The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-17
has Increased respect for our navy and
has added to our national prestige.
Inlunotlono Without Notice,

mas a0o0d to our national prestige.
lnJunotions Without Notice,
The platform Of the successful party IN
the last election contained the following:
THE Republican party will uphold at
all times the authority and integrity Of
the courts, state n federal, and will
ever insist that their powers to enforce
their process and protect life, liberty
and property shall be preserved inviolate,
We believe. however, that the rules of
procedure in the federal courts with re.
spect to the a of the writ of in
junction should be more accurately de-
lined by statute and that no Injunction
or temporary restraining order should be
issued without notice, except where ir.
reparable injury would result from delay.
In which case a speedy hearing there.
after should be granted"
l recommend that in compliance with
the promise thus made appropriate legis.
latlon be adopted. The ends of Justice
Will best be met and the chief cause of
complaint against ill-considercd iniunc-
lions without notice will be removed nv
the enactment of a statute forbiddinc
hereafter the issuing Of any Injunction
or restraining order, whether temporary
or permanent, by any federal court.
without previous notice and a reasonable
opportunity to be heard on behalf of the
parties to be enjOined; unless it shall an.
pear to the satisfaction Of the court that
lHc Aeldy necessary TO give such notice
and hearing would result in irreparable
injury to the complainant and unless also
the court shall from the evidence make
a written finding, which shall be spread
upon the court minutes, that Immediate
and irreparable injury is likely to ensue
TO the complainant, and shall define the
injury, state why it is irrcparabla and
shall also indorse on the order issued the
date and the hour of the issuance of the
order. Moreover, every such Injunction
or restraining order issued without pre.
vious notice and opportunity by the de-
PENDANT to be heard should by force of
the statute to expire and be of no effect
after seven days from the issuance there
or or within any time less than that pc
ROD which the court may fix, unless
"lthln the injunction or order is ex.
tended or renewed after previous notice
and opportunity to be heard.
~Second-CIass Mail Matter.
The deficit every year in the post.
once department is largely caused by the
low rate of postage of one cent a pound
charged on second-class mail matter,
WhlcH includes not only newspapers but
magazines and miscellaneous periodicals.
Inc actual loss growing out of the trans.
mission OF this second-class mail matter
at one cent a pound amounts to about
$G3. OOO. 900 a year. The average cost of the
transportation Of this matter is more than
nine cents a pound.
1t appears that the average distance ov.
er which newspapers are delivered tc
their customers is POI miles, while the
average haul of magazines is 1919, and
or miscellaneous periodicals lips miles.
Ihus, the average lat of the magazine
IS three and one-half times and that OF
the miscellaneous periodical nearly four
times the haul Of the daily newspaper. vet
all OF them pay the same postage rate of
one cent a pound. The statistics of 1907
show that second-class mail matter con.
stltuted 63.91 per cent. of the weight OF
all the mail, and yielded only $40 per cent.
of the revenue.
The figures given are Startling. and
show the payment by the government of
an enormous subsidy to the newspapers.
magazines and periodicals, and congress
may Well consider whether radical steps
should not be taken to reduce the deficit
IN the postoffice department caused by
this discrepancy between the actual cost
or transportation and the commentator
eXacted therefor.
A great saving might be made, amount,
ing TO much more than half of the loss
oy imposing upon magazines and peri
odlcals a higher rate OF postage. They
are much heavier than newspapers and
contain a much higher proportion of ad-
to reading matter. and the aver
age distance Of their transportation is
three and a half times as great.
Postal Savings Banks.
The second subject worthy Of mention
In the postofice department is the real
and entire practicability Of es-
postal savings banks. The sue
cessful party at the last election declared
IN FAVOR or postal savings banks, and al
though the proposition finds opponents in
many parts of the country, I am con-
WINGED that the people desire such banks.
and am sure that when the banks are fur
nlshed they will be productive of the ut,
most good.
Favors Ship Subsidy.
Following the course Of my distin-
predecessor. I earnestly recon-
to congress the consideration and
passage of a ship subsidy bill, looking to
the establishment of lines between our
seaboard and the eastern coast
or South America, as we'll as lines from
the west coast Of the United States to
south America. China, Japan and the
The profits on foreign mails
are perhaps a sufficient measure of the
expenditures which might first be tenta-
lively applied to this method of inducing
american capital to undertake the estab-
lshment of American lines of steamships
m those directions in which we now feel
most important that we should have
means of transportation controlled in the
interest OF the expansion of our trade. A
Oil OF this character has once passed the
house and more than once passed the
senate. and I hope that at this session a
oiN framed on the same lines and with
he same purposes may become a law.
Conserving National Resources,
In several departments there is present.
ID the necessity for legislation looking to
me Iurther conservation of our national
resources. and the subject is one Of such
as to require a more detailed
md extended discussion than can be en-
upon in this communication. For
hat reason I shall take an early oppor-