Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1912 — SOME OF THE NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION. [ARTICLE]

SOME OF THE NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION.

1. Dolliver-Hepburn Railroad Act. 2. Extension of Forest Reserve. 3. National Irrigation Act. 4. Improvement of waterways and reservation of waterpower sites. а. Employers’ Liability Act. б. Safety Appliance Act. 7. Regulation of railroad employees’ hours of labor. 8. Establishment of Department of Commerce and Labor. 9. Pure Food and Drugs Act. 10. Fiederal meat inspection. 'll. Navy doubled in tonnage and greatly increased in efficiency. 12. Battle-ship fleet sent around the world. 13. State militia brought into co-or-dination with army. 14. Canal Zone acquired and work of excavation pushed with increased energy. 15. Development of civil self-govern-ment in insular possessions, 16. Second intervention in Cuba; Cuba restored to the Cubans. 17. Finances of Santo Domingo straightened out. 18. Alaska Boundary dispute settled. 19. Reorganization of the consular service. 20. ISettlement of the coal strike of 1902., 21. The government upheld in the Northern Securities decision. 22. Conviction of post-office grafters and public land thieves. 23. Directed investigation of the Sugar Trust customs frauds, and the resultant prosecutions. 24. Suits begun against the Standard Oil and Tobacco companies and other corporations for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 25. Corporations forbidden to contribute to political campaign funds. 26. Keeping the door of China open to American commerce. 27. Bringing about the settlement oi the Russo-Japanese War by the Treaty of Portsmouth. 28. Avoiding the pitfalls created *by Pacific Coast .prejudice against Japanese immigration. 29. Negotiating twenty-four treaties of general arbitration. 30. Reduction of the interest-bearing debt by more than $90,000,000. 31. Inauguration of movement for conservation of natural resources. 32. Inauguration of the annual conference of Governors of States. 33. Inauguration of movement for improvement of conditions of country life.