Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-30
CONSERVATION
MESSAGE NEXT
President Taft Says His Policy is
Action Rather Than
Declarations.
REAL WORK IS OUTLINED
First Real Conservation Statutes Will
be Placed on Books.
WILL NOT WAIT ON INQUIRY
Ballinger-Penchot Controversy is Not
Factor in the Problems.
BILLS ARE NOW BEING DRAFTED
Proposed Measures VIII be submitter
to both Houses Along With
Presidents RecOmmcnda-
tiOns.
First Real Conservation Statutes Will
be Placed on Books.
Ballinger-Penchot Controversy is Not
Factor in the Problems.
BILLS ARE NOW BEING DRAFTED

, WASHINGTON, d. c" Dec 9--'Acts
rather than declarations"
President TAFT is reported in this terse
way to have described recently to a caller
his program for the conservation Of nat
ural resources. The president, It is said
hay d. clared that when the present session
of'congress ends he will be able TO point
TO the first practical conservation statutes
ever placed upon the law books of the ma
tlon as his answer to the criticism which
has been directed toward the White
House.
without waiting for the Ballinger- Pin
chot investigation, mir. Taft soon will be-
gin the preparation OF his promised special
message on conservation and he has re-
ceived assurances from both houses of
congress that while some trouble may be
> expected in tho lower branch, the legisa-
ton which the ,Eecutive win suggest will
be made into llw Luforo the spring ad-
journmGnt
The prcsld,n. 81, pr ssntsd as, taking
the position tuo.S ,a,.s ls nothing in the
Ballinger-p pn,Lo, Cl. putc that has bear
ing = ms o,.H .lula.atye program and
he Wal procctd gardess of it,
.Jratu Cf Proposed Laws.
he preparation Of his special mes
INC president will, have the co-opera-
Secretary Ballinger and Senator
..l of Minnesotsb chairman of the
...uv committee on public lands. 1t is
i.sa. rted that In the constructive work Of
needed legislation the president has had
TO depend almost wholly upon Mr.. Bal
llISger, who has been at work for several
months on the draft of proposed statutes
that will meet the intricacies of the
vexed problem OF practical conservation
and embody the presidents views on this
important subject These proposed new
laws are ready to be submitted to the
committees of the sereAe and house along
with the special message, the preparation
of which the president viii begin as soon
as he gets the. message on the interstate
and anti trust laws out of the way.
some austilIty in House.
In the house t.ere is likely 10 be some
opposition but the president feels sure 1t
can be overcome and that the laws will
stand approved before the summer comes.
White House callers who have talked
with President Taft on the subject de-
scrlbed him as believing that he will best
prove his friendship for the Roosevelt
policies" Of conservation by putting laws
on the statute books that will actually
carry these policies into effect
The real problem to be solved is how
best to dispose OF the public lands con-
pilates. Such lands have been withdrawn
from entry under the general land laws
but they cannot be held indefinitely anc
there is no specific law governing theii
sale or lease.
1t is generally admitted that the forces
must be developed. that the coal and phos
pilates must be taken out by private CAPT
tai, and yet there must at the SAINT
time be safeguards against monopoly
These are the intricacies with which con
gress will have to deal
would Strengthen Federal License.
The announcement made yesterday tina
President Taft had detSrmined to go ahea'
with his executive program and send in
message dealing with the Sherman anti
trust act. brought an unusually larg
number OF Congressional callers to tn
White House today. Among these wa
Representative Martin of South Dakota
himself The author Of several bills desig
mated 10 bring corporations under fedora
control.
Air. Martin ursCd The president to max
recommendations stronger as to fedora
license 20 as TO provide that any corpora
tion not taking advantage of the lcsns
y. within a year shall be prohibited from do
ing an ln,e. state business. Ar Martin sal
he feared that under the voluntary ide
the good trusts would take out License
while the bad trusts" would continue t
do business under state authorizations,
Dwight Promises Subsidies.
Representative Dwight of New Yorl
republican whip" OF the house, talke
with the president for some time toda
about snip subsidy legislation. on leavin
he asserted that the presidents recon
mendatlon would be enacted into law b
congress and that the house would az
soon after assembling. The bill Of Repr,
sentative Humphrey OF Washington is tn
one that has been agreed upon by tn
president and the republican leaders.
Representative Dwight declared tina
democratic opposition to the ship subsid
bill would not retard the passage of tn
measure 20 any degree.