THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER G, 1916.
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WILSON ASKS ACTION
ON RAILROAD LAWS
President in Address Puts
Completion of Labor Leg
- . islation to Front.
PROGRAMME IS OUTLINED
Power Commerce Commission 1
Advance Iiates to Meet Wage
Requirements Ilegarded as
Indisputably Clear.
POINTS IV PRESIDENT'S AD
DRESS TO CONGRESS.
Early consideration urpred of
remaining measures of "settle
ment and regulation" of difficul
ties between railroads and broth
erhoods. Increase of Interstate Com
merce Commission's membership,
provision for public investigation
and assessment of industrial dis
putes and grant of power to
President to control railroads in
National emergency again
ommended.
Senate urged to act on follow
ing measures, which have passed
House:
Foreign trade combinations.
Greater freedom for Porto Rl
cans. Corrupt practices act.
Attention of Congress called to
necessity for vocational education.
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and completed before a strike or lock
out may lawfully be attempted. '
"And. sixth, the lodgement in the
hands of the Executive of the power,
in case of military necesssity, to take
control of such portions and. such roll
ing stock of the railways of the coun
try as may be required for military use
and to operate them for military pur
poses, with authority to draft into the
military service of the United States
such train crews and administrative of
ficials as the circumstances require for
their safe and efficient use.
"The second and third of these rec
ommendations the Congress immediate
ly acted on; . it established the eight
hour day as the legal basis of work
and wages In train service and it au
thorized the appointment of a commis
sion to observe and report upon the
practical results, deeming these the
measures most immediately needed:
but it postponed action upon the other
suggestions until an opportunity should
be offered for a more deliberate con
sideration of them. The fourth recom
mendation I do not deem it necessary
to renew. The power of the Inter
state Commerce Commission to grant
an increase of rates on the ground re
ferred to is Indisputably clear and a
recommendation by the Congress with
regard to such a matter might seem
to draw in question the scope of the
Commission's authority or its inclina
tion to do justice when there Is no
reason to doubt either.
Other Recommendations Renewed.
"The other suggestions the increase
in the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion s membership and in its fa
cilities for performing its manifold du
ties, the provision for full public in
vestigation ana assessment of indus
trial disputes, and the grant to the
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The text of
President Wilson's address to Con
press is:
"Gentlemen of the Congress In ful
filling at this time the duty laid upon
me by the Constitution of communicat
ing to you from time to time informa
tion of the state of the Union and rec
ommending to your consideration such
legislative measures as may be Judged
necessary and expedient, I shall con
tinue the practice, which I hope has
been acceptable to you, of leaving to
the reports of the several heads of the
executive departments the elaboration
of the detailed needs of the public serv
ice and confine myself to those matters
of more general public policy with
"which it seems necessary and feasible
to deal at the present session of the
Congress.
"I realize the limitations of time un
der which you will necessarily act at
this session and shall make my sug
gestions as few as possible; but there
"were some things left undone at the
last session which there will now be
time to complete" and which it seems
necessary in the interest of the public
to do at once.
Railway Labor Legislation ITrged
In the first place, it seems to me
Imperatively necessary that the earliest
possible consideration and action
fchould be accorded the remaining
measures of the programme of settle
merit and regulation which I had oc
casion to recommend to you at the close
of your last session in view of the pub
lie dangers disclosed by .the unaccom
modated difficulties which then existed
and which still unhappily continue to
exist, between the railroads of the
country and their locomotive engineers,
conductors and trainmen.
"I then recommended:
"First, immediate provision for the
enlargement and administrative reor
ganization of trie Interstate Commerce
Commission along the lines embodied
In the bill recently passed by the House
of Representatives and now awaiting
action by the Senate, in order that the
Commission may be enabled to deal
with the many great and various duties
now devolving upon it with a prompt
ness and thoroughness which are, with
Its present constitution and means of
action, practically impossible.
.second, the establishment of an
ight-hour day as the legal basis alike
of work and of wages in the employ
ment of all railway employes who are
actually engaged in the work of oper
ating trains in interstate transporta
tion.
"Third, the authorization of the ap
pointment by the President of a small
body of men to observe the actual re
sults in experience of the adoption of
the eight-hour day in railway trans
portation alike for the men and for the
railroads.
Fourth, explicit approval by the
Congress of the consideration by the
Interstate Commerce Commission of
increase of freight rates to meet such
additional expenditures by the rail
roads as may have been rendered nec
essary by the adoption of the eight
hour day and which have not been off
set by administrative readjustments
and economies, should the facts dis
closed justify the increase.
Compulsory Investigation Advocated.
