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House Appropriations Committee anu
the first lieutenant OF Speaker Cannon.
whom Senator Cummins has been az
lacking. Representative Tawney was
about the only Republican in the Min
nesota delegation who voted for the
tariff bill His political interest seemed
to be to vo,e against it but IN the face
of unusual embarrassments he stood by
the President and the House organlza-
ton. The state of Minnesota is pollt-
ically at skies and sevens and the Re
publIcans are afraid they will get a
drubbing next year. Represen. ative
Tawney has already heard the rumbllngs
in his own district. He had to fight
for a denomination last year and will
have to fight for denomination next
year with the possibility that, if he
gets it, he will be beaten at the polls.
He is good enough a politician to be
aware of the situation and is fortlfy-
ing himself against the wrath to come.
Before the President left Washington
he wrote letter commenting Mr.. Taw-
ney for his loyalty and on top of that
the President now agrees to take a trip
to Mr.. Tawney's home town and have
something to say face to face with his
constituents about the value of Mr..
Tawney's services to the party and the
administration.
There were many Republicans
throughout the West, both in the House
and the Senate, who persisted in voting
against the tariff bill on its final pas
sage OF course the President will have
little to say in praise of them as he
journeys through their states and dis
tricts. But as he explains and defends
the tariff law to these western people
he viii be making the insurgency OF
those western Senators and Representa-
tives prominent and will be placing
them on the defensive. Their troubles
are likely to multiply, unless the ives
tern people have made up their minds
against the President.
Cabinet Members to Go.
Some good travelling jobs have been
arranged for members of the Cabinet
during the President S western trip. He
proposes to have some member of his
cabinet with him all OF the time, so
that he will not be accompanied solely
by Senators and Representatives from
the localities through which he happens
to be travelling. This will enhance the
feeling of good will for the cabinet
officials. When the President goes into
the Northwest he will have with him
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger.
When he gets back to st. Louis in
October and starts down the Mississippi
river Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel will be with him. This is to be
a picturesque trip down the great river
and during the voyage the President
will deliver several speeches from the
boat. When he arrives in Louisiana
Secretary of War Dickinson, of Tennes-
see, will join him and viii be with the
President during most of his visits in
the South. The idea is Aregarded as a
happy one. It will strengthen the mem
bers of the cabinet in their respective
sections and will also be pleasing to
the audiences that assemble to see the
President. -
Reports have been revived of differ
enees between the President and Sec
rotary Ballinger because of the admin
1stration of western affairs in the De-
partment of the Interior. They should
be accepted with great allowances
Without question the President and
Secretary Ballinger are in full accord
| but there is western problem for this
administration. Secretary Ballinger is
giving his attention to it. President
Taft will also study it as he journeys
through the West and has opportunity
| to gain information at first hand.
The Forest Service.
The West is terribly in earnest about
| the forest service and the reclamation
service and about conservation general
ly. Clifford Pinchot, chief of the for
est service under the Department of
Agriculture, and F. H. Newell, direc-
tor of the reclamation service under
| the Department of the Interior are
idols of the more radical western ele-
| ments. The new administration has
been putting on the brakes and admin
istering conservation work along lines
more strictly legal. The radical west
erners resent this. They reason that
the irrigation projects are suffering and
that the forest service is being injured
by the new policies.
This is the season of the wear when
there are several big congresses in the
western country. One of them is the
National Irrigation Congress which has
| just been in session at Spokane. The
| opponents of the more radical conser-
walton ideas improve the opportunities
| which these congresses afford for a
i forum in which to exploit their views
and criticisms. The Spokane congress
was case in point. While Secretary
Ballinger was on the ground to defend
| himself, ex-Gov. George G. Pardee, of
| California, and Chief Forester Pinchot
were on hand to voice their own opin-
| ions. Gov. Pardee criticized the passing
| of the Roosevelt regime, whose motto
was to do things and talk about them
afterward and Mr.. Pinchot exploited the
| operations Of the waterpower trust.
| Secretary Ballinger is defending him.
! self valiantly against these radicals
/ denying that waterpower dummies have
| been busy in behalf of a waterpoweI
trust or that they have gobbled up any
| of the public lands, which have been
restored by him to entry Mr.. Pinchot
/ is sceptical about those statements. just
| what the outcome of such unpleasant
differences win be can not vet be fore
/ casted- There seems to be little doubt
| that the President will stand by Sec
rotary Bailinger, for the President be
lieves in government of law. Perhaps
with the thorough discussion these gues-
tlons are having at the conservation