The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-09
PR D c RA N TAF I
OUTLINED IS IN
DEEP HOLE
Despite Strong Pressure Brought
To Bear on Leaders in Congress
Large Number of Measures
Have Not Been Passed.
Passage of Postal Savings Bill Is
Really First Step To Keep Promises
and Session Is Half Over.
BY w. S. COUCH.

Congress took the first step toward
the Taft legislative program on March
.. when he senate passed the postal
savings bank bill. And congress means
L. adjourn by june l.
There was less opposition TO this
m'asure than To any OF the others. AMI
Yet the insurgent Republican senators
put up Il hght over II that ballicd and
Fewildered ti,c regulars for days. The
hiii had hceh rlgc2d to create mar
hel FOR government ? pc" cent bonds
~ making the postal bauk depositors
compulsory purchasers OF these securi-
ties Borah, Cummins and Dollyer
led the fsht thar upset this game. Tie
insurgents would have eliminated the
bond buying feature entirely, but the
Democratic side was suddenly seiz 1T
With those convenient constitutional
doubts which always seem TO arise
when AldIich needs Democratic votes,
ON constitutional grounds. then, Demo
cratic senators defeated the Cumnlns
amendmont
Railroad & II Cones Next.
The Taft railroad bill walked into
the senate right on the heels OF the
rCsiai savings Eauk bill II has
brought trouble with il from the cou!-
Iittce wnere Cudmins and Clapp have
been pun, ming it tnll OF holes. Thor
minority report Is a sharp challenge
for the administration and rallying
csll for all the insurgeut sentiment
that exists
The rest of tn Tatt Legislative pro
ram seems nopelcssiy begged SOM
were on the road behind the postal
elymgs banks and the railroad bill
The president imSolf threw over
board his national incorporation meas
IRE with it's promised immunity Tor
lad trusts from The Sherman law
,cua!ties AZ IL last minute the Re
publican regulars have backed awav
irons ship Subsidy, As loaded and dan
erous 10 handle The Republican
promises of statehood To Arizona and
New Mexico arc 10 be broken again.
The frs, ol the raft conservation bills
las been reported with the committe"
comment that il s unnecessary legis-
lation. since IL makes no change n
,xisting law This Is the much herald
ed bill glvihc tno president power TO
withdraw lands The senate public
,nnds committee reported that the
resident always mas had this power.
despite the doubts raised by Secretary
RAllinger The bill supposed TO chec6
the abuse Of iniHnct'ons rs hidden III
come obscure committee pigeonhole.
Taft ". Roosevelt.
Presiden, lar was pictured IN all
tie advance notices of the big 1903
,olitica show as man who would do
things Roosevelt lad been an agita
tor. SO they said. and had accopp-
.shed very little after ell. in the wdv
e lcgisla ION Taft was To be more
successful president He was -
smooth the ruli'ed tempe of congress
\ -That had suffered from the big stick.
His conciliatory smile was 10 be SO
much more effective than clustering
forts to compel the lawmakers 10
make laws.
Since the special tariff session with
its revision upward, tho Tart apo'r~
lists have been husy explaining that
heir hero was caught off his guar !.
GIVE him a chance Wait until the
regular session OF congress they
begged
The regular session of congress Is
now half over. perhaps more than half
Ger. II is fair row 10 point out thar
il was March before the first step
vas taken along The legislative pa'h
marked oUt by the president. II Is
s,r 10 axe notice that the bulk or
The Taft legislative program is begged
DOWN.
The regular session OF this congress
md the second session OF this admin.
istration is simply repeating the his
tory of the first The Taft recommen.
Jations are beiLs ignored The prcsi-
dent has been handed one gold brick
after another IN the form OF sleepers
inserted in the measure he has rec
commended
Trickery Is Exposed.
The exposure of lis Inner workings
eomrelled the abandonment Of the
Alaskan government bill The insur-
cents haze Just finished trimming ,ha
rostal savings bank bill in its Wall.st
FEATURES. Cumnins and Clapp have
exnosed the trickery OF the railroad
BIZ. craftily drawn To cripple present
federal regulation OF railroads while
claiming to strengthen II. Labor o.
ranizations have discovered that the
Injunction bill. advertised as an effort
10 reform this practice. Is really mocc
Objectionable than would be no legislG-
zion at all The national incorporation
bill is loaded
This spectacle OF the president, help
less 10 get congress TO act and putt
IN the hands of the Cannon ldrica
crowd. who war, 10 rig legislation, has
done much to strengthen the hands
and purpose of the insurgents. They
nave reached IN point where they la
not pretend TO pay any attention TO ,hc
White House AS tor the presideh!
his association ~ entirely with AID
ich. cannon an their friends.
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