Arizona republican., 1911-09-24

ST. LOUIS. Sept 23.-During a mod eratelv busy day. President Tat made six speeches took q forty mile auto mobile ride. opened the local football season by tossing the pigskin onto the gridiron of the St. Louis University. laid the corner stone of the new Y. NJ. c A. building. sat through nine innings of an exciting baseball game between the St Louis and Philadelphia National league teams, visited the Ma sonic club to be made a life member of the organization. and after ad- dressing a vast throng at the Coliseum tonight. had nothing to do but travel all night in order to be in the insurgent state of Kansas tomorrow.
 On the eye of entering the reputed hostile territory, Taft put forward a suggestion of wider power of impeach- ment as a substitute for the more radi cal proposal of the judiciary recall The president declared the laws delay is unquestionably one of the greatest causes of unrest in this country, and said undoubtedly the recall idea had grown out of the fact that cour-s in many instances are not performing the functions they should. Judges should be made more responsible, he said and the means of impeachment more sim ple There should be judicial proce- dure and a proper hearing. rather than public ClamOr. He declared the de- lay in administering justice in this country should bring the blush of shame to all Americans and that the courts of this country made a very poor showing in comparison with those of England. where judges keep up with their dockets and criminals find swift punishment awaiting them. He spoke with a great deal of earnestness on the subject of reform in judicial pro- cedure He said that is something with which he is most familiar as law yer and judge and felt free to discuss the matter from the frankest possible standpoint. His speech on this sub ject was entirely impromptu and fol- lowed the conclusion at the city club. The set speech of the day was on the creation, work and purpose of the tariff board. He said he believed and still believes that reciprocity would inure to the benefit of both countries. Twice he was introduced as the "gr ,atest president of the country" but modestly protested on each occasion.
 Referring to the recall, he said:
 If a judge will not he frightened by anybody and will carry on the court as his court then you have an administration of justice as in Eng
 land. If you examine the statistics you will blush as Americans that we have not shown ourselves more adaptable to the issue which has arisen here with respect to whether crime shall be punished and whether We have not made the machinery that accomplishes that purpose. The tendency in legislation ought to be toward giving judges more powe. rather than making judges more re- sponsible. There is no difficulty about making judges responsible I know it is proposed to make a short cut and cut his head off without any reason just because the people wish it. un- der the theory of the judicial recall. I agree that theory has a foundation on the basis I have stated, namely courts have not fulfilled the function they ought to fulfill; but I do not agree that therefore they ought to kill courts. and that is what you are doing if you make the tenure in office dependent upon election. Gen tlemen, that won't do. Make your judges responsible. Impeach them Impeachment of judges would be very healthy thing these times. | have known instances in congress where impeachment should have been carried through. but on inquiry found the difficulty between the member and the judge compromised and the thing allowed to pass. It is not nec-