The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-22

appropriation bills. So he sent for
Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania,
Crane of Massachusetts and Carter Of
Montana and asked why it would not
be a good thing for the senate to get
busy'' on some of the measures he
has recommended.
Senator Aldrich, being absent from
the city, was not included in the sum-
mons.
The president preached the subject
of the postal savings bank bill. The
senators summoned are members of the
committee on postofices and post
roads. Mr.. Penrose is chairman. Sen
ator Carter is sponsor for the measure.
But some senators, it was suggested
in reply to the president, are not
warm advocates of the postal banks.
In fact, it was said that such states
as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
great strongholds of saving institu-
tions-are not at all in ravor or the
scheme But, the president argued,
the republican platform called for
postal savings banks and surely the
senators were going to redeem the
party pledges.
What About the House?
But what about the house? This
was propounded as poser.
President Taft is said to have as
sured the senators that they need not
worry about the house. He said that
there is every reason to believe that
the house is coming around all right:
that it's members are coming to the
president for the good reason that
they have no other place to go.
Its a case of water running down
HILL, said one of the presidents call
ers today" He does not have to go to
the regulars CT the insurgents, either.
They have got to come to him. Every
man on Capitol Hill is looking for
another term and he's got to have
something to go before the people on
Congress has got to do something and
all the republicans, regardless of the
fight against Cannon or the house
committee, are going to vote for Mr..
Taft's measures"
So it happened when Senators Pen
rose, Crane and Carter left the White
House, the la, ter, acting as spokesman
for the trio, declared:
1.-THE postal savings bank proposition
will become a law at this session"
The postal banks, however, will not
be the first of the Taft measures con-
sidered The president ranks his rec
concentrations for changes in the in
terstate commerce law as of first i'm
portance and he so indicated his posi-
ton to the senators this afternoon
Conservation important.
The president told his callers also
that he regarded at least one of the
conservation bills he has recommend
ed to congress as of prime Importance
This is the bill to validate the with
drawal of lands containing water
power sights. coal and phosphates.
The laws as to the disposition of these
lands can be worked out and threshed
over at the convenience of congress.
The important thing, the president
believes, is to validate Withdrawals
made under the former administration
and in the ten months of the present
administration under the shadowy
power of the discretion of the secre-
tary of the interior. The president
wants this power made unquestionable.
The valuable Alaska coal lands are
included in the Withdrawals which Mr..
Taft is anxious to have validated.
Senators Penrose, Carter and Crane
took back this word to the capitol late
today and passed it along the line.