The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
A SHORT MESSAGE.
The President Is Expected to
Break the Record.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-The annual
message of the president to congress
which will be presented the opening day
of the regular session, December z, is
nearly completed, and by next week 1t
will be in printed form. Most of the
text already is in the hands of the pub
lie printer but there are one Or TWO
subjects on which the president has not
reached a decision as to how he should
present them to congress. One OF these,
it is said, is the agitation to reduce the
tariff on all products from the 1niilp-
pines a bill to that effect having failed
of passage in the last session at the last
moment. Secretary Root and Governor
Taft, who soon will succeed secretary
Root both have urged the president, II
IS said. to impress upon congress the
necessity for the enactment of this leg
islation The president on the other
hand, is represented as being Undecided
that it would be well to raise further
tariff agitation at this time, so close up
on the heels of the Cuban reciprocity
legislation.
The presidents message this year VIII
be the shortest on record to a reguldI
session of congress. There has been d
general understanding reached not TO
have too much legislation considered
this winter. but to let several import
ant questions lie over until aItef the
national campaign next year one OF
the subjects of which it will treat VIII
be the question of restricting 1mrnlgfa-
ton. The president has talked with
many congress members and other he
publicans upon this subject, and he mas
given careful thought to what he will
recommend to congress on this ques-
ton.
It is known only now that he will
recommend that congress give TINS
subject serious consideration to the
end of formulating legislation that will
not prevent any desirable immigrants
from finding homes in this country, but
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the host of cheap labor which is threat
ening the industrial interests of Amer
Jean Workmen.
The president will take position on
the Panama canal project. Senators
and others who have read this portion
OF the message say that the president
has handled this important subject in
mastery fashion, which VIII command
the universal approval Of the country.
He will make no apology for the ex-
ercise of a bold and progressive policy
on the part of this government IN seek
ing to acquire canal rights, but VIII take
the ground that in this instance, as in
others, the United States occupies the
position of the trustees of the world, =
and that it is doing, and wiz continue
to do, what seems best to fulfill the
duty of that trusteeship. Confident of
ratification of the new treaty between
the United States and Panama, the
president will take the position that
what has happened had to come, and
having been effected cannot be IN
done.
It has been definitely decided that
there will be no currency or financial
legislation enacted in the coming ses-
sion of congress, so it is understood the
president will make only brief mention,
if any, of that subject. It is also I'M
derstood that the president has decided
not to make any recommendations, at
this time. regarding the curtailment of
the representation of the southern states
which have disfranchised the negroes
He will discuss the condition of the In
dian wards of the nation, and special
attention of congress in this connection
will be called TO the fact that more
than half million citizens of the Unit
ed States are living within the. confines
of the Indian Territory. without public
school facilities and that the children
there are growing UP in ignorance
superinducing crime
The establishment of a public school
system for the Indian Territory will
be recommended, to be maintained for
the present by a congress appropria-
ton.
The immediate consideration of con-
gress will be urged for this reconmen-
datiOn, in the interests of American
citizenship and humanity. While it is
understood the president will not deal
with the question of statehood for the
remaining territories. it is believed by
some persons who have talked with