Show TAFT OUTLINES THE MESSAGE I I HE lIE WILL WRITE TO CONGRESS CLEAR ClAR POLICY IN STATEMENT President Addresses Himself to Changes He Thinks Necessary Necessary Necessary sary in the Interstate Com Corn Commerce Commerce merce and AntiTrust Laws RATE BILL AMENDMENTS HE BELIEVES ARE NEEDED Delay Caused by the Endless Litigation Over Commis Commissions Commissions Commissions Decisions Seem Sem Se m to the President as Chief Objection VISITS SENATOR CUMMINS iT MAHA Neb Sept 20 President OMAHA dent Taft leaving Minnesota and Iowa behind him stopped in inOma Omaha Oma for the afternoon and evening on his way to the Pacific Pae ic coast The president found Omaha in the midst of a street car strike To avoid the possibility of trouble Mayor Dahl Dahi Dahlman Dahlman man ordered all attempts to run cars oars during the presidents stay called off The strike did not prevent the gathering of a great crowd in the downtown districts and there were times when the presidents automo automobile automobile bile bib had difficulty in making its way through the cheering throng The president was taken for an hours hour ride rde through the streets treet and parks He 4 passed rass d nearly ewry school chool building in Omaha and received Joyous greetings from trona tiLe tue U Le children who stood In front waved Jags flags and cheered their loudest Tonight tue tho president was wa a guest of the Knights Ak k Sar Str Ben at a quiet dinner at the Owa Oa 0 1 J dub club and afterward was wu taken to th thlen the len jen of the organisation where Iw M wU wit wUi i n s d one of oi the initiation fes f ft ft t ls Declaration of Policy A Her ward a 4 w nil li b be I 8 i iU tiu U I It I EU A 0 j of th the ent Ht arranged i 1 b Ins his honor t Des Del Moines today the president p de do deJ 1 J red the second of the important dec j nations of policy he had outlined for foru hi u trip He lie addressed himself to the t commerce and antitrust laws ul 11 detailed at length th the t tIIS i 1 S fur for amendments to the statutes that J p will ill in make to congress s in his message o If De Dember ember r next A U L Denver tomorrow night Bight Mr Taft will discuss dl cusa the conservation of n r a i t j ural i a 1 resources 11 Is Ig n Moines Sept 30 President Tart Taft Tafts 8 s nt a little more than four hours in inI inIs inI I Is Moines today and during that time l with United States Stat Senator B Cummins one of the Insurgent ln ur nt 1 ladr in congress congre s reviewed an imposing imposIng ing I g parade of nearly federal troops c ga ged d in hi a military tournament here vui ind lId mate made an open air address to an im T TUk i us m crowd gathered from all the sur Bur Bure e country Among other things HI Taft said Tile The rate bill has hu now been in opera I 1 II n v some om me three years and it 11 must mut h I a at II it ted that It has hab not furnished the re lif Ii 4 against unduly discriminatory dl rates the expedition and effectiveness ft huh ll were ere expected The Republican 1 at furin promised additional legislation i 1 F i aid of enforcing the interstate com corn rn lip ix e law and I have been engaged ed in Int t of what T I ought to toivi ivi nd to congress in order to corn com J I with that promise proD se Those who ordered rii T I I Ii provision b by which appeal from the r of lIf the commission might be taken t tJ ti th the court did so 80 because they thought F li right of appeal would offer much 0 c unity to delay the proceedings An n examination of the decisions of the J sion and resort to the courts by say ay of if temporary injunctions fully jus jt t Hod the conclusion that one of the de do deft def ft q ts of Jf f the present Interstate commerce 1 I L w u is the delay entailed by litigation in inI I 1 If ie court over the correctness of the or oro ort orth o th t r of the commission Th The court of appeal cannot be abol ii CUbe It ft is hi a constitutional right richt il thing must be done to reduce its n td Lt hy by way ay of delay so that the de do Continued on Page 2 z p L X I Ip p B rI vi viF F i c cJ cA J A T f 4 z I i I I SENATOR A B S CUMMINS With whom President Taft ate break fast as Des Moines la Ia yesterday CLEAR POLICY P IN 1 N STATEMENT STA TEM ENT Continued from Page 1 elsion shall be prompt final and ana effective tive Rate Appeals It Is hJ proposed now new by a of gentlemen of my cabinet who have con conferred rend furred with son some members ef of the tutor inter interstate state commerce commission to facilitate thee tM appeals from train the by th t the creation of a B separate interstate com Cent commerce commerce merce court of five members which shall sit in Wa Washington and which shall be bethe b bethe the only court to which petitions to set Sat aside or nullify the orders of the inter interstate InterState state commerce commission can be made and It is proposed to allow a single judge to make an order staying the proceedings of ef the interstate commerce commission n but sixty days and thereafter that no injunction shall be allowed against the order of the commission unless s granted by the whole court of five members A second change in the interstate com corn commerce merce meroe me law ought to give to the commission the power to hear and entertain corn com complaints plaints against unjust classification of merchandise for transportation It is per perfectly perfectly perfectly clear that by including in ludins articles in inthe Inthe Inthe the same dam class which ought to pay dif different different different ferent rates a railroad can commit ex exactly exactly the same kind of injustice as it would wo ld bj by Imposing an exorbitant rate as asto asto asto to any ono oivo class Hence I have not the slightest hesitation m In hi recommending to congress that the power of the commis commission sion slon should be extended to Include not only the fixing of rates rate on a complaint but also the readjustment of classification tion if it proves on cn complaint to be UnJust un unjust just juat New Rate Classification Under the interstate