Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-05-07
PRESIDENT FURTHER OUTLINES
HIS VIEWS AS TO LEois-
LATIoN NEEDED.
IRE TARIFF is MENTIONED
Asks That Financial Laws BE Enacted
Providing Temporary Measures
to Meet Sudden
Trouble.

Washington-Conditio IN BOTH the
senate and the house were such that
the special message OF the president
further outlining his views as TO leg
tslation. which was sent 20 congress
Monday. received but scsnt attention.
The message arrived late in the day.
and the house was so tied up under
its new rules that Il could not official
~ receive the message. while the sen
ate was in the naval appropriation
bill under the lo-mlnute rule, when
Ihe document reached that body
The presidents message. In part
reads as follows:
The Message.
To the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentAtives:
In my message 10 the congress OF
March 25. 1908. I outlined certain
measures which | believe the majority
Of our countrymen desire to have en-.
acted into law at this time. These
MEASURES do not represent by any
means all that wouldslIke to see
done II thought II possible, but they
do REPRESENT what / believe can now
be done II an earnest effort toward
this end is made.
Hopes for Child Labor Law.
Since wrote this message an EN-
YIoyers' liability law has been enacted
which, II is true. comes short Of what
ought to have been done. but which
A n.
paTently there lie 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 child-labor Law enacted for
the District Of Columbia; that the wa
terways commission will be continued
with sufficient financial support to In
crease the effectiveness OF its prepare.
tory work: that steps will be taken TO
provide for such investigation into
tariff conditions. by the appropriate
committee Of the house OF representa-.
tiyes and by government experts In
the executive service. as will secure
the full information necessary for i'm
mediate action In revising the tariff
AT the hands OF the congress elected
next fail, and finally. that financial
legislation will be enacted providing
fo- temporary measures for meeting
any trouble that may arise in the
next year or two. and for commits
sion Of experts who shall thoroughly
investigate the whole matter, both
here and in the great commercial
countries abroad. 80 as to be able 20
recommend Legislation which will put
our financial system on an efficient
and permanent basis. II is much TO
be wished that one feature Of the
financial legislation OF this session
should be the establishment Of postal
savings banks.
power Of Injunction.
There seems. however, much doubt
about two OF the measures have rec
commended; the measure to do away
with abuse OF the power Of injunction
and the measure or group OF measures
20 strengthen and render both more
efficient and more wise the control by
the national government over tbs
great corporations doing an interstate
business.
First. as to the power OF injunction
and Of punishment for contempt. II
contempt cases. save where immediate
actions is imperative, the trial SHOULD
be before another Judge. As regard
injunctions, some such legislation a
that l have previously recommends
should be enacted. They are blin'
Who fail TO realize the extreme bitter
ness caused among large bodies o
worthy citizens by the use that Ia
been repeatedly made OF the power Q
injunction In labor disputes. Thos
IN whose judgment we have most RICH
20 trust are OF the opinion that Will
much OF the complaint against IN
use Of the injunction Il unwaFrante,
yet that II Is unquestionsbly true thl
IN q number OF cases this power ha
been used TO the grave injury Of IN
rights OF laboring men.
strengthening Antitrust Law.
The strengthening Of the aEti.trul
Law 10 demanded upon both moral an
economic grounds. Our purpose
Strengthening Il is 10 secure more G
aeetive control by the national 60
yeFnment over the business use Of II
vast masses Of individual. and esp
ciaiiy OF corporate. wealth.
They now mOnopolIze most Of Il
interstate business Of the eountrl
and We believe the control can be
be exercised by preventing the grow
OF abuses. rather than merely by II
ing to destroy them when they hai
already grown. In the highest sen
Of the word this movement for thg
OnGh control Of the business uss