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Growth of Fortunes to Dangerous Proportions.HI* View* on Negro Question—Asks for Currency Reform, and Shipping Bill—Would Make Citizens of Japs —Many Other Important Subjects Discussed.Washington. Pec. 3.—The notable features of President Roosevelt* annual message to congress are h»* appeal for the enactment Into law or several bills Introduced Into congress last winter and spring; his views on the negro problem; the scoring he gives those whom he terms preachers of discontent. the stand he takes for the control of corporations by the federal government umJet the Interstate commerce clause of the constitution, nnd his recommendation for an inhcriUuicc mid Income tax law.Many other subjects common to messages of the chief executive are touched upon, but the ones mentioned arc by far of the greatest Importance. He especially urges this passage of the bill prohibiting corporation* from contributing to rampulgn funds, and also that one which would give the government the right of apiK U In criminal cases. Uf this he suys:Another bill which has Just part one house of the congress and which I* urgently necessary should be enacted Into law Is that conferring Upon the government the right of apiatal In criminal cases on questions or law. This right exists In many of the states; It exists In the District of Columbia by net of the congress. It Is of course not proposed that In any ease a verdict for the defendant on the merits should be set aside. Recently In one district whore the government had Indicted certain persons for conspiracy In connection with rebates, (he court sustained the defendant's demurrer: while In unother Jurisdiction an Indictment for conspiracy to obtain rebates has been sustained by the court, conviction* obtained under it. and two defendant* aentenced to Imprisonment. The two cases referred to may not bo In real conflict with each other, but it Is unfortunate that there should even be an apparent conflict. At present there is no way by which the government can cause such a conflict, w hen It occurs, to be solved by an appeal to u higher court; and the wheel* of Juntfo-arc blocked without any real decision of the question. I can not too strongly urge the passage of the bill In question.A failure to pass will result In •‘eriousiy hampering the government in Its effort to obtain Justice, especially against I wealthy Individuals or corporations who do wrong; and may also prevent the government from obtaining Justice for wageworkers who are not themselves able effectively to contest a case wblt;*r«* the Judgment of an inferior court has been against them. I have specifically In view a recent decision by a district Judge leaving railway employ ••«** without remedy for violation of a ceriain so-called labor statute. It seems nn absurd- I Ity to permit a single district judge. ! against what may be the Judgment of the Immense majority of his colleagues on the bench, to declare it law solemnly • enacted by the congress to lie “unconstitutional. nnd then to deny to the trovernment the rignt to have thd supreme court definitely decide the qu«*-tlon. __Injunctions.On the subject of the abolition of injunctions In labor disputes, hr says:
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Meade County News
Meade, Kansas, US
Thu, Dec 06, 1906
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