Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-06-07 | Page 4 | Lafollette is Displeased by Court Decision

LAFOLLETTE IS DISPLEASED BK CPURTDECISION Criticises Supreme Tribunal for Passing on Matters Not Involved in Labor Union Fund Action. WARHINOTON. June 7 I wcliirlnK I hut Wi. eiil.retne courl 1'ii.l..n In iho rwl raa l lie "moal : uuilnuua In what It furealia.lnwa (oi- I the future of unlun iHhiir In thla rutin- try.-1 nulur Lafnlirtle. ii iilillian, VViaonnain, tnday Ibhu'1 m vLitenifnt In which he rrltlclard the court. The opinion, he atutd, waa aiyniririint ! cauau of what the court on qiu.-a- tlona not Involved in the i-une mi t)nr than bcuie of anytliln Hint la ,ic-tuiitlv ,ic-tuiitlv d.-culi-tl. After nivlewlng the roiulntnua which led up to and prevullcd ilurinx thn atrlk In tho Arkannna coil mlnia In upon which the caae wua buncd. the WlHconaln acntitor declared a "aix-llne "aix-llne dvclalon wa all thai waa renulrcd to dtepoec of the ca on 11h incrita. for the aiipreniA court waa rcluctHirtly ohllKcd In ailmit the fact aa I huvn atiitcil." the reference lielnir to hia uh-avrtlon uh-avrtlon that "there la n"l anil never I was any caae against the defumlanta in the federal court. The supreme court, however. Senator Sena-tor Lafollctte atated, "went out of Ita way through twenty-nine pages to berate be-rate the defendants und to characterise character-ise them as outlaws and murderers, and the chief Justice wound up bin opinion by eaying: " The circumstances are such as to awaken a regret that In our view of: the federal Jurisdiction wo cannot affirm af-firm the Judgment.'" The court also went out of its wnv, the senator said, "to change the law aa It hna exiated In the 1'ntted States since the beKinnlng of the government, that unincorporated associations, such as are Involved here, could not be sued aa an entity." Kevlewing what Is stated waa the authrity of the court upon which it baaed that finding, Senator Utfollctte charged that "Chief Justice Taft neir- lected to state that as the result of the Tuff-Yale case, the BrltUh parliament passed a statute which cut up that decision, de-cision, root and branch, and made it Impossible for an Knglish court lo ever render a similar decision. "Nu doubt our supreme court feels secure behind the bulwark of a written writ-ten constitution, the meaning of which that court hat arrogated to itself the fund ion of finally determining," ihe senator concluded.