Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-09-28
" Be CHARITABLE
SAYS Mr.. Taft
And Don't Ascribe Corrupt
Motives To All But Ones
Good Friends M
!" ALL OF US IN SANE BOAT z
Doubt and Distrust Anon & In
vestors Due to Enimity to
Enterprise.

! (By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
! Fort Dodge, Ia, Sept. 2S.-The re-
ception committee of Iowa Republican
leaders which welcomed President
Taft to the state at Council Bluffs to-
day did not include United States Sen.
ator Cummins, one of the acknowledg.
ed leaders of the ''insurgent" faction
III the Senate Senator Cummins has
declared for Senator LaFollette for
the Republican presidential nomina-
tion in 1912 against the wishes OF
many of his own friends, who desire
Mr.. Cummins himself to be a candi-
date.
| Governor Carroll and staff, with Sen.
ator Kenyon and enough Republican
leaders to fill two special cars attach
ed to the Presidential train at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, were waiting to greet the
| President.
Senator Cummins' welcome. 1t was
said today, would come at Des Moines
! tomorrow where he is member Of the
reception committee. Aside from that
appearance with the President, the
senior Iowa senator is not expected
to figure in the trip across the state.
Beginning at Council Bluffs with q
speech of explanation of his long trip
west that was turned into talk on
prosperity, President Taft led up be-
fore he had seen half dozen Iowa
towns, to discussion of the tariff
and his vetoes of the three revision
messages at the special session.
Good Crowds.
The crowds were fairly large and
proved good listeners.
At Denison the President made his
first long speech. He referred to the
platform of the Republican party in
Iowa as calling for tariff commission
of three Republicans and three DEM
ocrats and said the present tariff board
was as near like such a commission
as congress would permit the country
to have.
Will Reduce Tariff.
At Rockwell City. the President
said: I'VE are going to attempt re-
duction of the tariff just as soon as
we have adequate information and that
information Is coming along on the
first of December next. Then we are
going to recommend reduction and
II We don't you punish us; If we do.
be with u.s.
His Speech.
The Presidents speech in full is
as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: wish to invite
your attention to the relation of the
Federal Government and the Federal
statutes to the business of this coun-
try, its legality and It's prosperity.
There are four most important points
at which the policies of Congress and
the Federal Executive touch the busi-
ness of this country in such a vital
way that the people are entitled to
have the greatest care, industry and
application characterize governmental
action in respect to them. They are,
first. in respect of interstate COM
merce and the regulation of railroads
and the rates of transportation be-
tween States; second, In the enforce
ment Of the laws forbidding combina-
tions to monopolize Interstate trade
in Industrial companies; third, in
the amendment Of tariff legislation af,
fecting chiefly the manufactures Of
the country; and fourth. in the fur.
nishing for the use of the business
of the country proper banking and
currency system which shall automa.
tically give an elastic currency, ex-
panding and contracting according to
the business methods, and inspiring
confidence in the business community
which shall prevent panics.
First. In respect to the regulation
Of railroads and the prompt remedy.
ing of unreasonable and unduly dis.
eliminating rates. we have progressed
far toward a satisfactory solution. In
the last administration the power was
given to the Interstate Commerce
Commission to Ak railway rates, It
having been decided that the func.
tions of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, then conferred, went only SO
far as to find that rate was un-
reasonable, but did not include the.
power to fix a reasonable rate. When
the first regular session Of Congress-
met in the administration urged up-
on the Congress the necessity for fur
ther legislation looking to 4 moro
complete control and regulation OF
railways in respect to rates than had
heretofore been given. recommended
the establishment OF a commerce
court, which should absorb all the re-
viewing jurisdiction which circuit
courts had heretofore had. to consist
of FIVE members, with the hope that
this might secure greater expedition
and greater uniformity In ruling and
a prompter disposition BY the Sup
rene Court Of cases passed upon b..
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
I recommended that cases affecting
the interstate commerce should be put
under the direct control Of the De
partment Of Justice, and that the pro-
|ceedings after the order had been
made in the interstate Commerce.
Commission should be brought tor ot
against the United States, and ne
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