after beveridge's election in 1905 to a second term, he became identified with the reform-minded faction of the republican party. he championed national child labor legislation, broke with president william howard taft over the payne–aldrich tariff, and sponsored the federal meat inspection act of 1906, adopted in the wake of the publication of upton sinclair's "the jungle". furthermore, beveridge joined insurgents in supporting postal savings bank legislation and railroad regulations with the mann–elkins act of 1910.