"Fifth, an amendment of the exist
ing Federal statute which provides for
the mediation, conciliation and arbitra
tion of such controversies as the pres
ent by adding to it a provision that.
In case the methods of accommodation
now provided for should fail, a full
public investigation of the merits of
every such dispute shall be instituted
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Hecent experiments have proved conclu
sively that Catarrhal Deafness, head noises.
etc., were the direct cause of constitutional
disease, and. that salves, sprays, inhalers,
etc., merely temporize with the complaint
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This be i rip so, much time and money has
been spent of late by a. noted specialist In
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that would quickly dispel all traces of the
catarrhal poison from the system. The ef
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The first dose should begin to relieve the
distressing head noise, headache, dullness,
cloudy thinking, etc., while the hearing rap
idly returns us the system is invigorated by
the tonic action of the treatment. Loss of
smell and mucus dropping in the back of
the throat, are other symptoms that show
the presence of catarrhal poison, and which
are often entirely overcome by this effica
cious treatment. Nearly ninety per cent of
all ear troubles are directly caused by ca
tarrh; therefore, there must be many people
whos hearing can be restored by this sim
ple home treatment.
Every person who Is troubled with head
noises, catarrhal deafness, or catarrh in any
form, should give this prescription a trlaL
Adv.
PROGRESSIVE BID
FOR HARMONY ID
E
Overtures for Complete Re
union of Party Forces Are
Made to Republicans.
VOICE IN AFFAIRS ASKED
Permanent Progressive Advance
Through Democratic Party Is
Declared Impossible First
Step Is Outlined.
CHICAGO. Dec. 5. Overtures to the
Republicans for a voice in the man
agement of party affairs in return for
Progressive support were made today
in a statement which followed a con
ference of C. H. Rowell, of California;
Gifford Pinchot, Raymond Robins,
Executive of the power to control and James R. Garfield, William A. White
operate the railways when necessary
in time of war or other public neces
sity I now very earnestly renew.
The necesssity for such legislation
is manifest and pressing. Those who
have entrusted us with the responsi
bility and duty of serving and safe
guarding them in such matters would
find it hard, I believe, to excuse a fail-
or any unnecay loStponement of '-
action upon them.
Not only does .the Interstate Com
merce Commission now find it practi
cally impossible, with its present mem
bership and organization, to perform
its great functions promptly and
thoroughly, but it is nor unlikely that
and Harold L. Ickes,
Permanent progressive advance
through the Democratic party is im
possible, the statement says, in an
nouncing that a National conference of
Progressives and Progressive-Republicans
is to be called within four months
in the hope of bringing about re-or-
The first step toward providing Pro
gressive representation in the party, it
was suggested, could best be brought
about by giving the present Republican
campaign committee the functions of
the executive committee.
'The result of the election has shown
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it may presently be found advisable to that the only hope of victory for any
add to its duties still others equally
heavy and exacting. It must first be
perfected as an administrative instru
ment.
"Th country cannot and should not
consent to remain any longer exposed
political party in America lies in se
curing and retaining the support of the
Progressive voters," the statement says.
"In spite of certain Progressive
achievements, the merit of which we
do not question, it is clear to us that
to profound industrial disturbances permanent progressive advance through
for lack of additional means of arbi
tration and conciliation which the Con
gress can easily and promptly supply.
And all will agree that there must be
no doubt as to the power of the Ex
ecutive to make immediate and uninter
rupted use of the railroads for the con
centration of the military forces of the
Nation wherever they are needed and
whenever they are needed.
This is a programme of regulation.
prevention and administrative effi
ciency which argues its own case in
the mere statement of it. With regard
to one of its items, the increase in the
efficiency of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the House of Representa
tives has already acted; its action
needs only the concurrrence of the
Senate.
Industrial Process Mast 7Vot Stop.
"I would hesitate to recommend, and
I dare say the Congress would hesitate
to act upon the suggestion should I
make it, that any man in any occupa
tion should be obliged by law to con
tinue in any employment which he de
sired to leave. To pass a law which
forbade or prevented the individual
workman to leave his work befV-e re
ceiving the approval of society in do
ing so would be to adopt a new prin
ciple into our jurisprudence which I
take it for granted we are not pre
pared to introduce. But the proposal
that the operation of the railways of
the country shall not be stopped or in
terrupted by the concerted action of
organized bodies of men until a public
investigation shall have been Instituted
which shall make the whole question
at issffe plain for the judgment of the
opinion of the Nation is not to propose
any such principle.
