This course is much to be preferred to the one proposed of enacting a law once judicially declared to be unconstitutional.

For the Congress to assume that the court will reverse itself, and to enact legislation on such an assumption, will not strengthen popular confidence in the stability of judicial construction of the Constitution.

It is undoubtedly a power the National Government ought to have.

This order shall take effect not later than six months from the date of the promulgation thereof, except for the use of old French dump cars in use on the Panama Canal, including also the couplers of locomotives necessary to operate them, until July 1, 1910, after which date it shall likewise apply to this equipment.