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REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMIvIITTEE, 1910.
OFFICERS.
WILLIAM B. Mckinley, Illinois C? atTwoji
JAMES A. TAWNKY, MINNESOTA rice-Ciiairma^
HBINHY C. LOCDENSLAGER, New Jkbsey. /aecr^ari
CHAHLBS H. DUELL. New York Treasure
HENRY CASSON, WISCONSIN Axst. Secretan
JOHN C. BVBRSMAN, Illinois Asat. Treasurei
WILLIAM J. BROWNING, New Jersey Auditor
DENNIS B. ALWARD, Michigan Assistant to decretan
FRANCIS CURTIS, Massachusetts Director Literary Burea/u
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
JAMES A. TAWNEY, MiNNKSOTA,
ADIN B. CAPRON, Rhode Isi^and.
GEORGE S. NIXON, Nl-vada.
SIMON GUGGENHEIM, Colohado.
JAMES M. MILLER. Kansas.
JAMES H. DAVIDSON. WISCONSIN.
J. HAMPTON MOORE, Pennsylvania.
JOHN W. WEEKS, Massachusktts.
RICHARD BARTHOLDT, Misso'JBi.
J. VAN YBCHTEN OLCOTT, New Yobk.
JOHN M. MOREHEAD, North Cabolina.
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Rep. William H. Hbald
Rep. Thomas R. Hamek
Rep. William B. McKi^rLEY
Rep. Edgap. d, Crumpacker
Rep. Frank P. Woods
REP. Jambs M. Miller
Rep. John W. Langley
Rep. Edwin C. Burleigh
Rep. George A, Pearp^b
Rep. John W. Weeks
Rep. Edward L. Hamilton
Rep. James A. Tawntiy
Rep Richard Baetholdt
Rep. Charles N. Pray
Rep. Edmund H. Hinshaw
3bn. Qborgr S. Nixon
Rep, Cyrus A. Sulloway
Rep. Henry C. Loudenslagbr. . . Rep. J. Van Vbchten Olcott. . .
Rep. .Tohn M. Morehead
Rep. Louis B. Hanna
Rep. W. Aubrey Thomas
Rep. Charles E. Creaqer
Rep. William R. Ellis
Rep. J. Hampton Moore
Rl£P. Adin B. Capron
Rkp. Charles H. Bup.kb
Rep. Richard W. Austin
Rep. Joseph Howell
Rep. David J. Foster
Rep. C. Bascom Slemp
Rep. William B. Humphrey
Rrp. James A, Hughes
Rep. James H. Davidson
Rep. Prank W. Mondell
Del. James Wickersham
Del. Ralph H, Cameron
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"I do not know much about the tariff, but I know this much, when we buy manufactured goods abroad we get the goods and the foreigner gets the money. When we buy the manufactured goods at home we get both the goods and the money. "—Abraham Lincoln.
"We face the future with our past and present as guarantors of our promises; we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are mak- ing. "—Theodore Roosevelt.
"The course of the Republican party since its organi- zation in 1856, and its real assumption of control in 1861, down to the present day, is remarkable for the foresight and ability of its leaders, for the discipline and solidarity of its members, for its efficiency and deep sense of re- sponsibility, for the preservation and successful mainten- ance of the government, and for the greatest resourceful- ness in meeting the various trying and difficult issues which a history of now a full half -century have presented for solution."— William H. Taft.
"There has never been a Republican Administration which has not carried us forward. There has not been a Democratic Administration since the advent of the Re- publican party that has not carried us backward. The Democratic party has never had the courage, even when it had the opportunity, to enact into law its own promises. The Republican party, on the contrary, has not only promised but has fulfilled its pledges and accomplished even more than it pledged. That is why it has the con- fidence of the people, that is why it can again be intrusted with legislation and administration for another term. That is why it should be, and I believe will be, successful next November."— James^. Sherman.
Editor's Note
For inauy years during both I*resicleiitial and Congressional campaigns Republican and Democratic Committees have issued so-called campaign Text Books. The character of these pub- lications lemains much the same year after year. Republican Text Books have made prominent the record of the party, the legislation enacted and the accomplishments of the Admin- istration. Facts and figures are given from official and authori- tative sources. In short Republican Text Books have been registers of party achievement as indicating a reason for con- tinuance in power.
On the other hand Democratic Text Books have had little or no party record to chronicle and their pages have been largely filled with fault-finding accusations and misrepresentations, with promises of what would be attempted if the party were put in control of the Government. But their promises even are threatening, as they ai-e for the most part pledges to destroy Republicanism or the result of Republicanism. In fact a Democratic Text Book is much like the prospectus of a general wrecking concern.
The Democratic Text Book for 1910 will simply be a collec- tion of speeches ^'knocking" — to use an expression of the day — the Republican pai'ty. Its introduction says:
"If intrusted with power it [the Democratic party] will make a record which will mean much for the pi'osperity of the masses and in continuation of the principles of free govei'n- ment."
But nothing is said of the period when the Democratic party was intrusted with povier, or the calamity to the nation, and adversity instead of prosperity, that came to the masses.
In one Text Book we have a proud party Record— 4n the other a sneer at that Record as a plea foi' office.
A Republican Campaign Text Book then is primarily a record, not an ai'gument; but, as every good record must obviously be a good argument, the following pages constitute irrefutable evidence on which to base an educational campaign. This book is necessarily compiled at the most inopportune time, namely, following the close of the fiscal year, for which most of the figures are not available. Particularly is it a matter of deep regret that none of the 1910 Census figures coveiing population and production can be had before this work goes to press. Tlie effort, nevertheless, has been made to have all statements and figures used not only absolutely official or authoritative, but to bring them down to the latest possible date. Only a few of the figures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, however, can be had in time for this publication, and it must be borne in mind that the figures for 1910 in almost every branch of our financial, commercial and industrial life exceed largely all previous records. In using extracts from speeches there has been no thought of exploiting one man or ignoring another, but to present the strongest utter- ances obtainable applicable to the subjects under consideration.
F. C. 4
President Taft's Letter
Beverly, Mass.,
August 20, 1910. My Dear Mr. McKixley:
As the chairman of the National Congressional Republican Committee, you have asked me to give the reasons which sliould lead voters in the coming November election to cast their ballots for Republican candidates for Congress.
I assume that when this letter is given publicity the lines will be drawn, the party candidates will have been selected, and the question for decision will be whether we shall have in the House of Representatives a Republican or a Demo- cratic majority. The question then will be not what com- plexion of Republicanism one prefers, but whether it is better for the country to have the Republican party control the leg- islation for the next two years and further redeem its prom- ises, or to enable a Democratic majority in the House either to interpose a veto to Republican measures, or to formulate and pass bills to carry out Democratic principles. Prominence has been given during the preliminary canvasses just ended to the differences between Republicans; but in the election such differences should be forgotten. Differences within the party were manifested in the two sessions of the present Con- gress, and yet never in its history has the Republican party passed and become responsible for as much useful and pro- gressive legislation. So, while issues will doubtless arise between members of a Republican majority as to the details of further legislation, the party, as a whole, will show itself in the future, as in the past, practical and patriotic in sub- ordinating individual opinions in order to secure real progress. Hence it is important that after Republican Congressional candidates have been duly and fairly chosen, all Republicans who believe in the party principles as declared in its national platform of 1908 should give the candidates loyal and effec- tive support. If this is done, there will be no doubt of a return of a Republican majority.
DEMOCRATIC REPUDIATION.
The only other alternative is a Democratic majority. It is difficult, very difficult, to state all the principles that would govern such a majority in its legislative course; and this because its party platforms have presented a variety of planks not altogether consistent, and because in the preseut Congress,
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leading Democrats in the Senate and the House have not hesi- tated to repudiate certain of their party pledges and to deny their binding character. We may reasonably assume, how- ever, that a Democratic majority in the House would reject the Fiepublican doctrine of protection as announced in 1908.
What, therefore, has a Republican who believes in protec- tion but objects to some rates or schedules in the present tariff act to hope for from a Democratic majority, which, if allowed its way, would attack the protective system and halt business by a threatened revision of the whole tariff on revenue basis, or if prevented by the Senate or the Executive would merely do nothing.
Such a legislative program as that set forth in. the Repub- lican national platform of 190 8 could not be carried out in full by one Congress. Certainly if all its promises are exe- cuted in one administration, it will be within a proper time. The present Congress has not only fulfilled many party pledges, but it has by its course set higher the standard of party responsibility for such pledges than ever before in the history of American parties. Hereafter those who would catch voters by declarations in favor of alluring remedial leg- islation will not make them except with much more care as to the possibility of its enactment. In view of the history of the present Congress, the return of a Republican majority in the next Congress may well inspire confidence that the pledges still unredeemed will be met and satisfied.
THE TARIFF.
Let us consider, summarily, the promises made and the legislation enacted by the present Congress: First and of primary importance was the promise to revise the tariff in accordance with the rule laid down in ^;he platform, to wit: that the tariff on articles imported should be equal to the difference between their cost of production abroad and that cost in this country, including a reasonable profit for the domestic manufacturer. A very full investigation — full, at least, as such investigations have been conducted in the past — was made by the Ways and Means Committee of, the House to determine what rates should be changed to conform to > this rule. A reduction was made in six hundred and fifty-four numbers, and an increase in some two hundred and twenty, while eleven hundred and fifty remained unchanged. The bill was amended in the Senate, but the proportion of increases to decreases was maintained. When I signed the bill, I accom- panied my approval with the following memorandum:
"I have signed the Payne tariff bill because I believe it to be the result of a sincere effort on the part of the R,epublican party to make a downward revision, and to
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comply with the promises of the platform as they have been generally understood, and as I interpreted them in the campaign before election.
"The bill is not a perfect tariff bill, or a complete compliance with the promises made strictly interpreted, but a fulfilment free from criticism in respect to a sub- ject matter involving many schedules and thousands of articles could not be expected. It suffices to say that except with regard to whisky, liquors and wines, and in regard to silks and as to some high classes of cottons — all of which may be treated as luxuries and proper sub- jects of a revenue tariff — there have been very few in- creases in rates. There have been a great number of real decreases in rates, and they constitute a sufficient amount to justify the statement that this bill is a substantial downward revision, and a reduction of excessive rates. This is not a free-trade bill. It was not intended to be. The Republican party did not promise to make a free- trade bill. It promised to make the rates protective, but to reduce them when they exceeded the difference between the cost of production abroad and here, making allow- ance for the greater normal profit on active investments here. I believe that while this excess has not been re- duced in a number of cases, in a great majority the rates are such as are necessary to protect American industries, but are low enough, in case of abnormal increase of de- mand and raising of prices, to permit the possibility of the importation of the foreign article and thus to prevent excessive prices.
"The power granted to the Executive under the maxi- mum and minimum clause may be exercised to secure the, removal of obstacles which have been interposed by foreign governments in the way of undue and unfair discrimination against American merchandise and prod- ucts.
"The Philippine tariff section I have struggled to secure for ten years last past, and it gratifies me exceed- ingly by my signature to give it the effect of law. I am sure it will greatly increase the trade between the two countries, and it will do much to build up the Philip- pines in a healthful prosperity.
"The administrative clauses of the bill and the Customs Court are admirably adapted to secure a more uniform and a more speedy final construction of the meaning of the law.
"The authority to the President to use agents to assist him in the application of the maximum and minimum section of the statute, and to enable officials to administer the law, gives a wide latitude for the acquisition, under circumstances favorable to its truth, of information in respect to the price and cost of production of goods at home and abroad, which will throw much light on the operation of the present tariff and be of primary im- portance as officially collected data upon which futtire Executive action and Executive recommendations may be based.
"The corporation tax la a just and equitable excise
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measure, which it is hoped will produce a sufficient amount to prevent a deficit and which incidentally will secure valuable statistics and information concerning the many corporations of the country, and will constitute an important step toward that degree of publicity and reg- ulation which the tendency in corporate enterprises in the last twenty years has shown to be necessary."
This fairly states the effect of the bill. The bill has been criticised for certain of its rates and schedules. Some of the criticisms are just and some are wide of the mark and most unjust.
The truth is that under the old protective idea the only purpose was to make the tariff high enough to protect the home industry. The excess of the tariff over the differences in the cost of production here and abroad was not regarded as objectionable, because it was supposed that competition between those who enjoyed the high protection would keep the price for the consumer down to what was reasonable for the manufacturers. The evil of excessive tariff rates, how- ever, showed itself in the temptation of manufacturers to com- bine and suppress competition, and then to maintain the prices so as to take advantage of the excess of the tariff rate over the difference between the cost of production abroad and here.
The Payne tariff bill is the first bill passed by the Repub- lican party in which the necessity for reducing rates to avoid this evil has been recognized, and it is therefore a decided step in the right direction and it ought to be accepted as such. On the whole, it was a downward revision, particularly ^on articles of necessity and on raw materials. The actual figures on the first year's operation of the law demonstrate this. It must also be remembered that the tariff rates in the new law on imported liquors, wines and silks were increased substantially over the Dingley rates, because these were luxuries and it was intended to increase the revenue.
The charge that the present tariff is responsible for the increase in the prices of necessities is demonstrably false, because the high prices, with very few exceptions, affect articles in the tariff upon which there was no increase in rates or in respect to which there was a substantial reduction,
TARIFF BOARD.
Perhaps more important than any one feature of the oper- ative part of the tariff law is that section which enables the Executive to appoint a tariff commission or board to secure the needed Information for the proper amendment and per- fection of the law. The difficulty in fixing the proper tariff rates in accord with the principle stated in the Republican platform is in securing reliable evidence as to the difference between the cost of production at home and the cost of pro-
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duction abroad. The bias of the manufacturer seeking protec- tion and of the importer opposing it weakens the weight of their testimony. Moreover, when we understand that the cost of production differs in one country abroad from that in another, and that it changes from year to year and from month to month, we must realize that the precise difference in cost of production sought for is not capable of definite ascertainment, and that all that even the most scientific person can do in his investigation is, after consideration of many facts which he learns, to exercise his best judgment in reaching a conclusion.
The Commission, however, already selected and at work, is a commission of disinterested persons who will ascertain the facts, not in a formal hearing by examination and cross- examination of witnesses, but by the kind of investigation that statisticians and scientific investigators use. When the Commission completes its work, either on the entire tariff or on any of the schedules in respect to which issue has arisen, and the work of the Commission shows that the present tariff is wrong and should be changed, I expect to bring the matter to the attention of the Congress with a view to its amendment of the tariff in that particular. Of course, this will be imprac- ticable unless Congress itself shall adopt the parliamentary rule, as I hope it will, that a bill to amend one schedule of the tariff may not be subject to a motion to amend by adding changes in other schedules.
It will thus be possible to take up a single schedule with respect to which it is probable that a great majority of each House will be unprejudiced, to submit the evidence, and to reach a fair conclusion, and this method will tend to avoid disturbing business conditions. For these reasons it seems to me that all Republicans — conservative, progressive and radical — may well abide the situation with respect to the tariff until evidence now being accumulated shall justify changes in the rates; and that it is much better for them to vote for Repub- licans than to help create a Democratic majority which would be utterly at war with the protective principle, and therefore would have no use for the findings of the Tariff Commission, as~ we may certainly infer from the solid Democratic vote in the present Congress against the necessary appropriation for the Commission's work.
RESULTS OF PAYNE LAW.
One great virtue in the new tariff law, including the corpo- ration tax, is that, taken with the earnest effort of the admin- ibtration to keep down or reduce governmental expenditures and to reform the methods of collecting the customs revenue, it has, by its revenue-producing capacity, turned a deficit in
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the 3'ear ending June 30, 1909, to a surplus in the first full year of the law, ending August 5, 1910, of $26,000,000. From a revenue standpoint, then, there can be no controversy over the effectiveness of the new law. Increased revenue indicates increased imports, and an examination of our imports during the past year will disclose a most substantial increase in man- ufacturers' material, from which, in the making of finished pi'oducts, whether for exportation or home consumption, has come a larger volume of employment for our wage-earners, a larger purchasing power and a greater consumption of the products of our farms and fabrications of our factories. So far, then, as such importations do not displace home produc- tion, they must be of benefit to all. Generally speaking, a full measure of industrial activity in production, transportation and distribution has accompanied the operation of the new law. Under the maximum and minimum provisions we have concluded treaties with all foreign nations, gaining the best possible terms for entrance to their markets without sacri- ficing our own. By the Payne tariff law we have at last done justice to tne Philippines by allowing the producers of those islands the benefit of our markets, with such limitations as to prevent injury to our home industries.
Again, the present law in its corporation tax imposes a new kind of tax which has many of the merits of an income tax. Tt taxes success, not failure. Unlike a personal income tax, it is easily and exactly collected, and by an increase or de- crease in the rate enables Congress with exactness to regulate its income to its necessary expenditures. More than this, it furnishes an indirect but effective method of keeping the Government advised as to the kind of business done by all corporations. It is one of the most useful and important changes in our revenue laws, as the future will show. In spite of the criticisms heaped upon it at its passage, no party responsible for revenues or anxious to retain every means of legitimate supervision of corporations will repeal it.
INTERSTATE COMMEUCE.
The next most important work of the present Congress was tLe passage of the amendment to the interstate commerce bill. The Republican platform favored amendment to the interstate commerce aci with a view to giving greater power to the Interstate Commerce Commission in regulating the operation of railroads and the fixing of traffic rates, and also favored such national legislation and supervision as would prevent the future over-issue of stocks and bonds by interstate car- riers. After the adjournment of the Congress at its extra session, I invited two of my Cabinet and a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission and a member of Congress,
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to make recommendations as to the needed amendments to the interstate commerce act. These gentlemen reported to me, and in September last, in a speech in Des Moines, I fore- shadowed their recommendations as I intended to make them to the Congress for the amendment of the interstate com- me^'ce act:
First, by the establishment of a commerce court; second, by empowering the Commission to classify merchandise as well as to fix rates for classes; third, by giving the right to a ship- per to designate the route by which his goods shall be trans- ported beyond the line of the initial carrier; fourth, by em- powering the Commission to consider the justice or injustice of any rate without the complaint or initiation of a shipper; fifth, by empowering the Commission to suspend proposed in- creases of rates by carriers until the Commission shall have a chance to pass upon the reasonableness of the increase; sixth, by provisions for the Federal regulation of the issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways; seventh, by a clause forbidding an interstate commerce railway company from acquiring stock in a competing road; eighth, by a sec- tion permitting the making of traffic agreements between com- peting railroads limited in point of time and subject matter, and subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission.
