Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-10
PRESIDENT TAFT IN
a POINTED SPEECH.
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restore the land to the United States.
There ought to be specific provision
providing that the United States may sue
the state for forfeiture and also that the
executive shall have the right to declare
a forfeiture. 1t seems to me that in this
wise the United States may retain effec
tive supervision over the disposition of
the land and at the same time may
enable the Legislature or the executive
of the state, presumably more familiar
with the location. to give the details on
the ground in accordance with local ne
cessity.
1T is quite possible, however. that
these other conservation bills will go
over to the next session. but the one rat
flying the existing Withdrawals and
granting power to withdrawing In future
should certainly pass.
There is pending, also, bill authoriz-
ing the issue of $3O.OOO.00O of bonds with
which to continue the construction of ir-
rigation lands already begun by the re-
clamation service.
Another act is the so-called 'injunc-
ton act and there are three bills pend
ing to carry out the platform. In differ
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junction issued without notice shall not
be Of effect for more than seven days
unless within that time actual notice is
given and hearing had. when. of course,
the court will make such order as it may
be advised.
1T further provides that no reserving
order or preliminary injunction shall
issue without notice, unless the court,
upon evidence adduced before it, shall
make finding, either upon the minutes
of the court or upon the back of the in
junction order. defining what the irrep-
arabic injury is which Is to be enjoined.
and stating why there was not time
enough in which to issue notice for a
hearing with the parties present.
''The great difficulty in respect to the
matter is that if the bill is reported from
the committee and put upon it's passage
in the House. there will be movement
to introduce amendments in accord with
the recommendations of the Federation
Of Labor. by which jury trial shall be
required in contemptious and boycotts
shall be made legitimate. 1t is feared
that if such amendments were proposed
they might pass and thus make the bill
an obvious one. l am hopeful that some
way will be found to vote through just
the bill promised by the platform-nothing
more and nothing less.
1T has some features as amended
in the Senate with reference to the
limitation of the power of the trustees
charged with the custody and man
agement of the funds. which suggest
danger to the public credit in the
severity of their restrictions How
far the bill can be amended in the
House, or what can be done about it,
am unable at this moment to say. l
am hopeful, because the Republican
party is firmly committed to the in
PRODUCTION of postal savings deposit
tories, that we shall secure at this
session of Congress safe and sane
law which will offer small depositors
absolute security and convenience
and at the same time improve and not
impair the credit Of the government
and the integrity of our fiscal system.
THE publicity of expenditure bill.
am glad to say, has passed the House
and, with an amendment to make it
accord with my recommendation and
that of my predecessor. has been re-
ported favorably to the Senate and
there is every reason to think it will
pass that body.
FINALLY we come to the bill amend
ing the interstate commerce law. The
bill is pending in both houses. 1t has
been amended in the House and also
in the Senate and with that freedom
Of touch for which headliners and cor
hoy
told with much emphasis that the adj
mnistration bill has been emasculat-
ed in both houses.
II am not as familiar with its con-
dton in the House as | am with it in
the Senate. but | think that possibly
the statement of the bill in the Sem
ate will show what is the fact, that
the bill has not been emasculated in
the House and that it contains almost
all the remedial features Of the original
administration bill and that those
things which have been omitted are
neither substantial nor vital.
'In the first place. the bill contains
a series of sections creating a COM
merce court. which is to absorb all the
jurisdiction now held by the circuit
and district courts on review by in
junction suit or otherwise. of the pro-
ceedings of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. regard the commerce
court of resort as practically the most
important feature in the bill Thus
far 1t has remained in the House. al
though by a close vote. and it has not
been stricken out in the Senate.
Another feature of the bill is to
give the attorney general complete
control over the litigation after it has
left the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and gets into court. Heretofore
the Interstate Commerce Commission
itself has controlled the litigation in
the courts.
Another section requires compa-
MES. by their agents, to furnish a
statement of the rate or charge appli-
cable to described shipment between
state and place under schedules or
tariffs, to which such company is a
party, or a penalty for failure
Another proposition requires the
commission to establish through
routes and joint rates and to do this
upon complaint or upon it's own initia-