Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-01-07
REAL WORK OF
CONGRESS IS ON
Lawmakers, Refreshed by HoIi-
day Recess, Ready to Con-
front Problems.
DOMINANT PARTY NOT UNIT

Differences Of Opinion Among Repub-
licans May Delay Legislation
6aiiingerPInchot Controversy Prom
ises to Be Interesting-8attle-ship
Building to Be Important Question.
Washington.-With the first meet
ing after the holiday recess congress
starts the serious work of the session.
The national lawmakers are con-
fronted with legislative difficulties
which are harder to overcome because
some OF the measures which the ad-
ministration has proposed for enact
ment into law are regarded not mere
ly as party measures, but as factional
measures. Mr.. Taft, being a Repub
lican, naturally wants the party's rep
resentatives in house and senate to
stand with him as a unit, but it APP
y VS. that unless the Republicans
lShown as organization men and those
known as insurgents agree to bury
their differences there will be hard
fought struggle before the presidents
recommendations go through congress
in law form, If they succeed in going
through at all.
In the two weeks of the session
prior to adjournment for the holiday,
the house made some headway with
the appropriation bills. The District
of Columbia bill was reported and
passed, and several other appropria-
tion bills were given fairly full con-
sideration in committee. The situa-
tion with regard to the supply bills.
there. is we'll in hand and con-
gress. il it will, can give plenty of
time to the consideration of purely
legislative matters and yet give prom
Uses TO the people of an adjournment
not later than May.
Views Somewhat Divergent.
The president, in his speeches and
by inference since congress came to-
gether. has made the subject of
amendments to the interstate COM
merce law the chief issue of the win
ter. 1t may seem a little strange,
therefore, when it is said that con-
gress does not take the presidents s
view of the interest that attaches to
this bit OF proposed legislation, though
doubtless it is willing to admit its
place of Importance. The matter of
legalizing the establishment OF postal
savings banks is legislative ques-
tion which seems to have moved the
members to higher pitch of interest
than has any other legislative sugges-
tion which the president has made.
1t is currency legislation of the fu-
ture which is keeping the fate of pos
tai savings banks in the balance, The
president wants legislation and will
continue to urge 1t. There will be
lobbys in Washington representing
both sides of the postal savings bank
controversy and both those lobbys will
be busy until the question is settled
one way or the other
J This is to be a Pinchot- Ballinger
winter in Washington. The presi.
de- is recommendations for legisla
ii, / that he wishes to have given the
fo ce of law are all of them charged
with interest, but the trouble of long
standing between the Office of the sec
retary of the interior and the office oi
of the chief forester of the govern
ment will throw its shadow over many
of the congressional proceedings thai
are purely legislative in their nature
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
There is no one in Washington, nC
matter what his party, his faction, oil
his sympathies in the strife between
Mr.. Ballinger and Mr.. Pinchot, wht
does not admit willingly that the
chief forester occupies the better
strategic position in preparing fo
}, the coming battle. This advantage O
/, Mr.. Pinchot's rises solely from tn,
fact that in his work for the preserva
ton OF the forests he is admitted ever
by his enemies to be absolutely disin
terested. When the congressional in
vestigation that has been demande,
by Mr.. Ballinger is on there will b.
no witnesses summoned in an attemp
to prove that Mr. Pinchot has don
his work simply with the view 0
holding his position in order that h
may draw his salary. The chief fol
ester is a very Iich man, who wen
into the hard labbr of saving the fol
ests solely because he had heart II
terest in the enterprise. Mr.. Pincho
has used his government salary a
times to pay the expenses of me
SNwho could aid him in his work an
ior whose, salaries there was no al
propriatior lnaide by congress.
The, Secretary's Position.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinge
also. has fan advantage. When tn
charge Was made that he had acte
wrongly in connection with the cas-
which had come before the depar
ment for action when he was u