The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-28


en- of this provision In the law by spe-
cial interests.
The good in the bill was put In by
the real friends OF conservation In
side and outside OF congress. II they
had not made the fight against the
original administration bill great In
Jury to conservation would have re-
suited and the public domain would
have been opened TO the land grab
ber."
What Is your opinion OF the rail
road bill as finally passed?"
The rate bill IN introduced did not
at all meet the needs OF the country.
IL ought not TO have been passed Ia
its original form. The country owes
debt OF gratitude to such men as
Cummings, Clapp, Dolliver, La Fol-
lette, Beveridge aud those with them
who have compelled the amendrnen,
OF the original rate bill and who nave
inserted I'm II clauses that are OF direct
benefit 10 the people OF the country.
Unless such q fight as these men
made had been made. progressive
legislation would have been impos-
sble In this congress.
Tho cause OF self-government. OF
for ali OF US rather than
by few special interests, has un-
doubtedly been advanced during this
session and the insurgents. so-called.
both In house and senate, are the ones
to whom all the credit belongs"
Cannot Be Driven From Party.
What effect will the insurgency OF
these men have on the Republican
party, and upon their own standing as
party men,"
Those men have been and still are
They cannot be driven
out OF the party, because they stand
for and fight for true representative
The house insurgents
In partially restoring the
measure Of representative action that
had been submerged in the control OF
the speaker and of the rules commit
tee. Those men revolted not against
the Republican party, but against GER
tain leaders of the party who were
seeking to use the party for special In
terests, rather than for the public
welfare"
isn't there danger that this in
surgency business will develop a Sec
tionai spirit in the party and the ma
tom"
"By no means. On the contrary, II
has united men OF New England. like
Gardner, with the men Of the middle
west. like Madison. and they find a
common interest with Poindexter, the
OF the far northwest Cali
fornia can certainly join Wisconsin In
this insurgency for, no matter how
varied the forms II may take. II Is, In
The last analysis, merely a straight
out fight against the rule OF the party
and the rule OF the nation by special
Joker In Publicity Bill.
The bill dealing with the publicity
Of campaign contributions contains
Joker. The announcement OF the dOna-
lions is not to be made until after
election when, of course, It will be too
late to have any effect upon the vot-
ers.
These are the items which the pres
ldent recommended but which were
not enacted into law:
Legislation defining the power OF
LeQGTdl W loouc
Legislation designed to revive the
American merchant marine.
Federal regulation of the issuing
Of stocks and bonds by railroads.
The creation OF new bureau OF
public health.
The creation OF commission TO
simply and expediate procedure OF
federal courts.
new form of government for
Alaska.
Increase in postage rates on maya
zines and periodicals.
Amendment to the Sherman anti
trust law, permitting the federal in
of corporations engaged
In interstate commerce.
The new laws were placed upon the
statute books:
An act TO prevent the sale Of adui-
terated and misbranded paris green