These amendments were in accordance with the text of the Republican platform. Subsequently, bills were drawn em- bodying this recommended legislation, in which, while the principle was maintained, tliere were limitations introduced, as justice suggested, after a conference with all the parties interested. The bill was submitted to the Congress, and after a great deal of discussion, both in the House and the Senate, it was enacted into law, with many amendments which did not materially change the effect of the recommendations ex- cept to strike out certain provisions promised in the Repub- lican platform, to permit traffic agreements between railways in spite of the anti-trust law, to forbid one railway company to acquire stock in a competing company, and to secure super- vision by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways.
For this last, was substituted a provision authorizing the appointment of a commission to consider the evils arising from the over-issue of stocks and bonds, and the methods of preventing such evils by Congressional regulation. In addition to the purposes already recited accomplished by the bill, the so-called long and short haul clause of the existing law — the one forbidding the charging of a greater rate for a less distance included in the greater distance, than for the greater distance — was amended so as to vest in the Commission some-
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what wider discretion in enforcing the clause than has been permitted by the Supreme Court decisions under existing law. Moreover, Interstate telegraphs and telephones as instruments of commerce have been brought within the regulation of the Commission. The bill as at present in force is an excellent bill. It is not enacted in a spirit of hostility to railroads, but it submits them to a closer and more effective supervision by the Interstate Commerce Commission to avoid injustice in their management and control.
The important part that railways play as the arterial cir- culation in the business of the country, the million and a half of their employees and the million of their stockholders, the importance of their purchasing power as affecting the pros- perity of general business — all require in the public interest that no unfair treatment should be accorded them. But I am glad to note that the railway managers have acquiesced in the fairness of the present bill, and propose loyally to comply with its useful provisions. It was supported by the whole Republican party in Congress, and that party is entitled to credit for its passage. The whole Democratic strength was €»xhibited against it in both Houses. It was a performance of a pledge of the platform, and only needs time to vindicate the wisdom of its enactment.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.
The postal savings bank bill has a similar history. It is one of the great Congressional enactments. It creates an epoch. It institutes a system which will work effectively to promote thrift among the poor, by providing a depository for their savings which they properly may consider absolutely safe, and will also turn into the channels of trade and com- merce a large volume of money which otherwise would be hoarded. By specific provision it will stimulate the investment of savings in Government bonds of small denominations, for which the bill provides. Like the tariff bill and the railroad bill, this was put through each House of Congress by a Repub- lican majority, and was signed by a Republican President.
The legislation of Congress in respect to the Navy Depart- ment is a full compliance with the promises of the Jlepublican platform. In spite of a proper desire to keep down appro- priations. Congress saw the necessity for a continuance of our present naval policy and a regular strengthening of the Navy by the addition of two more battleships. More than this, it has enabled the Secretary of the Navy to carry out a reform in the business management of th.e Department and a reorgan- ization of the bureaus and staff of the Navy so as to contribute materially to its effectiveness as one of the military arms of the Government. Although the Democratic national platform apparently favored the increase in the Navy, a large majority
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LABOR LEGISLATION.
of the Democrats, both in the House and the Senate, opposed the policy when presented in the form of concrete legislation. The Republican party at the last session of Congress again exhibited its deep and sincere interest in the general welfare of the working men and women of the country by adding important enactments to its already long record of legislation on this subject. Practically all classes oi employees, especially those engaged in occupations more or less hazardous, are the beneficiaries of laws which should operate to lighten the burdens which naturally fall upon the shoulders of man. The Republican party recognized the necessity of reducing the dangers under which hundreds of thousands of miners work by creating the Bureau of Mines. This bill was passed for the purpose of establishing an efficient governmental instru- ment for investigation, examination and report to the world of the kind of safety appliances that will prevent the awful losses of life in the operation of mines, and especially of coal mines. A second purpose of the bureau is to perform the same office in respect to the great industry of mining that the Department of Agriculture performs in respect to the farming interests of the country; that is, by experiment and investiga- tion to determine the most effective methods of mining and the best means of avoiding the deplorable waste that now obtains in the present mining methods.
No more important legislation in the interest of human life has ever been enacted by Congress than the laws of the recent session giving to the Interstate Commerce Commission ampler powers to define the needed safety appliances for the preven- tion of accidents to employees and passengers, and, after a hearing, to require their adoption by interstate railways. Other legislation, with respect to the inspection of locomotive boilers and th-e removal of dangerous overhead obstructions, awaits the consideration of the next session of this Congress, and i hope that it may speedily be passed. The employers' liability act was perfected by needed amendment so as to enable injured employees more easily to recover just damages. But in one sense the most forward step taken in the interest of the worker was the creation of a Congressional Commission to report a practical bill for the fixing of workmen's com- pensation for injuries received in the employment of interstate commerce railways, as risks in the business to be fixed by speedy arbitration and to be graduated according to the extent of the injury and the earning capacity of the injured person. This is important, not only as affecting interstate commerce railways, but, if adopted, as furnishing a model to the country for a beneficial change in the legal relation between employee and employer. This reform would put an end to the vexatious
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and costly litigation through which an injurd employee must go in order to recover damages — litigation which on account of the poverty of the employee frequently serves to defeat the ends of justice, and in other instances leads to exorbitant and unjust verdicts.
CONSERVATION.
One of the great questions which has been made a national issue and aroused public interest through the insistence of President Roosevelt is that of conservation of our national resources. From the Federal standpoint, this concerns the preservation of forests, the reclamation of arid lands of the Government and the proper treatment and disposition of our Government coal lands, phosphate lands, oil and gas lands, and of the lands known as water-power sites at the points on the streams where the water power must be converted in order to be useful. During Mr. Roosevelt's administration millions of acres of lands included within the classes described were withdrawn in the United States proper and in Alaska, in order to await proper legislation. Doubt arose as to the Executive power to make these withdrawals, and therefore as to their legality should they be contested in court. The present ad- ministration continued the Executive withdrawals, but sug- gested, as a matter of wise precaution, securing from Congress express power to make them. By Republican majorities in both Houses a withdrawal bill for this purpose was enacted, and now over seventy millions of acres have been rewithdrawn of lands included within the classes described. Much of the land reserved as coal land is valuable for agriculture, and therefore Congress adopted an entirely feasible and useful plan by which the homestead laws were applied to the surface of the land, while the coal in the ground is still reserved as the property of the Government. This is a new departure in our land laws, and is highly to be commended. In addition to this, it was deemed necessary, in order that certain reclama- tion projects of the Government should be completed within a reasonable time, that an issue of $20,000,000 bonds should be authorized with which to secure water for the settlers upon Government lands within the promise of the projec|;, the bonds to be redeemed by the water rents for the service rendered. In this way hundreds of settlers who have been patiently wait- ing for the completion of the projects and suffering great pri- vation will be rehabilitated. At the same time, the law au- thorizing the bond issue prevents the expenditure of any of the proceeds of the bonds in any of the projects until a board of army engineers shall report the same as worthy and feasible. Moreover, additional provision has been made in the appro- priation laws for money with which to carry on surveys of un- surveyed public lands, .a crying need in certain States and in
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Alaska. Thus it is not too much to say that most important steps have been taken toward"the proper conservation of our resources in the legislation of the present Congress. There remains to be considered and settled the question of the method of disposing of these lands so that the Government may retain sufficient control to prevent a monopoly in their use and to secure the public against extortion for coal, oil, gas, phos- phate or water power on the one hand, and yet may give to pri- vate capital sufficient inducement to bring about a normal de- velopment of the wealth contained in these lands to aid in the building up of the country. Neither the Democrats of the House nor the Democrats of the Senate as a body, although their platform formally declared in favor of conservation, have taken any active part or can be counted upon to assist materially in the solution of these complicated questions.
Another subject of pressing importance is that of the im- provement of our waterways. The present Congress has enacted a rivers and harbors bill appropriating more than $41,000,000 for the carrying out of a number of well-defined plans for the- permanent improvement of rivers and harbors within a certain period, and in addition authorizing contracts to be entered into subject to future appropriations by Con- gress, aggregating over ten millions of dollars. The bill was subject to criticism in that it still continued the old piece- meal system and appropriated something for nearly every project recommended by the army engineers. It is hoped and believed that in the next session and thereafter the engineers will so make their recommendations as to indicate the projects of greater importance, so that adequate sums may be appro- priated for their completion within a reasonably short time and the piecemeal policy of extending the construction of improvements of this kind indefinitely for years may be abandoned.
OTHER PLEDGES REDEEMED.
The Republican platform promised that it would admit to Statehood the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and that promise has been redeemed with suitable provisions for securing good and sane constitutions of the States by requir- ing their adoption in advance of the election of State officers, and their submission to Congress for consideration, and pos- sible rejection, at one of its sessions.
All this long list of useful enactments was promised in the Republican platform and has been put through by Republican majorities.
Congress has also enacted into law, in accordance with the promise which I made as a candidate for the Presidency, a bill requiring the publication by the Congressional commit- tees of detailed statements of the money received by them and
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the money expended hy them in the political canvass of each Congressional candidate.
In addition, the present Congress has appropriated $100,000 to enable the Executive to investigate and make recommenda- tion as to the methods by which the cost of running the Gov- ernment may be reduced. I regard this last as one of the most important parts of the administration's policy. I am confident that if full opportunity is given, and a Republican Congress is elected to assist, the cutting down of the national expendi- tures by the adoption of modern economic methods in doing the business of the Government will reach to a point of saving many millions. How much the expenses -^an be curtailed it is impossible to approximate at this time. The problem before the administration is to get full value for every dollar it dis- burses.
The appropriations for the last year were more than $20,- 000,000 less than the appropriations of tho year before, and in the actual execution of the law $11,000,000 were saved in the operation of the Post Office Department, for which appro- priation had already been made.
FUTURE LEGISLATIOX.
A number of other promises remain to be kept. I have al- ready alluded to the provisions to regulate the issue of stocks and bonds by interstate commerce railways, to which the Dem- ocratic minority in the Senate gave its solid opposition on the ground that the Central Government has no Constitutional power to make and enforce such regulation. In addition, there is the promised procedure to determine how preliminary injunction shall issue without notice, and when. In substitu- tion for this the Democratic platform proposes an amendment to the existing law which would create a privileged class of lawless workmen and would seriously impair the power of the courts of equity to do justice. Then there is the measure to promote the merchant marine engaged in foreign service, to which in previous Congresses the Democratic party has al- ways opposed an almost solid front. There is the measure forbidding the acquisition of stocks by one railway company in a competing line, and there are also those bills, already re- ferred to, to secure further, safety appliances on railways and to establish a basis for workmen's compensation. There is also the promise of the Republican platform to make better provision for securing the health of the nation. The most tangible and useful form that this can take would be the es- tablishment of a national bureau of health to include all the health agencies of the Government now distributed in different Departments. Finally there is the Appalachian Forest Re- serve Bill which passed the House by a Republican majority,
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is on the calendar of the Senate, and will probably pass at the coming session of this Congress.
In view of what the present Republican Congress has done in the fulfilment of its promises, and in view of the standard that it has set in respect to the sacredness of party pledges, I have no hesitation in urging all who are in favor of the per- formance of the remaining pledges, who are in favor of prog- ress, in favor of practical conservation, in favor of economy in government, in favor of the just regulation of railways and of interstate commerce corporations, in favor of a bureau of health, in favor of a proper limitation of the power of equit- able injunction, and who are in favor of measures to promote the merchant marine engaged in foreign service, to vote for the Republican candidates for Congress in order that their wish for all this progressive legislation may be gratified.
CONCLUSION!
In closing, it may not be inappropriate for me to invite your attention, and that of all those engaged in advocating the Republican cause in the coming election, to the fact that it is of the utmost importance to make this a campaign of education as to facts and to clear away the clouds of misrep- resentation that have obscured the real issues and have made it difficult to secure for the Republican majority in Con- gress the real credit due them from the country for the tre- mendous task they have accomplished. If this is brought clearly home to all voters, and especially to the young men now voting for the first time, and they become im- pressed, as they ought to be by this record, with the differ- ence in the governmental efficiency and capacity of the Re- publican and Democratic parties, they will enroll themselves with the party of construction and progress rather than with the party of obstruction and negation, and the resulting legislation of the Sixty-second Congress will vindicate their choice. Sincerely yours,
WM. H. TAFT.
Hon. William B. McKinley, Cha'rrmnii,
Republican Congressional Committee,
1183 Broadway, New York City.
Campaign and Issues of 1910
With but few prior exceptions the entire membership of the House of Representatives of the Sixty-second Congress will be elected on the 8th of next November. In the present Congress of the 391 members, 219 are classed as Republicans, and 17 2 as Democrats. Unusual interest will be centered in the cam- paign this year because of the factional differences in both parties, but already the early assured confidence of the Demo^ crats has given place to doubt, while the Republicans are sin- cere in their belief that their present majority will be main- tained.
In many respects the year 1910 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Republican party. It was in May, 1860, that the first important bill was passed by a Republican House of Representatives, and it is most significant that this bill was an act providing for the protection of American labor and indus- tries, having been reported by Mr. Morrill of Vermont from the Ways and Means Committee, and afterwards known as the Mor- rill Tariff. It did not pass the Senate until the following year. but was signed by President Buchanan two days before the in- auguration of Abraham Lincoln.
The year 1910 also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the con- rentlon which nominated Abraham Lincoln and his election as the first Republican President. Of the 25 Congresses of the past half century the Republican party has had a majority of the House of Representatives in all except eight, namely, the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-eighth, Forty- ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-second and Fifty-third, and during the 50 years' legislative and administrative life of the Re- publican party in only two years has the Democratic party had complete control of the Government. The history of the country, then, for the past 50 years has been al- most identical with the . history of the Republican party, and the best Text Book that could be used in a political campaign for the purpose of giving a complete record of party legislation and partyadministratio n, would be the Statistical Abstract of the United States, but it is impracticable to circu- late generally and widely this voluminous publication and consequently an endeavor will be made in the following pages to present briefly, but comprehensively, the record of the party, as shown by the acts of Congress and the execution of those acts by the Presidents and their Cabinets. A Republican Text Book differs from a Democratic Text Book somewhat as history differs from romance. A riepublican Text Book aims simply to give facts and results — a Democratic Text Book is like a promise to pay without funds in the Bank.
The history of the Republican party, the record of its legis- lation and administration and the results of the operation of its official acts, has been repeated again and again. It is well known to all speakers and editors and most voters, yet at every election it is recognized that there are a million or so first voters, besides other millions who may have forgotten or mis- laid the Text Books and pamphlets of other days. It seems
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essential, then, and practical to bring down to date as far as possible the facts and figures which show what the Republican party in Congress and in the Executive Mansion and Depart- ments have done during the 50 years' life of the party from Lincoln to Taft. Each year new high records have been made in every department of our industrial, financial and commer- cial life. And never was this more true than in the present year, 1910, when our wealth, our foreign and domestic trade, our bank clearings, our agricultural and manufactured prod- ucts, our transportation operations, and, best of all, the in- comes and wages of our people are at the highest point of all records of our history. During this half century of Re- publicanism our population has increased threefold; our wealth has increased from $16,000,000,000 to $120,000,000,- 000; our annual bank clearings have increased from $10,000,- 000,000 to nearly $200,000,000,000. The annual value of our farnl products has increased from about $1,500,000,000 to nearly $10,000,000,000. The value of the products of our manufacturing establishments has increased from less than $2,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000. Our foreign commerce from $700,000,000 to over $3,000,000,000; the value of our farm property has increased from $8,000,000,000 to $30,- OOO.noo^OOO; our miles of railroad have increased from 30,000 to 250,000, while our annual revenue has increased from about $50,000,000 to $750,000,000, and our expendi- tures in like proportion.
Fifty years ago our annual consumption of cotton was about 800,000 bales, now it is considerably over 5,000,000 bales. The receipts of our Postoffice in 1860 were $8,500,000, now they are nearly $250,000,000. The circulation of money per capita 50 years ago was less than $14, now it is $35. The deposits in our savings banks have increased during these 50 years from less than $15,000,000 to nearly $4,000,000,000. And so we might go on through the various departments of our industrial life and show the enormous increase during and under a government carried on for the most part by the Re- publican party.
The last Democratic House of Representatives was in the fifty-third Congress, with, also, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic I'resident in the White House. The only act of that Congress which will be recorded in history and remem- bered by the people was the so-called Wilson-Gorman tariff act, which brought such ruin to our industries and such pov- erty to our people. Since the termination of that Congress on March 4, 1895, the House of Representatives has been Repub- lican continuously, making a record of 16 years and 8 Con- gresses up to the 4th of next March. During the 14 years since 1897, the measure of progress and attainment which has come to the United States under the Republican party in continuous and complete control of the Government is marvelous in the extreme and absolutely greater in its ac- complishments than was ever before known by this or any other nation.
It would seem, then, in the face of this record, that it would not be necessary to more than state to the intelligent voter of this counry what has been done in general by the Republican party during its 5 0 years of legislative and administrative history, and particularly during these last 14 years since the
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Democratic party was last repudiated. There would seem to be no reason whatever why a single Republican should want to vote the Democratic ticket on the 8th of next November; in fact, one might go further and say that there would seem to be no reason why any voter should want to vote the Democratic ticket on the next National election day.
The Republican party will present during this campaign various issues, particularly the record of the party during its whole life, and especially during the past 14 years, with great emphasis upon the work done during the past two sessions of the present Congress. They will say to the people, and it will not be denied by our opponents, that the legislation ac- complished so far during the Sixty-first Congress by far excels that of any previous Congress in our history. This admittedly will be the most important issue of the coming Congressional campaign, as it should be. The record of the two sessions of the Sixty-first Congress will be found at length in subsequent pae;es, and should be studied closely by those who are inter- ested in progressive legislation. Another issue of the cam- paign will be the tariff law enacted at the special session of Congress last year, and which has now been in operation an entire year. The Republican leaders will insist that a law which has changed a deficit of $58,000,000 into a surplus of ?15,000,000; that has changed stagnation of business to un- precedented activity; that has given full employment to our wage earners at the highest wages ever known, is a law to be unequivocally defended, and a law that should remain un- changed until it is shown without doubt that a further re- vision would be of benefit to our labor and industries. The tariff act will be treated at length in the following pages with such data as will give a clear and honest explanation of the new law.
