Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-09-17
Bill to Be Drafted to Eliminate
Laws Delays.
MODEL FOR ACTION BY STATES
Procedure of Federal Courts to Be
Pattern for Others.
RECALLS PROMISES TO LABOR
Executive Says He VIII Recommend
I'm His First Message Passage of
Law TO Limit Abuse of
the Writ.

CHICAGO. Sept. 16.-Speaking with great
earnestness to a mass meeting in Orches-
ira hall tonight President Taft declared
that no question before the American peo-
pie today is more important than the inn
provement OF the administration of Justice
and announced MS intention of recon-
mending to congress the appointment of a
commission to take up the question of the
laws delay in the federal courts The
president said he hoped that the report
Of this commission, when rendered, would
serve also as a guide to the states of the
union in effecting remedial legislation.
The president. at the end of a day Of
sightseeing, Of base ball, of receptions
and dining, received an uproarious greeting
when he reached Orchestra han tonight
to make the only set speech Of his stay in
Chicago. Recalling that 1t was in this
same hall during the campaign of a year
ago that he faced an audience of more
than 1900 workngmen and made one Of
the crucial addresses Of his candidacy, the
president assured his hearers that he had
not forgotten his campaign promises and
the platform declarations of his party.
Labor and InJunctiOns.
Mr.. Taft devoted the entire first part of
his speech to the subject of labor and
said he intended to recommend to congress
in his first message legislation to carry
out the platform promise as to injunc-
tions-that no Injunction or restraining
order should be issued without notice ex-
cept where irreparable injury would re-
suit from delay in which case a speedy
hearing should be granted.
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The president declared anew his belief
in organized labor and congratulated the
leaders of the movement that they have
set their faces like flint against the doc
trines of the socialist.
Taking up next the subject of the courts
the president asserted with earnest en-
phass that the administration of criminal
law today is disgrace TO American civil
ization. Ashamed of the fact, Ameri-
cans might well be, he declared that the
poor man has not now an equal oppor-
tunity with the rich litigant, and said 1t
was his purpose to do what he could to
place the poor man on a more equal foot
ing.
The president frequently was interrupted
with cheers,
Address of President.
President Taft spoke at Orchestra Hall
as follows:
NV fellow citizens of Cnicago--It is
Just about year ago tonight that I made
a speech in this hall to some l.SO0 MEM
bers of the railroad labor unions in which
l attempted to convince them that there
was nothing in my decisions as a circuit
Judge in INDUCTION cases which ought to
make them vote against me for the presi-
dency. 1t was a critical question in the
campaign and as 1 review that whole
controversy there was hardly another
speech in my campaign of greater impor-
the result of the election l look back upon
it now with especial interest. This hall,
therefore suggests one of the subjects upon
which l shall speak to you.
You will remember, perhaps, that the
head of labor organizations who had de-
clared for my opponent, was anxious to
carry the whole union labor vote against
me and as the ground for his action was
my decision a Judge 1 was put under
the burden which 1 think no other candidate
for the presidency ever had to bear of
explaining and defending in a political
conte { the decisions which had made as
o judge upon the bench. 1t was assumed
by many, who thought themselves fam
iliar with the situation thar I would lose
a large part of the labor vote which had
heretofore been evenly divided between
the republicans and the democrats The
result showed that this assumption was
incorrect and that labor men-union labor
as well as nonunon labor men-thought
for themselves voted according TO their
own judgment and determined not TO be
delivered as a body to one party OF the
other and on the whole, do not think in
that election I suffered materially from
the loss of labor votes In the discussion
1 asserted that I was as much interested
as any one In maintaining the cause of
labor when labor, organized or unorgan-
lied, by proper methods sought to better
its condition by legislation or otherwise.
said that / expected to recommend to
congress, II / were elected. that inter-
state railroads be required 10 adopt any
additional devices useful for the purpose
Of saving OF life or in averting injury of
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