The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
MACVEAGH Is GUEST
 AT BIG BANQUET Secretary of Treasury Dis CuSSeS the Administration THE CONTROLLING ACTS Effect of Tsft's Holding Reins of Gov ernment, MacVeigh Declares, is to
 Keep On Stable Line of
 Progress.
THE CONTROLLING ACTS

Chicago. June 5-Franklin MacYeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, and Jacob M. Dickinson Secretary of War. were the guests of honor at the banquet of the Chicago Commercial club here tonight
 In his speech Secretary MacVeagh out lined the characteristics of the Taft ad- ministration and emphasized the fact that it would be as distinguishable from the Roosevelt administration as Rooseyelt's was from McKinleys.
 Secretary Dickinson talked on the Pan- anna canal as he had seen it on his recent trip. He talked about the canal in an optimistic vein, and said he is certain it will be finished on scheduled time.
 This administration will be conciliatory if you do not ask it to give up principle or to go back on its promises Neither of these things will 1t do. It will stand by its principles, and it will stand by it's poli- cies."
 So said Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, tonight at the annual banquet of the Commercial club of this city, in discussing the characteristics of the Taft government The administration of President Taft, he declared will as a matter of course be a Taft administra- ton pure and simple. and as distinguish able from the Roosevelt administration as RooseveIts was distinguishable from McKinley's.
 In the mind of Secretary MacVeaugh the leading and controlling note of the present administration was a determined tendency toward regularity of decision and of procedure. President Taft, he said, would administer hls office within constituted boundaries. The effect of this he declared, would be to keep the Pres ident the leader of the party organza- tion. President Taft, he said, was the man of progress and 1t goes without saying that no great leader of an Amer ican party, in this day and generation, can fail to understand the value of inde- pendent thought and action in the party itself, wherever they are manifested, whether in Congress or at large, if only this independence aims at the party's progress and liberalization, and If it seeks in and through the party to answer moro perfectly the deliberate and wise demands of the nation. And you and I must agree for we cannot escape the conclusion that It might become at any Ilf0s the duty of any great party leader to cre- ate for his party a new majority and control.''
 MT. MasV eagh in this connection, said that he saw for himself very clearly that while President Taft would be greatly and temperamentally inclined toward par ty regularities and to the encourage ment of party unity he would not wish nor be able to lose sight of the fact that the republican party has wished to dedicate itself in the present time ] even as it did fin it's earliest days-to the furtherance of the higher ideals of the people, to the wider and more varied and complete progress of the nation and to the nations helpful work and influence in the world at large" He referred to the Presidents deference and respect for the formal privileges of the Congress, "and what is more significant and inter esting at present is not the actual non- interference but rather the fine disposi- ton the President shows to respect all rights and to meet everybody half way in the hope and interest of a homoge- neous party of progress-a disposition which can only be interpreted as states manlike conciliation and which it would be fatal mistake to consider as a change of actual policy or purpose