The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-27
MIR. WILLIAMS MAKES TERMS Legislation Democrats . Will Permit. A STATEMENT BY LEADER Good Things and Bad Things From
 Roosevelt. Mississippian Taunts Republicans on Inability to Revise the Tariff and
 Suggests way Out of
 DlmcuIty,

Washington, March 26.--Representa- tive John sharp Williams of Missis- sippi. as leader of the minority in the House of Representatives. tonight ts- sued to the Associated Press a written statement defining precisely the atti- tude of the Democratic party In the House toward legislation urged by President Roosevelt in his messages to Congress at the present session.
 The statement describes what Re- publican leRislation the Democrats will support. what they will oppose. and what concessions they demand on the part of the majority as the price of refrain.ng from an organized hlibus- ter throughout the remainder of the session.
 } MT. Williams opened his statement by saying:
 Some things in the Presidents mes- sages are so important to the inter- ests of the entire country as to pass the bounds ( of partisanship and to make 1t advisable for me to say something concerning them with the view of as- surfing the President himself and req sonably -inclined Republican members of the House. the cause of support and endorsement or the opposition of the Democratic minority.
 insofar as the things urged by the EICHAQGnb aEG BOoQ NtAn6St q WO0A0 like the country to know that all he has to do Is to deliver twenty or twen- ty-hve Republican House votes in fa- ivor of them. These combined with the solid Democratic votes will put them through"
 Names Good and Bad.
 Mir. Williams notes the following measures as ones which will command virtually the solid Democratic vote within constitutional limits:
 To compel publication of campaign contrib utions; prohibition of child la bor .n the District of Columbia and the TSrritorfes: an employers liability bill, diawn to conform to the recent decisions of the Supreme Court; F'ed- eral iiablIlSy to Government employee; a law te prohibit the Issuance cf in- functions without notice Co the party an1oined; removal of the tarifz on wood of q Federal charge for every water power right granted on a riavigable- stream.
 Those principles and measures urged by the President with which Mir. Will Hams, as minority leader, takes issue are enumerated as follows:
 The penalizing of the boycott; the right of the Attorney-General to nom mate receivers when common carriers are thrown Into the hands of re- ceiver; the modification of the Sher- man antitrust law so as to permit within limitation the maintenance of trusts and the making of trade agree ments between combinations of capt- tai; the appointment of a commission to prepare data for revision of the tar if.
 ,. Mir. williams frankly states that he does not know whether a majority of the minority favors the creation of waterways commission.
 Referring to the Presidents declara- ton that child labor ought to be pro- hibited throughout the nation, and his that ''at least a model child labor bill should be passed for the District of Columbia" MT. Will Hams says:
 "Chiid labor ought to be prohibited the nation, but the States are the sole authorities having con stitutional power to prohibit t. IT those who would protect the children of the land, and through them the to come. would waste less of their time in the useless agitation for invalid and unconstitutional Fed eral legislation, and would devote more of their time in the several States. 1t would be better for all. But the Presi- dent ia right in saying that we can
  for the Territories as well. and that we ought to do it."
 Employers Liability.
 Commenting the president for his re- of "the immediate rec of an employers liability law. Mir. Williams, says:
 There is no excuse for the delay on the part of the Republican mem bers of the house judiciary committee lfahf1ffNf Their delay at least arouses. if 1t does not Justify. a suspicion that they are having q lee of useless hearings simply for the purpose of using that bill as a buffer to prevent the serious of other bills before the For example, the Clayton bll to put an end to temporary res training orders of courts invalidinR state laws, and the various bills there to recognize the police pow CTS of the states in dealing with al- eohoiic stimulants when introduced in- to prohibition territory.
 T have given notice In the house that no legislation shall be enacted by unanimous consent until an em- ployers liability bill is at least report ed for the consideration of the house"
 Respecting pending bills to prevent the issuance of injunction without pElOT pA eAAp VAaOAAC4 PNA " to be heard. the minority leader says:
 Of course take it that nobody will the president or mo to mean that there should be any limit | upon temporary restraining orders | when 1t Is directed to prevent the im- mediate destruction of property life or limb. When I say property. do | not mean Judlcially construed prop erty rights"
 ConcerninR BoycOtts.
 One of the most vigorous portions of Mir Williams statement regards the boycott After quoting the presidents that nothing should be enacted to legalize a blacklist or boy cott that would be illegal at common law" MT. Williams says:
 Tt Is a sad commentary upon this utterance of his that while the Fed eral courts have held that a boycott Is a combination in restraint of trade and therefore illegal. they have viF- tually upheld the employer in his aa sertion of a right to blacklist be- cause one Federal court went so far as to say that because the employer l lad a right to discharge without giving I