Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-16
FIVE IMPORTANT PLANkS
Now In Possession of Prospective
Resolutions Committee Members.

ton plank of the platform, as passed
upon in Washington, is as follows:
I'VE declare for such an amend
nlent of the statutes of procedure in
the Federal courts with respect to the
use of writ of injunction, as will, on
the one hand, prevent the summary is
sue of such orders without proper
consideration. and on the other, will
preserve undiminiShed the power or
the courts to enforce their process. to
the end that justice may be done at
all times and too all parties"
over this plank there is very
sharp contest. The labor leaders are
urging its adoption, and hundreds OF
teleCrams are pouring in from manu-
facturerS and other employers OF IA
Dor opposing the measure.
Following is the tariff revision plank
proposed by the Taft people:
"The Republican party declares I'M
equiVOcally for Il revision of the tariff
by a speciai SESSION Of Congress inn
mediately following the work assign
ed to the appropriate committees ana
commends the steps already taken to
this end in the work assigned to the
committees of the two houses which
are now investigating the operations
and effect Of existing schedules.
I'm all tariff legislation the true
principle of protection is best main
tanned by the imposition of such du-
ties as will equal the difference be-
tween the cost of production at home
and abroad. together with reason
al, 10 An1arinDn industry. and
the benefits that follow are Lest Sc
cured by the establishment of maxi
mum and minimum rates to be admin
istered by the President under limita-
lions fixed in the law, the maximum to
be available to meet determinations
by foreign countries against Amerl-
can goods entering their markets and
the minimum to represent the normal
measure of protection at home; the
aim and purpose of the Republican
policy being not only to preserve. with
out excessive duties, that security
against foreign competition to which
American manufacturers and pro-
ducers are entitled, but also to main
tain the high standard of living of the
wage earners of this country. who are
the most direct beneficiaries of the
protective system.
''Betwoen the United States and the
Philippines we believe in a free inter-
change of products with such limita-
lions as to sugar and tobacco as will
avoid injury to domestic interests.
Pep. Dalzell, who will be the Penn
Sylvaniu representative on the plat
form committee, said today that with
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be entirely satisfactory to him. This
announcement is considered import
ant on account Of the prominence of
Mir. Dalzell on the House committee
on ways ana means and his position
as a "stand patter' and tariff expert.
Can Speaker Cannon eliminate the
injunction plank from the Taft plat
form? This question presented the
platform problem of the day.
The Speaker himself is in doubt as
to his ability to erase or even modify
the plank but this only serves as q
stimulus to the effort he is is making.
His active lieutcnants in the fight are
the congressional coterie.' Argu-
mcnts against the plank are being
made by many members of Congress
to prospective members of the resolu-
ton comittee.
"What does the plank ean?" is the
question asked by its opponents, who
at once furnish the answer that it can
undoubtedly cover any proposed law
containing the word "injunction."
Applications from representatives
of labor organizations to be given
hearing on the plank came to Wade
Ellis throughout the morning. H. r.
Fuller. The legislative representative
of the railway employees, in asking to
be heard, confessed he was unable to
extract any meaning from the plank
which gave beneficial promise to Ia
Dor
The Interpretation placed on the
plank by several prominent lawyers in
Congress, who are here. was that it
could easily be taken as an endorse
m"nt of any and all ant-injunction
bills pending before the last session of
Congress. Action for the session was
postponed on all of these measures as
the result of a caucu of the Republic
can members The one thing aimed at
IN all Of these proposed measures, was
to prevent the use of injunction with
out Il preliminary nearing except IN
eases where irrcparabe damage was
certain to result from failure to en-
join.
The defenders of the plank insist
that it does not contain anything in
consistent with the position taken by
Speaker Cannon two years ago and
which he still maintains-that the
courts must not have one rule for one
class and a different rule for another.
II is admitted that the provision is
broadly worded, but contains a def
mite promise for relief against hasty
judicial action.
Many conferences on the subject
were in progress throughout the day
but the actual situation as to the abil-
ity Of the Taft force to embody the
plank in the platform, or of the oppo-
sition to eliminate it, will not be
known until the personnel of the reso
lutions committee is finally determined
upon.