Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-06

and difficult matter in a satisfactory way.
I commend to the consideration OF Con-
gress the details of the new disciplinary
system, and recommend that laws be
passed putting the same into force both
in the army and the navy.
Il invite the attention OF Congress
to that part of the report of the Sec
rotary OF the Navy in which he rec
serve by the organization of the ex-
sailors Of the navy.
Il repeat my recommendation made
last year that proper provision should
be made for the rank OF the COM
mander-in-chie Of the squadrons and
fleets OF the navy. The Inconvenience
attending the necessary precedence
that most foreign admirals have over
our own whenever they meet in official
functions ought to be avoided. 1t inn
pairs the prestige OF our navy and is a
defect than can be very easily removed.
This department has been very
active in the enforcement of the law.
1t has been better or
Department ganized and with a
.erA larger force than ever
Va before in the history Of
the government. The prosecutions
which have been successfully concluded
the effectiveness Of the departmental
work.
1.-The prosecution Of trusts under the
Sherman antitrust law has gone on
without restraint or diminution. and
DEGREES similar to those entered in the
Standard Oil and Tobacco cases have
been entered in other suits. like the
suits against the powder trust and the
bathtub trust. 1 am very strongly con-
WINGED that steady. consistent course
in this regard, with a continuing or
Supreme Court decisions upon new
phases of the trust question not al
ready finally decided is going to offer
a solution of this much discussed and
troublesome issue in a quiet. calm and
judicial way. without any radical legis-
lation changing the governmental pol
nounced by the Sherman antitrust law.
1 have already recommended as an aid
in this matter legislation which would
declare unlawful certain well known
phases of unfair competition In inter-
state trade, and I have also advocated
voluntary national Incorporation for
the larger industrial enterprises. with
provision for a closer supervision by
appointed for the purpose. SO as to
make more certain compliance with
the antitrust law on the one hand and
to give greater security to the stock
holders against possible prosecutions
on the other. I believe, however. that
the orderly course Of litigation in the
courts and the regular prosecution OF
trusts charged with the violation of
the antitrust law is producing among
business men a clearer and clearer per-
ception of the line OF distinction be-
tween business that Is to be encouraged
and business that is to be condemned, and
that in this quiet way the question of
trusts can be settled and competition
reasonableness in prices and freedom
and independence in trade.
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"I am glad to bring to the attention of
Congress the fact that the Supreme
Court has radically
Reform of altered the equity
rules governing the
court PROCEDURE. procedure on the
equity side of all federal courts. and
yet put in practice SO as to enable us to
state from actual results what the re-
form will accomplish. they are of such a
character that We can reasonably
prophesy that they will greatly reduce
the time and cost of litigation in such
courts The court has adopted many
of the shorter methods of the present
English procedure. and while 1t may take
little while for the profession to &C.
custom itself to these methods. 1t is GER
tain greatly to facilitate litigation. The
action of the Supreme Court has been SO
drastic and so full of appreciation of the
necessity for a great reform In court pro-
cedure that I have no hesitation in fol-
lowing up this action with a recommenda-
ton which foreshadowed In MY message
A~A ~
the statute governing the procedure in
the federal courts on the common law
side should be so amended as to give to
the Supreme Court the same right to
make rules Of procedure in common law
as they have. since the beginning OF the
court. exercised in equity. / do not doubt
that a full consideration of the subject
will enable the court while giving effect
to the substantial differences in right and