The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
CAR STRIKERS WELCOME TAFT Presidents $ Party Reach es Omaha. MAYOR F0RBlDS CARS TO RUN Crosses Missouri to Get Away from
 ''lnsurgtnts." At Des Moines, Executive Delivers Second of Important Declarations
 of Policy He Has Outlined
 For Trip.

Taft, leaving the "insurgent" States of Minnesota and Iowa behind him, cross ed the Missouri River today and stop ped in Omaha for the afternoon and evening on his way to the Pacific Coast.
 The President found Omaha in the throes of great street car strike. To avoid the possibility of trouble. Mayor James c. Dahlmau ordered all attempts to run cars during the Presi- dents stay. called off The strike did not prevent the gathering of a great crowd in the downtown district and there were many times when the Pres idents automobile had difficulty in ma Ring its way through the cheering throng.
 The President. arriving at 4.3o p. m. was taken for an hours ride through the streets and parks of the city. He passed nearly every school building In Omaha and received a joyous greeting From the little children. who stood in front, waving flags and cheering their loudest. The greetings he has receiy- ed from the school children In every city, visited has impressed Mir. Taft more deeply than any other feature of his trip.
 Tonight the President was guest of the Knights of Ak Sar Ben at 2 quiet dinner at the Omaha Club. and afterward was taken out Of the "den'' of this organization where he witness. ed one of the famous initiation festiv. als. The President thoroughly enjoy ed the evening of gaiety and the pranks and the tricks that were play ed upon the unsuspecting fovIces
 Afterward he made 6 brief address in which he expressed his qualification for the greeting he had received and his enjoyment from the entertainment arranged for his bensft.
 At Des Moines, sthe President delty- cred the second of the important declarations of policy he has outlined for his trip. Having disposed of hl' views on the tariff at Winona. th' president addressed himself today t' | the Interstate commerce and antt-trusi l laws and detailed at length the rec contradictions for amendments to thea statutes that he wiii make to Congres in his message of December next. A Denver tomorrow night. Mr. Taft pron ably will discuss the conservation o national resources.
 l. President Taft spent a little more than four hours in Des Moines today and delivered an open-air address tc an immense crowd gathered from all the surrounding county, in which ht discussed in detail the changes he will recommend to Congress, in the inter- state commerce and antitrust laws. He announced that he would urge the establishment of an interstate com merce court of five members to con sider appeals from rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. He will also recommend legislation to pre- vent one interstate railroad company from owning stock in competing nns and compelling roads thus owning stock to dispose of their holdings With In given time.
 Legislation to prevent the over-issue of stocks and bonds and the watering of stocks, will be strongly recommend- ed, the President proposing that nc stocks or bonds shall be issued excep' by permission of the interstate com merce commission after an inquiry had been made into the necessity.
 The giving to shippers of the choice of routes in the shipment of freight Is another important provision which the President favors.
 The President declared he knew oi no way in which distinction could he made between good" and bad truste
 He discussed the proposal to except labor unions and farmers organizations from the operation of the antitrust law.
 To specify these organizations. he declared, would be vicious legislation but he pointed a way in which they could be relieved of some of the oner' ous restrictions now placed upon them He held them to be amenable to in' functions.