The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-24
DEFENDS TARIFFLAW
PRESIDENT TAFT WILL NOT SIDE
 STEP ISSUE.
Proposes to stand by Action IR En- dOrsing Bill, and Will Impress
 Views on WeRterneRs

G-NVROHND w SsahA0 ny ACsAoha ~ ASA-- dOrsinE Bill, and Will Impress Views on WesterneFs During Trip. Beverly, Mass, Aug. 23.-President Tafts grasp on the shaft of the golf
 club and the side of the automobile
 were considerably firmer today, al-
 though he found time to glance over his mornings mail, discuss few ques- tions of state with his Secretary of
 the Treasury. and pass smilingly and unscathed through the biweekly in- | quisition of the newspaper men. He saw no visitors of importance. not even an anxious delegation from Dallas. | Texas, which made a long journey to | obtain the Presidents consent to Iengthen his stay in that city until | the morning light should break. The most important news items of
 the day were the statement that there
 would be no diplomatic changes until after Congress convened. the expected
 arrival on Thursday of Senator Nelson w. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, to discuss the report of the monetary commission | and the intimation that the adminis- tration was prepared to defend to the
 last ditch or the last back platform speech, It's record on the recent tariH 1 legislation.
 Any report of immediate changes in
 some of the foreign embassies is dis
 couraged, although Ambassador Reid will see the President Friday and prob
 ably will have a few words to say re- | garding the attitude of the British Government toward this country at the
 present time, and its wishes as to the
 next American representative to the court officials.
 Mir. Reid desired to visit Beverly
 Thursday. but that day already was
 set for the coming. of Senator Aldrich, who will go over with the President
 and Secretary MacVeagh a portion of
 the report on the monetary condition |. It Is rumored that the report is in
 more complete form than even the President expected and 1t is expected
 1t will be in shape by the time Sena- tor Aldrich returns from his four week g
 trip to Europe. He will sail from New
 York Saturday.
 If the Western opponents of the new tariff law expect silence from the Pres
 ident. or a reluctance on his part to
 discuss its different provisions, they will be disappointed.
 The administration has burned it's
 bridges and is ready and willing to de bate any and all the schedules Relative to census appointments, the President has selected 230 supervisors
 and has 1S4 more to discover. He
 hopes to find most of them before he | leaves TOT the west as well as the
 members of the so-called tarlff com
 mission.
 The Dallas delegation. composed of
 Mayor Hay, Judge J. NJ. Mccormick k and Henry D. Lindsay reached Bev-
 erly just after the President had left | for Myopia and were compelled to con-
 fer with Secretary Carpenter. They
 asked that the stop in Dallas, which
 Is scheduled for a few hours in the evening, be prolonged until the next
 morning, in order that the people
 might have a good view of the chief
 magistrate. The delegation found,
 however. that even such a brief delay
 would completely upset the itinerary
 and could not be regarded as advis- | able.
 The persistent report of a reduction of the standing army was again l brought to the Presidents attention
 and once more emphatically denied. It was learned, however. that while the full strength of the army is sS,000.
 1t numbers SO.00O at the present time,
 force which the President and the | Secretary of War deem sufficient. Any | formal order for a reduction must come | from the commando in -chief and no
 such order has been issued or contem-
 plated.