The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-05-22
yides a salary for its secretary and
quarters for its Offices, and the other

vldes salary for its secretary and
quarters for its Offices. and the other
makes the government liable to it's
employ es engaged in hazardous labor
for injuries incurred in the service
Any such so injured shall receive a
years pay, should he remain unable
to work for SO long, and should he
die, his years pay shall go to his fam
lily.
Congress is making rapid PROCESS
toward adjournment and every thing
now points to a conclusion of the ses-
sion on May %. The House has pass
ed the Vreeland financial bill and the
Senate has substituted therefor a
modified form of the Aldrich bill,
which is believed TO be of far greater
merit. Both houses have appointed
their conferrees and the measures
which will be finally enacted, if any
is passed, will be framed by them. In
order to secure favorable action on the
Vreeland bill the House bad to re-
pudiate its Banking and Currency
committee and the Fowlerites, as they
have come to be called, are in blind
rage. There is an old saying, that,
"Whom the Gods would destroy they
first make mad,' and the members of
the House have paraphrased it to
read, "Whom the Speaker would des-
troy he first appoints to the Banking
and Currency committee"
The historic Natural Resources
Conference called by the President to
meet at the White House has wound
up in burst of enthusiasm and the
governors of the states and their lieu
tenants have departed to their several
hines convinced of the Importance of
the movement to conserve the natur-
al resources of the country and deter
mined to uphold the hands of the
President IN every proper manner
There were no political lines drawn
in the conference and it was truly
remarkable spectacle to see the Presi-
dent anunciating his policies and
Democrats joining with Republicans,
Governors from the Southland as we'll
as from the North, cheering him to
the echo. Governor johnson of
Minnesota was enthusiastic in his
support of Mr.. Roosevelt, and so also
was Governor Glenn of North Caro-
lima, who, only few months ago
defying the federal courts and preci-
pitating a situation which threatened
grave conflict between the federal and
and state liberties, No one doubts
that the utmost good will come from
the conference and when the Presi-
dent suggested that another be call
ed in the not distant future, the rebel
yell joined with the northern cheer in
enthusiastic appreciation of the pros
pect. Meanwhile, desperate effort
is being made in Congress to pass,
over the Presidents veto, a measure
which he has. denounced, the SOCIAL
ed Rainy River dam bill. His OBJ
lection to the measure is that it neitb-
er limits in time the special privilege
granted to the men who proposed to
build this dam nor provides for any
compensation to the national govern
ment and, as he has expressed il, il
gives to private concern the right in
perpetuity to a resource which this
generation has no right to take from
the generations to come. 1t is not ex-
pected that the bill will be actually
passed by the necessary two-thirds
votes, however.
Inc only change IN the political
situation, if change it be, is the great
er certainty of the nomination of
William Fl. Taft. There are now con
siderably in excess of the necessary
491 delegates instructed or pledged,
to vote for Taft on the first ballot: and
no intelligent Republican doubts his
nomination. The President was re.
Gently asked if he was not somewhat
distressed by tbs idea that many of
the interests" had come to support
Taft because they were afraid that
otherwise they would get him.. He
replied not at all, saying that the AL
mighty, while offering every induce