The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-04-22
TAFT PLANS NOTABLE
TRIP FOR AUTUMN
President and Wife Would
Include Alaska in Their
Itinerary.

Washington, April 20-PresiGt... Iaft.
who believes hat the chief magistrate
of the nation should keep in as close
touch with the people as the duties and
requirements of the Office admit. is
planning a notable trip during the lati
summer and early autumn, providing
congress decides to continue the annual
appropriation OF $751; 900 for travelling
expenses allowed during the closing
years of the Roosevelt administration.
The presidents plans for the summer
as far in the heated term as August 10.
nave been completed. Mr.. Taft Will
leave Washington as 500 as he can ar,
range matters after the adjournment oil
congress and has been told that the ex,
ira session will end June /. The presi,
dent will go directly from the White
House to his unmer home at Wood.
bury Point, Beverly, Mass, and will
spend two months or more there q.
quietly and as free from official worry
as possible. Mr.. Taft will devote mos
of his vacation to golfing, motoring ana
perhaps will take short cruises along
Atlantic fleet Of Is battleships will
maneuver off the New England coast
during the summer and the presiden.
undoubtedly will want to see some OF
fhe work of the ironclads.
Will Cost $4,000.
The trip the president desires to make
to the West during the late summer
will be entirely too expensive to be paid
for out of his own pocket. An Quilting
OF the proposed itinerary has bean given
TO a high railroad official and an esti-
mate requested. 1t is said the cost
would be in the neighborhood of SIS, 00j
do $4,000. If the president goes West
at all, the president will include Alaska
In the journey. sailing from Seattle,
probably on a vessel of the navy or
revenue cutter service. No president
has ever visited the far northern terri
tory which for so long has been a part
-of the United States. The president a
been invited to and is particularly anx-
aous to attend the following gatherings:
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic at Salt Lake
City. The Trans-Missiissippi confer
ence at Denver. The National Irriga7
;aion congress at Seattle and the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc exposition at the same
city.
In addition to his proposed visit to
the Rocky mountain states and to thd
Pacific coast, the presidents tentative
plans for the trip include a long swing
through the Southwest and the heart
of he South itself.
Many of the vessels of the Pacific
fleet, which includes eight fine armored
cruisers OF the type of the North Caro-
lima and Montana, which Mr.. Taft used
on his recent trip to Panama, will be
stationed in and about Puget sound
during the exposition, and the preSiS
dent undoubtedly wouid make the trip
to Alaska on one of these. Returning
from the north he probably would and
at San Francisco to begin from there
the journey along the southern border
line.
Mr.. Taft has often spoken of an
Alaskan trip, but 1T has not been def
niteiy known until now that he has, de-
cided positively to make 1t a part of
any trip he may take to the Pacific
coast.
Mrs. Taft With Him.
Mrs. Taft. who is as FOND OF travel
as her husband. would accompany the
president on the tour.
Western and southern senator's and
representatives are particularly anx
tous to have the president visit their
sections. and viii do all In their power
to provide the necessary funds. They
believe with the president that such a
tour as he proposes to make should be
regarded as an essential factor in the
universal desire to keep the people in
close u and sympathy with the cen
presidents trips through the country
and his addresses, are as much of a
benefit to the peole as to himself.
President Taft makes no secret of
his %fondness for travel. He believes it
to be the only way OF obtaining a prop
aer idea and perspective of such a big
country. Mr.. Taft's stay at Beverly
will be interrupted by a few short trips
to fill speaking engagements he has
already made and others which he has
under consideration.
Two splendid new motor cars. or
,dered some time ago, nave just arrived
at the White House garage, making
three machines in all now at the pres
has been using UP to this time was
temporarily provided by the factory
until the special cars for the president
could be completed. The president and
with pleasure to motoring long dis
stances over the splendid New England