The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-21
President Addresses Himself
to Changes He Thinks Neces-
sary in the Interstate Com
merce and Anti Trust Laws.
RATE BILL AMENDMENTS
HE BELIEVES ARE NEEDED
Delay Caused by the Endless
Litigation Over Commits
Sion'S Decisions Seem to the
President as Chief Objection
VISITS SENATOR CUMMlNS
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 2O.-Presi-
~ dent Taft, leaving Minnesota

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 20.-Presi-
~ dent Taft, leaving Minnesota
and Iowa behind him, stopped in
Omaha for the afternoon and evening
on his way to the Pacific coast.
The president found Omaha IN the
midst of a street car strike. To avoid
the possibility of trouble, Mayor Dahl
man ordered all attempts to run cars
during the presidents stay called off.
The strike did not prevent the
gathering of a great crowd in the
downtown districts, and there were
times when the presidents automo-
bile had difficulty in making its way
through the cheering throng.
The president was taken for an hours
ride through the streets and parks, He
passed nearly every school building in
Omaha and received joyous greetings from
the children, who stood in front waved
flags and cheered their lOudest. Tonight
the president was a guest of the knights
Ak Sar Ben at a quiet dinner at the Oma-
Ia club, and afterward was taken 10 Inc
den of the organization, where he Wit
messed one of the famous initiation tes-
rivals.
Declaration of Policy.
Afterward he made a brief address, in
which he expressed his qualification for
tha gaatlusz ha had re 1-ilAea -E--4f' -lia e.
jos-meut OF the entertainment arranged
in his honor.
At Des Noines today the president de-
livered the second of the important dec
laratiOns of policy he had outlined Tor
Ia 10 himself n me-
interstate commerce and antitrust laws,
and detailed at length the recommended
tons for amendments to the statutes that
lie will make TO congress IN MS message
At Denver tomorrow night Mr.. Taft
probably will discuss the conservation OF
natural resources
Des Moines. Sept 2O.-President Taft
spent a little more than four hours in
Des Moines today, and during that time
bTeakfasted with United states Senator
a b. CummIHS, one Of the lnSuTgenJ
leaders i'm congress; reviewed an impOs-
ing parade of nearly 5000 federal troops
engaged in a military tournament here,
and made an open air address to an i'm
mensu crowd gathered from all the sur
rounding country. Among other things,
Mr.. Taft said.
'.The rate bill has now been in opera
tiUn some three years and il must Do a.
mitted that it has not furnished the re-
lief against UndUly discriminatory rates
with the expedition and effectiveness
which were expected. The Republican
platform promised additional legislation
in aid of enforcing the interstate com
merce law. and L have been engaged i'm
the consideration of what I ought to
recommend to congress I'm order TO COM
ply with that promise, Those who ordered
the provision by which appeal from the
order of the commission might be taken
to the court, did SO because they thought
such right of appeal would offer much
opportunity to delay the proceedings
IAN examination of the decisions of the
commission and resort to the courts by
way of temporary injunCtiOns fully jus
titled the conclusion that one of the de-
fects of the present interstate commerce
law is the delay entailed by litigation in
the court over the correctness of the or
der of the commission.
''The court of appeal cannot be abol-
ished. because it is a constitutional right
Something must be done to reduce its
effect by way Of delay so that the de
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