The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-09-07
INCREASE IN eAlARiEs OF sU-
PReME COURT JUSTICES
is URGED.
REPRESENTATION
SAWS ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES
BETWEEN NATIONS 10
SURELY COMING.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.


Bostoa.-President Taft In his ad-
dress before the American Bar Asso-
citation. declared emphatically that
there Is room for improvement in pro-
cedure In the federal courts. "and up
% u.s." he said. falls the burden OF
taitiating reform in that respect"
The chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. he said.
Aaa taken that matter in hand. with
his associates and the district Judges
Asd has called 4 conference In Wash
iagton. where they will formulate new
rules OF precedence.
The President declared this to be
great step in the direction OF practical
reform. He said that there WAS need
u increasing judicial salaries. so
that the best men OF the bar" might
be secured for the various courts.
He said the supreme justices should
have $4,000 per annum.
"Of course" he said, the salaries OF
the Supreme Court members ought 10
be Increased. We have got them up 10
ought to go up to $25.000. A court
which exercises such great responsible
ity and calls for such ability and learn
ing ought to have its members amply
paid. so that they need not be depend
ent ON lecturing In law schools and do
ing other things for the purpose OF
eking out salary that only enables
them to live"
Speaking OF patent law and paten.
cases. the President said he hoped
that the new Court of Commerce
would be used rs Court OF Patent
Appeal.
And now. gentlemen" he said.
there Is another thought that this
meeting suggests. and that is OF heart
felt sympathy to the men OF 1887 and
1883. marvellous men. who made the
constitution OF the United States. In
these days, when We are all In favor
of progress. 1t is OF the highest benefit
to the community that we had an in
strument made In those days suffici-
emily elastic to comprehend all needed
progress and sufficiently restrictive to
keep out wild theories that II they
were tried. would inflict injury on the
community and would prove TO be fail
ures In the end. and to thank God that
we had John Marshall and his asso-
ciAtes. when the case of Marbury VS..
Madison came up. to decide that the
courts are the ultimate tribunal to
make the law of the Legisla- ure
square with the constitution.
Arbitration OF disputes between ma
tions Ia coming slowly, but surely
coming" said President Taft
Nov. my proposition is this: That
II the Senate has power to ratify an
agreement which shall bind 1t and the
government. or rather which shall
ftAnd the government, and therefore
bind II to consent to the adjudica-
tion OF any class OF questions arising
in the future by board OF arbtra-
ton, then 1t necessarily follows that
it has the right to consent to this
treaty"
Referring to his hope that the Sen
ate would not modify the treaties, the
President compared the nation to a
sick Indian.
You know they say the Indians
when they are sick don't like any
medicine except something that bites.
something that is bad to take" said
the President. 81 don't think that we
shall really get ahead with this arbi-
tration business unless We are willing
to assume an obligation to execute a
judgment that may bite and may be
had for us tn take
''If we are going to take the posi-
tion that We will wait until the ques-
tion arises and then conclude because
we don't think we can win in the ar
bihatiou case that it is not justice
able question. then we have written
our promises in water. and we have
made agreements that dissolve under
the test OF experience. The result
will follow. which may be anticipated:
that. instead of promoting the cause
of arbitration, we have interfered with
it, obstructed it and have made it
laughing stock with all nations"