Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-28
Pres, Taft Reconci|ed to
Passing July in Town.
Congress Forces Him to Delay
Departure 10 Beverly.
Delay ii Town Causing Cabinet
0fflceIs Much Worry.

Washington. d. c.. June 27-(Spe-
ciaD-President Taft has become
reconcied to the prospects of a July
residence i'm Washington. His hope:
of getting away by July 1 have faded
In the earlier days Presidents often
stayed here till August but President
Roosevelt used to make point OF
getting awayfas early as he could and
the middle of June or the first of July
at the latest generally found him
speeding to the North.
The President finds himself much
entangled with the tariff program. Tic
must fight it out now for the excise
tax He has joined forces with the
Senate regulars. He cannot go out "i
town to stay till after the last word
has been said about the tariff and the
bill has been completed in conference
and forwarded for his signature. The
task has been coming nearer and near
er the White House every day since
1t was decided that the President
should champion the excise tax on
corporations and the submission of an
income tax amendment to the Con-
stitution for ratification by the Legis-
latures of 46 states.
The departure from the President 5
habit of leaving Congress alone was
made when he called his lawyer mem
bers OF the cabinet together in the
White House with Senator Root to
consider the phrasing of that message
and in succession events have tramp
ed heel and toe to demonstrate to the
President that he is deep in the tar
if fight The Senate leaders called
upon his attorney general to draft
the excise tax amendment, which Mr..
WickerSham has been doing his best
upon Then finally the leading sena-
tors began holding meetings with the
President upon these excise tax queS-
tiOns and. late they have been taking
no steps without consulting the White
House. The President has allied him
self accordingly with the dominant
faction in the Senate and the Western
Republican insurgents can whistle for
consolation.
For a few days the President will
be out of town, as he goes to New
England to participate in anniver-
saries on Lake Champaign at Burling
ton. VI. Norwich. Conn. and at other
the way North he will take Mrs. Tar
to Beverly. where she will remain till
the President is able to return and
join her. He has much solicitude
about her health and her early jour
ney to Massachusetts is taken in the
hope that she will regain her strength.
AS mistress of the White House in
feeble health Mrs. Taft is following in
the footsteps of several predecessors.
Mrs. Mckinley was a confirmed in
valid. The wife of President Harri-
son was i'll much of his cncumbency Of
the White House and died before his
term was over. Mrs. Cleveland en-
joyed excellent health as did Mrs.
Roosevelt 1t is already being init
mated that the President will abar-
don his long trip to the Pacific coast,
just as he announced a few weeks ago
that he would abandon his trip to
Alaska. This means he intends to
stay as much of the summer as may
be at Beverly with Mrs. Taft in the
hope that she may recover her health
and strength
The Presidents hot weather expert
ences with Washington will not terri
~ HlIti ne mas remained mere on sew
eral summers well up toward August.
After ne had received the Presidential
nomination he came back to Washing
ton for few days in July and the
year before that he spent several days
here on the lid for President Roose-
welt. who went to oyster Bay that
year in June
But the delay of the President is
also delaying his several cabinet Of
ficers who are doing their share Of
fretting and Tuning over being held
80 late in Washington They cannot
go away for the summer as long a.;
Congress and the President are in
town. SO most of them are Sendin.;
their families away to the seashore or
the mountains and are keeping bachel-
Tor quarters in Washington
The transportation of the goods and
chattels, necessary for the comfort of
the family at Beverly has already be-
gun in anticipation of Mrs. Tafts de
parture. Facetious stories have already
begun to appear about the Jersey COW
and her sojourn at Beverly. AS mat
ter Of fact, plans have not yet been
made for taking the Jersey COW to
Beverly and the warns about Capt.
archibald w. Butt of the army, the
Presidents aide. conducting her to the
cool north shore of Massachusetts are
without any foundation. Whether the
Jersey COW goes to Beverly is yet to
be determined. Fer the present she is
enjoying comfortable quarters in the
PRESIDENTS stable, along with the sad
die horses and the automobiles
The Tafts have kept COW as mat
ter Of sentiment and pure milk for
many years They kept COW when in
the Philippines and they kept COW in
washington before Mr.. Taft became
President. The big oval to the south
OF the White House afforded a fine eX-
panse of grazing and the COW has
Hourished thereon under the watchful
eye OF government attendant. And