The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-04
ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMME.

known as the Administration Pro.
grammc'' is about to become fixed
| feature of our National Government.
| Up to the administration of President
Roosevelt nothing of this kind was
known in our National life. The logis-
| lative department was supposed to be
entirely separate from the Executive,
mother infringing upon the other, Now,
however, IL appears that we are to take
on this feature of the British system.
without having also that responsibility
which requires the resignation Of the
administration when it is defeated by
the legislative department
We had from Washington yesterday
n distinct and definite announcement
of the Administration Programme
for the present Congress. This In
cluded--
Separate Statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico, which however. Congress
shows no particular disposition to take
up.
Postal savings banks with safeguards
against funds being transferred from
sections whore originally deposited to
the money centerS. We suppose
logically that. if the removal of de-
posits from the locality where the
money is paid in to the money centers
is forbidden. the contrary will also be
forbidden; that is. that the money cen
ters shall not supply from these postal
deposits any need that may exist for
that or other money in the parts Of the
country where money is scarce, This
will make the postal deposit sort
of sectional and not national affair.
1t is rather difficult TO belive that a
postal savings proposition could pass
with handicap like this, even If the
measure could pass at all.
Comforting upon the President the au-
thority to withdraw from entry public
lands desired for conservation or other
purposes. the withdrawal to be in force
until released by him or by Congress.
Inasmuch as the particular stress on
conservation Just now seems TO be on
the point of water power. and as the
control of The streams, except navi-
gable streams, rests wholly with the
States, it is going to be rather diff
ficult to reconcile the two jurisdictions
The Nation has control of the public
lands, to be sure, but the States have
control of the waters in all this imme.
diate region. which can be used only
for irrigation or for power. AS the
States have control of the water, as
the National government has of the
land, it will be interesting to see how
the conflicting claims can be recon
ciled.
Incorporation open to the voluntary
application of concerns engaged In in
terstate business and willing to sub
scribe to Federal regulation, This is
meritorious proposition, and If Con-
gress agrees TO it, very large num-
Der of concerns doing Interstate busl-
ness will undoubtedly avail themselves
of the privilege of National incorpora-
ton Inasmuch as Congress has com
plete control of all interstate COM
merce, and as interstate commerce is
the great commerce of the country, and
since the States have shown their in,
ability to control it, the time has come
for Congressional action, drastic and
comprehensive.
These are the leading points Of what
is called the Administration Pro-
gramme'' 1t will probably fail in
most Of the propositions. But the spe-
cial interest. the innovation, as we
might say, is that there should be such
n thing as an Administration Pro-
gramme' at all