The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-21
Judicial
Recall Is
AOpposedb by
Barr Assn
COMMITTEE DECLARES
THAT SENTIMENT IN
REGARD TO SAME
IS IMPROVING
Panama Tolls and Japanese I'm
migration Were Also Topics
Discussed BY the Assn.
(By Associated Press)

(by Associated PreSS)
Washington, Oct. 81 emphatic
opposition to the judicial recall. =
plea that Congress should apply the
same rule TO the injunction In labor
cases as to other cases of injunction,
and references to Panama tolls and
japanese immigration, are among
the questions treated in reports Of
committees presented today to the
American Bar Association now in
annual session here.
Concerning the status OF judicial
recall agitation. the committee to
oppose judicial recall reports in part
as follows:
"A perceptible change IN senti-
ment 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 appreciation Of
its baneful character. The work of
education must be continued. The
signs, however, of increasing en-
lightenment, due to persistent ef-
forts of it's opponents, are every
where apparent. Former leading
advocates of judicial recall are say
ing less about 1t. Some of them are
now saying nothing about 1t. Some
have apparently given up the idea
of the recall of judges aud have
turned to the judicial decision re-.
call 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 an
tagonistic to constitutional democ-
racy." =
Injunction legislation before the
present Congress receives extended
Treatment by the committee in
Icharge Of this subject. The provision
limiting injunctions in labor dis
tputes, originally incorporated in the
|anti-trust legislation Of the House
of Representatives, and later amend
cd by the Senate, is criticised by
the committee, which says:
"The provision distinctly re-
quires the court to apply to contrO-
versies in labor cases different
rule from that which is applied in
other cases. To give special privi-
leges to any class of men is opposed
not only to the Declaration of In
dependence, 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 peacabiy, they
will be decided by force? The shock
ing results of the latter method We
see plainly in Colorado Would it
: not nave Deen DelteT W nave INC
questions which have given rise to
bloodshed there decided in an or
derly manner by the Colorado
courts?
"Your committee is not opposed
to organized labor. We freely con-
cede to laboring men the same right
1 to organize that their employers
possess. We are persuaded that in
opposing the proposed legislation we
4 are the true friends Of both"
The Panama tolls question and
japanese immigration are referred
to in the report of the COMMITTEES
on international laws, as follows:
"The discussion arising between
the United States and Great Britain
and other countries as to free tolls
a, for coasting vessels of the United
q States has been amicably terminat
q ed by the repeal of the free tolls by
a Congress by a statute CAREFUL!
" worded to prevent the loss of an!
rights of the United States.
"Our relations with Japan con
r. tinue to be disturbed by the denia
Is by some States Of this Union Of Ger