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An Associated Press dispatch says:
A congressional "recall" of judges of
tho inferior courts of tho United
States is proposed in an amendment
which Representative Hull of Ten
nessee offered in tho house and
which was referred to in the com
mittee. Tho amendment which will
be known as article XVIII, proposes:
"That for reasonable cause,
judges of the inferior courts of the
United States may bo removed from
office by concurrent resolution of
both houses of congress if two-thirds
of the members present concur there
in. Such judge shall have reason
able notice and shall have an oppor
tunity to be heard in person or by
counsel." Tho change in the con
stitution proposed by Mr. Hull re
quires a two-thirds vote of congress
and ratification by three-fourths of
the states of the union. Mr. Hull
says his proposed amendment will
confer on congress the power to deal
with judges of the inferior courts of
the United States, similar to that
now given to about half the state
legislatures with respect to judges
of inferior state courts. Should the
amendment become a part of the!
constitution, congress could remove
a judge for mental or physical dis
ability, incompetency, continued ne
glect of official duty, habitual drun
kenness, oppression or other inis
conducts in office.
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The five judges of the United
States commerce court would be re
tained in office as circuit iuderes.- bv
an agreement reached by the house
kana senate conferees on the execu
tive, legislative and judicial appro
priation -bill. The commerce .court
would be definitely abolished by the
agreement and its work turned., over
to the district courts in. which the
various cases may have arisen. The
senate had proposed that the. five
commerce judges be immediately
chopped from the judicial rolls,
while the house proposed to keep
them as .circuit, judges, but not to
fill vacancies that might occur. In
this manner the number of circuit
judges would ultimately drop to
twenty-nine, the number now
authorized by law. .The conference
report was submitted to tho Rnnto
It provides also for a modification of
one civil service term, fixing it at
seven years. After each term, civil
service employes would be required
to again qualify for their places by
examination or otherwise. Those
now in the service would be credited
with admission to a seven year term
beginning next September.
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Company XC32 Oliver lUdjr., Jackson. Mich.
The house of representatives, by
a vote of 156 to 72. nasRori i
ton tariff revision bill. It is claimed
taut, ima win reauce the duties on
cotton 21 per cent. It is the same
bill that was vetoed last year bv
President Taft.
DOUBTFUTj
"Jones is extremely attentive to
his wife."
"Still very much in love with
her, "eh?"
"Either that, or ho Is afraid of
her." Boston Transcript.
AN IMPKOVEMENT
"I got a new attachment for the
family piano," said Mr. Growcher;
"and it's a wonderful Improvement."
"What is it?"
"A lock and key." Washington
Star.
staff, out of office on March. 4, was
not In the reconstructed bill.. The
bill, as the house repassed it', was
changed only in that it did not carry
the proposal to remove General
Wood.
President Taft was formally notlr.
fled of his renominatlon at the White
House. Senator EJihu Root delivered
the notification address. Following
are sample extracts from Senator
Root's speech: "Your title to the
nomination is as clear and unim
peachable as tho title, of any candi
date since political conventions be
gan "You have been nominated be
cause you stand pre-eminently for
certain fixed and essential principles
which tho republican party main
tains. "You believe in preserving the
constitutional government of the
United States. .
"You believe in the rule of law
rather than the rule of men. You
realize that the only safety for na
tions, as for individuals, is to estab
lish and abide by declared principles
of "action."
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Senator -Simmons, representing the
democratic-insurgent alliance in tho
senate, and Representative Under
wood, democratic leadAr nf h v,n,
..reached an agreement to frame a
compromise wool bill, similar to that
President Taft vetoed last summer.
A meeting of tho wool tariff confer
ence will be held.
With practically all features on
which President Taft based his veto
the army appropriation bill was
again reported to the senate by the
njllltary affairs committee, carrying
approximately $94,000,000. The
section inserted in the bill when it
was in conference to legislate Major
General Leonr.rd Wood, chief of
The majority report of the house
committee appointed to investigate
the steel trqst has been made to the
house and it is described in an As
sociated Press report as follows:
The report was signed by the
chairman and RenrGHAnrnMvoa T?n.f
lett of Georgia, McGillicuddy of
waine, .Beau or Texan nrul T.iftiofnT,
of New tpr'k, democrats, Represen-v!
uutiyea. .uaraner or Massachusetts,-
Mfohfean and Sterling, of Illinois,
republicans, dissented from the re-
P.orf ,the maJrity. Representa-.
tive Sterling submitted his individ
ual views in a minority report and
Representative Littleton, democrat,
dissenting from the recommenda-
P16 ma3orlty for amendment
of the Sherman, antitrust law, filed
his views.. .;
Representatives Gardner and Dan
ford will unite in another minority
report which Representative Young
will sign and add to it his own find
ings as to the facts sflrrounding the
organization and operation of the
steel corporation.
