Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
NO OPPORTUNITY GIVEN
FOR BILLS EXAMINATION
Word Sent Out From White House
That Corporation and Commerce Bills
Must Be Passed Without Amendment
NO Provision Made For Forfeiture
If Charter Fo~ Violation.
Especial Correspondence

istraton expects to be passed by con-
gress at this session?
That question is being asked by
members of both houses of congress.
The administration bill was sent to the
committee on judiciary of the senate
two or three days ago, but has not been
introduced in congress as yet. Some
senators have desired that it should
be given out to the public. thru pub
LEGATION in the press, and they have
been unable to get any satisfaction.
The details of the measure are known
to members of the judiciary commit
tee, and it has been seen by few fav-
ored ones to whom the view has been
permitted; but in general it is still a
mystery.
And 1 am informed" said senator
who has been anxious for an oppor-
tunity to study the measure, that the
federal incorporation and interstate
commerce bills are to be sent to con-
gress as the administration measures
\ for this session. with the undersr end
| ing that they are to be passed in the
form in which they have been drawn.
Amendments and the development of
objections to their present form, it is
declared, will be regarded as I'M
friendly to the present administration.
and as marking the willingness of The
offender to incur the displeasure Of the
White House"
The senator added that he was in
favor of the principle of federal incor-
poration, but was not willing to be
bound to any particular working out
of that principle He wanted 10 see,
study and be sure he understood the
bill he was to support, and declared
that with him stood considerable
number of other senators. who WE uid
not permit the plan of passing the bill
with little discussion.
Program Mapped Out.
Word reaches the progressives Of
the senate that the program is to have
the supply bills pushed forward as
early as possible and passed in due
time. while the two cardinal proposals
of the session, the interstate commerce
and federal Incorporation measures,
will be held back until about April J..
Then they will be brought forward, al
a time when congress will be anxious
z,
, when members of the house, and many
of the senate. will be anxious to ge.
home for their district fights. In these
circumstances, it is declared, the or
CARNATIONS in the two houses expect
ITO get the measures passed with the
least measure of discussion
Il don't think" said another sena tor.
that this plan will succeed. know
\ AZ
who are perfectly willing to stay here
= and talk all summer, rather than have
that program succeed. OF course, il
these measures are so explained shat
they command the confidence of con-
l. gress and the country they are going
to pass; there certainly will be nc
fight on them in such situation. But
it looks now like a long fight and q
vast output of conversation"
One Deficit Found.
One of the criticisms made Of the
federal Incorporation bill. relates to the
fact that certain members who have
been looking into it find that it con.
tains no provision for forfeiture o
charter under it, in case of violation:
of the Sherman law, or Of the fedora
: incorporation law themselves. The!
point out that this measure looks t.
y giving a corporate existence to certain
combinations which are in danger o
! being dissolved under the Sherman law
IL If they are given a charter to do inter
IL state commerce, which contains no pro
s. vision for forfeiture, they fear tina
y it may be held to be beyond the powe
?, of congress to dissolve them in tina
n form. Thereupon would arise the ques
lie ton of whether any effective regulation
: could be enforced against them. TIL
ar demand for forfeiture clause-is goin
u to be made very strongly. The attorne
It, general and the president are quote
l. as having expressed the opinion tha
l. this could not be done constitutional.
or Other constitutional students insis
or that it can be done, and that the doin
4 of it is very necessary.
L. The report that the administrator
will insist on these two bills bein
n passed just as they are introduced, an
nd is prepared to make them the test {
he party fealty has been responsible fl
ut increased eagerness to know just VIII:
their critics will say about the bill
It. and especially for the verdict of tt
of country upon them. They are bein
ch examined with critical eye, and bot
ar have been found Objectionable in i'm
vn portant respects. There is much di.
ference of opinion about the merits
the interstate commerce measure
:. particular. The criticism is frequent
heard, that it is just what the railroat
nd have wanted, and not what the publ
wants. This is just as positively d.
,r- ned by the sponsors for the bill. On II
in other hand, some of the people who b
he lieve the measure can be SO amend,
he as to pass, complain that the amen
he ments ought to have been written in
Try the original draft, as Cu1nmins al
other progressives asked in the CO.
us ferences in which the bill was drafte
he They say that if the bill had been ma
Dol to meet Cunrnins' objections, and h;
Elk been turned over to introduce, 1T won
III have made long progress in public co
m fidence Having been taken away frc
Use him, and his suggestions having be
ere largely rejected in its drafting, the pr
eet gressives are inclining to view it wi
misgivings, and they report that t
me country is doing the same thing.
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