Show TAFT rAFT C IN LAWS Not No Foregoing n a contemplated horseback ride because of a snowstorm President Taft do dC voted the tho entire afternoon to confer conferences proposed amendments to the interstate commerce law and I losi legislation hooking f to the suppression I I or White siave traffic the ap appointment of a successor or to th the late lato Judge Betha BeOm of the be United States dis district court at Chicago anti and the ap appointment ot of a governor of the terri tern tory of New Mexico I The conference with regard to lo the UlO Interstate commerce law changes was the most Important the ho presIdent has hns had on that thal subject It was said thaI lint lie he practically Is r ready a to begin this part of hl his meA message nJ to congress At the conferences wore were Attorney General oral eral Hitchcock Chairman Knapp and Commissioner Lane of the Inter State Commerce Commission District At Attorney torney Sims of ChICago who ho conduct conducted ed the prosecution in inthe the tho famous Standard Oil case and Representative Mann of Illinois Il II chairman or of the house com on foreign and interstate corn com commerce merce White Slave Question With District A Attorney Stuns Sims and Mr Ir Mann Iann the president took up the hue White to SIn Slave vo Mr 1 r Mann Iann MannIs IannIs I Is to a bill on this subject Mr Mann rann J that the tho govern mont mem Is the lie only that can cope colic with the evil the bill he has drafted provides penalty for tor forthe the enticement of a girl for immoral purposes thereby caU causing tier her to lo go bO bOas goas as a passenger o over r any transportation tion line engaged in Interstate or for foreign foreign eign commerce District Atto Attorney m 0 Sinus Sims has been recommended for appointment to the lie federal bench to succeed JUdge Bethea No decision a as to lo this va a ancy was reached so fat a I as can bo learned President Tafts views as to amend amendments amendments ments to tho InterState Commerce lass has been pretty generally known since his Des MoInes speech on Sept 20 The at the he White House this afternoon It was stated was to lo work out details of amend monts It Is proposed to establish an Inter interstate state commerce commence court of Io members to consider appeals from rates rales fixed by the Interstate commerce commis commission ulon sion Railroad The president also will recommend legislation to prevent ono one Interstate railroad from owning stock In a corn com line and to compol roads thus owning stock to dispose of their hold holdings Ings Legislation to prevent the over Issue of stocks and bonds will be beono beono ono or of the lie strongest recommendations Mr r Tat Taft will mako the presidents proposition being that no or bonds shall be Issued except by par por mission of the he In Interstate commerce comm Giving to lo shippers the choice of at routes over oer various connecting lines is another amend amendment men t the presIdent favors Mr raft laft believes that the Inter interstate state law should give he the tho commission power to hear and remedy against unjust lout lion loutIt It i perfectly clear hue he declares I I that b by Including in the tho same class articles which ought to lo pay different rates a railroad can commit exactly tile the same sante kind of injustice as It would hy by opposing an rate rato as asto asto to an any one cue class To give the tho commission power to institute complaints and not to lim limIt limIt It It to lo the of com coni complaints plaints made maui rom the outside Is an another other change In the lie law to which the tho president Is devoting much atten atlen attention tion Wont Let B Bars Down Mr Ir Taft b believes that this authority must be given to the commission to lo tomake make Its Work effective Mr Ir Taft however Is not In favor or of tho letting down the Ule bars entirely and giving the lie commIssion absolute power to fix rates In advance on Its own 00 initiative without complaInt being tIled med It Is proposed that the tho Interstate commerce commission bo be given ghen au hority to suspend for thirty days flar u a anew new rate classification providing com cent I plaint Is made mado that the rate Is un unjust just j The Tho subject which has given ghen the presIdent and his advIsers much con concern concern cern Is the tho proposal to lo permit rail railroads railroads roads to make rate agreements Mr Ir Taft holds bat rt railroads should be permitted to agree upOn rato that shall hall not exactly be pooling contracts hut shall constitute agreements as to always that such agreements shall receive the approval of the commerce commis slon sian slonA sianA A delegation of coal o operators and anda a representative o of the miners union called upon President Tuft Taft today to urge that railroads be permitted to th pool rotes rates as a means ot of providing against car shortages |