A third issue of the coming campaign will be the administra- tion of President Taft, the economies which have been brought about in the various departments and the splendid co-opera- tion which has existed between the Executive and both Houses of Congress. * There will be of course minor issues of a general nature and local issues of each candidate to take up as he may see fit in his own district. The Republican party will go into the campaign conscious of a splendid service rendered to the country, confident that the people will indorse this service, and in the full belief that the next House of Representatives, instead of having a Democratic majority, or even a decreased Republican majority, should add to its Republican member- ship and uphold for two years longer the splendid adminis- tration of President Taft and work for the compljete fulfill- ment of all Republican pledges in the interest of all the people from one end of our grand country to the other.
The next House of Representatives should not only have a Republican majority because of the constructive legislation that would follow, but because a Democratic majority would mean not only the prevention of needed legislation, but would act as a menace to further progress and prosperity. On this point Representative Loudenslager said in a speech during the closing days of the session:
"Of the 25 Congresses of the last half century the Democratic party has had a majority in the House of Representatives in
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8 — the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third.
"There is not on our statute books one single important, con- structive, beneficial law as the product of seven of those eight Congresses. There is not in any Democratic text book a claim that during any of those Congresses any bill was framed and passed of benefit to the American people or that has stood the test of years and is of enough importance to even allude to. There were, however, one or two bills, such as the so- called Morrison and Mills tariff bills, that would have brought calamity and ruin had they been enacted into law. That is the record for seven out of eight of those Congresses. But our Democratic friends will say: "We only had the House; we did not have the Senate and President to sustain us, and there was no use trying." And that is a point I want to emphasize before I consider the one Congress when the Democrats had both Houses as well as the President.
"If the Democrats have a majority in the House of Repre- sentatives of the Sixty-second Congress, there will still be a Republican Senate and a Republican President, and no ruinous legislation can result. But the people have learned to fear Democratic legislation, and the very framing and passage of a free trade tariff bill, even though it could not get through the Senate, would bring anxiety to every industrial circle in the country.
"This in itself would check our present progress and pros- perity, but in addition to such a condition would be the do- nothing result in other needed lines of legislation. Laws that must of necessity go over to the next Congress, and which will be enacted if we have a Republican House, as I believe v.e will have, would be held up, and except the passage of the appropriation bills we would have two years of do-nothingism."
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION.
The following are some of the principal acts of legislation by the Republican party prior to the' Sixty-first Congress:
1. The Homestead Law, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Abraham Lincoln.
2. The acts for the issuance of legal tenders and national bank notes, which gave the people a currency of equal and stable value in all parts of the country.
3. The system of internal revenue taxation, by which ap- proximately one-half of the ordinary expenses of the Govern- ment have been visited upon malt and spirituous liquors, to- bacco and cigars.
4. The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery,
5. The fourteenth amendment, which created citizenship of the United States as distinguished from citizenship of the sev- eral States, and provided that no State should abridge the privileges or immunities of the United States.
0. The fifteenth amendment, which established equality of suffrage.
7. The Civil Rights Act, which extended to all persons the equal protection of the laws.
8. All existing laws for the payment of pensions to veterans of the Civil War and their surviving relatives.
9. The liberal legislation respecting mineral lands, which built up the mining industry, added enormously to the wealth of the country in the precious and semi-precious metals, and made it possible to resume specie payments.
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10. The resumption of specie payments.
11. The reduction of postage, the money order system, the establishment of the Railway Mail Service, free delivery, Ru- ral free delivery, and other improvements that make the Post- Office establishment of the United States the most efficient agency of that character that can be found on the globe.
12. The Life-Saving Service.
13. The artificial propagation and distribution of fish.
14. The distribution of seeds and other measures of vast Importance in the promotion of agriculture.
15. The endowment of public schools, agricultural colleges, etc., by grants of land from the public domain.
16. The Administrative Customs Act, which insures justice and equality in the collection of duties.
17. The International Copyright Law, which respects the rights of authors in the product of their brains, but at the same time protects our publishing industry by requiring that books shall be printed in this country to entitle them to copy- right.
18. The establishment of the Circuit Court of Appeals, to relieve the Supreme Court and no longer require litigants to suffer a delay of three or four yeais in securing a decision on appeal.
19. The admission of the States of Kansas, Nebraska, Ne- vada, Colorado, North and South Dakota, AVashington. Mon- tana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico.
20. The Anti-Trust Act. (This was drawn by Senators Sherman and Edmunds, and introduced by the former. In the House its passage was secured by William McKinley against an attempt to have it sidetracked in behalf of a bill for the free coinage of silver, which received the vote of every Democratic member with one exception. So it may be said that the law was placed upon the statute books over the united opposition of the Democratic party as represented in the House.)
21. The National Bankruptcy Acts of 1867 and 1898, which relieved many thousands of unfortunate men from their bur- dens of debt and restored them to commercial or industrial activity.
22. The establishment of the Gold Standard, which placed our monetary system on a stable basis and in harmony with the great nations of the world.
23. Every schedule of duties on imports adopted within the past fifty years, in which the policy of protection to American labor has been distinctly recognized and efficiently applied, has been the product of a Republican Congress.
24. Railway rates to be fixed by enlarged Interstate Com- merce Commission; rebates and other discriminations penal- ized; sleeping cars, express companies and pipe lines made common carriers; railway passes prohibited.
25. Panama Canal to have 85-foot level, with locks; Pan- ama Canal bonds to enjoy the same privileges as all other United States bonds; Panama Canal supplies to be domestic products.
26. Pure Food: Label must tell the truth, especially on popular remedies.
27. Meat inspection, "from hoof to can," at Government expense.
28. Free alcohol, denatured, for use in the arts.
29. Consular service reorganized on merit basis.
30. Quarantine against yclloy fever nationalized.
31. Financial law whereby banks in periods of financial stringency may issue currency to the amount of $5 00,000,00 0, depositing as security therefor bonds, commercial paper or other assets, such emergency currency being so taxed as to in- sure its retirement as soon as the stringency has passed.
32. National monetary commission created to devise a sound monetary system for the Government.
3 3. Consular service reorganized, abolishing unnecessary consulships and consul-generalships and establishing those most needed.
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34. Widows' pensions increased from $8 to $12 a "lonth and certain unnecessary restrictions abolished.
35. Importation of impure tea, tea siftings, etc., prohibited.
36. Model child labor law for District of Columbia.
37. Employers' liability law.
38. Government compensation law, providing compensation to certain federal employees for injuries received in line of duty.
37. Restrictions on lands of the Five Civilized Tribes re- moved, adding $150,000,000 to taxable property of Okla- homa.
Although recent Republican legislation is recorded at length in subsequent pages, the following resume of the work of the Sixty-first Congress so far, from a speech of Representative McKinley of Illinois is given for ready reference:
MR. McKINLEY said:
MR. SPEAKER: The 'Sixty-first Congress in two sessions, has enacted into law practically all the pledges made in the plat- form adopted by the Republican National Convention of 1908. The one exception not carriea out is that favoring legislation to develop our merchant marine.
The promises on which the Republican party went to the people two years ago have been kept in a little more than one year of the administration of President Taft, and by one Con- gress, in an extraordinary session and one regular session. In important legislation, as well as in the volume of work done, the Sixty-first Congress is without a parallel.
In the extra session there were enacted the following meas- ures:
The Payne tariff bill, revising rates of duty and providing a dual tariff system, whereby the United States has secured minimum tariff from every civilized nation.
Excise tax imposed on all corporations, consisting of 1 per cent, measured by the amount of their net receipts.
Philippine tariff law, adjusting duties in the archipelago to those of the United States.
The census law, providing for the taking of the Thirteenth Census.
In the regular session the Congress has enacted the follow- ing measures:
The railroad rate bill, compelling railroads to secure the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission before ad- vancing rates; authorizing the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to institute proceedings without waiting for the com- plaint of a shipper; creating* a special Commerce Court; grant- ing the commission complete authority ver classifications and regulations; and bringing telegraph and telephone companies under the scope of the interstate commerce act.
The creation of a special committee to investigate the extent and character of railroad stocks and report on the feasibility of federal supervision of all railroad securities.
The creation of a system of postal savings banks, thus gain- ing for small depositors the security of the United States Treasury and guaranteeing 2 per cent interest on their de- posits.
The granting of separate statehood to Arizona and New Mexico, in accordance with the pledge of the Republican na- tional platform.
Conservation legislation, making legal land withdrawals already made, and authorizing for the future all those the President may deem wise.
Conservation of coal lands promoted by authorization of ag- ricultural entries on the surface, while title to coal deposits Is reserved to the Government.
Preservation of national forests by permitting States and Territories to select other lands in lieu of those contained in the reserves.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated to
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enable the tariff board to ascertain the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.
Providing for publicity of campaign contributions.
The $20,000,000 bond issue, authorized to permit of prompt completion of irrigation projects already undertaken.
The progressive naval programme, authorizing the construc- tion of —
Two 27,000-ton battleships.
Six torpedo-boat destroyers.
Four submarine torpedo boats, and
Two colliers.
The reorganization of the Light-House Board along Mnes of modern administrative policy.
The creation of a Bureau of Mines, designed to minimize dangers to mine employees.
Common carriers required to furnish detailed reports of accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Law requiring use of safety appliances on railroads made broader and more complete..
Adulteration and misbranding of insecticides and fungicides prohibited at the behest of farmers and orchardists.
White slave traffic penalized by a system of heavy fines for interstate commerce therein.
Drastic regulations designed to prevent collisions at sea.
The parole of federal prisoners whose conduct after convic- tion warrants clemency.
Seal fisheries of Alaska protected by up-to-date legislation.
Gold coin fixed as the medium for paying the public debt of the United States.
The act creating the government of Hawaii amended in im- portant particulars.
A Commission of Fine Arts, created by enactment.
Provision made for raising the battleship Maine, now lying in Habana harbor.
Extensive river and harbor bill drafted in accordance with the poacy of coordinating these improvements.
Provision made for numerous necessary public buildings and the completion of those already begun.
Thirty thousand dollars appropriated to enable the Depart- ment of Agriculture to conduct tests looking to the discovery of a substitute for spruce in the manufacture of pulp paper.
One hundred and fifty 'thousand dollars provided to enable the Geological Survey to carry on the work of gauging streams and for the promotion of the conservation of water power sites.
Two hundred thousand dollars granted the Department of Justice for the prosecution of violators of the Sherman anti- trust law.
Seventy-five thousand dollars "provided for the use of the joint commission charged with the duty of settling questions relating to boundary waters between the United States and Canada.
The creation of the Glacier National Park in Montana.
The big-tree forest of California protected by additional safeguards.
There were introduced in the House 27,224 bills and 237 joint resolutions; in the Senate about 9,000 bills and 120 joint resolutions. There have been 1,707 reports from House com- mittees, which included i^,2^^) private pension bills. There have been enacted 351 public laws at this session, embracing 156 separate items in omnibus bills, making a total of 507 public laws, or more than were enacted in both sessions of the Sixtieth Congress. In addition to this there have been about 6,5 00 private laws, making a grand total of legislative enactments in one session greater than the complete record of any preceding Congress.
We shall always need protective duties as long as our people insist upon a higher standard of wages and scale of living than prevail abroad. — James M. Swank.
Republican Platform, 1908
Adopted by National Convention at Chicago, Jims, 1908.
Once more the Republican Party, in National Convention assembled, submits its cause to the people. This great historic organization, that destroyed slavery, preserved the Union, re- stored credit, expanded the national domain, established a sound financial system, developed the industries and resources of the country, and gave to the nation her seat of honor in the councils of the world, now meets the new problems of government with the same courage and capacity with which it solved the old.
Republicanism Under lloosevelt.
In this greatest era of American advancement the Repub- lican Party has reached its highest service under the leader- ship of Theodore Roosevelt. His administration is an epoch in American history. In no other period since national sov- ereignty was won under Washington, or preserved under Lin- coln, has there been such mighty progress in those ideals of government which make for justice, equality, and fair deal- ing among men. The highest aspirations of the American people have found a voice. Their most exalted servant repre- sents the best aims and worthiest purposes of all his country- men. American manhood has been lifted to a nobler sense of duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and higher standards of right and wrong in private life have become cardinal principles of political faith; capital and labor have been brought into closer relations of confi- dence and interdependence; and the abuse of wealth, the tyr- anny of power, and all the evils of privilege and favoritism have been put to scorn by the simple, manly virtues of justice and fair play.
The great accomplishments of President Roosevelt have been, first and foremost, a brave and impartial enforcement of the law; the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies; the exposure and punishment of evil-doers in the public ser- vice; the more effective regulation of the rates and service of the great transportation lines; the complete overthrow of preferences, rebates and discriminations; the arbitration of labor disputes; the amelioration of the condition of wage- workers everywhere; the conservation of the natural resources of the countrj^; the forward step in the improvement of the inland waterways, and always the earnest support and de- fense of every wholesome safeguard which has made more secure the guarantees of life, liberty and property.
These are the achievements that will make Theodore Roose- velt his place in history, but more than all else the great things he has done will be an inspiration to those who have yet greater things to do. We declare our unfaltering ad- herence to the policies thus inaugurated, and pledge their continuance under a Republican administration of the Gov- ernment.
Equality of Opportunity.
Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people have become the richest nation in the world. Our wealth to-day exceeds that of England and all her colonies, and that of Prance and Germany combined. When the Repub- lican Party was born the total wealth of the country was $16,000,000,000. It has leaped to $110,000,000,000 in a gen- eration, while Great Britain has gathered but $00,000,000,000 in five hundred years. The United States now owns one-fourth of the world's wealth and makes one-third of all modern man- ufactured products. In the great necessities of civilizatioTi, such as coal, the motive power of all activity; iron, the ch^ef basis of all industry; cotton, the staple foundation of all fab-
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rics; wheat, corn and all the agricultural products that feed mankind, America's supremacy is undisputed. And yet her great natural wealth has been scarcely touched. We have a vast domain of three million square miles, literally bursting with latent treasure, still waiting the magic of capital and industry to be converted to the practical uses of mankind; a country rich in soil and climate, in the unharnessed energy of its rivers and in all the varied products of the field, the forest and the factory. With gratitude for God's bounty, with pride in the splendid productiveness of the past and with confidence in the plenty and prosperity of the future, the Republican Party declares for the principle that in the de- velopment and enjoyment of wealth so great and blessings so benign there shall be equal opportunity for all.
Tlie Revival of Business.
Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which our commercial, industrial and agricultural interests are founded, and the necessity of promoting their continued wel- fare through the operation of Republican policies, as the re- cent safe passage of the American people through a financial disturbance which, if appearing in the midst of Democratic rule or the menace of it, might have equaled the familiar Democratic panics of the past. We congratulate the people upon this renewed evidence of American supremacy and hail with confidence the signs now manifest of a complete resto- ration of business prosperity in all lines of trade, commerce and manufacturing.
Recent Republican Legislation.
Since the election of William McKinley in 1896 the people of this country have felt anew the wisdom of entrusting to the Republican Party through decisive majorities the control and direction of national legislation.
The many wise and progressive measures adopted at recent sessions of Congress have demonstrated the patriotic resolve of Republican leadership in the legislative department to keep step in the forward march toward better government.
Notwithstanding the indefensible filibustering of a Demo- cratic minority in the House of Representatives during the last session, many wholesome and progressive laws were en- acted, and we especially commend the passage of the emer- gency currency bill, the appointment of the National Mone- tary Commission, the employers' and Government liability laws, the measures for the greater efl^iciency of the Army and Navy, the widow's pension bill, the child labor law for the District of Columbia, the new statute for the safety of rail- road engineers and firemen, and many other acts conserving the public welfare.
Republican Pledges for the Future. Tariff.
The Republican Party declares unequivocally for the re- vision of the tariff by a special session of Congress imme- diately following the inauguration of the next President, and commends the steps already taken to this end in the Avork assigned to the appropriate committees of Congress Avhich are now investigating the operation and effect 'Of existing schedules. In all tariff legislation the true principle of pro- tection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries. We favor the establishment of maxi- mum and minimum rates to be administered by the Presi- dent under limitations fixed in the law, the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at home, the aim and purpose of the Republican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which American manufacturers, far- mers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the
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high standard of living of the wage-earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective sys- tem. Between the United States and the Philippines we be- lieve in a free interchange of products with such limitations as to sugar and tobacco as will afford adequate protection to domestic interests.
Cuiieiicy.
We approve the emergency measures adopted by the Gov- ernment during the recent financial disturbance, and espe- cially commend the passage by Congress at the last session of the law designed to protect the country from a repetition of such stringency. The Republican Party is committed to the development of a permanent currency system, respond- ing to our great needs; and the appointment of the National Mcyietary Commission by the present Congress, which will impartially investigate all proposed methods, insures the early realization of this ])urpose. The present currency laws have fully justified their adoption, but an expanding commerce, a marvelous growth in wealth and population, multiplying the centers of distribution, increasing the demand for the move- ment of crops in the West and South, and entailing periodic changes in monetary conditions, disclose the need of a more elastic and adaptable system. Such a system must meet the requirements of agriculturists, manufacturers, merchants and business men generally, must be automatic in operation, minimizing the fluctuations in interest rates, and above all, must be in harmony with that Republican doctrine which in- sists that every dollar shall be based upon and as good as gold. I cstal Savings.
We favor the establishment of a postal savings bank sys- tem for the convenience of the people and the encourage- ment of thrift. Trusts.
The Republican Party passed the Sherman Anti-Trust law over Democratic opposition, and enforced it after Democratic dereliction. It has been a wholesome instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fearless administration. But ex- perience has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened and its real objects better attained by such amendments as will give to the Federal Government greater supervision and control over, and secure greater publicity in, the management of that class of corporations engaged in interstate commerce having power and opportunity to effect monopolies. Railroads.
We approve the enactment of the railroad rate law and the vigorous enforcement by the present administration of the statutes against rebates and discriminations, as a result of which the advantages formerly possessed by the large ship- per over the small shipper have substantially disappeared; and in this connection we commend the appropriation by the present Congress to enable the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to thoroughly investigate and give publicity to the ac- counts of interstate railroads. We believe, however, that the interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish traffic agree- ments subject to the approval of the Commission, but main- taining always the principle of competition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means whatsoever. We favor such national leg- islation and supervision as will prevent the future overissue of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers. Railroad and Government Employees.
