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hamper and render more difficult, 1t can

hamper and render more difficult, II can
not stop this work.
1.-The executive can continue TO appoint
these commissions and can make exactly
the use Of them that I have made in the
past. although, owing to the Congress. a
greater burden will be put upon them.
1.-THE republican platform last year said :
We indorse the movement lnaugurated
by the administration for the conserVa-
ton of natural resources. NO OBJ
LEGATION Of the future is more inslstent
and none will result in greater blessings
to prosperity
"The democratic platform said: We re.
peat the demand for internal development
and for the conservation Of our natural
resources, the enforcement Of which Mr.
Roosevelt has sought
MY successor. the President-elect, In
letter to the Senate committee on ap-
preparations, asked for the continuance
and support of the conservation commits
sion. This conservation commission was
appointed at the request of the governors
of over forty states, and almost all OF
these states have since appointed commls-
mission. Nearly all the great national
organizations concerned with natural re-
sources have been heartily cooperating
with the commission.
with all these facts before 1t the Con-
gress has refused to pass a law to con-
tinue and provide for the commission. and
1t now passes law with the purpose or
preventing the executive from continuing
the commission at all. The executive,
work and reject the cooperation OF the
states or must continue the work per-
sonally and through executive officers
whom he may select for that purpose.
Gliding for Bad Congressman Only.
when / speak Of the Congress 1 mean.
Of course, those members of the Congress
who are responsible for this provision OF
the bill, and emphatically do not mean
those public-spirited members who nave
striven to prevent the incorporation In the
bill of this provision. To the congress-
men who in this and similar matters have
stood by. the interests of the public, the
interests Of those whom Abraham Lin
coin called the plain people, the heartiest
support Is owing.
but call the attention OF those who
are responsible for putting In this pro-
vision to a fundamental fact which is
often ignored in discussing and compar-
ing the action of the executive and the
action of the legislative branches OF the
government. Neither one Is responsible
to the other. Each must act as It's wis.,
dom dictates.
"But each Is responsible to the people
as whole. 1t is for the people to decide
whether they are represented Alright by
any given servant. And one element In
enabling them to reach a decision must
be that public servants record in such
case as this.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Sundry Civil Act Provision.
The provision of the sundry civil act re-
ferring to executive commissions is as
follows:
Section o. That hereafter no part OF
the public moneys or of any appropria-
ton heretofore or hereafter made by Con-
gress shall be used for the payment OF
compensation or expenses Of any commits
sion, council. board or other similar body,
or any members thereof, or for expenses
in connection with any work or the re-
suits of any work or action of any COM
mission, council, board or other similar
body, unless the creation of the same
shall be or shall have been authorized by
law; nor shall there be employed by de-
tail, hereafter or heretofore made, or
otherwise personal services from any ex-
ecutive department or other government
establishment in connection with any such
commission, council, board or other SINH
lar body"