The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-14
President Advocated Eighteen
Measures None of Which
Have Passed
BUT FIVE ARE NOW
BEING INITIATED
And May Be Enacted Into Law,
But Not as First Drafted
That Alaskan Appro-
prlatlon.

WASHINGTON. II. G.. June L.
With the end OF Congress near at
hand, there is considerable looking
backward to-day by the Statesmen on
Capitol Hill and much talk OF the
deeds that have been done and the
bills that have been done up.
Interest ceDters, OF course, in the
TAFT legislative program, and the gen
eral opinion IA that Congress has not
been generous 10 the chief executive.
Congress started the big wheels Of
the legislative machine December .
with apparent good viii toward all
men and more especially toward the
President. Mr.. TAFT, In messages and
informally, submitted recommends
tons iur the passage af bills ON IN
subjects Of legislation. OF the bills on
these subjects introduced some have
heen much considered, some little.
and many have been buried in the
archives Of various committees. None
mas Vet reached the statute books.
Tive Favored
Five numbers OF the prnsTsm, now
ever are certain 10 be carried out.
and friends of the President say that
their Importance makes very soou
showing. The others, they hope. may
receive better treatment at the snort
session next winter. The railroad bill
star number on the program, is apt
Ia be passed in a few days. but minus
seS eral important features advocated
by the President.
A bill authorizing the President 70
withdraw public lands from entry has
passed the, House. and another bin
on the same subject rs near passage
( IN the Senate, They viii have to go
/ through the hands of conference
committee,
The two branches OF Congress have
passed postal savings bank bills that
conflict In many particulars, but th&
! difference viii be settled without mnch
! II oublc, probably hy the acceptance
ct the House bill by the senate,
Coal Bin
\ measure providing that the gov
crnment shall dispose separately OF
agricultural land nnderiain With coal
i van lac ready for the presidents slEna-
ture in fey days.
( 4 htH Tor the admission OF Arizona
and New Mexico 10 statehood has
/ passed the House and another Is
pending in the senate, but who ther
+ further action Mill be taken is "a
question Ship subsidy stirred up q
scandal in the house and is done for
in this session Federal incorporation
was proposed in bills introduced in
both branches Of congress, but they
8 never Ebl uubhE ~ W. W
regulate the issuing Of injunction APP
peared in the house but did not get
serious consideration.
I Nine bills bearing Tn conservation
were prese nted at the instance OF the
! president but seven OF them were
/ destined neNr to see III light, "A bill
n tryu e3o, ot4h, ohu SE-Urtr of govern
ment securities to assist the reelama-
ton projects passed the senate but
was sat upon in the house by Chair
man Payne nf the ways and means
committee who weighs several hum
dred pounds. A bill for the improve
ment OF the government In Alaska
was introduced in both houses but not
7 passed. In the senate the bill, when
presented 'became the center Of q
mob scene and was withdrawn
The action OF congress in appro-
priating $3.50. 600 for q tariff board
was a victory for the president. His
request that liberal provision be made
for the investigation of conditions in
this country and abroad bearing o.,
the tariff was strongly resisted by
some legislators. Taft was determin-
ed. however, and by insistant argu-
meut mustered large majority In
favor of the proposition