Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-18
Mr.. Taft is Introduced by Seth Low
of New York.
FAvORs CHANGES IN PRoCEDUR1
Elective Reforms in Federal Court
Methods are Advocated.
EXAMPLE FOR STATE ACT1o-
Laws Delay Made Possible to Ricl
IL Also Scored by Chief Execu-
tive-ConservatiOn by
the states.

WASHINGTON, Jan. I7.--With the open
ing address by President Taft compliment
ing the organization for the work 1t had
done and referring 30 some Of the inpor-
tant questions of national moment to
which It could yet lend It's aid the Ma
tlonal Civic federation today began three
day conference here.
AT the opening session. which was pre-
sided over by Seth Low, president of the
body, were a number OF state governors
here to attend a conference of their own
which will begin tomorrow, and delegates
from all parts Of the United States repre-
senting the American Federation of Labor.
the National Grange, the Farmers Ma
tional congress. the National Association
of Life Insurance Presidents, the National
Association Of State Boards of Arbitration
and other bodies
Speakers at the opening session included
Judge Alton b. Parker, former president of
the American Bar association.
Big Crowd Greets President.
Your presence here, Mr.. President, is
highly appreciated by this conference be-
cause your presence indicates your active
sympathy with the objects of the confer
ence."
In these words President Seth Low of
the AlNlE ENutIhNiNh NtitOncu EEGsluSnl
Taft whose appearance on the stage of the
Belasco theater was greeted by a repre-
sentative audience with every manifesto
tlon of pleasure.
Thanked by Seth Low and Judge Alton B.
Parker. President Taft led a distinguished
body Of men to the stage OF the theater at
the opening session of the conference.
Mr.. Low opened the conference by intro
ducing the president Of the United States.
Felictating the Civic Federation for its
good sense in meeting in Washington, espe-
cially at the same time as the meeting Of
governors. President Taft said that from
Washington everything rediated to the
farthermost parts Of the country.
And you are not the only citizens Of
the United States looking in the direction
of Washington, there are Others" which
3 statement was mat With a round of ap-
plause.
In discussing the movement started by
the Civic Federation for uniformity OF state
laws, President Taft said 1t was the out
growth of demand on the part Of good
citizenship to bring about better conditions
in the social fabric
He defined a constitutional lawyer as "a
gentleman who has gone out of the prac-
tce OF law and has gone into politics, "
winch Call6Q iauBhNcI anu 0PRldubt
and cries of good, good"
Powers of Supreme Court
Tracing the growth OF Capitalization Of
power in the general government in con.
tradistinction to the power of the states, h'
said that the early appointment Of CHIEF
Justice Marshall made Capitalization pos
sible by exercising that power which q
good Judge exercised with his colleagues
constitution"
The president said there should be uni
formity in judicial procedure, and he de.
clared with emphasis that II anything IL
the system deserved attack 1t was the
delay that could be secured by the wealthy
under the judicial proceedings. and he ad
vOcated some change in the form of fed
eral court proceedings which could b'
taken as an example by the states. II,
wanted court proceedings simplified alonl
the lines Of English practice, both in equity
and criminal law.
Mr.. Taft told of the movement for a uni
form law relating to child labor and citet
the utterance OF the governor OF Massachu
p Betts in behalf OF a federal law regulating
child labor that the power of the fedora
government was greater than the power O
the state.
Speaking on the subject OF conservatio
the president said:
The federal government has no powe
TO compel owners of forests to attend I
those forests with view to the welfare O
the community or the neighbors who iv
there. or OF those who are affected by tn
denudlng OF the land. That must be don
through state government II it is done at al
and so with respect to many OF the streams
Indeed, II one follows legal reasoning
will seem, think, that there is more to b
done by the states In the conservation c
resources even than by the federal go'
ernment."
chairman.
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