The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-05-05
TWO BILLS ARE
LIKELY TO PASS
Conservation Measures Get
Boost From Mr.. Roosevelt's
Promise to Talk.
RESULT OF PINCHOT'S TRIP
Several Cabinet Members Anxiousiy
Awaiting President Tsft's Speeches
In INTERCHANGEABLE Leaders Are
Planning for Harmonious Ac-
ton In Fall Campaign.

Washington. Friends OF the con
servation movement In Washington be.
lieve that Clifford Plnchot had one mo-
tive and one only I'm 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 If Mr.. Roosevelt could be induced to
promise to address Il conservation
meeting and would relterate his 10y
atty to the cause members of con
gress now lukewarm, II not absolutely
opposed TO the ADMINISTRATIONS con
servation bills. would get In line and
urge their passage.
What tho 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
short time ago that both the. chief
conservation measures would be post
poned until the next session, but now
that MIR. Roosevelt has said what he
ala to Mr.. Pinchot there is a marked
reawakenlng 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 1t
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-
dant 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
Mt any time that he thinks necessary,
ana the other Is one which separates
the surface lands from the mineral de-
posts lying underneath foi the pur.
pose of disposlng of the two separate
ly. the idea being to hold the mineral
wealth so that the government can
lease the right to get 1t out for the
market.
1t is now pretty well 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,
VIII 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 Tor 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 1t 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-
tirey happy 1t is pretty well under
stood in Washington that Mr.. Wicker
sham believed implicitly II was the
presidents intention to make speech
in Washington on the same night
much like the one the attorney gen.
oral 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
20 his measures, pulled out and waved
an clipe branch.
There are those who think, and not
'%ithout reason, that MIR. Wickersham
teaIs the country will get the idea
that he and his chief are at the outs as
60 the proper policy to he used toward
insurgents members. Therefore IL is
that the attorney general and some of
his fellow cabinet members are look
4ng forward anxiousy to the presl.
dents utterance on his next trip. Mr..
Wickersham feels that MIR. Taft ought
10 same something 60 back up the DO.
sition which the attorney general took
at Chicago.
Not the Time to Be Severe.
1t has been said in dispatches fire.
luently that 1t is the presidents in.
tention at Cincinnati certainly, and
possibly at St Louis, to strike a blow
at the Republican members of con.
gress who he thinks for reasons OF
personal ambition are combating some
Of his recommended measures. Those
who were closest to the president,
however did not believe that he would
take occasion to say sharp things