The enactment in constitutional force at the present ses- sion of Congress of the Employers' Liability law, the pas- sage and enforcement of the safety appliance statutes, as well as the additional protection secured for engineers and fire- men, the reduction in the hours of labor of trainmen and rail- road telegraphers, the successful exercise of the powers of
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mediation and arbitration between interstate railroads and their employees, and the law making a beginning in the policy of compensation for injured employees of the Government, are among the most commendable accomplishments of the present administration. But there is further work in this di- rection yet to be done, and the Republican Party pledges its continued devotion to every cause that makes for safety and the betterment of conditions among those whose labor con- tributes so much to the progress and welfare of the coun- try.
Wage Earners Generally.
The same wise policy which has induced the Republican Party to maintain protection to American labor, to establish an eight-hour day in the construction of all public works, to increase the list of employees who shall have preferred claims for wages under the bankruptcy laws, to adopt a child labor statute for the District of Columbia, to direct an investiga- tion into the condition of working women and children, and later, of employees of telephone and telegraph companies en- gaged in interstate business, to appropriate $150,0 00 at the recent session of Congress in order to secure a thorough in- quiry into the causes of catastrophies and loss of life in the mines and to amend and strengthen the law prohibiting the importation of contract labor, will be pursued in every legiti- mate direction within Federal authority to lighten the bur- dens and increase the opportunity for happiness and advance- ment of all who toil. The Republican Party recognizes the special needs of wage-workers generally, for their well being means the well being of all. But more important than all other considerations is that of good citizenship, and we espe- cially stand for the needs of every American, whatever his occupation, in his capacity as a self-respecting citizen. Court Piocedure.
The Republican Party will uphold at all times the author- ity and integrity of the courts. State and Federal, and will ever insist that their powers to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in the Fed- eral Courts with respect to the issuance of the writ of injunc- tion should be more accurately defined by staute, and that no injunction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, except where irreparable injury would result from delay, in which case a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted. Tlie American Farmer.
Among those whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country as that of the wage-earner is the Ameri- can farmer. The prosperity of the country rests peculiarly upon the prosperity of agriculture. The Republican Party during the last twelve years has accomplished extraordinary work in bringing the resources of the National Government to the aid of the farmer, not only in advancing agriculture itself, but in increasing the conveniences of rural life. Free rural mail delivery has been established; it now reaches mil- lions of our citizens, and we favor its extension until every community in the land receives the full benefits of the postal service. We recognize the social and economical advantages of good country roads, maintained more and more largely at public expense, and less and less at the expense of the abut- ting owner. In this' work we commend the growing practice of State aid, and we approve the efforts of the National Agri- cultural Department by experiments and otherwise to make clear to the public the best methods of road construction. Rights of tlie Negro.
The Republican Party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes to-day that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and en-
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couragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend- ments to the Constitution, which were designed for the pro- tection and advancement of the negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land.
Xatural Resources and AVateiways.
We indorse the movement inaugurated by the administra- tion for the conservation of natural resources; we approve all measures to prevent the waste of timber; we commend the work now going on for the reclamation of arid lands, and reaflirm the Republican policy of the free distribution of the available areas of the public domain to the landless settler. No obligation of the future is more insistent and none will result in greater blessings to posterity. In line with this splendid undertaking is the further duty, equally imperative, to enter upon a systematic improvement upon a large and comprehensive plan, just to all portions of the country, of the waterways, harbors, and great lakes, whose natural adapt- ability to the increasing traffic of the land is one of the greatest gifts of a benign Providence. The Army and Navy.
The Sixtieth Congress passed many commendable acts in- creasing the efficiency of the Army and Navy, making the militia of the State an integral part of the national establish- ment, authorizing joint maneuvers of army and militia, forti- fying new naval bases and completing the construction of coaling stations, instituting a female nurse corps for naval hospitals and ships, and adding two new battleships, ten tor- pedo-boat destroyers, three steam colliers, and eight subma- rines to the strength of the Navy. Although at peace with all the world, and secure in the consciousness that the Ameri- can people do not desire and will not provoke a war with any other country, we nevertheless declare our unalterable devotion to a policy that will keep this Republic ready at all times to defend her traditional doctrines, and assure her ap- propriate part in promoting permanent tranquility among the nations.
l*rotection of American Citizens Abroad.
We commend the vigorous efforts made by the Administra- tion to protect American citizens in foreign lands, and pledge ourselves to insist upon the just and equal protection of all our citizens abroad. It is the unquestioned duty of the Gov- ernment to procure for all our citizens, without distinction, the rights to travel and sojourn in friendly countries, and we declare ourselves in favor of all proper efforts tending to that end. lOxtension of Foreign Coninierce.
Under the administration of the Republican Party the foreign commerce of the United States has experienced a rem.arkable growth until it has a present annual valuation of approxi- mately three billions of dollars, and gives employment to a vast amount of labor and capital which would otherwise be idle. It has inaugurated, through the recent visit of the Sec- retary of State to South America and Mexico, a new era of Pan-American commerce and comity, which is bringing us into closer touch with our twenty sister American republics, having a common historical heritage, a Republican form of government, and offering us a limitless field of legitimate commercial expansion. Arbitration and I he Haji:ue Treaties.
The conspicuous contributions of American statesmanship to the great cause of international peace, so signally advanced in The Hague conferences, are an occasion for just pride and gratification. At the last session of the Senate of the United States, eleven Hague conventions were ratified, establishing
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the rights of neutrals, laws of war on land, restriction of sub- marine mines, limiting the use of force for the collection of contractual debts, governing the opening of hostilities, ex- tending the application of Geneva principles, and in many ways lessening the evils of war and promoting the peaceful settlement of international controversies. At the same ses- sion twelve arbitration conventions with great nations were confirmed, and extradftion, boundary and naturalization trea- ties of supreme importance were ratified. We indorse such achievements as the highest duty a people can perform, and proclaim the obligation of further strengthening the bonds of friendship and good will with all nations of the world. Merchant Marine.
We adhere to the Republican doctrine of encouragement to American shipping and urge such legislation as will revive the merchant marine prestige of the country, so essential to national defense, the enlargement of foreign trade and the industrial prosperity of our own people. Veterans of the Wars.
Another Republican policy which must be ever maintained is that of generous provision for those who have fought the country's battles and for the widows and orphans of those who have fallen. We commend the increase in the widows' pen- sions made by the present Congress, and declare for a liberal administration of all pension laws, to the end that the peo- ple's gratitude may grow deeper as the memories of heroic sacrifice grow more sacred with the passing years. Civil Service.
We reafllrm our former declaration that the civil-service laws, enacted, extended and enforced by the Republican Party, shall continue to be maintained and obeyed. Public Health.
We commend the efforts designed to secure greater effi- ciency in National public health agencies, and favor such leg- islation as will effect this purpose. Bureau of Mines and Mining.
In the interest of the great mineral industries of our coun- try, we earnestly favor the establishment of a Bureau of Mines and Mining. Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippines and Panama.
The American Government, in Republican hands, has freed Cuba, given peace and protection to Porto Rico and the Phil- ippines under our flag, and begun the construction of the Panama Canal. The present conditions in Cuba vindicate the wisdom of maintaining between that Republic and this im- perishable bonds of mutual interest, and the hope is now ex- pressed that the Cuban people will soon again be ready to assume complete sovereignty over their land.
In Porto Rico the Government of the United States is meet- ing loyal and patriotic support; order and prosperity prevail, and the well being of the people is in every respect promoted and conserved.
We believe that the native inhabitants of Porto Rico should be at once collectively made citizens of the United States, and that all others properly qualified under existing laws residing in said island should have the privilege of becoming natural- ized.
In the Philippines insurrection has been suppressed, law established and life and property made secure. Education and practical experience are there advancing the capacity of the people for government, and the policies of McKinley and Roosevelt are leading the inhabitants step by step to an ever- increasing measure of home rule.
Time has justified the selection of the Panama route for the great Isthmian Canal, and the events have shown the wis- dom of securing authority over the zone through which it is to be built. The work is now progressing with a rapidity far beyond expectation, and already the realization of the hopes of centuries has come within the vision of the near future.
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New Mexico and Arizona.
We favor the immediate admission of the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona as separate States in the Union.
Centenary of the Birth of Lincoln.
February 12, 1909, will be the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, an immortal spirit whose fame has brightened with the receding years, and whose name stands among the first of those given to the world by the great Republic. We recommend that this centennial anniversary be celebrated throughout the confines of the nation by all the people thereof, and especially by the public schools, as an exercise to stir the patrotism of the youth of the land.
Democratic Incapacity for (lovernnient.
We call the attention of the American people to the fact that none of the great measures here advocated by the Republican Party could be enacted, and none of the steps forward here proposed could be t^ken, under a Democratic administration or under one in which party responsibility is divided. The continuance of present politics, therefore, absolutely requires the continuance in power of that party which believes in them and which possesses the capacity to put them into operation.
Fundamental Differences Between Democracy and Republicanism.
Beyond all platform declarations there are fundamental differences between the Republican Party and its chief oppo- nent which make the one worthy and the other unworthy of public trust.
In history the difterence between Democracy and Repub- licanism is that the one stood for debased currency, the other for honest currency; the one for free silver, the other for sound money; the one for free trade, the other for protec- tion; the one for the contraction of American influence, the other for its expansion; the one has been forced to abandon every position taken on the great issues before the people, the other has held and vindicated all.
In experience, the difference between Democracy and Re- publicanism is that one means adversity, while the other means prosperity; one means low wages, the other means high; one means doubt and debt, the other means confidence and thrift.
In principle, the difference between Democracy and Repub- licanism is that one stands for vacillation and timidity in gov- renment, the other for strength and purpose; one promises, the other performs; one finds fault, the other finds work.
The present tendencies of the two parties are even more marked by inherent differences. The trend of Democ- racy is toward socialism, while the Republican Party stands for a wise and regulated individualism. Socialism would de- stroy wealth. Republicanism would prevent its abuse. So- cialism would give to each an equal right to take; Republi- canism would give to each an equal right to earn. Socialism would offer an equality of possession which would soon leave no one anything to possess; Republicanism would give equal- ity of opportunity which would assure to each his share of a constantly increasing sum of possessions. In line with this tendency the Democratic Party of to-day believes in Govern- ment ownership, while the Republican Party believes in Gov- ernment regulation. Ultimately Democracy would have the nation own the people, while Republicanism would have the people own the nation.
Upon this platform of principles and purposes, reaffirming our adherence to every Republican doctrine proclaimed since the birth of the party, we e-o before the country asking the support not only of those who have acted with us heretofore, but of all our fellow citizens who, regardless of past political difference, uni+e in the desire to maintain the policies, per- petuate the b^p^sings and make secure the achievements of a greater America.
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Important Public Laws Knac'ted by Congress Since March
4, 1897.
{Supp. R. Stat., vol. 2, p. 633, June 7, 1897, 55th, 1st.) Chap. 4. An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States.
{Supp. R. Stat., vol. 2, p. 642, July 19, 1897. 55th 1st.) [See R. Stat., § 64, and act of Oct. 19, 1888, 1 Supp. R. Stat., 633.] Chap. 9. An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, and for prior years. Statement of appropriations : For preparation of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, as required by the act approved October 19, 1888, $1,200, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of the Com- mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives to do said work for the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and said state- ments shall be consolidated with the statements of the appropriation bills passed at the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress and included in the same volume.
And said statements shall hereafter indicate the amount of contracts authorized by appropriation acts in addition to appropriations made therein, and shall also contain specific reference to all indefinite appropriations made each session.
The Dingley lariff Law.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 642, July 24, 1897, 55th, 1st.) Chap. 11. An act to provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 714, July 24, 1897 55th, 1st; see also Rev^ Stat., sees. 2502, 4219, 4228.) Chap. 13. An act to authorize the President to suspend discriminating duties imposed on foreign vessels and commerce.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 717, Dec. 29, 1897, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 3. An act prohibiting the killing of fur. seals in the waters of the north Pacific Ocean.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 725, Jan. 27, 1898, 55th, 2d; see also sec. 2234,
Rev. Stat.)
Chap. 10. An act to amend section 2234 of the Revised Statutes.
Be it enacted, etc., That section 2234 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
"Sec. 2234. There shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register of the land office and a receiver bf public moneys for each land district established by law, who shall have charge of and attend to the sale of public and Indian lands within their respective districts, as provided by law and official regulations, and receivers shall be accountable under their official bonds for the proceeds of such sales, and for all fees, commissions, or other moneys received by them under any provision of law or official regulation."
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, 726, Feb. 17, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 25. An act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 729, Feb. 17, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 26. An act to amend the laws relating to navigation. (Prohibiting transportation of merchandise from one United States port
to another in foreign vessels, or passengers, and providing a penalty for
violation.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 733, Mar. 4, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 35. An act to amend an act to prohibit the passage of local or
special laws in the Territories, to limit terrilforial indebtedness, etc.
(Permiting issuance of bonds by municipal corporations for sanitary,
etc., purposes.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 734, Mar. 11, 1898, 55th, 2d.)
Chap. 57. An act to repeal in part and to limit section 3480 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
(Dispenses with proof of loyalty on part of claimants agarinst United States.)
(Suj)p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, 737, Mar. 1898, 55th, 2d.)
Chap. 68. An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending .June 30, 1899, and for other purposes.
(Part of section 7 provides that heads of executive departments shall require monthly reports to be made to them of the condition of the work in their departments ; when work is in arrears they may extend hours ; heads to make quarterly reports to the President as to the condition of work in their departments.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 740, Mar. 23, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 86. An act to amend section 4440 of the Revised Statutes author- izing the licensing of mates on river and ocean steamers.
(Amendments consist in making mates on river steamers liable to exam- ination and subject to be licensed the same as those on ocean and coastwise .steamers.)
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(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 742, Apr. 22, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 187. An act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of war, and for other purposes. (Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 744, Apr. 26, 1898, 55th, 2(1.) Chap. 191. An act for the better organization of the line of the Army of the United States.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 750, May 5, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 241. An act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 755, May 14, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 299. An act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Employees' Arbitration Act.
[Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 769, June 1, 1898, 55th, 2d.)
Chap. 370. An act concerning carriers engaged in Interstate commerce and their employees.
( Providing for mediation and arbitration of disputes between carriers and their employees, and preventing discrimination against members of labor organizations.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 774, June 6, 1898, 55th, 2d.)
Chap. 389. An act to remove the disability imposed by section 3 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
(Section 3, referred to, provides that no person shall be a Senator, Representative, or hold any office, etc., who, having previously taken an oath as a Member of Congress or as an officer of the United States, etc., to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.)
(Su2)p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. Ill, June 10, 1898, 55</i, 2d.)
Chap. 423. An act for revising and perfecting the classification of letters patent and printed publications in the Patent Office.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 778, June 13, 1898, 55th, 2d.)
Chap. 446. An act making appropriations for the service of the Post- Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899.
( Par. 2 provides penalty for fraudulent increase in weight of mails to increase railroad compensation.)
War Revenue Act.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 779, June 13, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 448. An act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes.
(Supp- Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 805, June 16, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 458. An act for the protection of homestead settlers who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war. (Supp. Rev. Stat. vol. 2, p. 805, June 17, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 463. An act to organize a hospital corps of the Navy of the United States ; to define its duties and regulate its pay.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 807, June 18, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 469. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to promote the administration of justice in the army," approved October 1, 1890, and for other purposes.
(Regulation as to military courts, powers, limitations, etc.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 808, June 21, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 489. An act to make certain grants of land to the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes.
(Grants public lands for schools, public buildings and a university, agricultural college, etc. ; provides that 5 per cent of the proceeds of the sale of public lands within Territory shall be devoted to a permanent fund for the common schools.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 814, June 28, 1898, 55t7i, 2d.) Chap. 517. An act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.
(Deals at length with lands and rights therein.)
Bankruptcy Act.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 843, July 1, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 541. An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy through- out the United States.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 868, July 1, 1898, 55i7i, 2d.) Chap. 542. An act to ratify the agreement between the Dawes Com- mission and the Seminole Nation of Indians,
(S^iiJp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 885, July 1, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 576. An act to protect the harbor defenses and fortifications con- structed or used by the United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 892, July 8, 1898, 55th, 2d.) Chap. 647. An act to reimburse the governors of States and Territories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the United States in the existing war with Spain.
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Independence of Cuba.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, 2). 893, Apr. 11, 1898, 55th, 2d.) No. 24. Joint resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect.
Annexation of Hawaii.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 895, July 7, 1898. 55th. 2d.) No. 55. Joint resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
iSuiJp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 897, Dec. 21, 1898, 55th, 3cZ.) Chap. 28. An act to amend the laws relating to American seamen, for the protection of such seamen, and to promote commerce.
(Contains many provisions for the betterment of the condition of seamen and for their protection.)
[Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 908, Dec. 21, 1898, 55th, Zd.) Chap. 29. An act concerning sail vessels of over 700 tons, and for other purposes.
(This places masters and chief mates of sail vessels of over 700 tons, and all other vessels or barges of over 100 tons burden, carrying passengers for hire, on the same basis with regard to inspection, etc., as steam vessels, and provides for their licensing, etc., on same basis.)
{Siii)p- Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 910, Dec. 21, 1898, 55(^, 3d.) Chap. 30. An act regulating the inspection of flour in the District of Columbia.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 913, Dec. 21, 1898, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 36. An act to amend sections 1697, 1698, and 1734 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to consul and vice-consul generals, consuls and vice-consuls, and commercial agents.
(Deals with bonds of consular officers and suits thereon, and provides penalty for failure of consular officers to make proper returns of govern- ment business.)
{Su2}p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 916, Jan. 12, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 47. An act relating to negotiable instruments within the District of Columbia.
( This makes the District of Columbia law the same as the laws of New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, and Wyoming.) {Sujyp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 937, Feb. 2, 1899, 55(71, 3f7.) Chap. 79. An act for the prevention of smoke in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 940, Feb. 8, 1899, 55(/i, 3d.) Chap. 121. An act to prevent the abatement of certain actions. (Suits against government officers not to abate because of death, retire- ment, removal, etc., but to be maintained against successors.)
(SuiJp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 99, Feb. 28, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 227. An act to amend section 4896 of the Revised Statutes. (Extends patent rights to representatives of insane persons, and to heirs at law or devisees of deceased persons.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 950, Mar. 1, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 322. An act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 951, Mar. 1, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 323. An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 960, Mar. 2, 1899, 55(7!, 3c7.) Chap. 352. An act for increasing the efficiency of the Army of the United States, and for other purposes.
