The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-23
TAFT is PLANNING. TRIP
Congress Is Asked to Grant
$4,000 For Expenses.
WANTS TO VISIT ALASKA
President Will Make Swing Over the
Entire Country During the
Late Summek.

Washington, ID. C.-President Taft,
who believes that the chief magis-
trate OF the nation should keep in as
close contact with the people as the
duties and requirements Of the office
admit, is planning a notable trip dur
ing the late summer and early autumn,
provided congress decides to contin-
ue the annual appropriation Of $751;
600 for travelling expenses allowed
during the closing years of the Roose-
welt administration.
The presidents plans for the sum-
mer as far into the heated term as
August Is have been completed. Mr..
Taft will leave washington as soon
as he can arrange matters after adj
journment of congress, and has been
told that the extra session will end
June 1. He will go direct from the
white house to his summer home at
Woodbury. Point, Beverly, Mass, and
will spend two months or more there
as quietly and as free from official
worry as possible. Mr.. Taft will de-
vote most of his vacation to golfing
and motoring, and will take short
cruises along the northern coast The
reaSSembled Atlantic fleet of sixteen
battleships will maneuver off the
New England coast during the sum
mer, and the president undoubtedly
will want to see this.
This trip the president desires to
make to the west during the late sum-
mer will be entirely too expensive
to be paid for out Of his own pocket.
An outline of the proposed itinerary
has been given to high 9ailorad Off
cial5 and an estimate III lested It
is said the cost would be in the
neighborhood of $4,000 to $4,000. If
he goes west at all, the president will
include Alaska in the journey, sailing
from Seattle probably on a yessel
of the naval revenue service. No
president has ever visited the far
northern territory which for so long
has been part of the United States.
The president has been invited to
and is particularly anxious to attend
the following gatherings: IA
The annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Salt
Lake, Utah. !.
The Trans-Mississippi ConferenGh
at Denver 4
The National Irrigation Congrfwe
at Spokane and the Alaska-Yukonal lie
cific Exposition in Seattle. an
In addition to his proposed Wis., sw
the Rocky Mountain States al an
the Pacific coast the presidentES,o ly
tative plans include long S ira
through the southwest and THY
Of the south. ~,
Mrs. Taft, who is as fond ~ ~
as her husband, would accom- m \
president on the tour. o Lol
Western and southern SCI ana "a
representatives are particR +ha1r ?.
ious to have the presidenI,r ro Ul Iro
sections, and will do all F,i p neI
er to provide the necGent thot ?
They believe with the ~ noaLa
such tour as he PROV essentjai ing
should be regarded are ~ 1-eor tioI
factor in the universaland svT rrp era
the people in close toSnvarnn -'eE tioI
thy : with the cent nresidant,s G.
They believe that \ and bic ad' of
trips through the CT a benafit r. IIe
dresses are as mHlf the
the people as 10 e No secrat ~ ton
President Tat & III r. SgcLeI OF orlC
his fondness fr r. Of securi IH' % fror
it to be the {nlfoper nersnecfive Yves
proper idea AN XVI 1870 Alal
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