The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28
' F ly in g Squadron' Seems Certain to Be- come Law Giving Taft Power to Assign "EnjOiners" Debate Reveals Purpose.

By International Labor News Service. Washington, D. C., April 28.-The l injunction judges are to be let loose
 upon the country.
 That is the joker which Interna-
 tional Labor News Service finds in
 the bill just passed by the Senate of the United States providing for the appointment of "A additional district judges.
 The bill now is in the hands of the Senate and House conferees. Appar- ently nothing can prevent its enact ment into law
 Under the provisions of this bill of the injunction, could send Judge Anderson, the most careless user of the in unction, into any district If in his judgment, the public interests so require"
 The bill reads:
 "A district judge for a district may be designated to act in an other district of the same circuit including territory attached there "(a) In the place of district judge who is physically or men
 tally unable for the time being to perform his duties or who is or
 who is to be necessarily absent from his district; l "(b) In aid of district judge 1 who, on account of the accumula- ton and urgency of business, is unable to perform speedily all the
 work of his district; ! "(c) Tn aid of district judge when the public interests so re- quire"
 It is entirely conceivable that the chief justice might decide that the public interests require the presence of an injunction judge in case of threatened disagreement between em- plcyers and employees. Because of the danger which lies in sending judges roaming all over the country to deal with matters with | which they are not familiar, and for
 other reasons, the following votes 1 were cast against the passage of the bill in the Senate:
 Borah, Broussard, Capper, Cara
 way, Dial, France, Harris, Harrison,
 Kendrick, King, Ladd, LaFollette,
 McNary, Overman, Sheppard, Shields,
 Stanley, Townsend, Underwood, Will liams
 The original bill provided for 1o
 
 this would have passed the Senate had not enough votes been obtained by extending the number to 24. Log rolling for patronage is not yet lost art in the Senate. A few quotations from the discus sion on the floor of the Senate will show what some of the senators think of the measure: Senator Williams: We ought to subscribe to the intent of the bill and organize a flying squadron annexed
 to the supreme Federal judiciary at Washington, to be sent wherever 1t may be desired"
 Senator Norris: "One of the prin- cipal uses of the Federal judge is to have him issue injunctions. * * MT.
 President, I do not believe such de- crees, which I conceive to be un- reasonable and destructive of good government, could be obtained in state courts. MT. President Ii the judges of the United States courts would take less time in trying to issue injunctions restraining other public officials from performing their duty, they would have more time to clear these congested dockets and try these cases which are pending in the United States courts"
 Senator Overman: "I am opposed to this method of legislation. It is history repeating itself. One hundred and twenty years ago, and not since that time has bill of this nature been introduced in either body of the Congress. Every student of history remembers what scandal and what criticism attended the passage of that bill. It was called by some the mid night judges bill
 "I am opposed to creating a whole
 sale lot of judges for life at great salaries and taxing the people, as this bill will do, to the extent of quarter
 of million dollars, when it it is not necessary.
 "Is it porkbarrel bill? Why, MT. President, it starts off with a provis- ion for 1o judges, with Io pieces of pie. As we have two senators from each state, the bill starts off with 30 votes, and now there are some Io amendments pending to add as many