The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-11-14
PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
ROOSEVELT SAID TO DE-
GIVING DOCUMENT
MUCH CARE.
Desires It to Go Down in History
as Faithful Record of Accom-.
lishment and Aims of Admin.
tration---Postal Savings Banks
Endorsed--Topics Discussed

washington NOV. lO.-Presidept
Roosevelt's last annual message 70 CON
gross will be in the nature of a c1asS;.
"a document that may 60 down IN
history as a faithful register of tho %
cOmplishments and aims of the nroso,,.
administration.
At no time during his term of of8oo
has the president given the attention
to the preparation Of message that 10
is devoting to this one. Roughly draft
ed while he was at Oyster Bay for tho
summer, and supplemented since b;S
return by important documental req.
concentrations, he is still at worl
amending and polishing off its ronob
edges.
Much attention will be paid in the
message to questions Of economic re,
form, in which labor is deeply infer
ested. One of the most striking fea.
lures will be recommendation of an
amendment to the Sherman anti -trnst
law, exempting labor organizations
from its provisions, and the passage Of
an anti-injunction law along the lines
proposed last year.
Whether the president will push his
fight for larger navy by recommend.
ing the annual construction of four
monster battleships, has not been de.
cided. He will at any rate ask for two.
Additional Notifications for the Phil.
ippines and for seacoast defenses in
this country will be strongly urged.
Congress will be requested to broad.
en- the powers Of the interstate com.
MERGE commission, in the supervision
Of rates before they become effective.
The difficulties encountered in the ad.
justment of interstate rates by states
having railroad commissions have
raised demand for additional federal
legislation that the president believes
will meet with hearty support even by
the minority party in congress.
The postal savings bank project of
the postmaster general will receive
hearty Endorsement and an earnest
recommendation that it be speedily
0udCucu luCO law.
The great growth Of prohibition
sentiment and the demand of the states
that the federal government meet the
"original package" decision of the
supreme court, will be touched upon.
The president also will request leg
islation requiring publicity Of CAM
paign expenses. He has not yet indi-
Gated whether he will repeat his pre-
vious recommendation for the enact
ment of an inheritance and income tax,
but he will press for a federal incor-
poration license and for the enactment
of new employers liability act
The president will take advantage
of certain criticisms in the last con-
gress as to the ACCESSIBILITY of sending
the Atlantic fleet into Asiatic waters
by pointing out the feeling Of interna-
tional amity that followed its trium-
phal progress and the great advan-
tages, commercially and otherwise,
which he believes will accrue in Japan,
China and other points in the Orient
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico will not be neglected, nor WILL
the demand for the creation OF an
Appalachian forest reserve.
Also his advocacy of the adoption OF
a policy looking to the purchase OF az
least one legation site a year will De
renewed.
The placing of dates upon the Labels
of packing house products and the pay
ment of the cost of inspection by the
packers is another matter to which ne
will call attention. The demand TOT
uniformity in divorce laws will Dc
reiterated, as we'll as child labor leg
islation.
Although it is generally understood
that the president will leave to MS
successor the treatment of tariff re-
vision, the desirability OF placing
mood min O,, tho froo LIST will again