Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-14
SPECULATION AS TO
 NEW ADMINISTRATION.

NEW ADMINISTRATIONS
 Now that the election Is over. those whose interest is largely in political or national affairs ere busy estimat- ing the result. With the election of Taft. the presidential policy of the next four years Is as we'll nderstood as 1t can be. It viii. of course. be modified by events which no one can foresee. but Taft is pledged to carry out the policies an,i enterprises ot the president. It will probably fail to his lot to appoint four justices of the supreme court wbere he once as pired to sit. having on more than one occasion said that he would prefer supreme judgeship to the presiden cy. That he will be able to select suitable men for this highest ard most potential court in the world isl believed even by his political oppo nents.
 But not only was a president elect ed November 3. It is now known that the republican majority in the house win not be more than 50 after March {, next, which will be less than the present republican rajority. At this writing it is not ceI tain that the ma jority will be as much as 50. but it can be said with certainty that it will be less than the present majority oi 57. All of the big four standpatters have been e-elected-Cannons Taw. ney, Payne. Dalzell.. Serene Payne of New York, the republican leader aud chairman of the committee on ways and means, to whom matters re lating to the revision of the tariff wlli be referred. has bsen reelected by SoOu hdJOAAts
 Not many presidents have assumed to duties of the office with as com, plete a preparation as President-elect Taft will have. He has been for years closely identified wi.h government af- fairs in Washington in the Philip pines. in Cuba and in Panama, and before he took up public affairs as cabinet minister in Washington, he was for a number Of years judge of the federal court No president has ever travelled as extensively as he has.
 In carrying out the Rooseveltian policies, he will necessarily insist on stronger military and naval establish ments with more guns and more ships but it may be sald with assurance that his election is in a sense mes sage of peace and especially to Japan, where he is better known and more fully trusted than IS President Roose-
 welt or any other American. He has on more than one occasion visited Ja-
 pan and last fall spent number of
 days in Tokio, when the mikado as.
 signed him a palace with large reti nue-not less than 3G0 servants. This
 all has the appearance of very grand
 hospitality, but when it came to pay
 ing, or rather tipping. these servants
 when Mir. and Mrs. Taft and their son left the hospitable walls, it was, of
 course, found to be as had been ex- pected, very expensive visiting.
 l The recent more than friendly re,
 ception of our officers and sailors at
 Tokio will, it is thought, interfere with President Roosevelrs program of securing large appropriations 1oI additional ships With Japan in the friendliest state of mind, it will Dc , hard to convince tl,e more conserya tive senators and members that there
 is any urgent necessity for grea 7 increase of our naval strength. ! may be just as vel to wait a while { before we build more ships. for chang T in battleship construction is bewild
 leringIy rapid and by suspending worl s for a year or two, we may save mi :; Hons of dollars in expense. Ship y that were built ten or twelve year 2 ago are obsolete nor and cen O D twelve years hence 1t is probable tha e the Dreadnoughts We are building tc q day will be found so much behin d the times in strength, speed and ger e eral efficiency, that 1t will be nece d sary to consign them to the jun
 heap. Moreover, it is expected tha 70 the Panama canal will be complete y in five or six years and the ships { IS the future must be built with refe le ence to passage through this wate T. way. in order that our western as we