TOthVep?rt,?f the ma30ry deals
with the steel trust from its incep
tion and describes the various steps
by which J. P. Morgan and his as
sociates built up the corporation. In
addition to recommendations for
legislation suggested as remedial
the democratic members of the com
mittee make general accusations
against the men' responsible for the
organization.
J. P. Morcran rinrT iio 'odmii.1
are held up as being the beneficiaries
of enormous profits realized flrom
the over-capitalization of,N the sub
sidiary companies of tnev steel' cor
poration and later pf the corporation
n Jcgie E H-9ary and his dinners
to j steel manufacturers are credited
with a scheme by which prices rind
territory were controlled by the steel
trust after pooling agreements were
discarded.
tller Prident Roosevelt is in
dicted for making the control of the
steel trust absolute and is charged
with being responsible for the gigan
tic stature which the trust has at
tained. The United States Steel corpora
tion flayed as an enemy of organized
labor, accused of lowering the socio
logical conditions of its employes
and of, contributing to AinricaDi
dustry workmen and work methods
un-American and foreign to.-the. best '
interests of labor-,
j Principal stockholders of :tlie steel
corporation are accused of exerting
powerful and injurious influence on
the business of the United States by
means of control exercised through
interlocking directorates of railway
and industrial organizations.
The activity of the corporation in
politics is laid bare and its influence
described and tho "steel trust" as a
tariff beneficiary and. its part in the
making of tho Payne-Aldrich tariff
act are touched upon hy the demo
crats. The committee recommends legis
lation to cure trust evils and to meet
existing conditions. It condemns the
steel corporation, but does not in
vade the jurisdiction of .the United
States court in which there is now
pending a government suit for its
dissolution.
' Early in its report the committee
sets forth that it would investigate
"as if no proceeding on the part of
the United States government were
now pending against said corpora
tion, but not for the purpose of- de
termining the questions involved-.in
the action brought by the govern
ment." The government's- suit is to dis
cover if the United States Steel cor
poration is "in violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law."
In summing, up its conclusions the
majjority, report says:
"The control of corporations by
the federal government as recom
mended by Mr. Carnegie, Judge Gary
and others, is not approved. What
ever may be the evil results of the
elimination of competition from tho
steel -business, it does not justify
such a remedy and- could not' be
cured by- it. Such a control, semi
socialistic in its nature, is beyond
.the power 'vested by- the "constitution
4nthe federal congress: y, ' .,
! 'fT-he- almsesr 'mentidnad-tfri thls're '"
port can in a great' measure; "bo rem- --
edieaX-by. giving to the 'operations of; '
the-.. United' States Steel corporation
and. other like corporations the
Kidest.. publicity,- 4ind by the strict
enforcement of laws specifically in-'
hibiting the-employment of cunning
devices by which: unfair advantage
over competitors is secured. The'
bureau of- corporations possesses the "
authority to thoroughly' -investigate
the internal affairs of industrial
concerns doing an interstate busi
ness. . , .
; Had the .character of the steel cor
poration and the naturo and extent
of its operations been known to the
people and to the president of tho
United States at the time of the ab-,
sorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company, it is highly improb
able that the chief executive would
In twenty minutes haye given his
consent to a merger fraught with in
finite injury to the steel industry
and to the public alike.
The part that United States steel
the absorption of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Railroad company. Presi
dent Roosevelt and Wall street
?-nancIers Dlayed in the panic of
J.907 are covered in the report and'
the insinuation is made that tho
panic was an artificial one designed
for the benefit of the steel corpora
tion In its comment the committee
Bays:-
' . "How a Panc which had persis
;iy resisted combined effort
of the federal government and John.
o. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan &
?: and remained in unabated fury
after Morgan and Rockefeller had
turned loose $60,000,000 and th
federal treasury $25,000,000 more
should suddenly be stilled by this
manipulation of Grant B. Schley'a
loans has not been explained either
by Mr. Roosevelt or by any other
STiu .Yet ,fc ls gently malu
twned that the paiilo' continued jprfopd
to this magical scoop of securities
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