Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-16
Secretary Of War has Number Of
important Tasks Ahs'ad Of Him.
TALKS OF HIS TRIP TO FAR EAST
Man Who Wants RooseveIts Job Is
Authority for the Statement That
There win be Nc More Cabinet
chsnees-Messages to Mllkado.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-Sccretary
Taft returned to his desk mt tho war
Department this morning. looking III
excellent health AMI showing that nc
was in prime condition by pitching
In at once on the work which had
accumulated during his vacation. Tho
Secretary has only three days to dis
pose OF his work before he starts on
again for his trip TO the Philippines.
Tho Secretary will leave Washington
ON Sunday and will go direct To Col
,imbus, o.. where he Will speak on
Monday night.
Although almost overwhelmed with
work, tho Secretary found time dur
ing the early afternoon to talk about
his plans and his trip across the Con
tinent to the Philippines.
a Message to the Mikado.
The Secretary and his party Will
sail OH September 10 OH the steamer
Minnesota from Seattle for Yokoha-
ma. The length OF his stay In Japan
has not been determined as yet. 1t
III understood that one OF the results
of the conference ut Oyster Bay on
Saturday was special message from
tho President TO the Mikado, which
Secretary Taft will carry and deliver.
Secretary Root also had talk with
Secretary Taft In rcgnd TO the nd
ministration's policy OH Immigration
with japan and the terms Of the pro
poscd treaty with that country. which
Secretary Taft liz entrusted to consult
with the Japanese officials and gain
their opinions rs to the proposed
agreement.
Tho Secretary expects to arrive NJ
Manila about October IA, and will
address the Assembly when 1t assem-
blcs for the first time during Octo
her The Secretary expects to re
main I'm the Philippines until Novem
Der, and will return to this country
by way of Russia and tho European
Continent. One Of the United States
naval vessels will convey tho Secre
tary and his party from Manila tc
Vladlsvostok, where he will take the
TransSiberlan Railway and proceed
10 St Petersburg From st. Peters
burg he will so to Berlin and thence
to Paris, and will probably sail from
Cherbourg for New York. arriving II
the United States on December IL
The Secretary comes home via E,l
rope. because ho can make bette
time and avoid the long sea trip Of
tho Pacific. and ut tho same TIM
have more interesting journey.
No Cabinet Changes.
In the course OF his talk, Secretar.
Taft alluded to the current reports o
impending Cabinet changes. whlcl
appears to be an outgrowth of tn
disturbed financial conditions In Ncy
York, and he remarked that he ha,
heard OF no less than four propose,
changes, but that he felt authorize,
In this case to state positively thu
there were to he no designations Il
the Cabinet so far as known to tn
members thereof
K II Secretary Taft felt disappolnte
mt the meagroncss OF the vote cas-
In the Philippines recently. on tn
occasion of the first election for men
beers of the legislature, he did not BIZ
tray that fact. Indeed, he declared
that he had rather expected from tn
experience gained during America
intervention In Cuba that the FLIP
nos would not avail to the utmost q
the outset OF the newly confcrre
privilege OF voting. Undoubtedl
many OF the Flllpnos were timid. an
disllked TO arouse the Ill feeling {
that element in the population whic
had resisted any attempt to Undue
them to participate in governmcf
under American auspices. In Cubl
he said, that was true of the SPANS
element of the population. many {
the Spaniards even appealing to til
American Governor General to be @.
cluded from the right to vote. so a
to avoid the necessity of making tn
issue with their neighbors. How
ever this feeling changes in tim
and the same people freely avail {
the right of suffrage in after elo
tions. The Secretary felt that thu
would be0thc case In the Philippine
and III the course of year or tw
the registration would largely il
crease. Meanwhile he had noted wit
satisfaction that many Of the Fiji
pinos elected to the national leglsl
ture as INDEPENDENTS. were of CO.
seryative tendencies rs shown /