The San Francisco call., 1910-06-06
INSURGENTS
PLAN RAID
IN SENATE
Conservation TO Be Under Ora
t0rical Fire When Land Bill
Comes Up
ArizOna-New Mexico Statehood
Measure Is Scheduled to
Pass This Session

WASHINGTON. June 5.-Conserva-
tion legislation in the senate and the
postal savings bank bill in the house
constitute the features of the congress
sional program for the coming week.
The general opinion is that both meas
ures VIII be voted upon before Saturday
night and that they win be sent to con-
ference.
Party lines will be dissolved and new
lines Of insurgency developed in the
senate in connection with the public
land withdrawal bill which, it is ex-
pected, will be taken up tomorrow
Some of the western members are
preparing TO make vigorous assaults
upon the Roosevelt>GarfeId administers
tion of the public domain, especially as
regards the blanket Withdrawals of
large areas. Tt is not Improbable that
this course will lead to some bitter
criticism of the more conservative pol
icies of the Taft -Baninger administra-
tions.
Many western members, notably SEN
ators Warren and Clark of wyoming,
Hepburn and Borah of Idaho, Carter of
Montana and Hughes OF Colorado, ex-
press fear that the enactment of the
administration conservation measure
would mark the return of the policy of
locking up" great tracts of land and
that the western states might be de-
prived of the benefits that would ac-
crue from their development.
PINCHoT CHAMPIONS
On the other hand the more radical
program carried out during the regime
of former Chief Forester Pinchot is fa-
vored by such western members as
Senator's Dixon of Montana, Flint and
Perkins of California, Piles of Wash
ington, Chamberlain and Bourne of
Oregon, Smoot and Sutherland of Utah
and numerous others.
Administration leaders are committed
to the conservation Legislation adyc-z
Gated by Taft, and il is not doubted,
therefore, that the house bill for the
withdrawal of public lands for con-
servation purposes will be passed a
an early date and that the measure
will emerge successfully from confer
ence.
Supporters of statehood legislation
conservation measures the right of way
ii the republican leaders will give their
pledge that a vote shall be taken upon
the Arizona~New Mexico bin before ad-
journment At one time there We're in
dications that there would be a serious
clash over the question of which should
be taken up first.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK i
The house committees on postofffces
and postroads will meet tomorrow and
probably will report to the house the
postal savings bank bill perfected last
week in the republican caucus. 1t is
expected that the committee on rules
will meet Tuesday and report out a
special rule that the postal bank bill
be given the right of way through
legislative channels. This rule will pre-
cipitate a hot fight in the rules COM
mittee and on the floor of the house, it
is expected. Both of these commit
tees were ordered by majority of the
republican caucus to take the action
outlined.
Republican leaders of the house say
there will be no difficulty in putting
the bill through without amendment.
They estimate that not more than IA
insurgent republicans Will vote, with
the democrats against the measure
Democratic members of the house have
made no prophecies. have held no eau
Gus and have planned none. but infor-
NAL discussions have indicated that the
vote will be along party lines, except
for the limited number of insurgents
Unless some agreement is reached
by which a conference can be avoided
both the house and the senate will
name conferees on the railroad bill to-
morrow. The suggestion made Satur-
day that the house accept the senate
amendments TO the bill met with favor
in some quarters, and for that reason
no action was taken in the house,
Speaker Cannon allowing the question
Of naming conferees to go over until
tomorrow.