The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-03
Business Interests Safe.

of this claim it may be said that the
president just now is undergoing the
same kind of critical assault for leg
islative endeavor that was made on
his predecessor in office time and
time again. 1t can be said, also, that
the present administration does not
seem to be in any way more disturbed
over the attacks than was the strenu-
Gus one which occupied the White
House before it.
1t is a matter of record that once
on a time Theodore Roosevelt said
that his "withers would not be wrung
if there we're a dozen financial panics,
provided, of course, he knew that they
we're disturbances growing out of a re-
form that was necessary in order to
make honest the business conscience
of the United States.
Administration Measures.
The president fully expects to have
enacted into law, before the session
closes, the postal savings bank bill,
measures for safeguarding the natural
resources of the country, his inter
state commerce amendments, and, II
may be, a law governing the matter
of issuing injunctions. Mr.. Taft has
given what may be considered his
legal opinion to the effect that all OF
these measures will stand the test
of constitutionality.
While the federal Incorporation plan
will not be actively discussed in con-
gress until next winter, it is to-day
the center of discussion in all the
financial centers of the country. When
| Mr.. Taft first intimated what 1t was
| intended to accomplish by the bill, the
corporations of the country thought
| apparently that it would prove to he
a good measure from their standpoint.
Now there seems to have been a
| change of feeling, and the representa-
tives of corporations are attacking
the presidents plan with great bitter
ness. They do not like the paragraph
which prohibits any company when
takes out incorporation papers under
the national government from acqulr-
ing stock in a company whose bust
ness runs along similar lines.
Pnchot a Busy Man.
Clifford Pinchot, the former chief
forester, who was dismissed from the
service because of the letter that he
wrote to Senator Dolliver, is the busi
est man in Washington these days.
He is president of the National Con-
servation association and of the joint
Committee on Conservation. These
two organizations probably soon will
be Joined in order that the conserva
ton work may not be duplicated. The
idea is to concentrate the efforts OF
all the friends of conservation. In
addition to his work as chief of the
two civil conservation bodies, Mr.
Pinchot was busy for long time pre-
pairing himself for the witness stand IL
the congressional committee room
There Is before congress a bill fol
setting aside forest preserves in the
southern Appalachian mountains anC
in the White mountains of New
Hampshire. Clifford Pinchot has felt
his friends say, that Prof. Moore'S
statement that the forests have com
paratively little influence on stream
flow will, if accepted, be taken as
strong argument against setting aside
an Appalachian forest reservation. 81
it is that Mr. Pinchot has felt that he
must answer the statements of Prof
Moore.
Scope of Inquiry Broadened.
There seems to have been something
of a misunderstanding about the con
gressional inquiry now being made
into the conduct of the officials of thu
two different branches of government
1t has been understood by the people
apparently, that Secretary Ballinger'
acts alone are under inquiry. The in
vestigation was broadened to INCLUDE
the acts of the forest service officials
and so it is that Clifford Pinchot, for
mer Law Officer of the Forest Sci
vice A. c. Shaw, former Assistan
Forester Overton w. Price and Loui
r. CLAWS, who was an employe of tn
reclamation service, are also, so t
speak, fellow defendants in the case
OF course. the majority OF the men
bers of the committee are Reput
, licans because the house is Reput
lican, and committees are always S
, named as to give the dominant part
! control. 1t is said in Washington b
the friends of the forest service tha
there will be no report issued by tn
committee until after the congre:
t sional elections, because they say n
matter which way the report runs
=. whether in favor of Mr. Ballinger G
in favor of the others, there will
of necessity good deal of feelin
, created and that this will have il
: effect on the elections. The member
t of the committee, however, say ths
t they will get through just as 500
t as they can and that criticisms {
y slowness of movement are entirel
Y uncalled for.
el GEORGE CLINTON.