Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-31
TAFT TO ESPECIALLY URGE
OCEAN MAIL AND ANTl.IN-
JUNCTION LEGISLATION.
OTHER PROBLEMS AWAIT
MORE FAVORABLE CONGRESS
Two Minor Questions to Be Urged -
Provisions Of Ship Subsidy Bill as
Advocated BY President-eis Stick
May Be Welded in Effort to Force
Passage.
Especial correspondence

WASHINGTON. Oct 3l.-The TWO i'm
will urge congress to consider and dis
pose of at the short session this winter
are ocean mail lie gislation and anti IN
junction legisla ton.
BY ocean mail legislation is meant
what is ordinarily referred to as ship
subsidy legislation. tho its advocates
are tender about having it referred to
in that fashion.
The president Will recommend many
Things in his forthcoming message, to
which he is now giving attention. But
he is we'll aware that ii is useless to
try to force thru congress large
amount OF legislation of first SIS I'M
rortance at the short session. Ana ne
is not going TO try H. Most OF ms
recommendation win be in line win
" hat he has recommend in the past
and will be intended to keep attention
directed to them with a view TO legls-
la tive action in the future.
In addition 10 the two matters refer
red to- ocean mail or ship subsidy ana
anti Injunction. the president VIII try
hard to get federal inspection of loco
motive boilers and also to get passed
the bill of Martin. OF Colorado designed
TO prevent accidents from overhead or
side opstructions along railroad lines
These four mea sures viii compre-
bend the chief things on which the
president will insist as far as he can
on being wrought out into legislation
This winter.
Other Problems Wait.
Such great problems as national con-
troll OF corpora ions. control of railroad
capitalization and the various phases or
conservation will wait until the next
con gress. The same is true of the re-
form of the banking and currency laws
II would be impossible for President
Taft to push con gress into legislating
on these matters at the short session
He realizes this and hence IS not going
to try. His advocacy Of legislation on
such things as these will be directed
rather to the next long session than
the coming short session.
In the program of legislation which
the president Is going to urge there Will
be quite enough to keep congress In
hot water for three months. OF course,
there Will be many things of import
ance to be considered in connection
with appropriation bills. The ocean
mail or ship subsidy question VIII un-
questionably arouse sharp fight 1t
always does. lis opponents VIII be
quite as aggressive as before and in the
short session will be able TO employ d.
la tory tactics more effectively than in
long session. The bin which Will be
urged is the Gallinger ocean mail bill.
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and Well known habitues of the capitol.
Provisions Of Measure.
1t gives authority 20 the postmaster
general 70 pay hrst-class ocean mail
rates for service under the act OF
March 3, 1891. to vessels of the second
class on routes 10 South America, the
Philippines. China. Japan and Austral-
asia, going 1000 miles or more on their
voyage outward The first-class rate
is 81 per mile for twenty knot steam
ers Under the Gallinger measure. it
would be 81 per mile for sixteen-knot
steamers The president is strongly
for some legisla ton which would build
up the American merchant marine. His
first interest is in building up trade
with South America But while he will
urge ship subsidy legislation. there will
DE- no ldCh VI itu4tI'-S III Liz way
The row over ship subsidy stirred up
BY the Stevenson resolution last ses-
SION has not made ii easier to get leg
isla ton enacted.
And when it comes to anti-injunc-
ton legislation, l. looks as if the fight
over that would be even more animat-
ed than over the question of ship sub
sidy President Taft wants congress TO
enact the bill introduced last session by
Representative Moon of Pennsylvania.
The Moon bill provides for notice and
hearing before injunctions shall issue.
This is the Massachusetts practice. 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 and hearing. On
the other hand organized labor is
strongly against the Moon bill because
It says that instead of being meas
ure against injunctions it is really a
ro-injunction bill, bill to legalize in
functions.
Big Stick May Not Avail.
In view of this radical difference of
opinion. it is a question whether the
president, no matter how much he may
WELD the big stick, can force an anti
injunction bill thru. Last session, rep
resentatives of organized labor freely
declared that If the Moon bill went
thru it would be SO serious blow to
labor that it would completely antagon-
ize labor against the republican party.
Last session there was an animated
time over the bill OF bills for the federal
inspection Of locomotive boilers. It
was chiefly in committee Senator
Burkett introduced a bill in the senate.
Martin Of Colorado and Campbell of
Kansas introduced house bills. AS soon
as the railroad employees more espec-
tally the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, got busy in behalf OF this
proposed legislation, the railroads got
equally busy against IT, Because of
some defects in the bills as drawn, the
Brotherhood of Engineers got Attorney
General Wickersham to draw a new
bill and this was referred to q sub
committee OF which Senators Cummins,
Kean and Hughes were members. That
| sub committee gave hearings, at which
| the railroad attorneys and lobbyists
were much in evidence The bill was
finally reported out of the senate inter-
state commerce committee and there is
good prospect OF legislation this winter.
It has been shown conclusively that the
accidents from boiler explosions are