The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-04
o,pnrIc LEADER GIVES Att.
,ne ON PRESIDENTS REC
COMBINATIONS.
Followers Are Solid for Employ
Says
md Federal Liability, the Regu-
.;,, Of chiIdren's Work, Free Pa
and Other Measures-Some
They Will Not Support

two IOfln olidip
10 democratic leader in the house
onresentatives, has issued to the
written statement defining the
..t,ap of the democratic party in
-. house toward legislation urged by
proeident Roosevelt in his messages
- congress at the present session. The
,tstenent describes what republican
,-;.,ation the democrats will support,
sba, they will oppose, and what con-
WE" na;sns they demand on the part of
W. majority as the price of refraining
~, INV an organized filibuster through
tho remainder of the session. Mr..
Williams says:
Insofar as the things urged by the
,.osident are good things, I would like
Ibo country to know that all he has to
10 &c to deliver twenty or twenty-five
aoDubl;can house votes in favor of
nom These conjoined with the solid
domocratic votes will put them
through.
AR Williams notes the following
measures as the ones which will com
mand virtually the solid democratic
Tote without constitutional limits:
The complete publication of cam
paign contributions.
Prohibition of child labor in the Dis
,rict of Columbia and the territories.
An employers liability law, drawn
To conform to the recent decisions of
the supreme court.
Federal liability to government en-
poyes.
A law to prohibit the issuance of in
iunctions without notice to the party
enjoined.
Removal of the tariff on wood pulp
and printing paper.
Imposition of a federal charge for
every water power right granted on
navigable stream.
Against Penalizing of Boycott.
Those principles and measures urged
by the president with which Mr.. Will
Iiams, as minority leader, takes issue
are enumerated as follows:
The penalizing of the boycott.
The right of the attorney general to
nominate receivers when common car
rers are thrown into the hands of a
receiver.
Modification of the Sherman anti
trus. law SO as to permit within limi-
tations the maintenance of trusts and
the making of trade agreements be-
tween combinations of capital.
Appointment of a commission to pre-
pare data for revi ion of the tariff.
Mr.. Williams frankly states that he
does not know whether a majority of
the minority favors the creation of a
permanent waterways commission.
Referring to the presidents declara-
ton that child labor ought to be pro-
hibited throughout the nation and his
recommendation that at least a model
child labor bill should be passed for
the District of Columbia" Mr.. Will
liams says:
Wants States to Control Labor.
Child labor ought to be prohibited
throughout the nation, but the states
are the sole authorities having cOnsti-
tatlonal power to prohibit"
commencing the president for his
recommendation for the Immediate
enactment of an employers liability
law, MIR. Williams says:
mere is no excuse for the delay
On the part of the republican members
Vi the house judiciary committee to
Isport an employers liability law.
lhelr delay at least arouses, If 1t does
nut justify, a suspicion that they are
having lot of useless hearings simply
,Oi Inc purpose of using that bill as a
'uner TO prevent serious consideration
VI other bills before the committee"
AFTER quoting the presidents dec
.aiauon that nothing should be done
~ iegallze blacklist or boycott that
would be illegal at common law" Mr..
Williams says:
II is a sad commentary upon this
u''erance of his that, while the federal
o0uiIs nave held that a boycott is a
.sUmDlnation in restraint of trade, and
uerefore illegal, they have virtually
apneid The employer in his assertion Of
lsht to blacklist. Because one fed
ba al court went so far as to say that
S; eoause the employer had a right to
'cnarge without giving any notice
I'LL oil therefore he had a right to dis
large because the discharged man
as member of a labor union. 1t is
poof rule that does not work both
o "ass' Another decision of a federal
bou '-the decision of Judge Could
ms ss gone so far as to say that a labor
NC, son newspaper should not publish
.n NC name Of firm under the heading
ra s oon't patronize.' A man has q
as SUI 70 patronize or not to patronize
viii 'ooy, according to his own free
na ni, and he therefore has the right to
~ nSuilsh those whom he does not pat
Against Tariff Commission.
IN, Inc Presidents recommendation of
is ,"w to place wood pulp on the tree
NM. With a correspondent reduction
WI Will paper made from wood pulp,
aos Iney come from any country that