Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-12
|NJUNCT|ONS AND
OCEAN MAIL TO
Be PARAMOUNT
Believed President Taft VIII
Urge Two Important Ques-
tons on Short Session Of
Congress This Winter
Morning Journal Bureau,
613 Munsey Building.


consider and uiSHpSf pl ~ ehS SUI
session this winter are ocean mail leg
islation and anti-injunction legisla-
ton.
BY ocean mail legislation Is meant
what is ordinarily referred to as ship
subsidy legislation. though its advo-
Gates are tender about having 1t refer
red to in that fashion.
The president Is well aware that II
is useless to try to force through con
gress large amount OF legislation OF
flrst-class Importance Mt the short
session And he is not going to try It.
Most of his recommendations viii be
in line with what he has recommend
ed in the past and will be intended TO
keen attention directed to them with
a view to legislative action in the fu-
ture.
In addition to the two matters re-
ferred to, ocean mail or ship subsidy
and anti-injunction. the president VIII
try hard to get federal inspection of
locomotive boilers and also to get
passed the bill OF Martin OF Colorado
designed to prevent accidents from
overhead or side distractions along
railroad lines.
These four measures Will compre-
hend the chief things on which the
president will insist as far as he can
on being wrought out into legislation
this winter.
Such great problems as national
control of corporations, control OF
railroad capitalization and the various
phases Of conservation will wait until
the next congress. The same Is true
Of the reform OF the banking and cur
rency laws.
The ocean mail or ship subsidy
question will unquestionably arouse
sharp fight. 1t always does Its op-
ponents will be quite aggressive AZ
before. and in the short session VIII
be able to employ dilatory tactics more
effectively than in q long session. Ine
bill which will be urged Is tile Oa'@
Iineer ocean mail bill. which has pc
come one Of the ancient aud Well
known habitues of the capitol
II gives authority to the postmaster
general to nav first-class ocean mail
rates for service under the act OF
March 2 1891. to vessels of the sec
ond class on routes to South America.
the Philippines, China, Japan ana
Australia. going 1000 miles or more
on their voyage outward. me ilrSt-
class rate is S4 per ton per mile Tor
twenty Knot steamers Under tho CAL
linrer. measure, il would be 81 per
mile for sixteen knot steamers.
The president IS strongly tor come
LEGISLATION which would build up the
American merchant marine. HIS llfst
interest is i'm building up trade win
south America. But while he VIII
urge shin subsidy legislation there
win be no lack Of difficulties In the
WAY. Tho row over ship subsidy stir
red NJ bv the Steenerson resolution
last session has not made 1t easier to
get legislation enacted.
And when II comes to anti-lnjunc-
tion legislation, it looks es If the fight
over that would be even more animal
ed than over the question of shin sub
sidy. President Taft wants congress
10 enact the bin introduced last session
bv Congressman Moon of Pennsyl-
Vania.
Tho Moon bill provides for notice
and hearing before iniunctions shall
issue. This is the Massachusetts, prac-
tice. 1t is much opposed in congress.
some of the ultra conservatives think
congress ought not interfere with the
courts in issuing injunctions. even to
the extent of requiring notice ana
hearing. on the other hand, organiz-
ed labor Is strongly against the Noon
bill. because it says that instead of
being q measure against in1unctions,
il is really pro-injunction bill, bill
to legalize injunctions.
In view Of this radical difference
Of opinion. it is question whether
the president. no matter how much
he may WELD the big stick or the Dig
smile. can force through an anti-in-
junction bill. Last session repr esen-
tatives of organized labor freely ce-
cIared that if the Moon bill wen.
through il would be so serious - blow
To labor that II would completely an
tagonize labor against the republican
party.
Last session there was an anina, ed
time over the bills for the federal ~
spectiou of locomotive boilers. 1t was
chiefly in committee. Senator Burk-
cit of Nebraska introduced a bill IN
the senate. while Martin OF Colorado
and Campbell of Kansas introduced
house bills.
AS soon as the railroad employer
more especially the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers. got busy in b.
half of this proposed legislation. the
railroads got equally busy against lt
Because of some defects in the bills
as drawn. the Brotherhood Engineers
got Attorney General Wickersham 10
draw D new bill and this was referred
TO subcommittee of which Senator'S
Cummins. Kean and Hughes we're
members.
That subcommittee gave hearings,
az which the railroad alto -ncys snd
lob visits were much in eVi Vile"ce. Fne
bin was finally reported out Of the
senate interstate commerce rommit-
tee. and there is good prospect Of leg
iglation this winter. II ms bceh
shown concIusively that the accidents
fron boiler explosions are incrcafins.
and the president thinks i time {, 30
snmething about IT,
The other railroad bill which the
president will urge. the one calculat-
cd 10 prevent railroad men suffering
from overhead or side obstructions,
would save the lives of hundreds Of
railroad men every year. II would
limit the height Of cars and their
width and prevent side obstructions
to % distance of six feet. eleven inches
from the center line Of the track. The
height Of permanent structures above
the tracks is elso fixed.
James L. Smaim has been appointed
postmaster at Roy New Mexico.
Thoroughly ISriti-l;.