The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-10-04
PRES. RETURNS
To White HOUSE.
All Departments Become More
Lively as a Result.
Will Soon Formally Approve New
y Constitution for State of
Oklahoma.


ital has operated, as usual, to-. give
impetus to the national government
and everything seems to be moving
more briskly under the stimulous of
chief Executive, and one which ex-
hibits his characteristic fairness, was
to announce that he would formally
approve of the Oklahoma convention
which will add five members to the
House and two 10 the Senate at the
coming session. Nr. Roosevelt ma de
it very clear that he did not approve
of the, convention personally, that he
Secretary Taft expressed of the i'll
strument. In fact, he told some of
his friends that were he to put his
personal opinion of the constitution
into words it would not be fit for
publication. But he examined it in
the light of the discretion conferred
on him by Congress and finding no
grounds on which to reject, within such
circumscrlbed limits, he will formally
approve it as soon as the certified
copy and the certificates of it's adop-
ton reach him. Oklahoma has al
ready elected her officers and member
of Congress. The latter include two
Democratic Senators, three Democrat
ic Representatives and two Republican
members of the lower house. The
chief opponent of the admission of
Oklahoma has been Speaker Cannon
but the. President believed that he
had no right to take political consid
erations into account when he PASSED
on the problem.
The President is keeping very quiet
regarding his coming speeches which
are said to be very interesting and
straight from the shoulder, as his ut
terances usually are. Neither will
he reveal anything regarding his conf
ing message 10 Congress except that
so far as he now knows it will not
contain any suggestions of amend
ment of the antitrust law. The At
torney General has some ideas on
this subject, however, ard Wnen he
has laid them before the Executive
they. may appeal to him SO strongly
as to lead to their being incorporated
in the message. Ii is probable that
the President will take advantage of
the great prosperity of the country
and the extraordinarily prosperous con-
dition of the Treasury to urge con-
siderable addition to the navy and
the enactment of the navy pay bill,
which will give to the enlisted men
and officers of both the army and ma
Wy, material increases of compensa-
ton, running from 30 per cent. in
crease for the enlisted men of both
arms of the service down to 10 per
cent. for the higher ranking officers.
If there was any doubt in the minds
of the readers of certain newspapers
regarding the coming cruise of the At
lantic fleet to the Pacific, the Pres
ident must have removed it. He took
occasion to assure a number of news
paper correspondents who called on
him that the fleet would go or he
would know the reason Why. Moreover
he has sent word TO the Navy Depart
ment that everything must be pushed
to the utmost to enable the fleet to
get away on schedule time. At pres
ent it is expected that the fleet will
nv To-
cember 10. A week will then be re-
quired to coal and TO make the final
preparations, so that it is expected
that, barring Unforeseen accidents,it
will sail for the Pacific about Deem
Der II. 1t has been decided 70 install
an elaborate system of telephone com
munication in each of the battleships,
the whole to constitute what is known
as a system of fire control. BY its
use the commander OF the ship will
be able to issue his orders simulta-
neously over the telephone to the com
manders of every gun of given size,
there being a separate central" for
each size of guns on the ship. 1t is
estimated that this will require each
battleship to remain fifty days in a
! navy yard, but as it had already been
calculated that each must remain in
navy yard for at least thirty days
for painting, repairs, etc, and it is as
sumed that as the electrical installa-
. ton can go on simultaneously, no fl
nal delay will result. \
1t is regarded as noteworthy that
never since the President Announced
: hat, the battleship fleet would go to
the facficr has cross word been
heard from Japan. II is known IN IN
ner circles in Washington that the ia
panese legislation of the last session
has signally failed of its purpose the
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