Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-28
RECOMMENDATIONS
Special to The Herald.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-What is
believed to be his final effort to spur
a dilatory congress to action was
made today by President Roosevelt,
who in a message again called atten-
ton of the lawmakers to much needed
legislation.
The fact that little has been accom-
plished save the passage of appropria-
ton bills, all calculated to have effect
on this falls election, appears to dis
please the president, and his message,
while containing no suggestions for
legislation not previously outlined,
goes more into detail regarding the
proposed laws for which the country
is clamoring,
The vitriol, frequently used in large
amounts, is displayed but sparingly.
the CHIEF attack being directed against
certain type of greedy multi-mll-
lionaires whose god is money. whose
daughters are foreign princesses and
whose sons are fools.
Not Read in House
The house rules, keyed up to meet
the Democratic filibuster. reacted to
shut out the message.
1t was found impossible to untangle
the snarl of motions to get the house
out of committee of the whole and
back into the same committee, and
also to recess and finally to cover the
point of no quorum long enough to
have the presidents message received.
much less read.
The presidents secretary. Mr.. Latta,
who had waited for an hour in the
corridor, was turned away with the
message under his arm and made his
way TO the senate.
The message follows:
ITO the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives:
''In my message to the congress of
March %. 1908, outlined certain meas
ures which / believe the majority of
our countrymen desire to have enact
ed into law at this time. These meas
ures do not represent by any means all
that L would like to see done If L
thought it possible but they do rep
resent what believe can now be done
If an earnest effort toward this end
Is made.
"Since I wrote this message an en-
pIoyers' liability law has been enacted
which, it is true, )mes short of what
ought to have been done but which
does represent a real advance. APP
parently there is good ground to hope
that there will be further legislation
providing for recompensing all en-
ployes who suffer injury while en-
gagged in the public service; that there
will be a child labor law enacted for
the District of Columbia; that the
waterways commission will be con-
tinued with sufficient financial sup
port to increase the effectiveness of it's
preparatory work; that steps will be
taken to provide for such investiga-
tions into the tariff conditions by the
appropriate committee of the house of
representatives and government eX-
perts in the service as will secure the
full information necessary for intelli-
gently revising the tariff at the hands
of the congress elected next fall, and
finally, that financial legislation will
be enacted providing for the temporary
measures for meeting any trouble that
may arise in the next year or two and
for a commission of experts who shall
thoroughly investigate the whole mat
ter. both here and In the great COM
mercial countries abroad, SO as TO be
able to recommend legislation which
will put our financial system on an
efficient and permanent basis
ut is much to be wished that one
FEATURE OF the UIlduCitl iCSioiANAOAA -
this section should be the establish
ment of postal savings banks. Ample
appropriation should be made to en-
able the interstate commerce commis-
sion to carry out the very important
feature of the Hepburn law, which
gives to the commission supervision
and control over the accounting sys-
tems of the railroads. Failure to pro-
vide means which will enable the COM
mission to examine the books OF the
raiIroads would amount to an attack
on the law at it's most vital point and
would benefit as nothing else would
benefit those railroads which are cor
runtIv or incompetently managed.
aForest reserves should be estab-
ushed throughout the Appalachian
mountain region wherever 1t can be
shown that they will have direct
and real connection with the conserva-
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