The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-06
PARTY ALIGNMENT
MAYBE BEF0RGOTTEN
New Forms of Insurg,-
ency Likely to Be
w itnessed.
SENATE FLOOR
BATTLE SCENE
Conservation Legislation Comes
Up This Week, and Whole
Struggle Of Republican Fac
tons May Be Reopened.
Bitter Criticism Of Taft
and Ballinger Predicted.

Washington. d. C., June 5.-conser-
vation Legislation in the Senate and the
postal savings bank bill in the House
constitute the features ofzthe congress
sional program for tho Coming week.
The general opinion ig.that both of
these measures will be voted upon be-
fore Saturday night and then will be
sent to conference
Party lines will be dissolved and new
| lines of insurgency developed in the
Senate in connection with the public
land withdrawal bill, which, 1t is ex-
pected will be taken up tomorrow.
Some of the Western members are pre-
pairing to make vigorous assaults upon
| the Roosevelt-Garfeld administration
Iof the public domain, especially as re-
CARDS the blanket withdrawals of large
| areas. 1t is not improbable that this
course will lead to some bitter criti-
| cisms of the more conservative policies
| of the Taft -Ballinger administration of
the land laws.
The discussions will arise over the
consideration of the administration
BILL which already has passed the
| House to authorize the President to
withdraw public lands for purposes of
classification. for the protection of wa
ter power sites, for forest reserves and
to prevent mineral lands from falling
into the hands of monopolies.
Fear 'Loclxing-Up" Policy.
Many Western members, notably Sem
ators Warren and Clark, OF Wyoming:
Hepburn and Berah, of Idaho; Carter,
of Montana, and Hughes. of Colorado.
express fear that the enactment OF this
measure would mark the return Of the
policy of locking UP" great tracts of
land so that the Western States might
be deprived of the benefits that might
accrue to them IRON. developments.
On the other nand, the more radical
program carried out during the regime
OF former Chief Forester Clifford Pin
chot is favored by such Western mem
hers as Senator's Dixon, of Montana.
Flint and Perkins, of California; Piles
of Washington: Chamberlain and
Bourne. of Oregon Smoot and Suther
land. of Utah, and numerous others.
Administration leaders are commit
ted to the conservation Legislation adj
vocated by President Taft. and it Is
not doubted therefore that the House
bill for the withdrawal of public lands
for conservation purposes will be-
passed at an early date and that the
measure will emerge essfuly from
conference.
Supporters OF statehood legislation
are willing TO give the administration
conservation measure the right of way
liz the Republican leaders will give
their pledge that a vote shall be taken
upon the Arizona-New Mexico bill be-
fore adjournment. AT one time there
were indications that there would be
III y he iar Of
which should be taken UP first. The
Democrats were inclined to oppose TAX
ing up any other measure in advance
of the statehood bill, but at an infor-
NAL conference yesterday they decided
their cases would not be advanced by
precipitating such controversy so
long as there is no time fixed for the
present session to adjourn. They ar
gued that they could force action be-
fore adjournment in any event.
The House Committee on Post-Oftices
and Post Roads Will meet tomorrow
and probably will report to the House
the postal savings bank bill perfected
last week in the Republican caucus.
Rules will meet on Tuesday and re-
port out special rule that the postal
bank bill will be given the right OF way
through legislative channels.
This rule will precipitate a hot fight
in the rules committee and on the floor
OF the House, it is expected. Both OF
these committees were ordered by Il
majority of the Republican caucus to
take the action outlined.
Expect No Difficulty.
Republican leaders of the House say
there will be no difficulty In putting
the bill through without amendment.
They estimate that at'the outside limit
not more than fourteen of the 1nsur-
gent Republicans will vote with tho
Democrats against the measure. Demo-
cratic members of the House have made
no prophecies, have held no caucus and
have planned none but Informal dis
cussions have indicated that the vote
will he along party lines, except for
the limited number of Insurgent Repub
ltcans who refused to be bound by
their party caucus on this question.
Unless some agreement is reached
by which a conference can be avoided,
both the House and the Senate Will
name conrerees on the railroad bill to-
morrow The suggestion made Satur-
day that the House accept the Senate
amendments TO the bill met with fav-
or in some quarters, and for that rea-
son no action was taken In the House,
Speaker Cannon allowing the question
of naming conferees to go over until
to- morrow.
Even though objection is made to
the acceptance OF the Senate bill, the
fact that the proposition was not re-
Jected outright is taken as an indlca-
ton that II will be comparatively easy
to harmonize the differences In the two
measures
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