Show TWO BILLS ARE LIKELY TO PASS conservation measures get boost from mr Roosevel ts promise to talk RESULT OF PINC HOrS TRIP several cabinet members anxiously awaiting president resl dent tafts tafta speeches in may democratic leaders are planning for harmonious action in fall campaign wash washington I 1 agton frien friends d s of the conservation movement in washington believe that gifford pinchot had one motive and one only in going abroad to see theodore roosevelt mr air pinchot Is wise in things other than woodcraft advocates of saving having the resources say that the former chief forester knew that if mr roosevelt could be induced to promise to address a conservation meeting and would reiterate his loyalty to the tha cause members of congress now lukewarm it if not absolutely opposed to the administrations conservation bills would get in line and their passage what the friends of the forester expected has happened and there Is now a strong evident inclination on the part of members of congress to give their adherence to president tafts earnest request that at least two conservation bills shall be passed at this session the strong probabilities were a short time ago that both the chief conservation measures would be postponed until the next session but now that mr air roosevelt has said what he h did to mr pinchot there Is a marked reawakening of interest in the bills before congress republican members seem to think that mr air Roos roosevelt ovelt Is still a power with the people and while personally a good many af the republican members wore were opposed to the conservation bills they have now concluded that it would be political folly for them to carry their opposition any farther and so BO the prospect la is that two of the eight or ten measures the most important two from the conservationists standpoint will see the light ot of passage before congress adjourns meet views of president dent the two bills for witch which hope has sprung linew are those which give the president the power to withdraw lands at any any time that fie be thinks necessary and the other is one which separates the surface lands from the mineral deposits lying underneath foi the purpose of dis disposing posing of the two separately Y the idea being to hold bold the mineral wealth so that the government can lease the right to get it out for the market it Is now pretty vell well agreed both by democrats and republicans that in view of the roosevelt pronouncement of continued loyalty to conservation president taft if he sees any further disposition to neglect the measure nill vi ill send in another special message on the subject it seems that this conservation matter which the present president has made the subject of one long message Is going to be dependent in part at least for success upon the still existing influence of a former president of the united states anxious about taft speeches several members of 0 the cabinet are extremely anxious to know definitely what the tone of president tafts utterance Is to be when he speaks in st louis and in cincinnati and in one or two other places the first week in fit may it Is sald said that attorney general wickersham Is more concerned than any of the other cabinet members over the nature of the presidents address to the middle westerners ever since mr air wickersham spoke in in chicago and took a course of determined ter mined opposition to those insurgent republicans who are trying to pick to pieces some of the administrations measures he has not been entirely happy it is pretty well understood in washington that mr air wickersham believed implicitly it was the presidents intention to make a speech in washington on the same night much like the one the attorney general ral delivered in chicago air wick arsham read the papers the morning following his own address and found that the president instead of using the club on the members of congress who are supposed to be in opposition to his measures polled palled out and waved an olive branch there are those who think and not without reason that mr wickersham tears fears the country will get the idea that eliat he bo and his chief are at the theotta outs as to the proper policy to be used toward insurgents members tb therefore it Is that the attorney general and some of his fellow cabinet members are looking forward anxiously to the presidents utterance on his next trip mr wickersham raham feels faals that mr taft ought to 0 same something to back up the position which the atto attorney rhey general took at chicago not the tima to bo be severe it has been said in dispatches dispatch es frequently that it Is tho the presidents intention at cincinnati certainly and possibly at st louis to strike a blow at the republican members of congress who be thinks for reasons of personal ambition aro are combating some ot of his recommended measures those who were closest to the president however did not believe that he be would tako take occasion to say sharp things about the insurgents in his bla washington speech delivered at the same time that the attorney general was speaking in chicago the president then spoke poke I 1 to representatives of republic an n clubs from different parts of the country and so those who looked at the matter from a supposedly politically wise standpoint concluded that the occasion was not thi the proper one to score tha republicans of any faction it Is a pretty safe prophecy however to make that the president will say some sharp things about some of the insurgent members when he speaks in his home city the prophecy has been made before and it was made by the very men who said eald that mr air taft would not say anything sharp in his washington speech part of the forecast was fulfilled and it seems likely that the rest of it will come true in order the democrats say that if the president attacks the insurgents ho he will open wider the breach in the republican party and make more certain the election of a democratic house bouse next november democrats seem harmonious while the republicans do not admit that they have any great confidence in the ability of all the factions of the democracy to get together in one harmonious whole they are none too certain for the happenings within the ranks of the op position make it seem at least that the blue sky of peace Is over the democratic ranks with no threatening clouds on the lib it Is expected that soon the members of the democratic congressional committee will get into personal touch with leading members of the party in each district so that the so that the needs may be supplied and a campaign on behalf of democratic candidates may be conducted on lines they think are most likely to load lead to success at the recent jeffersonian Jeffers onlan dinner in washington mr bryans letter which has been given wide publicity was read in a sense it was the element that disturbed the equanimity of some of the old line democrats but even the republican enemy admits that the democracy acted wisely on tho the occasion by reading the letter by refraining from making any acrimonious comments and by doing nothing to precipitate factional troubles in any way the republicans now know pretty thoroughly the line which the democrats will follow from this time until november an attempt will be mado to prevent throwing into the held field any past matters of controversy the democrats will gain something i by the fact that the report of the currency commission Is not to bo be aced upon until next winter and there will therefore be no necessity necess liy probably for any sharp interchanges on the currency question in the coming campaign if debate on this subject were started the democrats fear that the silver question to which mr air bryan adverted in his letter to the jefferson birthday dinners might bob up once more and create trouble the tariff of course will be the leading issue and the democrats already are preparing through the congressional campaign committee to make the most of the subject cost of living an argument tho the high cost of living it Is expect et eu by the republicans will be used by the democrats as an argument meni against high tariff the committee of which senator henry cabot lodge Is the chairman Is now investigating reasons for the high cost of living and it maybe may be that when the committees report Is read the republicans will find they have in it good campaign ma material to to offset the charges of the democracy that the high price of clothes food and other things la Is due wholly to the tariff the democrats as tho the republicans know will charge that the opposition since ll it has been lc ir control of the house of representatives has run roughshod over the wishes of individual members and in some cases of the majority of tho the house bouse this issue will be with mr cannon personally eliminated democratic stump speakers will promise that in a democratic house there will be no attempt at one man rule the leading democrats in washington aro are still at work trying to complete the plan for perfect national bar many that they seem to think has been made possible by the pronouncement of john graves at the jeffersonian Jeffers onlan dinner to the effect that the members of the In independence depend enco league will come bac into the old time democratic fold and will work for democratic victory GEORGE CLINTON |