The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-18
PRESIDENT TAFT AT Home

Richmond, Va, During
my sixty days of travel there has
| been moment or two of deliberation
and during that time | have been
studying what is the duty of all
| executive to recommend to an in
coming Congress In respect to future
legislation and when / think of the
number of things that Congress ought
to do, L am staggered lest it may not
find time to do them
In the final speech of his 10000
mile trip through the West and South
before an immense audience Wedncs-
cay afternoon, President Taft thus
pretaced n preliminary statement OF
some Of the recommendations his first
annual message TO Congress would
| contain.
lie declared himself in favor of Tie
| reclamatlon Of arid lands in the West,
and OF the issuing of bonds for the
| purpose and of some government con-
| lrCl over watcrpowcr sites and coal
and phosphate lands. $50 that thev
may not come into the hands of one
controlling corporation, but may be
retained by the government. with the
power 10 restrict the prices at Which
coal, or at least at which the power
Is sold to prevent the absorption into
one command of all the power on the
continent.''
The ANTITRUST law. he declared.
needs enforcing, anl The interstate
commerce law an amendment lin
order TO give the interstate COM
merce tribunal more power to pre-
vent the delays which are now in-
cldent to appeals to the courts
lie voiced his favor of postal
savings bank and declared that 1--WE
must improve our legal procedure so
as to make it both in criminal and
civil cases more simple. more rapid
and less expensive. and | lrean TO
recommend 10 Congress the appoint
mcnt Of commission to take u2
that subicct.''
Mr.. Taft said lie believed the time
had come for the organization OF a
Federal health bureau.
DUrin" the morning he visited Oil
81. John church. where Patrick
Henry made his famous "Givc Nc
Liberty Of Give Me Death speech.
and went from there To st. Paul :
church, whore Jefferson Davis. Prcs;
dent of the tonfcderacy. received tie
message from Genera! Lee. saving
that the Confederate forces must
evacuate Petersburg and leave Rich
m0nd unprotected. He also visited
ne Confederate muSeaum. He mad.
the comment there that the picture
"f Jefferson Davis which belonged 10
the museum did not compare in en-
cellcnce with the one in the War De.
partment al Washington. The mu-
scum officials said they probably
would apply 10 the Secretary of War
lor PERMISSION To have copy made
Of the painting at Washington.
| TIE President : talk 10 the negro
dele%ation W., devoted mostly to the
subject Of education. lie said he
would attend meeting of the board
lof trustees at Hampton Institute on
November 20 and felt a very dccn
interest in the work of that institu-
lion as well as the Booker Washing
Ton school 1T Tuskcgee. Ala. The in
lluence of those two schools in the
Importance they were giving 10 in
dustral and agricultural education
the President said. was beginning at
last to he felt throughout the South.
The p. 'sident lunched at the Jof.
1erSon he !. delivered his principal
address at the city auditorium. and
left at 3:l3 p. III. for Washington.
"A Washington dispatch saws that
after an absence of more than three
months during which he made 13..
OOO mile trip through the West and
South. President Taft slept Wcdnes.
day night in the White House.