AMERICAN POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 131, 12 September 1910, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS

VIOLENT SPEECHES AT CONGRESS. By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright New York, September 9. I Violent speeches were made at the ! Conservation Congress, demanding that policies should be submitted as much toy the President as by Mr. Roosevelt. A motion to include Mr. Taft's name was negatived by ten to eight. An attempt was again made later to remove what was considered an injustice to Mr. Taft, and after several ballots, Mr. Roosevelt's mime was' also eliminated. ROOSEVELT AND THE RICH. Received September I>l, 5.15 p.m. New York, September 10. Mr. Roosevelt, defending the New Nationalism at Cincinnati, said the central Government; must have the power to master the rich individual. No interference with individualism had oc'curred, but such a power would simply give the Government a chance to govern.

Of all Mr. Roosevelt's policies, his conservation policy was one of the few that ■ ever emerged from the propaganda | stawe. Its success was due partly to the = fact that the need for' forests and the advantages of irrigation are more obvious than most of his reform proposals. Also Mr. Roosevelt was able to clothe both the Forestry Service and the Reclamation Service with considerable authority without resource to Congress. He used his executive power in a fearless, some would say revolutionary, way. Mr. Taft, the lawyer-president, introduced a change of method, and desired only to proceed with authority from the Legislature. He appointed Mr. Ballmger to be Secretary of the Interior in succession to Mr. Garfield, of the Roosevelt Administration. Mr. Garfield had withdrawn three million acres of public! land in order to conserve water-powai sites in the West. Mr. Ballinger reserved his withdrawal, and withdrew 300,000 acres, which he claims will be just as ef fective as Mr. Garfield's 3,000,000 acres.