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Show oo PROTEST AGAINST , THE TAFT ORDER (Withdrawal of Public Oil I Lands in Wyoming and I California Denounced. I Washington. Dec. 31 Protesting I against "manifestation within the last jl ten years of a tendency to change the I American Democracy Into a monar- I chy" counsel for the Mid-West Oil l rompany, headed by Joel Valle of Jl Denver, today filed with the supreme I court a brief attacking President I Tart's order of 1909, withdrawing H public oil lands In Wyoming and Call- lornla from entry H The brief declares that the "manl- H testation to concentrate governmental H power In the president' Is revolution H ary and dangerous The safety of iH the nation Is declared to rest on strict H observance of the powers of the three 'H great departments of government. H "With due consideration of all pro cressive tendencies of the day," the attorneys declare, and of such whole-some whole-some changes as a spirit of reform may properly demand, yet. In matters J H committed by the constitution to one 'M not to another, the line of progress and the declaration of changes of pol-icy. pol-icy. should come through that depart-ment depart-ment in which the constitution has vested the power to change national policies.' SS |