The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-09-26
Even Now Is It in Process of
Formulation.
FOLLOWING M0KINLEY
Brilliant State Paper May Be Con-
idently Expected.
RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION
Most Radical Recommendation Conn
ing That Any President Has
Dared to Make.


Washington, Sept. 26.-Members of the
cabinet are preparing elaborate summaries
of the work in their departments, which
are intended to be embodied at least in
substance in President Roosevelt's first
annual message, to be submitted to con-
gress next December. Having come into
the office of chief executive late in the
year as the result of calamity which, of
course. could not be foreseen, the presi-
dent is entirely unfamiliar with the de-
tails Of the public work. Only a little
over two months remain before the meet
ing Of congress and President Roosevelt
requested the members Of his cabinet to
supplement their various annual reports
with comprehensive summaries, to be used
IN the message, either verbatim or with
such condensation as may be, necessary.
President Roosevelt is a ready and for
cible writer and the preparation of a
message Las no terrors for him so far as
mere literary workmanship goes. He
feels, however, according to members of
the cal net. a natural difadence about
making a report upon the work done by
another and much beloved president.
The president has already begun
sketching out the message and he will
have the summaries from the different
departments within a short time.
By far the most important part of Pres
ldent Rcosevelt's message will be that
defining lis own policy Following out
the pledge he made when he took the oath
Qf ha will in
words, adopt as his own the domestic and
foreign policy Of William Mckinley So
far as the matter has been discussed in the
cabinet. tie president is understood to
have arranged in his own mind to take the
Buffalo speech as the keynote and to elab-
crate this line in the message to con-
gress.
The Roosevelt administration will be
pledged in the presidents message to con-
tinue and extend the present colonial pol
icy in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philip
pine islands. The development of Amer
lean trade in the orient and the mainte-
Lace of the omen door in China will re-
ceive in the message the heartiest ap-
proval OF the new president.
Two New Points.
So far as the strictly new material in
the message is concerned, it is expected
to be confined to two points; first.
graphic but simple and dignifed recital
of the tragedy at Buffalo; and. secondly.
a suggestion on the part of Roosevelt him
self looking to the repression of anarchy.
OF, rather, of the teachers of ANARCHY
President Roosevelt is not expected to
make a recommendation for legislation
providing for extraordinary punishment
for the crime of attacking a president
of the United States. He is said to feel
that it might not be in good taste for him
ms a1
an assault which would be personal to
himself He was decided, however, or.
at least, has talked strongly with his
cabinet on the subject, to recommend
legislation for the repression of anarchy
and such teachings as led Czolgosz to
murder President Mckinley President
Roosevelt is expected to suggest a radi
cal overhauling Of the federal immigra-
tion laws in such a way as to render il
Immediately possible to bar out professed
anarchists exactly as paupers and GRIM
inals are now forbidden to enter.
The president will make strong Dra
sentation of his belief that stems should
be taken by the federal government to
protect itself from such assaults as that
at BuHalo, and to do this not so much by
increasing the punishment for crime ae
by preventing the spread of morbid con-
ditions Of mind which induce men to com
nit such crimes. In his talks IN tho
cabinet the president has laid particulor
stress on this point, and has Indicated
his belief that the crime of assassination
cannot be prevented by police or bv SOL
diers, but can be avoided by putting a
stop TO the teaching of incendiarv doc
trines and by preventing the IMPORTATION
into this country of all such teachings of
anarchism and similar dangerous dogmas
Predictions are made by some mem hers
of the cabinet that President Roosevelt's
declaration on this subject will be a strik
ing one, and will be plea for the restric-
.tion of immigration to a degree to which