The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-12
OELUCE OF BILLS
WILL Be ENTERED
Members of Congress Are
Making Ready for the
Approaching Session.
~ RoDERIck CLIFFORD.

the converting of congress is several
weeks distant number Of members of
the house OF representatives are in the
city putting the finishing touches on
bills which they intend to introduce. or
preparing themselves for other mat
tiers which they know are coming up
for consideration at the next session
OF congress. Prominent Democratic
leaders are in the city mapping out
the work of the Democratic house eau
Gus.
There are many things inaugurated
by the Republican administration
which are distasteful to the Democrat
ic majority OF the house and which
they have openly avowed they will
no longer tolerate. 1t is wellknown
fact that it will be next to impossible
for President Taft to secure from the
Democratic house any additional ap-
preparations for his pet institutions,
the Tariff board. The monetary COM
mission also has fallen into disfavor
with the house committee of appro-
priations.
After the Commerce Court.
Another of the creations of the Re-
publican administration which have
aroused the ire of the Democratic lead
ers and which, il the ysucceed In
their intentions, is doomed to the fate
Of the tariff board and the monetary
commission Is the commerce court.
Representative Sims, Of Tennessee,
has assumed the leadership in the fight
against the youngest Of the United
States courts. Judge Sims will press
for a caucus Endorsement by the Dem
ocratlc party of bill to abolish the
court OF commerce.
Representative Sims will urge that
the Democratic party take strong
position against the measure. In pre-
pairing for the fight which is sure to
follow the introduction of such a bill.
Representative Sims has made an ex.
haustive investigation and study Of the
tendencies not only Of the Court Of
Commerce, but of recent judicial in
depreciation in the other federal courts
as we'll. Close friends of Representa-
tive Sims. with whom he has discuss
ed the matter, assert that when he
makes public the results of his in
vestigation, the eyes Of the public will
be opened to something they little
dreamed Of
The bill which will be introduced by
Representative Sims will he bitterly
opposed by friends Of the Administra-
ton. In defense of the biyy Repre-
sentative Sims will touch on some of
the recent tendencies as indicated by
the Supreme Court decisions, and will
ADVANCE the suggestion that it is time
for congress to manifest its sentiment
generally toward the judicial construc-
ton of these laws.
Representative Sine like many 9TH
er Democrats, feels that the whole
scheme Of state regulation is in dan
ger because of the tendency of the
COZ rs to arrow down the field within
which such regulation may be conduct
ed.
The Democratic party which from
the time of it's birth has stood for the
principles of states nights has been
greatly alarmed by the decision of the
United States Supreme Court in the
Safety Appliance case. The leaders
fear a further restriction of the pow
er Of the states to regulate the rail-
roads. In the appliance case the court
held that all railroads must equip all
,neir cars with the safety devices pre-.
scribed by Federal law. On the ground
that state and interstate commerce are
20 greatly intermingled that they can
not be separated.
important Question.
Much speculation Is being manifest.
I'd as to whether the decision Of the
Supreme Court in the safety appliance
case will be made precedent for the
decision in the Minnesota rate case.
The Democratic party is alarmed as to
whether like decision in the Mime
sofa rate case will take over to exclus-
i've Federal control all regulation of
traffic. II such a decision of the
court Is given it would leave the states
practically helpless to regulate the
railroads within their borders.
Another thing that Is worrying the
D0mOCT6ClC leaders IS WQetner THIS
new court Of commerce is going to be
generously inclined towards the state
or not. 1t ia strictly an administra-
tion court and they are inclined to be-
lieve that it will lean toward the Fed
eral government.
Democratic leaders express conf.
dence that the caucus will indorse the
Sims bill to abolish the court of com
merce. 1t Is a matter Of record that
only q few Democrats voted for the
bill for the establishment Of the court
and that it lacked but single vote in
the House Of being defeated. It's re-
cent decisions have made the court
decidedly less popular with the Demo
cratic party than it was at the time
Of it's creation and there appears lit
tie likelihood that the party will not
indorse the Sims measure.
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