Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-10
TAFT TRIES TO
CHECK ADVERSE
TIDE At BANQUET

mad hetween the government of the
United States and the commissioners of
sewers of New Jersey. You may not
know that the State of New York
brought suit in the Supreme Court of
the United States against the State of
New Jersey to enjoin her commissioners
of sewers from polhting New York
Bay by turning a large amount of
sewage into the Passaic River, and
that the United States has interviewed
In the suit and that a settlement has
been effected between the commission
ers OF sewer of New Jersey authorized
by special act for the purpose and the
United States acting through it's army
engineers. by which the sewage Is to
be disposed of without pollution of the
~neighboring waters, undo such regula-
tons as the army engineers shall pre-
scribe. There still remains to be made
the settlement between New York and
the United States in a similar matter,
but we are hopeful that the wise, pa
triotic and liberal course of the
commissioners of New Jersey may ap-
peal to the good sense of the authori-
ties of New York and permit a similar
result.
THE problem of the pollution of our
navigable streams Is becoming a very
formidable one. and this example set
so early in the controversy. which is
likely to be long continued unless ad-
justed in a spirit of compromise and
good sense, may, we hope. be of in
estimable benefit as an example for
other cases frequently arising in re-
spect to the navigable waters of the
States and the United States.
The Emascuiated Railroad Bill.
FINALLY. we come to the bill amend
ing the Interstate Commerce aw. The
bill is pending in both Houses. 1t has
been amended in the House and also
in the Senate. and with hat freedom of
touch for which headliners and cores
pondents are noted, we have been told
with much emphasis that the admins
trHtion bill has been emasculated in
both houses. / am not as familiar
with conditions in the House as / am
with it in the Senate. but l think that
possibly h statement of the bill In the
Senate will show what is the fact, that
the bill has not been em~asculated in
either house, and hat it contains
almost all of the remedial features of
the original administration bill and
that those things which have been
OiiiitlCa aIG nclthGi ouuStdiitidi HO
vital.
in the first place the bill contains
q series of sections creating a COM
merce court, which is to absorb all the
jurisdiction now had by the Circuit
Court and district courts on review by
injunction suit, or otherwise. of the
proceedings of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. This court was to be Gre
ated by a new circuit judges, APP
pointed by the President, one of whom
was to be supplanted each year by
designation of another circuit judge
by the Supreme Court.
1.-THE advantage of the court was that
we shall have a court of experts at
washington, very familiar with the
whole business of interstate
and the decisions affecting 1t, who
would be able to dispose of the bust
ness before it promptly and give eff
cheney to the orders of the Interstate
Commerce Commission that are legal.
The whole object of the court is expe-
dition, and the whole defect Of the inter-
state commerce procedure heretofore
has been delay. I regard the
court as practically the most important
feature in the bill. Thus far it has re-
NAMED in the House, although by a
close vote, and 1t has not been stricken
out in the Senate.
other Features of the Bill.
Another feature Of the bill is to give
the attorney-general complete control
Dyer the litigation after 1t has left the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
got into the court. Heretofore the In
terstate Commerce Commission itself
q controlled the litigation in the
courts and it presented the anomaly
OF a quasi judicial tribunal suing in its
behalf. to. scondrm Its judgments
1T was thought wiser to give this to
the Department Of Justice. but amend