OBNOXIOUS PUBLICATIONS.
MEANS FOR THEIR SUPPRESSION. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. Received 10th, 8.23 p.m. New York, April 10. President Roosevelt, iu a special message to Congress, cites the view of M>. Bounaparte, Attorney-General, regarding the circulation of periodicals advocating murder, arson, and treason, which constitutes sedition, libel, and undoubtedly crime, in the common law. In the absence of -a Federal Statute, however, Federal courts have no jurisdiction in the matter. The Postmaster-General ia now to be instructed to exclude sucfi publications from the mails, but further legislation on the part of Congress is required. The message adds that compared with the suppression of anarchism, every other question sinks into insignificance.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 96, 11 April 1908, Page 2
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111OBNOXIOUS PUBLICATIONS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 96, 11 April 1908, Page 2
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