Show TAFT INSISTS ON 01 withdrawal OIL BILL land conservation measure Is considered important by president IS OPPOSED BY westerners democrats democrat hope to elect successor to james breck perkina ris in now new york senators are against proposed treaty with liberia washington it Is becoming sharply evident that the presidents conservation measures will be beset by many but finally they may lee tile the light of passage one of the bills na as prepared authorizes the prest dent to withdraw from tho the public domain any lands which lie may deem advisable in order to protect the peoples interest many of the western senators and representatives and a goodly number of those hose from the be east oppose this measure as aa putting as they think too much power into the hands of the chief executive it will be recognized at once that the reasons back of the desire to pass this legislation have for their basis tho the wish to find a way to prevent valuable water sites bites and mining lands from roni passing into tho the hands of per bona who intend eventually to turn tons them hem over ever to the uses of corporations on once securing control might make out of property which lina has cost coat them comparatively little and would then bo be in a legal position welch would bulwark them against any a attempt empt to torce force them to pay the original owners the people any leafe tr brioney ioney only onik two bills bill have chance it was supposed when congress first rame together that several conservation ilon bills of different kinds would be introduced and that the president would insist that all of them be passed lapsed the length of the lie president a program and the lackadaisical way in which congress has gone at the work of the session make it seem certain tain now that only two conservation measures have any real chance of passage pa os this year one of them Is in the withdrawal bill of which mention has haa just just been ninde made tind and the other othar Is the measure which looks to the separation ol 01 f the surface lands frow from the nil mancra lands which may lie underneath in order that different methods of dispo 1009 ng of each cacti may be found lit in the tecona conservation meas measure urethe the idea 13 3 to secure means by which the government erni nent can lease the right to develop mines while disposing of the irace lands for agricultural purposes in any way that may seem best while the extreme west arid north west evest have been markedly progressive the ilia lines of the roosevelt en leaver it la Is nevertheless true trite that n conservation matters the former president did 1141 not have the entire sym pathy and support of men who stood dy y him upon nil fill other matters of pub to policy to which be gave his adherence ence president taft la Is most insistent that a law which will give him and succeeding preil presidents dents the power to withdraw public lands when it teems seems necessary shall be passed at ills his session ile he la Is constantly referring to the subject when the senate and house leaders visit him in the white house and lie he la is telling thern them that this bill must go through in virtually the form in which it was drawn dran Us fie Is trying hard to win the northwest to his views involves involve ballinger trouble it to is perfectly easy to understand why mr air taft Is so 60 anxious that this pitt particular ocular I 1 piece of legislation shall go nn lie he statute books in the form in which it has been bean sanctioned by him film and by the attorney general and the ackary of the interior one of the first acts of secretary ballinger DaUl nger wits to restore rome of the tha lands which had been withdrawn by hla his predecessor secretary carfield mr hallinger Halll nger did not believe and does not believe loddy loday that mr air ld had the legal authority to withdraw the lie lands As soon as aa the new secretary of the interior had restored a part of the nubile domain which air lorr jd hod bild withdrawn harsh criticism of the act was waa made by tile tho principal advocates of the evelt policies of conservation coin serva clifford lIn clinchot chot an and others made representations to president taft and as a result mr air Daill dailinger nger was waa compelled to wither withdraw aw some of tho the lands which w he fie had bad rA restored stored to their former status it la Is needless to say that the secretary of the interior did this with no very good grace for by the act lie ho was waa compelled to go in the face of hla hill own belief 0 of the rights lit in the matter this difficulty over withdrawals anti and restorations of tho public domain add ei ed coals to tho the already hot fire of controversy between mr air ballinger Halll nger mr pinchot of tile the forestry fore atry service and some of the officials of the land office and reclamation service hope to gain another seat there has haa been great activity in the democratic congressional committee for tho the last few days the members are taking particularly sharp interest in the outcome of the special election lit in the thirty gacond congressional district in new york state where a rop resent attye in congress Is to be elected to to fill tho the vacancy caused by tho the death of a republican member james greek perkins ns tho te democrats hopa to carry this western new york district which in tho the past ordinarily has been man having elected a bucit successor 3 sor to 0 o david A DeAn noad in a althila missouri url dla tract by a largely increased majority and being successful in the tha fourteenth massachusetts district in the tha election of eugene N foss fosa on the democratic