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Show TAFT SAYS BILLS WILL PASS SINATE - PASSAIO, n, MJ' 9 'n B fpeech before, the- Passaic, board of trade, hero fonubt iiu' President declared wth , great deal of emphasis and amid an outburst' of applans that the rati-road rati-road bill has 'not been emasculated In any vital way and predicted that a satisfactory law would be passed. "The bill," said the president, "'still retains all of.' IU principal features and I am hopeful that within tho next few weeks, we shall see the passage pas-sage of the bill In both houses, tho adjustmenet of the differences of tho two houses and 'Its deal enactment." In a review of pending legislation President Toft expressed the belief that the -following measures would be enacted Into law; Statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. ' Postal aavlngs banks. principle of the bill may work out tol a satisfactory solution. I ; "The water In the streams Is "now-undr "now-undr the control and ownership .of the ataio. Tbo water power sites essential es-sential to the establishment of water power plans belong to the Vulted States, as part of Its public domain. "It would le useful to have the two united In one snverelRnty. "It la proposed to do this by conveying con-veying tho water power sites to the states on two conditions. The first condition requires the state, In It disposition, to private settlers, to retain re-tain such control over the water power pow-er sites that It may every ten years adjust the rates at which power Is to be furnished to the public by tb grante of the water power site .and the second condition Is that the water power site shall not le disposed of by the state to any person having a monopoly of the water power in the neighborhood. "It seems to me In this way the t'ntfed States may regain control over the disposition of the land and at the same time may enablo the legislature legisla-ture or tho executive of the state presumably pre-sumably more familiar with local conditions, con-ditions, to fix the details on the ground In accordance to the local necessity. Reclamation Plans. "There Is a1r;o pending a bill authorizing au-thorizing the Issue of S30.000.000 of bonds with which to continue the construction con-struction of Irrigation plants already begun by the reclamation service the bonds lo he. redeemed out of the proceeds cf the sale of public lands and the water rent collected from those who enjoy the benefit of tho Irrigation. This certainly ought to pass at this session because the number num-ber of people depending on the completion com-pletion of the reclamation projects Is sufficiently large to : call for special action In thir behalf. "Another act Is the so-called 'Injunction 'In-junction act." Put Bill Through. "The manufacturers' association is opposed to the bill on the alleged ground that It weakens the power of the court, while the "Federation of Labor Is opposed to It on the ground that It does not go far enough. With this state of the case I am reasonably reason-ably certain the bill Is a Just one and ought to be put through. I am hopeful hope-ful some way will bo found to vote through Just the bill promised by the platform nothing more and nothing less. "Tho postal savings bank bill Is pending In the house, It having passed the senate. "I am hopeful, because the Republican Republi-can party Is firmly committed to the Introduction of postal savings depositories, deposi-tories, that we shall secure at thl.i session of congress a safe and sane law which will offer small depositors absolute security an-1 convenience and at the same time Improve and not impair the credit of the pov-rnment and the integrity of our fiscal system. sys-tem. J "The publicity of the expenditure I bill was not recommended In the Re publican platform, but I venture to say that I should recommend the passage pas-sage of such a bill with the full confidence con-fidence It would meet the approval of congress. I am glad to say the bill has passed the house. "Finally, we come to the bill amend Ing the interstate commerce law. The htll is pending In both houses. It has been amended in tho house and also in the senate and that freedom of touch for which headllners and correspondents cor-respondents are so noted, we have been told with much emphasis that the udmlnlstratlon bill has been emasculated emas-culated in both houses. I am not as familiar with Irs condition in the house as I am n th senate, but I think possibly the state of the bill in the senate will show what it the fact, that tho bill has not been emasculated in either house and that it contains almost all of tho remedlaj features of the orlglnnl administration bill and that those thngs ommlttcd are neither substantial or vital. ' "In the first place the bll contains a series of sections creating a commerce com-merce court which Is to absorb all the Jurisdiction now had by the circuit cir-cuit and district courts on review by njunction suts or otherwise of the proceedings pro-ceedings of the interstate commerce commission. "The adTantafie of the court is thnt we shall have n court of experts at Washington very familiar with the whole business of Interstate commerce and the decisions affecting It and which will be able to dispose of the business before It promptly and give efficacy to the orders of the Interstate Inter-state commerce commission that are legal The whole object of the court Is expedition and the whole defect of the interstate commerce procedure heretofore 1ms been delay I regard the commerce court as practically the most Important feature In the bill. Th so-railed validating bill of the. conservation measures. The publicity of campaign expenditures. expendi-tures. " The railroad bill. PASSAIC, N. J, May !. Speaking at a banquet here tonight given by the Passnlr board of trade, the president discussed the administration program now before ronwess. The president said: "You have been doubtless advised by your newspapers that there Is certain cer-tain legislation pending In congress in which the administration has very Intense Interest growing out of tho fact that It was promised by the platform plat-form of the Republican party and has been recommended by the president to congress and I feel as If it might not lix without pome use for me to say that the condition of the legislation legisla-tion Is and what the prospect is of Its passage. "In the first place, the bill granting statehood to Xow Mexico and Arizona passed the house some months ago. but It Is still pending In the senate. "Objection was made to the bill as It passed the house In regard to certain cer-tain provisions us to elections which disfranchised Mexicans not speaking 1 English,- who had, therefore, by reason rea-son of length of residence, acquired under previous laws, the right of suf- : frage. There Id some difference, too, between the houses as to the provisions provis-ions made In respect to the public lands and the payment of the debts of the territories.. Republicans Hesitate. "There Is a hesitation on the part of the Republicans In the senate to pass a bill which Is solidly to add four Democrats to the senate, or If Democratic.' Demo-cratic.' Republicans of that radical type that arcentirely out of sympathy woth the more conservative notions of the east. "Still therer-rs a promise in the platform plat-form distinct and clear, that this bill shall pass, and lam very anxious that tho party shall meet Its obligations In this regard." and enact the necessary legislation. I do not think I shall be disappointed, "The conservation bills, with reference refer-ence to the public domain by which the government shall retain over the undisposed lands a power of disposition disposi-tion or readjustment of Interests In water power jltes.'coal lands, oil lands and phosphates, are not In a very advanced ad-vanced state One Law Only. Tho conditions are such as to make it Imperative in the interest nf conservation con-servation the passnge of only one law That law has passed the house and I am very hopeful it will pass the senate. It ratifies all the withdrawals of public land heretofore made, amounting to upwards of 60.O00..100 acres.' and Jt specifically empowers the president to make withdrawals when he desires to. ask congress to pass laws varying the existing laws for the disposition In class of public lands "The absolute necessity of this act arises from the very grave doubt whether the reservation of C0.000.0no acres, if subjected to the test of legality legal-ity in the courts, could stand. "There are other acts, one with reference to oil lands, one with reference refer-ence to water power sites, one with reference to coal lands. The one with reference to coal land provides that the surface of coal lands shall be subject sub-ject to the settlement a6 agricultural lands under the homestead and preemption pre-emption laws, but that the coal beneath be-neath the surface shall still belong to the government and be subject to mining by those to whom the government govern-ment may lease It or In other methods part with title to It. "There is a bill providing for the classification of lands useful In preventing pre-venting a fraudulent disposition of them. "There Is a hill providing for the expoiatlon of oil lands and fixing tho ricbn of explorers who discover oil And then there Is a bill providing for the granting of water power sites to the states, with a view to their disposition dis-position to prlvte owners. "This bill Is a most important one. It probably needs amendment, but the i |