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Show GOT WHAT HE WANTED. President Taft Succeeds in Getting Desired Legislation at This Session. Washington. It is pointed out by Rrepublican leaders that there never has been a congress wlsere a president presi-dent has obtained the amount of legislation leg-islation as has resulted from the demands de-mands of President Taft; starting in with a demand for revision of the tariff, he procured this at an extraordinary extraor-dinary session. Then at the beginning begin-ning of the preseut session he demanded de-manded railway legislation, a forward for-ward conservation policy, statehood-for statehood-for New Mexico and Arizona, postal savinsrs banks and the regulation of Injunctions. Bills on all these subjects sub-jects have passed both branches of congress, with the exception of the ami- njunction measure. That will have to wait until next session, but ii is said the prospects are good fOl-nt fOl-nt Hint tmiR. |