The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-30
WILL DO
And NOT TALK
HAS MADE UP HIS CONSEIiVA-
TION PROGRAM.
Special Message VIII Not Wait for
Ballinger-Pincbot Ques-
ton.
HE HAS HIS MIND MADE UP.

Washington, Dec. 30.-Taft's con-
servation program:
Acts, rather than declarations"
President Taft is reported to have
described recently in this terse way
TO callers his program for the con-
servatlon of natural resources. The
president il is said, has declared that
when the present session of congress
enas he will be able to point TO the
first practical conservation statutes
ever placed upon the law books OF
the nation, as his answer to the criti-
cism which has been directed toward
the white house.
without waiting for the Ballinger-
| Pinchot Investigation, MIR. Taft viii
soon begin the preparation of his
promised special message on eonserva
ton. and he has received assurances
from both houses OF congress that.
while some trouble may be expected
in the lower branch, the legislation
which the executive will suggest will
be made into law before the spring
adjournment.
Ballinger-Pinchot Out OF IL.
The president Is represented as
taking the position that there IL moth
ing in the Balinger-Pinchot dispute
that has bearing on his own legis-
lative program and he will proceed
regardless of II.
In the preparation OF his special
p,accauo Tho ,NrogtS.pt Mill han tho
Incorporation of Secretary Ballinger
and Senator Nelson, of Minnesota.
chairman Of the senate committee on
public lands. IL is asserted that in
the constructive work Of needed legis-
llatlon the president has had to de-
pend almost wholly upon Mr.. Ballln-
ger, who has been at work for sew
eral months on the draft OF proposed
statutes that VIII meet the intricacies
of the yexed problem OF practical
lconserva ion and embody the presi-
dents views on this important sub
ject. These proposed new laws are
ready to be submitted TO the commit
tees of the senate and house along
with the special message, the prepa-
ration of which the president will
begin as ,oon as he gets the message
on the interstate and antitrust laws
out of the way.
Furthermore II can be stated Mr..
TAFT Is confident the conservation
Legislation which he proposes will be
enacted into law before the end OF
the present session OF congress.
The new statutes-which friends
OF the administration declare will be
the first that have dealt adequately
with the natural resources-wlll be
President Tafts answer to so much
of the criticism as has been directed
against him.
Opposition In House.
Senator Knute Nelson. Of Mime
sofa. chairman of the senate commit
tee on public lands. Is cooperating
with the president in the matter OF
the conservation laws and has as
sured him that there will be no DIM
Guilty in putting those laws through
the senate.
In the house there Is likely to be
some opposition. but the president
feels sure that IL can be overcome
aud that he laws will stand approved
before the summer comes.
White house callers who have
talked with President Taft on the
subject describe 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 containing water power sites.
coal and phosphates. Such lands
have been Withdrawn from entry
under the general land laws but they
cannot be held indefinitely and there
IS no specific law governing their sale
or lease.
IL is generally admitted that the
natural resources must be developed
that the coal ard phosphates must be
taken out by private capital and yet
there must at the same time be safe
guards against monopoly These are
the intricacles with which congress
will have to deal.
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