(Provides for the organization of the army.)
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 965, Mar. 2, 1899, 55/7i, 3fZ.) Chap. 362. An act regulating the postage on letters written by the blind.
"Be it enacted, etc.. That all letters written in point print or raised characters used by the blind when unsealed shall be transmitted through the mails as third-class matter. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed."
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 966, Mar. 2, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 374. An act to provide for the acquiring of rights of way by railroad companies through Indian reservations, Indian lands, and Indian allotmencs, and for other purposes.
(Provides for full compensation for the benefit of Indians whose lands are taken, and imposes certain duties on the railroads.)
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 969, Mar. 3, 1899, 55(7i, 3d.) Chap. 413. An act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the per- bonnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 975, Mar. 3, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 115. An act for the punishment of seduction in the District of Qolumbia.
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(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 976, Mar. 3, 1899, 55th, 3d.)
Chap. 417. An act for the protection of birds, preservation of game, and for the prevention of its sale during certain closed seasons in the District of Columbia.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 992, Mar. 3, 1899, 55(71, 3d.)
Chap. 424. An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, and for other purposes. [Par. 8.] And the system of public land surveys is hereby extended to the District of Alaska.
{Sui)p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 994, Mar. 3, 1899, 55th, 3d.)
Chap. 425. An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.
(Also provides against unauthorized bridge building, obstruction of navigable streams, depositing of refuse therein or on banks, etc.)
Alaskan Criminal Code.
iSuiJp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1003, Mar. 3, 1899, 55th, 3d.) Chap. 429. An act to define and punish crimes in the District of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said District.
{Sujip. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1101, Mar. 3, 1899, 55(7i, 3(i.) Chap. 441. An act to amend section 941 of the Revised Statutes. (Object is to prevent blackmailing of vessels by seizing them just as they are leaving port on their way, at some lonely place, or unusual time, and permits the filing of a permanent bond to answer any action that may be brought.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1116, Feb. 10, 1900, 56/7i, 1st.) Chap. 15. An act relating to Cuban vessels.
(Granting them rights of most-favored nations, and providing for refund of tonnage taxes and light dues paid since April 11, 1899.)
The Gold Standard, Refunding, and Banking Act,
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1119, Mar. 14, 1900, 56(7i, 1st.) Chap. 41. An act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes.
(Sui}p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1128, Apr. 12, 1900, 56(7i, 1st.) Chap. 191. An act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil govern- ment for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.
iSupp. Rev. Siat., vol. 2, p. 1141, Apr. 30, 1900, 56th, 1st.) Chap. 339. An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii.
iSu2}p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1163, May 5, 1900, 56f7i, 1st.) Chap. 349. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent forest flres on the public domain," approved February 24, 1897.
(Provides penalty for setting fire to timber, underbrush, or grass on public domain, or leaving a fire there, etc.)
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1170, May 17, 1900, 5Gf7i, 1st.) Chap. 479. An act providing for free homesteads on the public lands for actual and bona fide settlers, and reserving the public lands for that purpose.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1173, May 25, 1900, 5C(7i, 1st.) Chap. 553. An act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agri- culture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes.
Red Cross Incorporation.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1191, Jtme 6, 1900, 5Gth, 1st.) Chap. 784. An act to incorporate the American National Red Cr'oss, and for other purposes.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1194, June 6, 1900, 56th, 1st.) Chap. 786. An act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes. (Complete civil code.)
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1443, June 6, 1900, 56(7i, 1st.) Chap. 796. An act to extend the coal-land laws to the District of Alaska.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1463, Jan. 26, 1901, 56th, 2d.) Chap.. 180. An act to allow the commutation of homestead entries in certain cases.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1465, Jan. 31, 1901, 56th, 2d.) Chap. 186. An act extending the mining laws to saline lands.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1466, Feh, 2, 1901, 56(7i, 2d.) Chap. 192. An act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States.
{Su2)p. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1496. Mar. 1, 1901, 56t7i, 2d.) Chap. 674. An act providing that entrymen under the homestead laiys who have served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the Spanish war or the Philippine insurrection shall have certain serviC;; deducted from the time required to perfect title under homestead laws, afld for other purposes.
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Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. .
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1498, Mar. 2, 1901, 5Gth, 2(1.)
Chap. 800. An act to carry into effect the stipulations of Article VII of the treaty betw&en the United States and Spain concluded on the 10th day of December, 1898.
(Provides for the creation of the "Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.") (Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1513, Mar. 2, 1901, BGth, 2(1.)
Chap. 806. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes," approved June 13, 1898, and to reduce taxation thereunder.
[Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1503, Mar. 2, 1901, 5Qth, 2d.)
Chap. 803. An act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902.
(Page 1504 deals with the authorization to the President "to leave the government and control of the island of Cuba to its people," and with the relations of the United States to Cuba.)
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1526, Mar. 2, 1901, 56th, 2d.)
Chap. 809. An act to prevent the failure of military justice, anci for other purposes.
(Provides penalty for civilians refusing to testify before courts-martial.) {Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1553, Mar. 3, 1901, 56«i, 2d.)
Chap. 853. An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, and for other purposes.
[Par. 11.] That the commission authorized by the act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes," approved June 4, 1897, to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States, is hereby directed to revise and codify in accordance with the terms and provisions of said acts and the acts supplementary thereto all laws of the United States of a permanent and general nature in force at the time when the same shall be reported. * * *
Code for the District of Columbia.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1556, Mar. 3, 1901, 56«;i, 2d.) Chap. 854. An act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia.
{Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1810, Mar. 3, 1901, 5Qth, 2d.) Chap. 866. An act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
National Bureau of Standards.
(Supp. Rev. Stat., vol. 2, p. 1812, Mar. 3, 1901, 56m, 2d.) Chap. 872. An act to establish the National Bureau of Standards. (Functions of bureau to consi-st in custody of the standards, comparison, construction of when necessary, etc.)
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 1, Dec. 14, 1901, 57th, 1st.) Chap. 1. An act to continue the Industrial Commission until February
15, 1902.
(A nonpartisan commission to collate information and to consider and
recommend legislation to meet the problems presented by labor, agriculture,
and capital.)
(See act of June 18, 1898, for creation of commission.)
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 33, Feb. 14, 1902, 57f7i, 1st.) Chap. 18. An act to prevent the sale of firearms, opium, and intoxicating liquors in certain islands of the Pacific.
( Forbids giving, selling, or otherwise supplying the forbidden articles on any Pacific island not in possession or under protection of any civilized power, located within the twentieth parallel north latitude and the fortieth parallel south latitude and the one hundred and twentieth meridian of longi- tude west and the one hundred and twentieth meridian of longitude east of Greenwich.)
Permanent Census Office.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 51, Mar. 6, 1902, 51th, J.sf.) Chap. 139. An act to provide a permanent Census Office. ,
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I. p. 54, Mar. S, 1902. 5ini, 1st.) Chap. 140. An act temporarily to provide revenue far the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
Repeal of AVar Revenue Taxes.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 32. I. p. 96, Apr. 12, 1902, olth, 1st.) Chap. 500. An act to repeal war-revenue taxation, and for other purposes. (Reduced tax on beer among other things.)
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I. p. 100, Apr. 12, 1902, 57th, Isl.) Chap. 501. An act to promote the eflUciency of the Revenue-Cutter Service.
(1:7. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, 7. p. 102, Apr. 12. 1902. 57th. Isi.) Chap. 503. An act to provide for the (xtension of the charters of national banks.
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(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I. p. 172, Apr. 29, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 637. An act to facilitate the procuremeut of statistics of trade between the United States and its noncontiguous territory.
(Extending to the trade between United States and Hawaii, Porto Rico, Alaska, Philippines, Guam, and other noncontiguous territory provisions of Revised Statutes requiring sta'tements of quantity and value of goods carried by vessels clearing from United States to foreign ports J
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, /, p. 176, Apr. 29, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 641. An act to prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence within the United States, its Territories, and all territory under its jurisdiction, and the District of Columbia, of Chinese and persons of Chinese descent.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 198, May 13, 1902, 57th, 1st.)
Chap. 787. An act for the relief of citizens of the French We.st Indies.
(Appropriation of $200,000 for rescuing and succoring the people in peril there.)
(U. S. Stat.L., vol. 32, I, p. 202, May 22, 1902, 51th, 1st.)
Chap. 820. An act reserving from the public lands in the State of Oregon. as a public park for the benefit of the people of the United States and for the protection and preservation of the game, fish, timber, and all other natural objects therein, a tract of land herein described, etc.
(Creating the Crater Lake National Park, 249 square miles in area.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 203, May 22, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 821. An act to allow the commutation of and second homestead entries in certain cases.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, 327, June 1, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1037. An act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 388, June 17, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1093. An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and dis- posal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, /, p. 396, June 21, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1138. An act to fix the fees of jurors in the United States courts. (Making the per diem pay in any court of the United States $3 instead of $2.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 406, June 27, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1160. An act to provide for refunding taxes paid upon legacies and bequests for uses of a religious, charitable, or educational character, for the encouragement of art, etc., under the act of June 13, 1898, and for other purposes.
Panama Canal Act.
iU. S. Stat. L, vol. 32, I, p. 481, June 28, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1302. An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.)
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 485, June 28, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1306. An act appropriating the sum of $3,000 a year for the support and maintenance of the permanent international commissioa of the congresses of navigation, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, /, p. 631, July 1, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1356. An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories."
(Providing for adequate ventilation in coal mines, and for employment of shot firers.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 632, July 1, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1357. An act to prevent a false branding or marking of food and dairy products as to the State or Territory in which they are made or produced.
Philippine Government Act.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 691, July 1, 1902, 51th 1st.) Chap. 1369. An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes. (17. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 712, July 1, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1370. An act to increase the efficiency and change the name of the United States Marine-Hospital Service.
(f7. 8. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 727, July 1, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1376. An act for the suppression of train robbery in the Territories of the United States and elsewhere, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 728, July 1, 1902, 51th, 1st.) Chap. 1378. An act to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products in the District of Columbia, to regulate interstate traffic in said articles, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, /, p. 11, June 30, 1902, 51th, 1st.) [No. 40.] Joint resolution authorizing the Director of the Census to com- pile statistics relating to irrigation.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I. p. 765, Jan. 9, 1903, 51th, 2d.) Chap. 63. An act to set apart certain lands in the State of South Dakota as a public park, to be known as the Wind Cave National Park.
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{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 775, Jan. 21, 1903, 57i7i, 2d.) Chap. 196. An act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 783, Jan. 30, 1903, 51 th, 2(1.) Chap. 334. An act to promote the efficiency of the Philippine Constabu- lary, to establish the rank and pay of its commanding officers, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 790, Jan. 31, 1903, 57th, 2c/.) Chap. 344. An act providing for the compulsory attendance of witnesses before registers and receivers of the land office.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 791, Fch. 2, 1903, 51tli, 2d.) Chap. 349. An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effec- tually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 797, Feb. 5, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 487. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uni- form system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved July 1, 1898.
Act to FiXpedite Antitrust Cases.
(t/. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, 7, p. 823, Feb. 11, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 544. An act to expedite the hearing and determination of suits in equity pending or hereafter brought under the act of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," "An act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, or any other acts having a like purpose that may be hereafter enacted.
(Gives precedence to antitru.^t cases in circuit courts and provides appeal direct to Supreme Court.)
Act Establishing Department of Commerce and JLabor.
(Z7. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 825, Feb. 14, 1903, 57^/1, 2(Z.) Chap. 552. An act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 830, Feb. 14, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 553. An act to increase the efficiency of the army. (Establishing a General Staff Corps and prescribing its duties and com- position.)
Hepburn Antirebate Act.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, J, p. 847, Feb. 19, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 708. An act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States.
(Prohibits rebates, discriminations, etc.)
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 909, Feb. 28, 1903, 57t7i, 2d.) Chap. 856. An act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
(C7. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 943, Mar. 2, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 976. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1893, and aTiended April 1, 1896.
(Extending provisions of act to Territories and District of Columbia, dud containing provisions as to brakes, etc.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 944, Mar. 2, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 977. An act to increase (he pensions of those who have lost limbs in the military or naval service of the United States.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 944, Mar. 2, 1903, 57^7f, 2d.) Chap. 978. An act amending the civil code of Alaska, providing for the organization of private corporations, ^nd for other purposes.
Philippine Coinage Act.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 952, Mar. 2, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 980. An act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 1023, Mar. 3, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap 998. An act regulating the importation of breeding animals,
(f7. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 1213, Mar. 3, 1903, With, 2d.) Chap. 1012. An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 1225, Mar. 3, 1903, 57th, 2d.) Chap. 1019. An act to effectuate the provisions of the additional act of the international convention for the protection of industrial property. {U. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 1231, Feb. 11, 1903, 57t/i, 2d.) fNo. T.] .Toint resolution requesting state authoriti'=>s to coonerate with Census Office in securing a uniform system of birth and death registration, {V. S. Stat. L., vol. 32, I, p. 1231, Feb. 24, 1903, 57th, 2d.) [No. 9.] .loint resolution to provide for the printing of a digest of the laws, decisions, and opinions relating to pardons and other acts of executive Qlemency under the United States and the several States.
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([7. H. Stat L., vol. 33, 7, p. 163, Apr. 8, 1904, ^S,ih, 20.) Chap. 945. An act to increase the pensions of those who have lost both eyes or have become totally blind from causes occurring in the military or naval service of the United States.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 299, Ajjv. 23, 1904, 58th, 2d.) Chap. 1493. An act regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in the Indian Territory.
iU. S. Stat. L„ vol. 33, I, p. 313, Ajyr. 27, 1904, 58th, 2d.) Chap. 1612. An act to promote the circulation of reading matter among the blind. ^ .
(Providing for free transmission of such matter under certain circum- stances through the mails.)
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 313, Apr. 27, 1904, 5Sth, 2d.) Chap. 1758. An act to provide for the temporary government of tho Canal Zone at Panama, the protection of the canal works, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 526, Apr. 28, 1904, 58»i, 2d.) Chap. 1774. An act for the protection of the Bull Run Forest Reserve and the sources of the water supply of the city of Portland. State of Oregon.
([/. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 527, Apr. 28, 1904, 58^/i, 2d.) Chap. 1776. An act providing for second and additional homestead en- tries, and for other purposes.
(C7. fif. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 529, Aj^r. 28, 1904, 58th, 2d.) Chap. 1778. An act to amend and codify the laws relating to municipal corporations in the District of Alaska.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 536, Apr. 28, 1904, 58th, 2d.) Chap, 1780. An act to grant to the State of Minnesota certain lands for forestry purposes.
(Granting 20,000 acres to the State.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, 7, p. 561, Apr. 28, 1904, 58f/i, 2d.) Chap. 1813. An act creating a commission to consider and recommend legislation for the development of the American merchant marine, and for other purposes.
Exemption of Private Property at Sea Not Contraband of War.
(77. S. Stai. L., vol. 33, I, p. 592, Apr. 28, 1904, 58th, 2d.) [No. 36.] Joint resolution relating to the exemption of all private property at sea, not contraband of war, from capture or destruction by belligerent powers.
Resolved, etc.. That it is the sense of the Congress of the United S;ates that it is desirable, in the interest of uniformity of action by the maritime states of the world in time of war, that the President endeavor to bring about an understanding among the principal maritime powers with a view of incorporating Into the permanent law of civilized nations the principle of the exemption of all private property at sea, not contraband of war, from capture or destruction by belligerents. Approved, April 28, 1904.
Red Cross Incorporation Act.
(77. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 599. Jan. 5, 1905, 58f7i, .?d.) Chap. 23. An act to incorporate the American National Red Cross.
(77. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, 7, p. 614, Jan. 24, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 137. An act for the protection of wild animals and birds in the Wichita Forest Reserve.
(77. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, 7, p. 616, Jan. 27, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 277. An act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Philippine Coinage Act.
(77. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 689, Feb. 6, 1905, 58th, 3d.)
Chap. 453. An act to amend an act approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," and to amend an act approved March 8, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," and to amend an act approved March 2, 1903, entitled "An act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands," and to provide for the more efficient administration of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
(77. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 700, Feb. 6, 1905, 58th, 3d.)
Chap. 456. An act for the protection of the public forest reserves and national parks of the United States.
(Granting authority to employees of forest and park service to make arrests for violations of laws relating to forest and park reserves.) (77. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 705, Feb. 8, 1905, 58th, 3d.)
Chap. 550. An act to amend the act of February 8, 1897, entitled "An act to prevent the carrying of obscene literature and articles designed for indecent and immoral use from one State or Territory into another State or Territory," so as to prevent the Importatloil and exportation of the same.
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(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 724, Feb. 20, 1905, 5Sth, 3d.) Chap. 592. An act to authorize the registration of trademarks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several States or with Indian tribes, and to protect the same.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 732, Feb. 21, 1905, 58th, 3(1.) Chap. 720. An act to prevent the use of devices calculated to convey the impression that the United States Government certifies to the quality of gold or silver used in the arts.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 818, Fe&. 28, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1163. An act to amend section 5146 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in relation to the qualifications of directors of national banking associations.
(Providing that they be citizens of the United States, for the residence of three-fourths of them, and that they must each own in their own right a minimum number of shares of capital stock.)
(^7. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 928, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1408. An act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 986, Mar. 3, 1905, 58^71, 3d.) Chap. 1416. An act to promote the efficiency of the reserve militia and to encourage rifle practice among the members thereof.
(t7. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 1000, Mar. 3, 1905, 58ih, 3d.) Chap. 1432. An act to amend section 4952 of the Revised Statutes. (Copyright law.)
(17. §. Stat L., vol. 33, I, p. 1009, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1443. An act to provide for the investigation of leprosy, with special reference to the care and treatment of lepers in Hawaii.
(17. 5f. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 1023, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1454. An act to amend sections 4417, 4453, 4488, and 4499 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the Steamboat-Inspection Service, and section 5344 of the Revised Statutes, relating to misconduct by officers or owners of vessels.
(Providing for annual and extra Inspections of vessels, etc.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 1027, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1456. An act to amend sections 4418, 4480, and 4483 of the Revised Statutes, and to repeal sections 4435, 4436, and 4459 of the Re- vised Statutes, all relating to the Steamboat-Inspection Service.
(Provides for inspection of boilers and appurtenances, hydrostatic tests, and for safety appliances, etc., on boats.)
