The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-14
five OF TAFT'S
BILLS TO PASS
Many Measures Have Been Buried in
Archives OF Various COMMITTEES
To Visit West in October.

WASHINGTON, June 14.-With
final adjournment OF congress near al
hand, there is considerable looking
Capitol Hill and muck talk OF deeds
that have been done and the bills tina;
have been done up.
Interest centers, of course, In the
Taft legislative program and the gen
eral opinion Is that congress has not
been generous to the chief executive
Congress started the big wheels OF
the legislative machine on Dec. q, with
apparent good will toward all mel
and more especially toward the presi
dent. Mr.. Taft informally submitted
recommendations for the passage o!
bills on eighteen subjects OF legisla
ton. OF the bills on these subjects
introduced some have been much con
sldered, some little, ana many have
been buried In the archives OF vari
Gus committees. None as yet has
reached the statute books.
Five numbers on the program. how
ever. are certain to be carried out and
friends OF the president say that their
importance makes q good showing.
few Gays, minus several important
features advocated by the president.
a kill authorizing the president to
Withdraw public lands from entry has
passed the house and another bill on
the same subject Is near passage In
the senate. They will have To go
through the hands of conference
committee.
The two branches OF congress nave
passed postal savings bank bills that
conflici IN many particulars, but the
difference will be settled without much
trouble, probably by the acceptance OF
the house bill by the senate. A meas
ure providing that the government
shall dispose separately OF agricultur-
al land underlaln with coal VIII be
ready for the presidents signature in
4 few Gays.
A bill for the admission OF Arizona
ana New Mexico to statehood mas
passed the house and another Is i'm
pending in the senate. ont whether
further action will be taken Is a QueS-
tion.
Ship subsidy stirred up scandal
in the house and Is done for In this
session.
The action of congress in appropria-
citing S250,000 for a tariff board was
q victory for the president. His re-
quest that liberal provision be made
for the investigation OF conditions IN
this country and abroad bearing on
the tariff was strongly resisted ny
some legislators. Taft was deter
mined, however, and by insistent ar
sument mustered a large majority ~
favor OF the proposition.
Federal incorporation was proposed
in a bill introduced In bolh branches
OF congress- A bill to regulate the
issuing OF iniunctions appeared In the
house, but did not get serious consid'
Grafton.
Nine bills bearing on conservation
were presented at the instance OF the
president, but seven OF them were de-
stined never to see the light. A bill to
issue S30,000.000 worth OF government
securities to assist the reclamation
projects passed the senate, but was
sat upon In the house by Chairman
Payne of the ways and means com
mittee. A bill for the Improvement
of the government In Alaska was In
troduced In both houses but not pass
ed In the senate the bill when pre-
sented became the center of mon
scene and was withdrawn.
President Taft will spend some time
in the middle west next October. He
will be in Cincinnati Oct. l, going there
direct from Beverly. and has accept.
ed engagements that will keep him In
the west for ten days or more The
fall campaign will be well under way
when the president takes the road
and while 1t is not admitted at the
White House that he is to take an
active part in the campaign, nevertho-
less he will have a few political things
to say.