house votes in favor of them. These con joined with the solid Democratic votes will put them through"
 MT. Williams notes the following measures as ones which twill command virtually the solid Democratie vote within legislation limits"
 To compel publication of campaign contributors.
 Prohibition of child labor in the Dis trict of Columbia and the territories
 An employers liability law, drawn to conform to the recent decision of the supreme court.
 Federal liability to government em- 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 fnr every water power right granted on a navigable stream.
 Those principles and measures urged by the president with which MT. Will  Hams, as minority leader, takes issue are enumerated as follows:
 The penalizing of the boycott.
 The right of the attorney general to nominate receivers when a common carrier is thrown Into the hands oi a receiver.
 The modification of the Sherman anti trust law so as to permit within liml- tation the maintenance of trusts and the making of trade agreements be. tween combinations of capital.
 The appointmentof commission tc prepare data for a revision of the tar. iff
 Mir. Williams frankly states that h. does not know whether a majority ot the minority favors the creation ot & permanent waterways commission.
 One of the most vigorous portions oi MT. Williams statements is about tn. boycott. After quoting the president declaration that nothing should b, done to legalize blacklist, or boycott that would be illegal at common law, Mir. Williams says;
 Tt is a sad commentary upon thi. utterance of his that while the feder al courts have held that a boycott i, a combination fin restraint of trade anc therefore illegal, they have virtually upheld the employer in his assertion Q a right to blacklist Because one fed eral court went so far as to say tha because the employer had a right t discharge without giving any notice q all therefore he had right to dis charge because the discharged ma: was member of a labor union It i a poor rule that does not work boti ways. Another decision of fedora court-the decision of Judge Gould has gone so far as 10 say that a Ia borman's newspaper should not publisi the name of firm under the headin. We Don't Patronize' A man has , right to patronize or nor to patroniz anybody according to his own swec will. and he therefore has the righ to publish those whom he does no patronize."