ticket in a republican section of tho the state the present mt minority party naturally hopes to make a further gain in n western vestern now new york the say eay that in tho massachusetts district where the dem won conditions were abnormal find and that poss who was elected by tho the democrats Denio crata was waa in reality a republican and that his opponent was waa a man not a at all popular and therefore the he democratic success Is easily to be accounted for the democrats reply simply that the lie republicans are whistling to keep up tip their courage and that the election of the democrat in western new york in a few days or the cutting down greatly or of the republican majority will prove that tho the country Is ripe for a change in the party control of the lower bouse of congress will congress pay tariff board it la Is still a question whether pres lent ident taft Is to be ba given the which he has asked from congress congre to pay the expenses of the tariff board for the next fiscal i year the president has urged co congress hard to sanction ilia hie appropriation varly karly in the season senator late hale of maine who Is a protectionist of the old school gave sharp that if the ha president intended to employ the tariff board for any purpose except to consider the questions ollis of maximum and minimum tariff rates and their relation to our foreign trade and to customs discriminations congress ought not to give him money to carry out his wishes the downward revision republicans and the lie democrats with them say that the fear of the high protection element Is that the tariff board will conduct investigations for the purpose of getting material which can be used in future tariff legislation and thit th it the high protectionists projectionists fear also that some come of the facts which are adduced will lend lead the people tai to believe that low rates tire are a necessity treaty with liberia opposed it if the administration Is to secure what it so heartily desired desire a a treaty with liberia the boon will bo be given only lifter after troubles that may take on tho the form forin of a congressional fight in reality it seems wholly improbable that the senate will consent to negotiating any treaty with the african republic at this session there Is a good deal of sentiment in amert america c a 1 in n connection with liberia because its government was waa modeled in the be tinning ginning after that of the united states and because lit in the old slavery days it was considered a sort of haven for negroes and it was the hopeful bellef belief of many 0 of the old time abo that in n liberia the black race would prove that it was waa thoroughly capable of self government in his annual message to congress president taft gave considerable space apace to the troubles in liberia ile hr called attention to the fact that there ls Is a provision in an early treaty with the african republic under which the united states may be called upon for advice or assistance pursuant to this provision and in the spirit of 0 the moral relationship of tho the united states to liberia that republic last year er asked aaen this government to lend assistance in ilia solution or certain of their national problems not long ago the report of the commission which the united states sent to liberia wits was made public and the president has said that ha hopes as a result of the commissions report some helpful measures nipa might result and so go through the dep department a r talent or of state he hai hag called the attention of the senate to the subject position of united state stat recently decently Secret secretary alry knox invited the members of the foreign relations corn com of the senate to a dinner at his file residence and there he laid before them the reusens as ho he saw them tor for the negotiating ct cf a treaty with LI II 11 beria it seems to be the feeling in the state department that the african country Is likely to be made the seen scena of exploitation of english french or lerman interests and that it may be eventually that one cue or the other of these countries may actually threaten the territorial integrity of a country which in a t sense Is considered fl a ward of tile united states the tha in members embers of the senitte senate commit I 1 tee lee made it 11 plain to secretary knox that they were nut in favor or of a treaty with liberia that jn in any way would i bind this his country to a course which might run countley count ler to the wishes of the three great european nur countries which have been named mr air knobs guests told him that while ib the ua ted states was extremely eti emely cordial in its gead wishes to liberia and had done much for that country it had done no more than orent grent britain anti and that tha t it would seem like a slur at the tha english people it if this country were even in ill directly to intimate that it feared the british government was to be an ag i bressor meeting of the tha 0 A R the advance suard guard of the daugh of the american revolution who will i neet in april IS 18 al ready leady has entered the tha city within vt thin the next week there will be hundreds of veto of the society in the capital and already preparations are being made for the meeting will ft last just one week the daughters of tho the american revolution curiously enough have tho the same earne kind of trouble on their hands that recently beset congress the daughters are ara into two factions al which have been named regulars annd insurgents the insurgents in the main aro are opposed to the rule of the presiding officer who like speaker cannon comes from illinois GEORGE CLINTON |