The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-12
PRESIDENT OUTLINES
HIS FINAL MESSAGE.
Last Word" Viii! Be Character.
istic in Reiteration of
Former Demands.
SET TASKS FoR CONGRESS.
Tariff Question, Not Touched Upon,
Will Be Text o. Taft's
First Effort.
SET TASKS F0P CONGRESS
Washington correspondence:

Washington correspondence:
a The President already has completed
the outline of his message to Congress.
Much of the material for it has been
gathered together and many features
have been roughly drafted. The task
of working it over into final shape and
In determining just what shall and
what shall not be included in the doc
ument is still to be taken up.
1t can be stated that the President
will send what will be recognized as a
characteristic" message He will re-
iterate the demand for those things
which Congress has not yet got around
TO giving on the strength of former
demands, and will possibly come out
for some features of congressional leg
islation heretofore unpresented.
Acting upon his usual theory that
Congress is elected to work pretty
steadily during its sessions ut its job
Of making laws for. the people, Mr..
Roosevelt will set the sol0ns a heavy
task, and if they have not finished ii
by the time he leaves Office he will
regard it as no fault Of his own.
The tariff will be left 'cut of consid-
GRAFTON. The revision of schedules al
ready has been arranged for, and to
Mr.. Taft. the new President. when he
calls special session in March, will
be left the duty of passing along the
executive view on the stunt.
Measures 10 ID. Pressed.
With the tariff taken care of, Presi-
dent Roosevelt will then go on to pre-
sent the claims of the various reform
measures he has been pressing i'm the
past. The list will include:
Practical and effective amendment Il
the Sherman antitrust act with the view
of establishing some such government
supervision of great industrial cor BORA
tons as the Interstate commerce counts
sion maintains over railroads.
Some considerable extension of the pow
ers of the interstate commissica in thu
matter of controlling rates. especially the
power to prevent rate or schedule o.
rates from taking effect until after III,
commission shall have had an opportunit,
10 examine and determine its prima faci,
reasonableness.
Liberal appropriation for the continued
enforcement of the uniform railroad &C
counting provisions of the Hepburn act.
Passage OF a more complete government
employees liability act.
Increase of naval establishment by tn,
construction of two new battleships a
least, and probably renewal of the re
quest for four.
Provision for the establishment of for
est reserves in the Appalachian region.
Inauguration of an effective federal con
troll over the water powers of the country
with view to preventing their monopoli
cation by private interests. and to assur
ing that power shall be sold at reasonabl,
rates.
Internal waterways improvement and
development
Campaign fund publicity.
May Discuss Tax Questions.
Whether the President will take vi
income and Inheritance taxes and the
making of a valuation of the railroads
is not yet decided. ii is understood. The
expectation is. however. that he will
discuss at least the ACCESSIBILITY of in
come and inheritance taxes. 1t is the
Presidents firm belief that such leg
islation is needed in this country for
the regulation of swollen fortunes, y
and he is anxious that his recommends
ton of it in former utterances shall
not be forgotten.
1t is expected In. view of the Presi-
dents vigorous advocacy of the District
of Columbia child labor bill last ses-
sion. that in the coming message he
viii be especially earnest in asking that
whatever can be done i'm the way of
national child labor statutes be done
without delay.
One section OF the message to which
the President has devoted himself with
especial satisfaction is the discussion
of the battleship fleets trip around the
world.
But the President is strongly inclined
to some changes i'm the bureau system.
probably aimed to bring the depart
ment organization nearer to that which
prevails i'm the British navy.