The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-12-02
since HIS RETURN FROM
JAUNT AROUND STATES HIS
PET MEASURES LEAKED OUT.
LEGISLATORS FEAR FOR PEACE
Program viii Be Extensive Enough
to Keep Congress Busy for the Rest
Of His Administrstion-Will Inter
est the Country.

Washington. Dec. 2.--According -
scvera! men OF prominence who have
been advising with the president
since his 1900 mile jaunt around the
circle, senators and congressman
gathering for the approaching scs.
sion are not looking forward to tn.
meeting with great delight, except in
instances where the national legisla.
tors are in harmony with President
Tatt's views. one by one the meas.
urcs upon which Mr.. Taft Is deter.
mined some action shall be taken has
leaked out. and when arranged In one
program they are OF sufficient scope
to arouse interest throughout the
country While the president is con
tident that he will not secure all
that he hopes for during the coming
term, he has made his program 81
extensive that the measures he Crses
will be sufficient TO keep cons ess
busy for the rest of his administrl-
tion.
Here they are as arranged by one
of the statesmen close in the conf.
dence of Mr. Taft:
Increased powers for the Interstate
Commerce Commission, so thai Il
shall have authority to regulate ~,
issue Of railroad securities on
sound basis. to determine the proper
classification of freight, to institute
OF its own accord complaints of as.
elimination in rates, to compel c1n.
Meeting carriers to form through
routes, and to tx and apportion rates
among carriers.
The prohibition OF railroads from
holding stock in competing roads, the
authority Of railroads to make rate
agreements with the approval OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
and the creation of new court 1.
pass on appeals from the decisions
of the Interstate Commerce Comm!s.
sion in fixing rates
The compulsory adoption by the
railroads of additional safety devices
The creation of a central bank or
issue, controlling the treasury reserve
and prepared to guard against cur
roucy strngenCy.
Postal savings banks.
An amendment to the sherman
Antitrust law making it apply only
TO trade mouopolies and not to rail
road combinations
The adoption OF the income tax
amendment to the United States
constitution. such tax to be resortel
to only in national emergencies
Temporary suspension of the agita
+ tion for futher revision Of the tariff
snip subsidies for the deyelopmen,
of the merchant marine.
Federal legislation against the boy.
colt as well as governing the iSsu.
ance OF injunctions.
Further conservation OF national
resources.
Forest preservation.
Internal waterway Improvements,
but strictly according to the merits af
each project considered in its national
hearing.
Legislation imposing restrictions
upon the transfer of water-power sl,a,
to private control, and providing Tor
the fixing of rentals and the regula-
ton of rates to be charged
Reforms in the mineralland SO thHt
the surface OF the land and the Goa
and other mineral deposits shall le
treated separately, with leases on the
royalty system or sales to miners,
\ congressional commission to in
yestigate the laws delays in the fed
eral courts and 10 devise a system for
securing quick and cheap Justice in
the federal courts that shall serve as
a model for the states.