"It is based upon the very different
principle that the concerted action of
powerful bodies of men shall not be
permitted to stop the industrial proc
esses of the Nation, at any rate before
the Nation shall have had an oppor
tunity to acquaint itself with the merits
of the case as between employe and
employer, time to form its opinion
upon an impartial statement of the
merits, and opportunity to consider all
practicable means or conciliation or
arbitration. I can see nothing in that
proposition but the justifiable safe
guarding by society of the necessary
processes of its very life. " There is
nothing arbitrary or unjust in Jt un
less it be arbitrarily and unjustly done.
It can and should be done with a full
and scrupulous regard for the interests
and liberties of all concerned as well
as for the permanent interests of so
ciety Itself.
the Democratic party is impossible.
"We welcome the enactment of Pro
gressive measures by any party. But
we are firm in the conviction that in
the existing two-party system con
structive progressivlsm may best be
achieved through the Republican party.
But to gain either of these ends, the
Republican party must be thoroughly
Progressivized in organization, leader
ship and principles.
Conference to Be Called.
We propose to join with other Pro
gressives in calling a National confer
ence of Progressives and Progressive
Republicans to be held during the next
four months. Such a conference might
well take steps toward reformulating
Progressive principles and considering
how to put them into effect.
An immediate practical step toward
Progressive representation would be to
give the present campaign committee
in the party organization the functions
of the executive committee of the
party. This committee consists of 10
regular Republicans and six former
Progressives. This would give the Pro
gressives votes as well as voices in the
party council. A demand from the
proposed conference for such i-s-presen
tation in the Republican organization
could not be ignored by any who- are
seriously desirous of party success and
nothing less than this could be accept
ed as a first step toward securing the
confidence of the Progressive voters of
the country.
Progressives ot Penitents.
'We believe the Republican party
can get the Progressive votes and the
Progressive voters through the Repub
lican party can best secure the meas
ures of political reiorm and social jus
tice to which they are devoted. But to
obtain this, there must be some guar
antee that Progressive support before
election will insure Progressive influ
ence in the determination of Repub
lican policies after election.
The Progressives are not suppliants
nor penitents. They are American
citizens seeking justice and are ready
to fight for it. The only harmony that
desirable or possible is the harmony
of justice.
MINT FACING SUSPENSION
Relief by Congress for Philadelphia
Plant Is Asked.
Three Important Bills Await Senate.
"Three matters of capital importance
await the action of the Senate which
have already been acted upon by the
Uonse of RenresfintativM: Thp bill
which seeks to extend greater freedom Congress today and submitte
of combination to those engaged in ciency esiimaio.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The Phila
delphia mint will be forced to suspend
coinage at the busiest period of the
year unless Congress' provides imme
diate relief. Acting Secretary Newton,
of the Treasury Department, so advised
defi-
promotlng the foreign commerce of the
country than is now thought by some
to be legal under the terms of th
laws against monopoly; the bill amend
ing the present organic law of Porto
Rico; and the bill proposing a more
thorough and systematic regulation of
the expenditure of money in elections,
commonly called the corrupt practices
act. I need not labor my advice that
these measures be enacted into law.
Their urgency lies in the manifest cir
cumstances which render their adop
tion at this time not only opportune
but necessary. Even delay would seri
ously jeopard the interests of the coun
try and of the Government.
Immediate passage of the bill to
regulate the expenditure of money in
elections may seem to be less necessary
than the immediate enactment of the
other measures to which I refer; be
cause at least two years will elapse be
fore another election in which Federal
offices are to be filled: but it would
greatly relieve the public mind if this
important matter were dealt with while
the circumstances and the dangers to
the public morals of the present method
of obtaining and spending campaign
funds stand clear under recent obser
vation and the methods -of expenditure
can be frankly studied in the light of
present experience; and a delay would
have the further very serious dlsad
vantage of postponing action until an
otner election was at nana and some
special object connected with it might
be tnougnt to De in the mind of those
who urged it. Action can be taken now
with facts for guidance and without
suspicion of partisan purpose.
"I shall not argue at length the de
slrabllity of giving a freer hand in
the matter of combined and concerted
effort to those who shall undertake
the essential enterprise of building up
our export trade. That enterprise will
presently, will immediately assume, has
Indeed already assumed, a magnitude
unprecedented In our experience. We
have not the necessary instrumental!
ties for its prosecution; it is deemed
to be doubtful whether they could be
created upon an adequate scale under
our present laws. We should clear
away all legal obstacles and create
basis of undoubted law for it which
will give freedom without permitting
unregulated license. The thing must
be done now, because the opportunity
is here and may escape us if we hesi
tate or delay.
Iort Rico I.aw JVeeds Amendment.
"The argument for the proposed
amendments, of the organic law of
He said the condition was due to un
precedented demand for coins, extraor
dinary volume of deposits of foreign
gold and a marked rise in the prices of
supplies.
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