(17. S. Stat. L., vol 33, I, p. 1028, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1457. An act to amend sections 4415, 4416, 4423, 4426, 4449, 4452, 4470, 4472, 4498, and 4233 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to steamboat inspection.
(Qualifications of inspectors, certificates of inspection, fire precautions, etc.)
Jamestown Exposition.
(17. 8. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 1046, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th', 3d.) Chap. 1478. An act to provide for celebrating the birth of the American Nation, the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people in the Western Hemisphere, by the holding of an international naval, marine, and military celebration in the vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia ; to provide for a suitable and permanent commemoration of said event, and to authorize an appropriation in aid thereof, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 1264, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.) Chap. 1496. An act to enable the Secretai^y of Agriculture to establi.sh and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 33, I, p. 1269, Mar. 3, 1905, 58th, 3d.'i Chap. 1501. An act to prohibit importation or interstate transportation of insect pests, and the use of the United States mails for that purpose. (17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 5, Dec. 21, 1905, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3. An act supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," approved June 28, 1902, and making appropriation for isthmian canal construction, and for other purposes. '
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, 7. p. 24, Feb. 26, 1906, '59^;?, Ut.) Chap. 509. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1905.
Marking Graves of Confederate Soldiers.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 56, Mar. 9, 1906, 59t/i, Ut.) Chap. 631. An act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the confederate army and navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes.
(Z7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 63, Mar. 16, 1906, 59/7i, 1st.) Chap. 951. An act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof.
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([/. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 68, Mar. 17, 1906, 59t7i, 1st.) Chap. 955. An act to amend section 4400 of the Revised Statutes relating to inspection of steam vessels.
Juvenile Court.
(f/. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 73, Mar. 19, 1906, 59t/i, 1st.) Chap. 960. An act to create a juvenile court in and for tUe District of Columbia.
(Z7. S. Stat. L., VOL 34, I, p. 84, Mar. 23, 1906, 50th, 1st.) Chap. 1130. An act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 86, Mar. 23, 1906, ZQtli, 1st.) Chap. 1131. An act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia tb abandon or wilfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or of his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances.
Consular Reorganization Act.
(f/. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 99, Ajyr. 5, 1906, 59th, 1st.)
Chap. 1366. An act to provide for the reorganization of the Consular Service of the United States.
(Provides for reclassification of consular officers, fixes salaries, forbids certain classes engaging in business or accepting fees ; provides for consular inspectors, known ao consuls-general at large.)
(Z7. ,Sf. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 104, 4pr. 9, 1906, 59th, 1st.)
Chap. 1370. An act granting authority to the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to dismiss midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy, and regulating the pi'ocedure and punishment in trials for hazing at the said academy.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 116, Apr. 14, 1906, 59th, 1st.)
Chap. 1627. An act to amend the seventh section of the act entitled "An act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes," approved March 8, 1891, and the several acts amendatory thereto.
(Provides that in equity hearings in district or circuit courts where injunctions are granted or continued or receiver appointed by interlocutory order or decree an appeal from such order or decree may be taken to the circuit court of appeals.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 132, Ajor. 24, 1906, 59th, 1st.)
Chap. 1861. An act providing for the purchase of metal and the coinage of minor coins, and the diotribution and redemption of said coins.
Age of 62 Permanent Disability Under Pension Laws.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 133, Apr. 24, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 1862. An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, and for other purposes.
(Provides that "the age of 62 years and over shall be considered a permanent specific disability within the meaning of the pension laws.") (V. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 136, Ajyr. 24, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 1865. An act to simplify the issue of enrollments and licenses of vessels of the United States.
(17. 5f. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 137, Apr. 26, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 1876. An act to provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. {U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 154, Apr. 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 2071. An act to regulate shipping in trade between ports of the United States and ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purpoocs. (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 157, May 1, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 2073. An act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 168, May 4, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 2081. An act to amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks.
(C7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 169, May 7, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 2083. An act providing for the election of a Delegate to the House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska.
(t7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 175, May 7, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 2084. An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 182, May 8, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 2348. An act to amend section 6 of an act approved February 8. 1887, entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes."
(Confers citizenship rights to allottees on issue of fee-simple title and on Indians who take up habits, etc., of civilized- life separate and apart from finy tribe.)
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iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 190, May 12, 1906, 59t/i, 1st.) Chap. 2454. An act to provide for the removal of derelicts and other floating dangers to navigation.
(Appropriates $2J.0,000 for construction of a steam vessel for destroying or towing into port wrecks and derelicts.)
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 197, May 17, 1906, 59f/i, 1st.) Chap. 2469. An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to allot homesteads to the natives of Alaska.
(t7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 200, May 26, 1906, 59^/1, 1st.) Chap. 2556. An act to regulate enlistments and punishments in the United States Revenue-Cutter Service.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 202, May 26, 1906, 59f7i, 1st.) Chap. 2558. An act to amend section 6 of an act entitled "An act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes," approved March 14, 1900.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, J, p. 208, June 4, 1906, 59t7i, 1st.) Chap. 2571. An act to punish the cutting, chipping, or boxing of trees on the public lands.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34., 7, p. 215, June 7, 1906, 59t;i, 1st.) Chap. 3046. An act to amend existing laws relating to the fortification of pure sweet wines.
Denatured Alcohol Act.
{V. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, J, p. 217, June 7, 1906, 59tlh 1st.) Chap. 3047. An act for the withdrawal from bond, tax free, of domestic alcohol when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing materials.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 218, June 7, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3048. An act to amend section 7 of an act entitled "An act to provide for a permanent census oflEice," approved March 6, 1902
(Provides for decennial collections of statistics relating to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes ; and also many other matters Kociological and economic.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I. p. 225, Jwic 8, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3060. An act for the preservation of American antiquities.
First Employers' Liability Act.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 232, June 11, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3073. An act relating to liability of common carriers in the District of Columbia and Territories, and common carriers engaged in commerce between the States and between the States and foreign nations to their employees.
(Provides that carrier shall be liable for injuries to its employees resulting from negligence; contributory negligence not a bar to recovery.) iV. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, J, p. 234, June 11, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3075. An act to empower the Secretary of War under certain restrictions to authorize the construction, extension, and maintenance of wharves, piers, and other structures on lands underlying harbor areas and navigable streams and bodies of waters in or surrounding Porto Rico and the islands adjacent thereto,
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 259, June 12, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3288. An act to extend the irrigation act to the State of Texas.
(C/. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 260, June 13, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3289. An act forbidding the importation, exportation, or carnage in interstate commerce of falsely or spuriously stamped articles of merchan- dise made of gold or silver or their alloys, and for other purposes. (f7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 263, June 14, 1906, 59f7i, 1st.) Chap. 3299. An act to prohibit aliens from fishing in the waters of Alaska.
Admission of Oklahoma.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 267, June 16, 1906, 59th, Ist.) Chap. 3335. An act to enable the people of Oklahoma, and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States ; and to enable the people of New Mexico and of Arizona to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.
iV. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, 7, p. 299, June 19, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3433. An act to further protect the public health and make more effective the national quarantine.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, 7, p. 321, June 20, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3447. An act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 331, June 20, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3515. An act to increase the efficiency of the militia and promote
rifle practice.
(Appropriating two million annually for arms, ordnance, gtores, etc., for
the Militia.
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{U. .S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 451, June 22, 1909, o9t/i, Ut.) Chap. 3516. An act to amend section 5200, Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to national banks. (Limit to liabilities increased.)
(f7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, /, p. 452, June 23, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3520. An act to promote the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 453, June 23, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3521. An act to amend an act approved March 2, 1903, entitled "An act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands."
(Change in weight and fineness of silver coins ; silver certificates pro- vided for, etc.)
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 454, Jimc 23, 1906, 5dtli, l.sr.) Chap. 3523. An act to provide for the traveling expenses of the President of the United States.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 455, June 25, 1906, 59t7i, 1st.) Chap. 3526. An act to increase the efficiency of the Ordnance Depart- ment in the United States Army.
Protection of Alaskan Fisheries.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 478, June 26, 1906, 59^7i, 1st.) Chap. 3547. An act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of
Alaska.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, 7, p. 482, June 26, 1906, 59e;i, 1st.) Chap. 3550. An act to declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by
section 4 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1875, entitled "An act
granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the
United States."
(Enforces the forfeiture where railroad has not been constructed and
period of five years has elapsed since locating of said road.)
(f7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, J, p. 517, June 27, 1906, 59th, l.<it.) Chap. 3555. An act granting lands td the State of Wisconsin for for- estry purposes.
(Grants not more than 20,0C0 acres.)
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 519, June 27, 1906, 59t7i, 1st.) Chap. 3559. An act providing for the subdivision of lands entered under the reclamation act, and for other purposes.
(t7. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 536, June 28, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3565. An act to protect birds and their eggs in game and bird preserves.
(17. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 546, June 28, 1906, 59/7i, 1st.) Chap. 3574. An act to amend section 5481 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
( Provides punishment for extortion by officers and employees of the United States.)
{V. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 551, Jxinc 28, 1906, 59th, 1st) Chap. 3582. An act to amend the act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900.
(Provides for a Delegate to the House of Representatives.)
(C7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 551. June 28, 1906, 59(7i, 1st.)
Chap. 3583. An act to prohibit shanghalng In the United States.
(17. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 584, June 29, 1906, 59th, 1st.)
Chap. 3591. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate
commerce," approved February 4, 1887, and all acts amendatory thereof,
and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Bureau of Immigration, and Naturalization Act.
([7. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 596, June 29, 1906, 59/7i, 1st.) Chap. 3592. An act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturali- zation, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 607, June 29, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3593. An act for the protection of wild animals in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve.
(17. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, /, p. 607, June 29, 1906, 59/7^ 1st.) Chap. 3594. An act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into or through another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and repealing sections 4386, 4387, 4388, 4389, and 4390 cf the United States Revised Statutes.
(17. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 611, June 29, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3597. An act to provide for the construction of a lock canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the method of construction.
iU. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34. J. p. 616. June 29, 1906, 59^7; . 1st.) Chap. 3607. An act creating the Mesa Verde National Park.
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([7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 618, June 29, 1906, odth, 1st.) Chap. 3608. An act to amend section 858 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
(The competency of a witness to testify in any civil action, suit, or proceeding in the courts of the United States shall be determined by the laws of the State or Territory in which the court is held.)
rreservation of Niagara Falls.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 626, June 29, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3621. An act for the control and regulation of the waters of Niagara river, for the preservation of Niagara Falls, and for othti- pur- poses.
Meat Inspection Act.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 674, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3913. An act making appropriations for the Department of Agri- culture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907.
(Pp. 674 — 679, under "Bureau of Animal Industry," meat inspection is provided for, to prevent the use in interstate or foreign commerce of meat and meat food products which are unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food.)
Pure Food and Drug Act.
(IT. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, 7, p. 768, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3915. An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transporta- tion of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 798, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3920. An act defining the right of immunity of witnesses under the act entitled "An act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission," and so forth, approved February 11, 1893, and an act entitled "An act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, approved February 14, 1903, and an act entitled "An act to further regu- late commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved Feb- ruary 19, 1903, and an act entitled "An act mailing appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expen.ses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, and for other purposes," approved February 25, 1903.
(Gives immunity only to a natural person in answer to subpoena who gives testimony or produces evidence under oath.)
(Z7. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 808, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3932. An act to prohibit the killing of wild birds and wild ani- mals in the District of Columbia.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I. p. 814, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3933. An act to incorporate the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal, to define the powers thereof, and to facilitate interstate commence.
United States Court for China.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 819, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3934. An act creating a United States Court for China and pre- scribing the jurisdiction thereof.
(V. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 816, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) Chap. 3935. An act to authorize the co'mmencement and conduct of legal proceedings under the direction of the Attorney-General.
Investigation by Interstate Commerce Commission into Kail- road Discriminations and Monopolies in Coal and Oil.
iU. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 823, Mar. 7. 1906, 59th, 1st.) [No. 8.] Joint resolution instructing the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to make examinations into the subject of railroad discriminatio i . and monopolies in coal and oil, and report on the same from time to time. (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 823, Mar. 21, 1906, 59th, l.st.) [No. 11.] Joint resolution amending joint resolution instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make examinations into the subject of railroad discriminations and monopolies, and report on the same from time to time, approved March 7, 1906.
(Granting powers to secure evidence, etc.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 825, Mar. 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) [No. 13.] Joint resolution to correct abuses in the public printing and lo provide for the allotment of cost of certain documents and reports. (V. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 826, Mar. 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.) [No. 14.] Joint resolution to prevent unnecessary printing and bi uling and to correct evils in the present method of distribution of public docu- ments.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 827, Apr. 19, 1906, 59th, 1st.) [No. 16.] Joint resolution for the relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific coast.
(One million dollars appropriated for relief under direction and dis- cretion of Secretary of War.)
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{U. <S. Stat. L., vol. 31, /, p. 828, Apr. 24, i906, 59th, 1st.) [No. 19.j Joint resolution for the further relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific coast. ■
(Additional appropriation of a million and a half dollars.)
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 831, June 11, 1906, 5dth, 1st.) [No. 27. J Joint resolution accepting the recession by the State of Cali- fornia of the Yosemite Valley grant and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, and including the same, together with fractional sections 5 and 6, town- ship 5 south, range 22 east. Mount Diabolo meridian, California, within the mete:^ and bounds of the Yosemite National Park, and changing the bound- daries thereof.
Only Domestic Material for Faiiaina Canal.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 835, June 25, 1906, 5dth, 1st.)
[No. 35. J Joint resolution providing for the purchase of material and equipment for use in the construction of the Panama Canal.
Resolved, etc., That purchasers of material and equipment for use in the construction of the Panama Canal shall be restricted to articles of domestic production and manufacture, from the lowest responsible bidder, unless the President shall, in any case, deem the bids or tenders thereof to be extortionate or unreasonable.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 838, June 30, 1906, 59th, 1st.)
[No. 4G.] Joint resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and report on block-signal systems and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I. p. 850, Jan. 18, 1907, 59t7i, 2d.)
Chap. 154. An act for the relief of citizens of the island of Jamaica.
( President authorized to use and distribute provisions, clothing, medi- cines, and other necessary articles belonging to the naval establishment.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 850, Jan. 19, 1907, 59^/i, 2d.) Chap. 300. An act to amend the act appr'oved August 19, 1890, en- titled "An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea." (Provides for lights and fog horns on fishing vessels, etc.)
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 861, Jan. 25, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap 397. An act to reorganize and to increase the efRciency of the artillery of the United States Army.
Act Forbidding Campaign Contributions.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, /, p. 864, Jan. 26, 1907, 59(/i, 2d.) Chap. 420. An act to prohibit corporations from making money contri- butions in connection with political elections.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 866, Jan. 29, 1907, 59t7i, 2d.) Chap. 432. An act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States. (U. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 879, Feh. 6, 1907, 59^7i, 2d.) Chap. 468. An act granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldier.s and bfficers who served in the civil war and the war with Mexico.
( Grants pensions to soldiers serving ninety days in civil and sixty days in Mexican wars on reaching 62 years.)
Alien Immigration Act.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 898, Feb. 20, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 1134. An act to regulate the immigration of aliens Into the United States.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 995, Feb. 26, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 1038. An act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1217, Mar. 2, 1907, 59f;i, 2d.) Chap. 2515. An act providing for the retirement of noncommissioned officers, petty officers, and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Coros of the United States.
(After thirty years' service men may be retired on 75 per cent of pay and allowances they are then in receipt of.)
Foreign Passport and Registration Act.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1228, Mar. 2, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2534. An act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad.
(U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1233, Mar. 2, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2539. An act to amend sections 1, 2, and 3. of an act entitled "An act to prohibit shanghaing in. the United States," approved June 28, 1906.
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1241, Mar. 2, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2558. An act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace.
(Trustees appointed to take charge of Nobel peace prize awarded to President Roosevelt and promote industrial peace.)
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Chap. 2559. An act to amend the laws governing labor or improve- ments upon mining claims in Alaska.
(Annual labor or improvements to the value of $100 to be made on mining claims.)
{U. 8. Stat. L., vol. 34, /, i). 1246, Mar. 2, 1907, 59th, 2(1.)
Chap. 2564. An act providing for writs of error in certain instances in criminal cases.
(Provides that writs of error may be taken in certain cases by and on behalf of the United States.)
{U. S. Stat. L., vol, 34, I, p. 1250, Mar. 2, 1907, 59th, 2d.)
Chap. 2751. An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the with- drawal from bond tax free of domestic alcohol when rendered unlit for bev- erage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing ma- terials," approved June 7, 1906.
(Provides for use without tax in manufacture of ether and chloroform; establishment of central denaturing bonded warehouses, etc.
Extension of Meat-Inspection Liaw.
(17. S. Stat. L., vol. 34 I, p. 1256, Mar. 4, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2907. An act making appropriations for the Department of Agri- culture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908.
Pages 1260-1265 contain meat-inspection provisions as in previous act for 1907, with amendments.)
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1282, Mar. 4, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2908. An act to provide for the establishment of an agricultural bank in the Philippine Islands.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1289, Mar. 4, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2913. An act to amend the national banking act, and for other purposes.
Act Limiting Hours of Railroad Employees.
iU. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1415, Mar. 4, 1907, 59th, 2d.) Chap. 2939. An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employes thereon.
( Fixes sixteen hours as the longest continuous service of trainmen permissible, and that after sixteen hours' work shall have at least ten hours off before going to work again, etc. ; also provides for operators, train dispatchers, etc.)
{U. S. Stat. L., vol. 34, I, p. 1423, Mar. 2, 1907, 59th, 2d.) [No. 19.] Joint resolution to create a joint committee to consider the revision and codification of the laws of the United States.
{Stxit. V. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8 /, p. 6, Feb. 8, 1908.) Chap. 19. An act providing for second homestead entries. (Providing that a person who has made an entry and lost it, if not through fraud on his part, shall be allowed to make another.)
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, QOth, 1907-8, I, p. 46, Mar. 24, 1908.) Chap. 96. An act to carry into effect the international convention of December 21, 1904, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 46, Mar. 26, 1908.) Chap. 99. An act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 55, Apr. 2, 1908.) Chap. 123. An act to amend section 4463 of the Revised Statutes, re- lating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life.
Antipass Act.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 60, Apr. 13, 1908.) Chap. 143. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission," approved June 29, 1906. (Antipass provisions.)
