Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1909 — DENVER TO HEAR SPEECH BY TAFT [ARTICLE]

DENVER TO HEAR SPEECH BY TAFT

Interior Department Affairs to Be Discussed In Colorado. HIS VIEWS ABOUT RAILROADS Executive Expresses Himself as Being In Favor of the Establishment of a Court For the Adjudication of Questions Arising Between Shippers, Consignees and Carriers Omaha Mayor, to Prevent Strike Disorder, Orders Street Cars Kept In Barns. Denver, Sept. 21.—President Taft tonight is scheduled to speak here on matters Involved iu the so-called Pin-chot-Pallinger controversy. It Is expected that his speech will clear away what he states have been misunderstandings with reference to coal lands In Alsaka and other things. The president found Omaha In the throes of a great street car strike. To avoid the possibility of trouble, Mayor James C. Dahlman ordered called off ali attempts to run cars during the president’s stay. The strike did not prevent the gathering of a great crowd in the down town districts and there were times when the president’s automobile had difficulty in making its way through the cheering throng. Talks About the Railroads. In Des Moines Taft Bet forth his Ideas with regard to railroad legislation. He declared iu u speech that he is ip favor of an interstate commerce court, similar to ttie recently estab lished tariff court, to pass on appeals from the interstate commerce commission, to expedite and enforce* decisions. He would increase the powers of the interstate commerce commission, giving it authority to institute as well as hear complaints against unjust rate-, and to suspend or nullify burdensome rules and regulations by railroads. Taft would give the commission povyer to correct evils in classification which has appeared since the establishment of the principle of govern men! rate regulation. The president lias in view also the regulation of stock issues so as to prevent watering and the prohibition of the ownership by one road of the stock of a competing line. He would allow rate agreement between railroads—not "pooling,” he specifies—subject to approval by the Interstate commerce commission. Discusses Anti-Trust Law. In taking up the antitrust law, President Taft said he thought it might be made effective by confining its provisions to combinations having monopoly in view. He declared that he knew of no way in which a distinction could be made between "good" and "bad" trusts, for he regarded all combinations to suppress competition and to maintain a monopoly to be in the same category, whether the terms of the illegal contract should be re garded in some instances as .“reasonable" or “unreasonable ”