Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-27
Taft CONTINUES F|GH|
PRESIDENT TO PUSH RoosE-
vELT,s PET SCHEME OF
CONSERVATION.
WILL DEMAND BACKING
ON PART OF CONGRESS
Effort to Be Made to Secure Funds
With Which to Carry on the Work
Champ cIark's Frankness Endears
Him to Men of All Parties-Wash :
inston News.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, March 2I-FreSldeHt
Taft is going to take up at least one Oh
his predecessors feuds with congress-
He is going to make a fight to get
money and recognition for the work OF
the national conservation commission.
the commission, but 1t took extraordi-
, nary pains to prevent the commission
getting any money.
This commission was appointed by
the president and is extra-legal. Mr..
Roosevelt thought its work necessary,
and means were found ito finance it's
preliminary operations in a modest
way. But at the succeeding session of
congressAhere was inserted in the sun
dry civil bill prohibition of any such
use of money. and so the commission
has been shelved for the time being.
But, while it can do nothing, plan
has been devised to maintain a con-
servation establishment i'll Washing
ton, under what will be known as the
joint committee on conservation. 1t is
entirely voluntary. and it's expenses
will be contributed by people interested
in the movement. Its membership in
cludes governors, ex-governors and
other men of prominence in their
states, as follows:
George c. Pardee, California; w. III.
Milton, Florida; Newton c. Blanchard,
louisiana; b. N. Baker, Maryland;
Knute Nelson, Minnesota W. K. kav-
anaugh, Missouri; Paris Gibson, Mon
tana; j. N. Teal, Oregon; o. ]. Sails
bury, Utah; with Forester Clifford Pin
chot as chairman and Thomas r.
Shipp, secretary.
1t is announced that this commission
will take up the general work of plan
ming and co-ordinating the conserva-
ton efforts of the states, thirty-seven
of which have created conservation
commissions. There is great need for
a central national organization, and
President Taft has informed the leaders
in the movement that at the next ses-
sion he will urge that congress make
provision for financing the national
conservation commission. This is ex-
pected to do all the fighting he likes.
The opposition to the commission is
strong in both houses, and entrenched
in influence; and it will fight the pro-
ject, whether it is backed by the pres
ident or anybody else.
One of the traits of Champ Clark
which endeared him to republicans and
democrats alike is his frankness. If
he likes a man he says so. If he thinks
man is a liar he says so. For in
stance: Altho one of the most pro-
found students of the tariff in the I'm
tied States, Mr. Clark pays tribute to
Serene E. Payne by declaring on the
floor of the house that the chairman
of the ways and means committee
knows more about tariff ethan any
man on top of the EARTH" In his
speech on the Payne bill he paid trib-
ute to the energetic efforts Of such
members of the committee as Long
worth, Hill and Crumpacker in their
desire to ascertain the facts. OF Rep
resentative Fordnel, of Michigan, who
outpoints John Dalzell as high pro-
tectionist, he said: eff Fordney had his
way the tariff bill would consist Of one
sentence, namely: 'On all articles pro-
duced in the United States let the duty
be absolutely prohibitive."
| Mr.. Clark, in the same speech, was
equally frank about the outcome OF
the last election. He said that the
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee "were scared into declaration
for tariff revision" Their fears result
ed in tariff plank i'm the republican
platform, said Mr.. Clark.
"But there was no need for that
plank" said the minority leader. 'AThe
widespread popularity of Theodore
Roosevelt was such that he would
have carried that election for Taft If
you had ignored the tariff altogether"