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 61, Ajrr. 16, 1908.) Chap. 145. An act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue-Cutter Service.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 64, Apr 19, 1908.) Chap. 147. An act to increase the pensions of widows, minor children, etc., of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the vari15us Indian wars, etc., and to grant a pension to certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war.
Second Employers' Liability Act.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 65, Apr. 22, 1908.) Chap. 149. An act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p, 66, Apr. 23, 1908.) Chap. 150. An act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Departuient of the United States Army.
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(Stat. U. a. A., Ut, 60th, 1907-8, /, p. 70, Apr. 29, 1910.) Chap. 152. An act to repeal an act approved April 30, 1906, entitled An act to regulate shipping in trade between ports of the United State.^ and ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purposes."
Tuberculosis Registration Act.
iStat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 126, May 13, 1908.) Chap. 165. An act to provide for registration of all cases of tubercu- losis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum In sus- pected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District. (Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 160, May 14, 1908.) Chap. 168. An act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light House Establishment, and for other purposes.
Grading of Cotton and (Jrain.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, /. p. 251, May 23, 1908.)
Chap. 192. An act making appropriations for the Department of Agri- culture for the fiscal year easing June 30, 1909.
(Pages 256-257 contain provisions for the establishment of a standard for different grades of cotton ; also for laboratories for establlshiug grades of grain for export.)
(Stat. V. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, /, p. 399, May 27, 1908.)
Chap. 204. An act to further amend the act envitled "An act to promote the efficiency of the militia and for other purposes," approved .^vnuary 21, 1903.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 403, May 27, 1908.)
Chap. 205. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues," approxved June 10, 1890, as amended by the act entitled "An act to provide revenues for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States," approved July 24, 1897.
(Deals with board of general appraisers, appeals therefrom, review, etc.) etc.)
Child Labor Law.
(Stat. U. S. A., Ut, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 420, May 28, 1908.) Chap. 209. An act to regulate the employment of child labor in the District of Columbia.
(Stat. V. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 424, Maif 28, 190S.) Chap. 211. An act to encourage the development of coal deposits in the Territory of Alaska.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 424, May 28, 1908.) Chap. 212. An act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 444, May 29, 1908.) Chap. 216. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to purchasers of Indian lands under any law now existing or hereafter enacted, and for other purposes.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 476, May 30, 1908.) Chap. 225. An act to promote the safety of employees of railroads. (Making it compulsory for locomotives to be equipped with safety a^^h pans.)
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 546, May 30, 1908) Chap. 229. An act to amend the national banking laws.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 5d-I, May '^W ^'"^''^ ^ o«v. Chap. 234. An act to promote the safe transportation inruci?t)8.)legjin- merce of explosives and other dangerous articles and to p. '*p^>' ties for its violation. CORD a C
Compensation to United States Employees for i^ ^^1.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 556, May 30, It-jagg Chap. 236. An act granting to certain employees of the Urap.^1 States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustaiix^a in the course of their employment.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 568, Mar. §, 1908 ) [No. 11.] Joint resolution authorizing the invitation of governments of other countries to send representatives to the International Congress on Tuberculosis.
Remission of Chinese Indemnity.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 60th, 1907-8, I, p. 577, May 25, 1908.) [No. 29.] Joint resolution to provide for the remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity.
Improved Accommodation for Steerage Passengers.
(Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 583, Dec. 19, 1908.) Chap. 6. An act to amend section 1 of the passenger act of 1882. ( Provisions for improved accommodation for steerage passengers on .hips.)
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(i<tat. V. S. A., 2d, mth 1908-9, 7. p, 584, Jan. 5, 1909.) Chap. 7. Au act for the relief of citizens of Italy. (Appropriating $800,000 for relief of earthquake sufferers.)
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, li. 614, Feb. 9, 1909.) Chap. 100. An act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, J, p. 621, Feb. 16, 1009.) Chap. 131. An act to promote the administration of justice in the navy. (Provides for deck courts, courts-martial, their review, etc.)
Enlarged Homestead Act.
(Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 639, Feb. 19, 1909.) . Chap. IGO. An act to provide for an enlarged homestead. (Three hundred and twenty acres permitted.)
(Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, 2^. 645, Feb. 24, 1909.) Chap. 181. An act to permit change of entry in case of mi'otake of the description of tracts intended to be entered.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 647, Feb. 25, l'j09.) Chap. 191. An act to declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section 4 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1875, entitled "An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States.",.
Antibucket-Sliop Law.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 670, Mar. 1, 1909.) Chap. 233. An act tg amend an act entitled "An act to establish a codo of law for the District of Columbia," relative to gambling, bucket shops, and bucketing.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 838, ilfar. 3, 1909.) Chap. 269. An act to amend section 86 of an act to provide a g .com- ment for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional j;idg(.s, and for other judicial purposes.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 844, Mar. 3, 1909.) Chap. 270. An act for the protection of the surface rights of entry- men.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 845, Mar. 3, 1900. j Chap. 271. An act authorizing the necessary resurvey of public lands.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 1075, Mar. 4, 1909.) Chap. 314. An act fixing the compensation of certain officials ia the customs service, and for other purposes.
(Increasing certain salaries in customs service.)
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 1075, March 4, 1909.) Chap. 320. An act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright.
Recodification of United States Criminal Laws.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 1089, Mar. 4, 1909.)
Chap. 321. An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal law.s of the United States.
{Stat. U. S. A., 2d, 60th, 1908-9, I, p. 1170, Mar. 4, 1909.)
[No. 28.] Joint resolution concerning and relating to the treaty between the United States and Russia.
(jj'i'ovides thquested to renew negotiations with Russia, with view to 00' Jse of w'l 'y of treatment for citizens holding passports of United Stmg ^or thfJiSffi irrespective of religion, etc.)
jife,ertair .tion No. 3. S. J. Res. 33.] Joint resolution relating to the Nc**! of section 10 of the sundry civil act of March 4, 1909. (Ap • 18 25, 1909.)
(t (Stat.iat unexpended balances of river and harbor appropriations, the \ -j^^o niph may be essential, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, ,• .^jj^3 further maintenance or prosecution of the work to which they IT. 1, shall not be covered into the Treasury, as proviaed in case of oth(^ ppropriations.)
rPubiV^^..'esolution No. 5. H. J. Res, 54.] Joint resolution authoiizing the Secretary of War to loan cots, tents, and appliances for' the use of the forty-third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Salt Lake City, Utah. (Approved, July 12, 1909.)
Pi'oelaniations by the President that the Minimum Rates in the l*ayne Tariff Were in Force with the Commercial Na- tions of the world, viz.:
[Issued between January 18, 1910, and March SO, 1910. J
British Empire, German Empire, Republic of France, Spain, Italy, Russian Empire, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Ottoman Empire, Swiss Confederation, Persia, Egypt, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, Mexico, Argentine Republic, Panama, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Liberia, Japan, Indian Empire, Greece, Abyssinia, Morocco, Portugal, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Korea, Costa Rica, Honduras, British Honduras,
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Austria-Hungary, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Siam, Bhutan, Republic of Andorra, Afghanistan, Haiti, Johore, Montenegro, Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Principality of Liechenstein, Principality of Monaco, Oman, Chinese Empire, Nepal, Repub- lic of San Marino, Dominion of Canada, Salvador, Columbia, Servia, Roumania, Bulgaria, Venezuela, New Zealand, Com- monwealth of Australia, and Newfoundland.
LEGISLATION ENACTED IN THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Speech of Hon. Heiiiy Sherman Boutell, of Illinois, in the House of Kpei esentatives,
Saturday, June 2J, 1910.
The House having under consideration the^ conference report on tlio general deficiency bill —
Mr. BOUTELL said:
Mr. Speaker: President Taft and the Sixty-first Congress came into office March 4, 1909. Pursuant to the President's call. Congress mei in special session March 15, and adjourned August li, 1909. The second session, which is about to close, began December 6, 1909. Next November the people will choose the Members of the House of Representatives of the Sixtj^ -second Congress. That Congress will meet in conformity with the Constitution on the lirst Monday of December, 1911. Upon the political complexion of the House of Representatives in the Sixty-second Congress will depend the character of the work of Congress during the latter part of President Taft's adr.iinistration. The result of the congressional election next November will therefore have a controlling influence upon the presidential election of 1912.
In making their choice of Representatives in Congress next November the people will be led to examine with care what the Republicans have done and what the Democrats have opposed.
In a speech made at a dinner in his honor at Christi- ania, by the Nobel Prize Committee, on May 5, 1910, a speech remarkable for its vigor and rugged eloquence, Theodore Roosevelt said:
The man who has the power to act is to be judged, not by his words, hut by his acts, by his words in so far as they agree with his acts.
As with individuals so it is with parties. The Republican party has had the continuous power to act since March 4, 1897, and it has acted under McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, and by its acts it will be judged. In the national and congressional elections from 1898 to 1908 the people gave their emphatic approval to the acts of the Republican party. The legislation that has been passed by this Congress bears a logical and har- monious relation to the work of the six preceding Congresses.
By this body of enlightened, progressive, constructive legis- lators the Republican party v/ill be judged.
On April 16 last I put in the Congressional Record a com- pendium of the important public acts, resolutions, and treaties ratified since the inauguration of President McKinley.
To this I will append a list of the principal laws passed by this Congress. Many of them are of the first magnitude. Together they form a body of remedial legislation of perma- nent character and of far-reaching influence for the good of all the people. This legislation, by whomsoever suggested, by whomsoever supported, could only have been consummated by hearty and sympathetic co-operation of the President and both Houses of Congress. It is the result of good team work. If the people wish this sort of legislation continued, they will again return a Republican House of Representatives to the Sixty- second Congress to aid President Taft in completing the great work which has been so auspiciously carried forward by him and the Sixty-first Congress,
To my friends on this side of the House, Republicans all, let me say a word of the importance of this co-operation or team work. The greatest legislative measures are often political measures, made so by the minority. In perfecting the laws for
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which the Republican party is responsible, we had to face the opposition of the Democratic party to the principle of pro- tection in revenue legislation; to the gold standard; to the administration of affairs in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philip- pines; to the financial and banking act of March 14, 1900; to the national banking system; and to postal savings banks. Legislation relating to these great subjects was made possible only by a Republican President, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House of Representatives. To accomplish work of equal importance in the future we must have the same united effort. To that end let us emulate the example of those that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; they may be rivals, they may be enemies on land, but on the deep, in the face of common perils, their racred rule of life is. All friends on the sea. So let us confine our conflicts to the convention and the caucus, but here on the floor of this House, facing the traditional enemy of our common party, let our rule of conduct on political questions be, All Republicans when the roll is called.
Important Public Laws Passed at the First Session of the Sixfy-fiist Congress.
The Payne Tariff Art Pi'bvides Revenue, Establishes Maximum and Minimum Tariff and Creates Customs Court.
iStat. U. S. A., 1st, Gist, 1909, j)- H. A"//- 5, 1909.) Chap. 6. An act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.
Philippine Tariff Act, Giving Free Entry to Philippine Products Entering the United States.
(Stat. U. S. A., 1st, 61st, 1909, 2?. 130, Aug. 5, 1909.) Chap. 8. An act to raise revenue for the Philippine Inland.^, and fo/ other purposes.
Proposed Jncome-Tax Amendment.
(.Stat. U. S. A., 1st, Gist, 1909, p. 185.) Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Conb^titutioi of the United States authorizing an income tax.
Important Public Laws Passed at the Second Session of th« Sixty-first Congress.
Ballinger-Pinchot Investigation.
(Public Resolution, No. 9. //. •/. Res. 103.) Joint resolution authorizing an investigation of the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus, officers, and employees, and of the Bureau of Forestry, in the Department of Agriculture, anJ Us olTicers and employees. (Approved January 19, 1910.)
Extension of Time to Establish Residence to Homesteaders.
(Public, No. 23. H. R. 16223.) An act extending the time for certain homesteaders to establish resi- dence upon their lands. (Approved January 28, 1910.)
Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demo- graphy.
(Public Resolution, No. 12. S. J. Res. 56.) Joint resolution authorizing the President of the United States to invite the States to participate in the Fifteenth Internaticnal Congress on Hygiene and Demography. (Approved January 29, 1910.)
United States Bonds and Certificates to be Made Payable in
Gold Coin.
(Public, No. 33. H. R. 19548.) An act prescribing certain provisions and conditions under wuich bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States may be issued, and for other purposes, (Approved February 4, 1910.)
New Land District in Montana.
(Public, No. 34. S. 2523.) An act for the establishment of a new land district in the State of Mon- tana. (Approved February 15, 1910.)
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Prescribing Scope for Census Inquiries.
{Public, No. 63, H. R. 18364.)
An act to amend section 8 of an act to provide for the Thiiteenlh an 1 subsequent decennial censuses, approved July 2, 1909. (Approved Feb- ruary 25, 1910.)
(Provides that the Thirteenth Census shall count the subjects of popu- lation, agriculture, manufactures, mines, and quarries.)
Appropriate Marking of Graves of Confederate Soldiers and
Sailors.
(Public Resolution, No. 19. H. J. Res. 137.) Joint resolution to continue in full force and effect an act entitled "An act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the confederate army and navy who died in northern pris- ons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other pur- poses." (Approved February 25, 1910.)
Tonnage Duties.
(Public, No. 78. S. 4639.) An act concerning tonnage duties on vessels entering otherwise than by Bea. (Approved March 8, 1910.)
(Exempting Lake vessels from tonnage dues.)
Articles of War.
(Public, No. 80. //. R. 13410.)
An act to modify the one hundred and twenty-second and one hundred Tiud twenty-fourth articles of war, and to repeal the one hundred and twenty-third article of war. (Approved March 8, 1910.)
(Regulating questions of command and precedence between different branches of the Regular Army and the Militia and Volunteers.)
Furnishing Tents to Confederate Veterans' Reunion.
(Public Resolution, No. 22. S. J. Res. 63.) Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for the use of the Confederate Veterans' Reunion, to be held at Mobile, Ala., in April, 1910. (Approved March 15, 1910.)
Temporary Withdrawal of Tublic l-ands.
(Public, No. 87. U. R. 21428.)
An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make temporary withdrawals of public lands for certain purposes. (Approved March 15, 1910.)
In aid of national conservation.
Additional Laud District in Oregon.
(Public, No. 88. «. 5125.) An act authorizing the creation of an additional land district in the State of Oregon, to be known as the "Vale land district." (Approved March 15, 1910.)
Enlarging Scope of Inquiry in Population Schedules of Census.
(Public Resolution, No. 23. H. J. Res. 172 ) Joint resolution enlarging the scope of inquiry of the schedules relating to population for the Thirteenth Decennial Census. (Approved March 24, 1910.)
Suppression of White-Slave Trade.
(Public, No. 107. H. R. 15816.) An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved February 20, 1907. (Approved March 26, 1910.)
Additional Time for Payment by Purchasers of Homestead
Lands.
(Public, No. 108. H. R. 10321.) An act for the relief of homestead settlers under the acts of Februarv 20, 1904 ; June 5 and 28, 1906 ; March 2, 1907 ; and May 29, 1908. (Ap- proved March 26, 1910.)
Employers' Liability Act.
(Public, No. 117. H. R. 17263.)
An act to amend an act entitled "An act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees 'in certain cases," approved April 22, 1908. (Approved April 5, 1910.)
(Gives the courts of the United States and of the several States concur- rent jurisdiction under the act. Confers survival of right of action to personal representative.)
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Safety-Appliance Act.
{Public, No. 133. U. R. 5702.) An act to supplement "An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in inter- state commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continu- ous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes," and other safety-appliance acts, and for other purposes. (Ap proved April 14, 1910.)
Uniform Warehouse Receipts in tlie District of Columbia.
(Public, No. 137. S. 4932.) An act to make uniform the law of warehouse receipts in the Di.-^trict of Columbia. (Approved April 15, 1910.)
Protection of Alaskan Seals.
(Public, No. 146. *S'. 7242.) An act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes. (Approved April 21, 1910.)
Prevention of Manufacture, Sale, or Transportation of Adul- terated Insecticides and Fungicides.
(Public, No. 152. S. 6131.)
An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adul- terated or misbrauded Paris greens, lead arsenates, and other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and lox, other pur- poses. (Approved April 26,. 1910.)
A measure of protection desired by every farmer in the country.
Railroads to Report All Accidents to Interstate Commerce Commission.
(Public, No. 165, H. R. 3649.) An act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and authorizing investigations thereof by said commission. (Approved May 6, 1910.)
Raising the "Maine."
(Public, No. 169. H. R. 23012.) An act providing for the raising of the U. 3. battle ship Maine, in Ilabana Harbor, and to provide for the interment of the bodies therein. (Approved May 9, 1910.)
Glacier National Park.
(Public, No. 171. S. 2777.) An act to establish "The Glacier National Park" in the Rocky Moun- tains south of the international boundary line, in the Stats of Montana, and for other purposes. (Approved May 11, 1910.)
Bureau of Mines Established.
(Public, No. 179. H. R. 13915.) An act to establish in the Department of the Interior a Bureau of Mines. (Approved May 16, 1910.) For the protection of miners.
Commission of Fine Arts Established.
(Public, No. 181. H. R. 199G2.)
An act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts. (Appi'oved May 17, 1910.)
(Provides for a commission of seven members, to be appointed by tho President, and to serve for a period of four years each and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Commission is to advise as to statues, fountains, and monuments in the District of Columbia.)
Prevention of Collisions of Vessels and Regulation of Equip- ment of Motor Boats.
(Public, No. 201. S. 7359.) An act to amend laws for preventing collisions of vessels and to regu~ late equipment of certain motor boats on the navigable waters of the United States. (Approved June 9, 1910.)
Licenses for Custom-House Brokers.
(Public, No. 205. S. 6173.) An act to license custom-house brokers. (Approved June 10, 1910.)
Election of Members of Philippine Legislature and of Resident Commissioners to the United States.
(Public, No. 211. //. R. 25641.)
An act providing for the quadrennial election of members of the Phil- ippine legislature and Resident Commissioners to the United States, and for other purposes. (Approved June 14, 1910.)
(Provides for election of members of Philippine legislature for term of four years, and lengthens the term of Resident Commissioners to the United States to the same time.)
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Enlarged Iloniesteatl.
(Fublic, No. 214. S. 5 167.)
An act to provide for an enlarged homestead. (Approved June 17, 1910.)
(Provides for enlarged homestead of 320 acres in State of Idaho under certain circumstances.)
