Show BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION Among th announced s subjects for in congress this week Is one on States rights presumably rel relating Ung to th the episode and probably too with a bearing on Secretary Roots fa famoUs Inous speech in Now New York It will be remembered that Mr toots ch was wasa as asa a plain declaratIon that this adminIs adminIstration administration means to extend federal jurls juris jurisdiction diction to include many powers now re retained reI I by state governments and the J announcement Included an intimation that some way would be found to get geta It a construction ot of the constitution which would secure legally this extension The outcry which followed Mr Roots speech led to some state statements ments from rom him disclaiming the ih mean meanIng meanIng Ing gathered from his remarks but the text of the tho speech Itself Usel showed his ex cx A V Vr r ri fo Co put It gently most st disingenuous Mr Root now declares that he meant to say th that t the failure of f state stat must to an eX eXtension ex extension tension ot of federal authority and activIty Ity unless the states themselves fulfilled the obligation to themselves and the country at large and remedied d abuses abuses made possible by the limitations ot of ted fed oral eral authority and the laxity of state In a Mr lIr Root was justifIed in hi his reflections on the the weakness of some some state stat It has been bl for instance to secure secure charter charte grants for trusts in New Jersey which I render futile a remedy or trust s by other states In some states the laxIty of dIvorce Taws raws made mad a uni uniform I form federal law on marriage and di divorce i vorce seem desirable But this admin adminIstration n has hns constantly and persistent persistently ly assumed that a failure of justice In Inan Inan an individual state justified disregard of constitutional rights by the president dent ent who of all men should have ben been most careful in construing his own powers tn n Its every move the admin l I has fostered and nd encouraged the notion that the states are not en i s t powers express y reserved to elv s but I factors In a government whose head has autocratic powers Such an assumption has b enl Jen t lW bf 11 41 de con on gres Hi thit h n lY su sub subs J s 5 in the lower Jower hous hoti to any pro Os i tinli from the ph president h li set and al although although though thC administration may be ex cx expected to continue its assumption of legislative and judicial as well as ox ex tive functions the these unwarranted powers will probably be accompanied by a caution heretofore unknown circles The pro nto promising to lo use ue all the nations forces including the military In Ih San Francisco to promote Japanese interests the promis to secure a con construction of the constitution from the court to suit the administration tion the talk of extending federal pow ir domain of rn n r f U li U se nr e soon boon romero remembered only J the blunders blunder or of an grown gron foolish through the tolerance of a people who forgave the Invasion of their rights for Cor a while I Henceforth it is likely the constitution of the United States may still sUIl be re regarded by the powers that be as of oC some effect even in I the highest offices in the land |