Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1907 — BEVERIDGE MAKES A REPLY [ARTICLE]

BEVERIDGE MAKES A REPLY

What He Says About the Report on Child-Labor Legislation of a House Committee. Washington, Feb. B.—Commenting on the report of the house judiciary committee on the child-labor bill Senator Beveridge, author of the senate childlabor bill, said: "It is absurd as a matter of law. It deliberately Ignores decisions of the supreme court, like the famous lottery decision; Ignores the existence of a dozen similar existing law?, such as the meat law, food. law, or the law prohibiting interstate commerce in Insects, and numerous other similar Jaws; completely Ignores the fact that the power of congress over Interstate commerce is the same as the power of congress over foreign commerce, which has been upheld by the supreme court of the United States more than a dozen times; ignores the existing law prohibiting the importation of convict-made goods, which the supreme court says we have the right to prohibit from interstate compierce. So the report of the committee from a legal point of view is absurd and inexcusable.”