Keorganizatioii of Light-House Service, and Establishment of Bureau of Light Houses.
(Public, No. 217. H R. 24877.)
An act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and to provide for a Bureau of Light Houses in the De- partment of Commerce and Labor, and for other purposes. ^ Approved June 17, 1910.)
(Provides for rearrangement of coasts and rivers into nineteen light- house districts, for an inspector for each district.)
Creation of the Commerce Court.
(Public, No. 218, H. R. 17536.)
An act to create a commerce court, and to amend the act entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, as heretofore amended, and for other purposes. (Approved June 18, 1910.)
(Provides for a court of five judges to be assigned from the circuit court, after the first five have been appointed as new circuit judges. Court to have jurisdiction of cases arising out of action of Interstate Commerce Commission, or under the act to regulate commerce or its amendments, etc.)
Admission of New Mexico and Arizona.
(Public, No. 219. H. R. 18166.) An act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States ; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a. con- stitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. (Approved June 20, 1910.)
Postal Savings Banks.
(Public, No. 268, S. 5876.) An act to establish postal savings depositories for d pi siting saving.s at interest with the security of the Government for repayment th reof, and for other purposes. (Approved June 25, 1910.)
Publicity of Campaign Contributions.
(Public, No. 274. H. R. 2250.) An act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected. (Approved June 25, 1910.)
River and Harbor Improvement Act.
(Public, No. 2^4. //. R. 20686.) An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preser- vation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other pur- poses. (Approved June 25, 1910.)
National Conservation Act.
(Public, No. 303. H. R. 24070.)
An act to authorize the President of the United States to make with- drawals of public lands in certain cases.
Preserves the reservoir sites and water powers on government land, and navigable streams. (Approved June 25, 1910.)
Bonds for Completing National Irrigation Projects.
(Public, No. 289. H. R. 18398.)
An act to authorize advances to the reclamation fund, and for the issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefor, and for other purposes.
Authorizes issue of twenty million in bonds to be used by the President in completing irrigation projects now under way. Approved June 25, 1910.)
Act Authorizing Expenditure of $28,000,000 for Public Build- ings, to be Hereafter Appropriated for.
: (Public, No. 265. II. R. 26987.)
An act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to au- thorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public build- ings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes. (Approved June 25, 1910.)
Mann Act, Suppressing White Slave TraflBc.
(Puhlic. No. 277.. H. R. 12315.) An act to further regulate interstate and foreign commerce by pro- hibiting the transportation therein for immoral purposes of women and girls, and for other purposes, (Approved June 25, 1910.)
Important Acts of the Sixty-first Congress.
RAILHOAD ACT.
An Act to create a commerce court, and to amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of liepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a court of the United States is hereby created which shall be known as the Commerce Court and shall have the jurisdiction now possessed by circuit courts of the United States and the judges thereof over all cases of the following kinds:
First. All cases for the enforcement, otherwise than by ad- judication and collection of a forfeiture or penalty or by in- fliction of criminal punishment, of any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission other than for the payment of money.
Second. Cases brought to enjoin, set aside, annul, or sus- pend in whole or in part any order of the Interstate Com- merce Commission.
Third. Such cases as by section three of the act entitled "An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved February nineteenth, nine- teen hundred and three, are authorized to be maintained in a circuit court of the United States.
Fourth. All such mandamus proceedings as under the pro- visions of section twenty or section twenty-three of the act entitled "An Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, are au- thorized to be maintained in a circuit court of the United States.
Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as enlarg- ing the jurisdiction now possessed by the circuit courts of the United States or the judges thereof, that is hereby trans- ferred to and vested in the commerce court.
The jurisdiction of the commerce court over cases of the foregoing classes shall be exclusive; but this act shall not affect the jurisdiction now possessed by any circuit or dis- trict court of the United States over cases or proceedings of a kind not within the above-enumerated classes.
The commerce court shall be a court of record, and shall have a seal of such form and style as the court may pre- scribe. The said court shall be composed of five judges, to be from time to time designated and assigned thereto by the Chief Justice of the United States, from among the cir- cuit judges of the United States, for the period five years, except that in the first instance the court shall be composed of the five additional circuit judges to be appointed as hereinafter provided, who shall be designated by the Presi- dent to serve for one, two, three, four, and five years, re- spectively, in order that the period of designation of one of the said judges shall expire in each year thereafter. In case of the death, resignation, or termination of assignment of any judge so designated, the Chief Justice shall designate a circuit judge to fill the vacancy so caused and to serve during the unexpired period for which the original designa- tion was made. After the year nineteen hundred and four- teen no circuits judge shall be redesignated to serve in the commerce court until the expiration of at least one year after the expiration of the period of his last previous designation. The judge first designated for the five-year period shall be the presiding judge of said court, and thereafter the judge senior in designation shall be the presiding judge.
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commerce court shall, on account of the regular sessions of the court being held in the city of Washington, receive in addition to his salary as circuit judge an expense al- lowance at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint five additional circuit judges no two of whom shall be from the same judicial circuit, who shall hold office during good behavior and who shall be from time to time designated and assigned by the Chief Justice of the United States for service in the circuit court of any district, or the circ.iit couil oC appeals for any circuit, or in the com- merce court.
The associate judges shall have precedence and shall suc- ceed to the place and powers of the presiding judge when- ever he may be absent or incapable of acting in the order of the date of their designations. Four of said judges shall constitute a quorum, and at least a majority of the court shall concur in all decisions.
The court shall also have a clerk and a marshal, with the same duties and powers, so far as they may be appropriate and are not altered by rule of the court, as are now pos- sessed by the clerk and marshal, respectively, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The offices of the clerk and mar- shal of the court shall be in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. The judges of the court shall appoint the clerk and marshal, and may also appoint, if they find it necessary, a deputy clerk and deputy marshal; and such clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, and deputy marshal shall hold office during the pleasure of the court. The salary of the clerk shall be four thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the marshal three thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the deputy clerk two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and the salary of the deputy marshal two thousand five hun- dred dollars per annum. The said clerk and marshal may, with the approval of the court, employ all requisite assist- ance. The costs and fees in said court shall be established by the court in a table thereof, approved by the Supreme Court of the United States, within four months after the or- ganization of the court; but such costs and fees shall in no case exceed those charged in the Supreme Court of the United States, and shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States.
The commerce court shall be always open for the transaction of business. Its regular sessions shall be held in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia; but the powers of the court or of any judge thereof, or of the clerk, marshal, deputy clerk or deputy marshal may be exercised anywhere in the United States; and for expedition of the work of the court and the avoidance of undue expense or inconvenience to suitors the court shall hold sessions in different parts of the United States as may be found desirable. The actual and necessary expenses of the judges, clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, and deputy marshal of the court incurred for travel and attendance elsewhere than in the city of Washington shall be paid upon the written and itemized certificate of such judge, clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, or deputy marshal by the marshal of the court, and shall be allowed to him in the statement of his accounts with the United States.
The United States marshals of the several districts outside of the city of Washington in which the commerce court may hold its sessions shall provide, under the direction and with the approval of the Attorney-General of the United States, such rooms in the public buildings of the United States as may be necessary for the court's use; but in case proper rooms can not be provided in such public buildings, said marshals, with the approval of the Attorney-General of the United States, may then lease from time to time other necessary rooms for the court.
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the United States may, by writing, signed by him and filed in the Department of Justice, terminate the assignment of any of the judges or temporarily assign him for service in any circuit court or circuit court of appeals. In case of illness or other disability of any judge assigned to the com- merce court the Chief Justice of the United States may assign any other circuit judge of the United States to act in his place, and may terminate such assignment when the exigence therefor shall cease; and any circuit judge so assigned to act in place of such judge shall, during his assignment, exercise all the powers and perform all the functions of such judge.
In all cases within its jurisdiction the commerce court, and each of the judges assigned thereto, shall, respectively, have and may exercise any and all of the powers of a circuit court of the United States and of the judges of said court, respectively, so far as the same may be appropriate to the effective exercise of the jurisdiction hereby conferred. The commerce court may issue all writs and process appropriate to the full exercise of its jurisdiction and powers and may prescribe the form thereof. It may also, from time to time, establish such rules and regulations concerning pleading, practice, or procedure in cases or matters within its juris- diction as to the court shall seem wise and proper. Its orders, writs, and process may run, be served, and be return- able anywhere in the United States; and the mashal and deputy marshal of said court and also the United States marshals and deputy marshals in the several districts of the United States shall have like powers and be under like duties to act for and in behalf of said court as pertain to United States marshals and deputy marshals generally when acting under like conditions concerning suits or matters in the circuits of the United States.
The jurisdiction of the commerce court shall be invoked by filing in the office of the clerk of the court a written pe- tition setting forth briefly and succinctly the facts constitut- ing the petitioner's cause of action, and specifying the relief sought. A copy of such petition shall be forthwith served by the marshal or a deputy marshal of the commerce court or by the proper United States marshal or deputy marshal upon every defendant therein named, and when the United States is a party defendant, the service shall be made by filing a copy of said petition in the office of the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission and in the Department of Justice. Within thirty days after the petition is served, unless that time is extended by order of the court or a judge thereof, an answer to the petition shall be filed in the clerk's office, and a copy thereof mailed to the petitioner's attorney, which answer shall briefly and categorically respond to the allegations of the petition. No replication need be filed to the answer, and objections to the sufficiency of the petition or answer as not setting forth a cause of action or defense must be taken at the final hearing or by motion to dismiss the petition based on said grounds, which motion may be made at any time before answer is filed. In case no answer shall be filed as provided herein the petitioner may apply to the court on notice for such relief as may be proper upon the facts alleged in the petition. The court may, by rule, prescribe the method of taking evidence in cases pending in said court; and may prescribe that the evidence be taken before a single judge of the court, with power to rule upon the admission of evidence. Except as may be otherwise pro- vided in this act, or by rule of the court, the practice and procedure in the commerce court shall conform as nearly as may be to that in like cases in a circuit court of the United States.
The commerce court shall be opened for the transaction of business at a date to be fixed by order of the said court, which shall be not later than thirty days after the judges thereof shall have been designated.
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States if aiiioeal to the Supreme Court be taken by an ag- grieved party within sixty days after the entry of said final judgment or decree. Such appeal may be taken in like manner as appeals from a circuit court of the United States to the Supreme Court, and the commerce court may direct the original record to be transmitted on appeal instead of a transcript thereof. The Supreme Court may affirm, reverse, or modify the final judgment or decree of the commerce court as the case may require.
Appeal to the Supreme Court, however, shall in no case supersede or stay the judgment or decree of the commerce court appealed from, unless the Supreme Court or a jus- tice thereof shall so direct, and appellant shall give bond in such form and of such amount as the Supreme Court, or the justice of that court allowing the stay, may require.
An appeal may also be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States from an interlocutory order or decree of the commerce court granting or continuing an injunction re- straining the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, provided such appeal be taken within thirty days from the entry of such order or decree.
Appeals to the Supreme Court under this section shall have priority in hearing and determination over all other causes except criminal causes in that court.
Sec. 3. That suits to enjoin, set aside, annul, or suspend any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be brought in the commerce court against the United States. The pendency of such suit shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of the order of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission; but the commerce court, in its discretion, may re- strain or suspend, in whole or in part, the operation of the commissioner's order pending the final hearing and deter- mination of the suit. No order or injunction so restraining or suspending an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be made by the commerce court otherwise than upon notice and after hearing, except that in cases where irre- parable damage would otlierwise ensue to the petitioner, said court, or a judge thereof may, on hearing after not less than three days' notice to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Attovney-General, allow a temporary stay or suspension in whole or in part of the operation of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission for not more than sixty days from the date of the order of such court or judge, pending application to the court for its order or injunction, in which case the said order shall contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the judge making the order and identified by reference thereto, that such irreparable damage would result to the petitioner and specifying the nature of the damage. The court may, at the time of hear- ing such application, upon a like finding, continue the tem- porary stay or suspension in whole or in part until its decision upon the application.
Skc. 4. That all cases and proceedings in the commerce court which but for this act would be brought by or against the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be brought by or against the United States, and the United States may inter- vene in any case or proceeding in the commerce court when- ever, though it has not been made a party, public interests are involved.
Sec. 5. That the Attorney-General shall have charge and control of the interests of the Government in all cases and proceedings in the commerce court, and in the Supreme Court of the United States upon appeal from the commerce court; and if in his opinion the public interest requires it, he may retain and employ in the name of the United States, within the appropriations from time to time made by the Congress for such purposes, such special attorneys and coun- selors at law as he may think necessary to assist in the discharge of any of the duties incumbent upon him and his siibordniate attorneys; and the Attorney-General shall stipulate with such special attorneys and counsel the amount
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of their compensation, which shall not be in excess of the sums appropriated therefor by Congress for such purposes, and shall have supervision of their action: I'rovided, That the Inteistate Commerce Commission and any party or parties in interest to the proceeding before the commission, in which an order or requirement is made, may appear as parties thereto of their own motion and as of right, and be repre- sented by their counsel, in any suit wherein is involved the validity of such order or requirement or any part thereof, and the interest of such party; and the court wherein is pending such suit may make all such rules and orders as to such appearances and representations, the number of coun- sel, and all matters of procedure, and otherwise, as to sub- serve the ends of justice and speed the determination of such suits: Provided further, That communities, associations, cor- porations, firms, and individuals who are interested in the con- troversy or question before the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, or in any suit which may be brought by any one under the terms of this act, or the acts of which it is amendatory or which are amendatory of it, relating to action of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, may intervene in said suit or proceedings ai any time after the institution thereof, and the Attorney-General shall not dispose of or discontinue said suit or proceeding over the objection of such party or inter- venor aforesaid, but said intervener or interveners may prose- cute, defend, or continue said suit or proceeding unaffected by the action or nonaction of the Attorney-General of the United States therein.
Complainants before the Interstate Commerce Commission interested in a case shall have the right to appear and be made parties to the case and be represented before the courts by counsel under such regulations as are now permitted in similar circumstances under the rules and practice of equity courts of the United States.
Sec. 6. That until the opening of the .commerce court as in section one hereof provided, all cases and proceedings of which from that time the commerce court is hereby given exclusive jurisdiction may be brought in the same courts and conducted in like manner and with like effect as is now provided by law; and if any such case or proceeding shall have gone to final judgment or decree before the opening of the commerce court, appeal may be taken from such final judgment or decree in like manner and with like effect as is now provided by law. Any such case or proceeding within the jurisdiction of the commerce court which may have been begun in any other court as hereby allowed be- fore the said date shall be forthwith transferred to the commerce court, if it has not yet proceeded to final judg- ment or decree in such other court unless it has been finally submitted for the decision of such court, in which case the cause shall proceed in such court to final judgment or de- cree and further proceeding thereafter, and appeal may be taken direct to the Supreme Court, and if remanded such cause may be sent back to the court from which the appeal was taken or to the commerce court for further proceeding as the Supreme Court shall direct; and all previous pro- ceedings in such transferred case shall stand and operate notwithstanding the transfer, subject to the same 'control over them by the commerce court and to the same right of sub- sequent action in the case or proceeding as if the transferred case or proceeding had been originally begun in the com- merce court. The clerk of the court from which any case or proceeding is so transferred to the commerce court shall transmit to and file in the commerce court the originals of all papers filed in such case or proceeding and a certified transcript of all record entries in the case or proceeding up to the time of transfer.
It shall be the duty of every common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, within sixty days after the taking effect of this act, to designate in writing an agent in the city of Washington, District of Co'lumbia, upon whom ser-
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vice of all notices and processes may be made for and on behalf of said common carrier in any proceeding or suit pending before the Interstate Commerce Commission or be- fore said commerce court, and to lile such designation in the office of the secretary of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, which designation may from time to time be changed by like writing similarly filed; and thereupon service of all notices and processes may be made upon such common car- rier by leaving a copy thereof with such designated agent at his office or usual place of residence in the city of Wash- ington, with like effect as if made personally upon such com- mon carrier, and in default of such designation of such agent, service of any notice or other process in any pro- ceeding before said Interstate Commerce Commission or com- merce court may be made by posting such notice or process in the office of the secretary of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission.
Sec. 7. That section one of the act entitled "An Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hun- dred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, is hereby now amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 1. That the provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and party by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, and to telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless) engaged in send- ing messages from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, or to any foreign country, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the mean- ing and purpose of this act, and to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad (or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment), from one State or Territory of the United States ov tlie District of C'c '.ixitia, to 9ny other L-t.r.o or Ton-itnry of the United States or the District of Columbia, or from one place in a Territory to another place in the same Terri- tory, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of transshipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the United States or an adjacent foreign country: Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or hand- ling of property wholly within one State and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid, nor shall they apply to the transmission of messages by telephone, telegraph, or cable wholly within one State and not transmitted to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.
"The term 'common carrier' as used in this act shall in- cludo express companies and sleei-ing car companies. The term 'railroad' as used in this act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any rail- road, and also all the road in use by any corporation op- erating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a con- tract, agreement, or lease, and shall also include all switches, spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities of every kind used or necessary in the transportation of the persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards, and grounds used or necessary in the transportation or delivery of any of said property; and the term 'transportation' shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and
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facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, ele- vation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported; and it shall be the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through rates and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto; and to provide reasonable facilities for operating such through rates and to make reasonable rules and regulations with respect to the exchange, interchange, and return of cars used therein, and for the operation of such through routes, and providing for reasonable compensation to those entitled thereto.
"All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property and for the transmission of messages by telegraph, telephone; or cable, as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and de- clared to be unlawful: Provided, That messages by telegraph, telephone, or cable, subject to the provisions of this act, may be classified into day, night, repeated, unrepeated, letter, com- mercial, press. Government, and such other classes as are just and reasonable, and different rates may be charged for the different classes of messages: And Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent telephone, telegraph, and cable companies from entering into contracts with common carriers, for the exchange of services.
"And it is hereby made the duty of all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act to establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable classifications of property for transportation, with reference to which rates, tariffs, regulations, or practices are or may be made or prescribed, ond just and reasonable regulations and practices affecting classifications, rates, or tariffs, the issuance, form, and sub- stance of tickets, receipts, and bills of lading, the manner and method of presenting, marking, packing, and delivering property for transportation, the facilities for transportation, the carrying of personal, sample, and excess baggage, and all other matters relating to or connected with the receiving, handling, transportation, storing, and delivering of property subject to the provisions of this act, which may be