The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-23
TAFT PLANS TO
CURB COMBINES
Confers All Day Wa
Cabinet Men
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LOOKS OVER TARIis EXPERTS
Leaders Discuss Personnel Of New
board.
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Ame.s Proposed Changes Of I.terstats
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LOOKS OVER IARIIs EXPERTS

@'S'cNtys 0udScs aus. Sl.--IuG cares
OF State weighed too heavily upon
President Taft today to permit more
than an hours absence from the SUM
mer " hite House. and II was not un-
til the sun was setting that business
gave way to pleasure and the big mo~
tor car whirled the chief exeeptive
away from a Cabinet meeting for q
drive along the Essex County shore
with Mrs. Taft.
Even church attendance was omitted
in the interests OF humanity, for dur
ing the forenoon a long list Of pardon
cases were considered. while in the
afternoon Secretary of the Treasury
Macveash and Attorney General Wick
ersham and Secretary OF the Navy
Meyer discussed for an hour or more
the intricate and delicate questions
OF the personnel OF the new tariff
board, the changes In the interstate
Commerce.. and antitrust acts and soma
economic measures which have been
instituted In the Navy Department.
The make-up Of the new tariff board
was discussed In detail and list Of
forty or more names for the three
places was carefully examined. No
definite action, however. win be taken
until a more complete Cabinet meet
ing Is held. tt+ Sea- IL
Regarding the proposed changes In
the Interstate commerce act, It IL stat.
ed that the efforts Of the present ad.
ministration will be toward lifting from
the shoulders Of the present board the
work of investigating rates aud alleged
violations of the act, ana shifting such
labors to the Department Of Cem-
merce.
Must Make Careful stnay.
After a long consideration Of the
Sherman anti trust act and In the light
of hundreds Of decisions. the admin
istration Is arm In the conviction that
only the most carefully considered
changes. In even the wording of the
different sections Of the act, can be
suggested to Congress. and that those
suggestions should deal only with the
consideration OF cases which II il be-
lieved were never In contemplation
by the trainers OF the original statute.
Take tive instances: A merchant OF
manufacturer engaged In legitimate
business that covers certain Htates.
wished to sell hts husfnaas and good
will. and 40 In the stesnie OF the sale
oblfgates himself to the purchaser not
to go into the same business In those
states. such restraint of trade has
always been enforced at common law
Again the employees of an Interstate
railroad combine had entered upon q
RCe~N@.>SAe
better wages. At common law, such
was not restraint on trade or COM
merce, or q violation OF the rights
of the company or the public. 1t Is
the belief of the astute lawyers of the
present administration that neither
case ought to be made violation OF
THE Sherman act.
Discuss sherman Act.
Many other phases OF. the Sherman
act also was discussed today and will
be brou Sht later before other members
Of the cabinet. Attorney General
Wickersham leaves tomorrow for New
York, but Secretary Macveagh will
remain on the North Shore a few days
before returning to his summer home
in Dublin.
The retrenchment plans which Secre-
tary Meyer has inaugurated in the Navy
Department are expected to take def
mite shape before Congress meets,
through the report of the three boards
which are making rigid Investigations
along such lines. Secretary Meyer
will have a telephone conference to-
morrow with Rear Admiral Swift. COM
mandant of the Boston yard and chair
man of the Board on Navy Yard Ad-
ministration, and II the time limit for
that boards report, which 10 Oct. 1,
IA unproductive of definite results, the
board will be given few weeks more.
A definite denial was made today at
the summer capital of the report that
q reduction of the regulsr army was
under contemplation
The, only functions which the Pres
ident will attend during the twenty
three remaining days OF his stay in
Massachusetts, are In the Yale Clubs
outdoor meet at Brookline, Sept. 6, the
luncheon to the Sender Yachtsmen on
the Mayfiower. Sept. Q. and the banquet
OF the Boston Chamber of Commerce
Sept. IA. the eve of his departure on
his Western trip.