The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-04-04
In Special Message He Asks
the Passage of Several
Pending Bills.
WOULD AMEND TRUST LAWS
Believes Some Features of Present
Statues Are Obsolete and
Need Revising.

Boycott-Sees Need Of Tariff Re.
vision Commission and I'M
mediate Waterway Leg
islatlon.
Washington, Mar. 25.-The following
Is the full text of the presidents mes
sage sent to congress Wednesday:
To the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives: I call your attention to
certain measures as to which think
there should be action by the congress
before the close of the present session.
There is ample time for their consider
alton. AS regards most II not all OF
the matters, bills have been intro
duced into one or the other OF the two
houses, and 1t 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 open
ing Of the present session, and, In
deed, in various messages to previous
congresses, have repeatedly sug-
gested action on most of these meas
ures.
Child labor should be prohibited
throughout the nation. At least a
model child-labor bill should be passed
for the District of Columbia. 1t Is
unfortunate that in the one place sole
ly dependent upon congress for its
legislation there should be no law
whatever to protect children by for
bidding or regulating their labor.
renew my recommendation for the
immediate re-enactment Of an employ
ers' liability law, drawn to conform to
the recent decision Of the supreme
court. Within the limits indicated by
the court, the law should be made
thorough and comprehensive, and the
protection 1t affords should embrace
every class Of employe to which the
power of the congress can extend.
In addition to liability law pro-
tecting the employees of common car
riers, 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
its service. 1t Is reproach to us as
a nation that in both federal and state
legislation we have afforded less pro-
lection to public and private employees
than any other industrial country of
the world.
Injunction Legislation.
also urge that action be taken
along the line of the recommendations
have already made concerning In
functions in labor disputes. No tenn
porary restraining order should be Is
sued by any court without notice; and
the petition for a permanent injunc-
ton upon which such temporary re-
rtraining order has been issued should
be heard by the court issuing the same
within reasonable time-say, not to
exceed a week or thereabouts from the
date when the order was issued. It is
worth considering whether 1t would
not give greater popular confidence In
the impartiality of sentences for con-
tempt II 1t was required that the issue
should be decided by another judge
than the one Issuing the injunction,
except where the contempt is com.
mitted in the presence of the court, or
in other case of urgency. -
Rate Law Amendments.
/ again call attention to the urgent
need Of amending the Interstate com.
merce law and especially the antitrust
law along the lines indicated in my
last message. The interstate com
merce law should be amended 80 as
to give railroads the right to make
trafiic 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
the control of a receivership, the at
torney general should have the righ
to nominate at least one of the receiv
ers; or else In some other way thu
interests of the stockholders should b,
consulted, 30 that the Management
may not be wholly re-delivered to th'
man or men the failure of whose pol
icy may have necessitated the crea
tion of the receivership. Receivership
should be used, not to operate roads
but as speedily a. possible to pay thei
debts and return them to the prope
owners:
Would Amend kntI-Trust Law.
| In addition to ,fkS reasons have d
ready urged ON your attention, It ha
now become important that ther
should be an amendment Of the ant