commerce law a anew anew anew new rate classification Is to be filed with the commission It is proposed now to authorise authorine tire the commission to postpone pm the th date that mici new rate is s J Jo tE take lake 1 effect presided that within thirty t Ct n Att a Ol 1 rc o 1 C plaint be filed that such rate rete or t I fo is 1 TeaM Da e or OT unJust 1 I am Inclined to think thinh this la Is i a fair exchange In the provisions of the law Jaw lawA lawA A third amendment to the act should provide that the commission may by order suspend modify or annul any changes in the rules or regulations which impose moose undue burdens on shippers No o doubt ought to be left with respect to the power of the commission ion on such a It subject be because becane cause cane eau the rules and regulations of a rail railway railway railway way are the means by bf which injustice may be done to the shipper hIpper It would seem m well to the commission to compel connecting carriers to unite in informing informing forming tonnIng through routes and to fix tb the rate and the apportionment thereof among the tb a carrier 38 The mm ou should also alno be empowered to t prescribe the rules and regulations under which the shippers shall ahall have the privilege to designate the route over which their ship shipments ments monte shall be parried carried to the destination beyond that of the first carrier Another most important amendment of the Interstate commerce law part of ot which was specifically promised in the platform is a prohibition against any in interstate Interstate railroad company acquiring stock In hi tiny any nV competing railroad In the future and a further provision that no nu railroad engaged in interstate commer shall after a certain date hold stuck stock in a corn com petin railroad Agree on Tariff Rates In addition to amendments to the law which are looking lookin to a rather more dras drastic drastic drastic tic regulation of railroad rates than heretofore another provision should be te added by which railroads s may be per permitted permitted permitted to agree agres upon traffic rates and make contracts with respect re to rates that shall shaH not be pooling contracts but shall constitute agreements as to rates pro provided vided always that such agreements shall receive the approval of the Interstate commerce commission This brings brines me to the question of the antitrust law While we have not threshed the whole matter out so as to reach a II definite conclusion lon I am am stilt still inclined to the view that the way to make the antitrust law more effective is to narrow its scope somewhat so 80 that it shall not Include in its prohibition and denunciation as a crime anything but a conspiracy or combination or contract en entered entered entered Into with actual intent Int nt to monopolise monopolise olise or suppress competition in hi Interstate trade trad It has been suggested that the law ought to limit its denunciation to those tho e contracts in restraint of trade that are unreasonable I dont favor any such limitation It seems to be proposed to leave to the judges to decide what com coin combinations combinations and contracts in restraint of trade ought to be permitted to exist and enforced on general grounds of ff f public policy in other words to have bave the court I attempt to establish some line between what are arc called good and bad trusts as asI asif II I if the suppression of competition in some I cass CS s was a good thing and in other cases casesi i was wa bad had I cannot agree that any an such distinction can be properly property made I Punish All Combinations I All combinations to suppress competition I tion don or to maintain a monopoly in whole or in part of interstate trade are and should be in violation of the antitrust law and should be punished as such and andI I there is no room for the expression t reasonable or unreasonable In this gen general general general eral view of the statute The two statutes which must claim c i m the I attention of our congress in its next sea ses session I sion are the Interstate Inter tate commerce law and the antitrust law Ja Another series of questions for con congress gross gress are with reference to the conserva conservation conservation tion lion of resources The Th These I shell not dis din discuss cuss now but bot shall do later in my jour journey journey ney fey The monetary commission will probably probably ably report GO so that its final conclusions may be considered at the end of the coming session or at the beginning of the next In any event we look forward to the worK which this congress has bas to do doWe doWe doWe We must be conscious that the measures I have proposed will consume all aU the time there is ie I All CAll this is in line of performing nn the promises of the Republican platform and we can certainly be discharging di no higher or more sacred duty Omaha Neb Sept 20 The dinner at atthe atthe the Omaha Oma club occupied the time Ume from front to Tafts Tafta re to remarks remarks marks were brief and he declared they were not for the use of his suite b by which term he ho referred to the newspaper newspapermen men who accompanied him Tonight the president and his party part were ware entertained en at the den ilen ef of the th Knights of ot n The Initiation lR us 03 r J a n p 02 o r W O t entitled in III which to M d tur o fc t e eto to take a prominent part Tonight r how however however however ever the thu program was varied with hits hita hitson on tho president and others of ot his bis party which the president greatly enjoyed One On of the most telling quips was wan a score scene a ne on the golf links in which appeared a phys physical physIcal I ical teal reproduction of Mr Ir Taft in the con COB costume tume ao so often shown In pictures of him with his golf sticks The party was taken directly from the den to the station and the westward wa Journey was resumed on schedule time at 1112 p m They rhey are due duo to arrive in inDenTer Denver DenTer at S 2 p m tomorrow |