The Detroit times., 1910-06-30
r)dn Gardner Fhds amazing DIFF
to.snoe Between Measures Presi-
dent PLACED Before Congress
Pc and Bills Passed.
I<shfgents Deserve Much Credit For
Good Liquidation Passed BY
Recent Congress,


n AWoyp VI TIC at pIOSIdu iot icSiSio
tion. Coming back, was greeted
VIA claims that this program haS
been, forced on congress by the
strength OF Taft, and that loyal regu
r 1ar Republicans had served their. coun
fry well. I find that the loyal regu
7 lar" Is the member OF congress who
q has stuck to Aldrich and Cannon
through thick and thin.
got out the old administration
4 bills as introduced and compared them
With the printed copies of the bills as
IS passed am amazed.
The record of the administration
s when thus viewed Is rather short.
Tho record Is far different from the
program.
Some good legislation has been
Z placed on the books, but examination
* shows that II was placed there by the
c0mbined efforts of the Republican In
( Glfr8ents and the more decent Demo
czhts.
Ebne bad legislation, proposed and
X pushed by Taft, has been kept of the
& hooks: also by the insurgents and the
& YJxDgressive Democrats.
Seine questionable legislation has
2 hen put upon the boks by the united
n forces OF Taft. Cannon. Aldrich and
the administration Democrats.
The thing that strikes me hardest
- the absolute wiping out of party
Ines There have been new lines
drawn. There are two new parties
B 0nhdpat and Progressive-and there
q axe Republicans and Democrats in
Zach Reading the roll calls can see
he Aldrich Democrats and the Can
uQn Democrats as plain as day. II Is
Ne line that separates the common in-
i terest OF the country from the specia.
x interests of the few. That line has
Grown since went away. 1t Is getting
wider and blacker every day.
Here's another curious thing. 1t Is
that the Taft program has been re-
4 yibed from week to week, and every
Z pjec8 of legislation that "" sure of
passage has been labeled o., an item
e I'M the Taft program. Those doomed
4 Tor sdefeat have been quietly dropped
outsof sight.
Mhich paved the way for the pres
q s1kt game, which In to claim all credit
Tor all accomplishment, and TO go be-
fore the country as the greatest get
ter that ever got.
The big thing-the item about which
< khei administration clacQue Is prepar-
Ing To make the most noise-is the
& railroad rate bill.
4 was present I'm Washington when
(. ATTY ..Gen. Wickersham sent the adj
mlnistration bill to congress. Now,
AFTER five months absence, have had
q chance to compare that bill with the
new law. The law today resembles
he Wickersham-Taft bill only in the
DQacting clause. The insurgents have
rewritten the law. They have struck
out Wickersham's repeal of the anti
trust law: his legalization of railway
& mefgers; his plan TO let the attorney
a eenefal over-rule and veto the inter
SUITE commerce commission; his per-
mission to water stock and validate
\ pDoyi0us water; and half a dozen SINH
!, lerf jokers. They have cut out the
Wichersham tokers In the paragraph
cxooting the commerce court: have re-
written the long and short haul
clause; and have almost succeeded in
SWING authority to the commission TO
4 r4kulate rates.
Hut 1t is almost" After proposed
Increases In rates have been checked
X 1orf couple OF months II is doubtful
81 the commission has authority to
p16vent the increases desired by the
railroads. sse-y
The new law.ashas mo valuation
1~fpre. II creates an expensive and
& r4ner useless court. And its prin-
+ c{ERl merits consist In its failure to
40 What the Taft-Wickersham bill pro-
poeed should be done by item No. 1
4 n the Taft program.
30 much for Item No /. The next
number is the postal savings banks
INV. President Taft should be given
cfedh for recommending and continu.
o48ly urging a postal savings bank
bill But again the law as he desired
& ~ ~ quite different from that passed.
Inc president seemed to have in mind
s nom the first, one thing only. namely.
* Tie collection OF much money from the
poor folks dimes and nickles with
h Uhich to redeem and thus make n
4 market for the per cent bonds which
+ have become drug on the market
& and . poor Investment for the national
&0hks. In eliminating this feature
nom the Taft bill. the insurgents
T. cansed Taft to lose enthusiasm for the
q proGont law, and he tells his con
I1onttal callers that the present law
4 VII hardly warrant-anything more
1Son the establishment of three or
& 1oa1r. experimental banks In SO many
& ire cities.
The creation OF commission to In
E1Ix6 into stock and bond issues by
x1i2roads Is joke. All this informa.
No IL already I'm the records Of the
s <ofBtate commerce commission. What
n noeded is a cure rather than iupii
1n11> Information.
Tho creation of a bureau Of mines
5 ~ 4 step to get rid of the present de
<lonent Of government, bureau IN
~ geological survey, which Is doine
w work. It's chief. Mr.. Solmes. 1:
II ||nchof conservation man, so he Is
- displaced by Ballinger-Gug
/ <ucIm person.
<XUo bill granting authority to the
dent 20 Withdraw from entry Ger
~ public Iands vas 90 shaped un
10ministrafioo~influe that II
nIixe only fnknro Withdrawals. and
~ into lnGb discredit and cues
M conaoryafion stems taken by
Roosevelt NATURALIZATION,
- VS., DO doubt. It's chief pur
o MI erantlng separate statehood
@11ona and New Mexico contains
11o<u inserted by Taft influence
1unltn y the validating Of lot
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