The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-10-21
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AT MEETING OF AMERICAN BAR
ASSOCIATION NOW IN ANNUAL
SESSION IN WASHlNGTON-A6-
STRACT OF REPORTS.

Washington, October 21.-Emphatic
opposition to the judicial recall, a
plea that congress should apply the
same rule to Injunction in labor cases
as to other cases of injunction, and
references to Panama tolls and Jap
anese immigration, are among the
questions treated in reports of com
mittees presented today to the Ameri-
can Bar Association now in annual
session here.
Concerning the status of judicial re
call agitation, the committee to OPP
pose judicial recall reports in part as
follows:
"A perceptible change in sentiment
toward the judicial recall is slowly
but surely showing itself among the
people of the different states. In many
localities its true nature is not yet
understood. In most states the average
voter has, as yet, insufficient apprecia-
ton of its baneful character. The
work of education must be continued.
The signs, however, of increasing en-
lightenment, due to persistent efforts
of its opponents, are everywhere ap-
parent. Former leading advocates of
judicial recall are saying less about
it. Some of them are now saying moth
ing about it. Some have apparently
given up the idea of the recall of
judges, and have turned to the judi
cial decision recall as a substitute.
Others more adroit, have apparently
given up both the recall of judges
and the recall of judicial decisions
and have retreated to positions less
antagonistic to constitutional demo-
cracy."
Injunction legislation before the
present congress receives extended
treatment by the committee in charge
of this subject The provision limiting
injunctions in labor disputes, original
ly incorporated in the antitrust legis-
lation of the house of representatives,
and later amended by the senate, is
criticised by the committee, which
says:
The provision distinctly requires
the court to apply to controversies in
labor cases different rule from that
which is applied in other cases. To
give special privileges to any class
of men is opposed not only to the
Declaration of Independence, but to
the whole theory of our government.
On this point all parties agree.
Can it have occurred to the gen
tlemen who propose this legislation
that if the courts cannot decide these
controversies peaceably, they will be
decided by force? The results of the
latter method we see plainly in Colo
rado. Would it not have been better
to have the questions which have Civ
en- rise to blOodshed there, decided in
an orderly manner by the Colorado
courts?
Your committee is not opposed to
organized labor. We freely concede to
laboring men the same right to or
ganize that their employers possess.
We are persuaded that in opposing the
proposed legislation, we are the true
friends of both"
The Panama tolls question and Jap
anese immigration are referred to in
the report Of the committee on inter-
national laws, as follows:
The discussion arising between the
United States and Great Britain and
other countries as to free tolls for
coasting vessels of the United States,
has been amicably terminated by the
repeal of the free tolls by congress by
a statute carefully worded to prevent
the loss of any rights of the United
States.
Our relations with Japan continue
to be disturbed by the denial by some
states of this union of certain rights
claimed by her methods. 1t is respect
fully submitted that like all matters
of foreign relations this matter must,
by the rules of the constitution and of
eNpediency alike, be controlled and