Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-05-06
Conservation Measures Get
Boost From Mr.. RooseveIt'S
Promise to Talk.
RESULT OF PINCHoT'S TRIP
Several Cabinet Members AnxlousIy
Awaiting President Taft's Speeches
In May-Democratlc Leaders Are
Planning for Harmonious Ac-
ton In Fall Campaign.


lieve that Clifford Pinchot had one mo-
tive and one only In going abroad to
see Theodore Roosevelt. Mr.. Pinchot
Is wise In things other than woodcraft.
Advocates of saving the resources say
that the former chief forester knew
that II Mr. Roosevelt could be induced to
promise to address a conservation
meeting and would reiterate his 10y
atty to the cause, members of con-
gress now lukewarm, II not absolutely
opposed to the administrators con-
servation bills, would get in line and
urge their passage.
What the friends of the forester ex-
pected has happened, and there is now
a strong evident inclination on the
part of members of congress to give
their adherence to President Taft's
earnest request that at least two con-
servation bills shall be passed at this
session. The strong probabilities were
a short time ago that both the chief
conservation measures would be post
poned" until the next session, but now
that Mr.. Roosevelt has said what he
did to Mr.. Pinchot there is marked
reawakening of interest In the bills
before congress.
Republican members seem to think
that Mr.. Roosevelt is still power
with the people. and while personally
good many of the Republican mem
bers were opposed to the conservation
bills, they have now concluded that it
would be political folly for them to
carry their opposition any farther, and
so the prospect Is that two of the
eight or ten measures, the most impor-
tant two from the conservationists'
standpoint, will see the light of pas
sage before congress adiourns.
Meet Views of President.
The two bills for which hope has
sprung anew are those which give the
president the power to withdraw lands
at any time that he thinks necessary,
and the other is one which separates
the surface lands from the mineral de-
posits lying underneath fol the pur-
pose of disposing of the two separate
ly, the idea being to hold the mineral
wealth so that the government can
lease the right to get it out for the
market
1t Is now pretty we'll agreed both by
Democrats and Republicans that in
view of the Roosevelt pronouncement
of continued loyalty to conservation,
President Taft, If he sees any further
disposition to neglect the measure,
will send in another special message
on the subject. 1t seems that this con-
servation matter which the present
president has made the subject of one
long message, is going to be depend.
ent in part at least for success upon
the still existing influence of former
president of the United States.
Anxious About Taft Speeches.
Several members of the cabinet are
extremely anxious to know definitely
what the tone of President Taft's
utterance is to be when he speaks
in st. Louis and In Cincinnati and
in one or two other places the first
week In May. It is said that Attor-
ney General Wickersham Is more con.
cerned than any of the other cabi.
net members over the nature of the
presidents address to the middle west
erners
Ever since Mr. Wickersham spoke
in Chicago and took course of de-
termined opposition to those insur.
gent Republicans who are trying to
pick to pieces some of the administra
/ TONS measures, he has not been en-.
tirely happy. 1t is pretty we'll under
stood in Washington that Mr.. Wicker
sham believed implicitly 1t was the
presidents intention to make speech
in Washington on the same night
much like the one the attorney gen
eral delivered in Chicago. Mr.. Wick
ersham read the papers the morning
following his own address and found
that the president, instead of using
the club on the members of congress
who are supposed to be In opposition
to his measures, pulled out and waved
an olive branch.
There are those who think, and moi
without reason, that Mr.. Wickersham
fears the country will get the idea
that he and his chief are at the outs as
to the proper policy to be used toward
insurgents members. Therefore 1t ii
that the attorney general and some Of
his fellow cabinet members are look
Ing forward anxiously to the presi
dents utterance on his next trip. Mr.
Wickersham feels that Mr.. Taft ought
to same something to back up the pc
sition which the attorney general tool
at Chicago.
Not the Time to BE Severe.
1t has been said in dispatches FIRE
quently that 1t is the presidents in
tention at Cincinnati certainly, anC
possibly at st. Louis. to strike a blow
at the Republican members of con
gress who he thinks for reasons o.
personal ambition are combating some
Of his recommended measures. Those
who were closest to the president
however did not believe that he woulC
take occasion to say sharp things