Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-09-27
ROOSEVELT At HIS MESSAGE
The New President Outlining I'm
portant Annual Document.
POLICY TO BE DEFINED.
Asks Cabinet to Furnish Larger Part
of Facts in First Report-Affairs VIII
BE Credited to Those Who Carried
Them Through. .'.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 27.--Mem-
bers of the cabinet are preparing elab-
crate 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 Congress
next December. Having come into the
office Of chief executive late in the
year, as the result of a calamity which
could not be foreseen, the President is
entirely unfamiliar with the details of
the public work. Only a little over
two months remain before the meet
ing of Congress, and so President
Roosevelt requested the members Of
his cabinet to supplement their vari-
GUS annual reports with comprehen-
sive summaries, to be used in the mes
sage, either verbatim or with such con-
densation as may be necessary. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is ready and forcible
writer and the preparation of mes
sage has no terrors for him SO far as
mere literary workmanship goes. He
feels, however, according to members
OF the cabinet, natural difidence
about making a report Of the work
done by another and much beloved
President. The fiscal year ended with
July /, and President Roosevelt's ac-
tual administration did not begin I'M
til after the period of the usual annual
reports. 1t is believed, therefore, he
will summarize these reports to a
large extent, SO far as relates to the
history of the last year. The Presi-
dent has already begun sketching out
the message and he will have the sum-
maries from the different depart
ments within a short time. By far
the most important part of President
Roosevelt's message will be that of
defining his own policy. Following
out the pledge he made when he took
the oath of office, the President will,
in so many words, adopt as his own
the domestic and foreign policy of
William Mckinley. So far as the
matter has been discussed in the cab
met, the President is understood to
have arranged in his own mind to take
the Buffalo speech as the keynote Of
the Mckinley policy and to elaborate
this line in the message to Congress.
President Roosevelt informed the cab
met that he was deeply impressed with
the necessity on his part of acting
merely as the executor of the political
estate of William Mckinley, admins
tering the affairs of the government
as closely as possible on the lines laid
down by President Mckinley, as de-
fined in his most recent writings and
speeches. The Roosevelt administra-
ton will be pledged in the Presidents
first message to continue and extend
the present colonial policy in Porto
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine is
lands. The development of American
trade in the Orient and the open door
in China will receive in the message
the hearty approval of the new Presi-
dent. AS part of this colonial policy,
attention will be called to the peace
able condition of Cuba and the fact |
that its people are now ready to as
sumo control of their own affairs. In
announcing the probable establish
ment of the Republic of Cuba not later !
than May 1, President Roosevelt will |
call attention to the fact that this |
splendid and speedy result was the |
natural outcome of the wise policy |
inaugurated by his predecessor, par
ticularly so in insisting that Congress |
should assume the responsibility for |
defining the conditions on which the
United States troops should be re-
tired from Cuba. President Roosevelt |
will make the announcement that the
conditions imposed by the Platt
amendment have been complied with !
by the Cubans, but will show that the
constitutional convention had taken it's
action before the tragedy at Buffalo.
Mrs. Roosevelt Enters White House.
Washington, Sept. 27.-Mrs. Roose-
welt arrived at the White House at |
$50 p. m. She was accompanied by
Colonel Bingham, Mr.. Loeb, her two
children, Ethel and Kermit; Miss Yum
ger, the governess; the housekeeper
at the Oyster Bay home and maid.
President Roosevelt met the party at |
the threshold and his greeting was the
only ceremonial which welcomed the
new mistress Of the White House.