The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-15
TAFT ADDRESSES
 BUSINESS MEN Government Expenses Are Dis- cussed In Yale Bining Hall EXPECTS TO HAVE SURPLU US President Taft Tells New Haven citi- zens About Cutting Down Esti-
 mates and How Nation's
 Money Will Be Used.
EXPECTS TO HAVE SURPLUS

New Haven, Conn.,, December 14-Pres- ident Taft told HOO prominent business men of Connecticut many of the facts about governmental expenditures and rev. enue at the annual banquet of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, but as he did not speak until 11:So. he was unable to do more than touch upon some of the ceuntry's financial problems before it was time for him to leave. Five minutes after he had concluded his speech he was aboard his train.
 The dining hall at Yale was the scene. Throughout the dinner there was much merriment and Yale songs predomina ted. Col. I. M. Ullman, president of the cham Der, MT. Taft's host, presided and Pres ident Hadley of Yale and Governor Weeks spoke briefly.
 President Taft, on being introduced, ! said that he felt 1t fitting to speak to ] business men on the question whether we are to have money enough to run the government.
 He told of cutting down the estimates in departments over the expenditures of last year. and how the money is to be spent in the expectation of having a sur plus when the accounts are balanced for the year. He explained the unexpected increase in the cost of the Panama canal and touched upon the need of waterways but declared that he did not favor an issue of bonds before work Is begun, not forming a pot" into which each section could dip it's hands. He did believe, he said, in having waterways improvement go ahead economically without waiting until it is demanded by political expe- diency.
 President Taft said one way of saving money is to bring up to a standard of efficiency the employees in governmental departments He said that he felt like one crying in the wilderness to advocate civil pensions. but he believed the time would come when the policy would have to be adopted.
 The President predicted that more bus inesslike methods of conducting the finances of the country were sure to be adopted so that the expenditures, though becoming less. would not prevent in creasing the scope of departments and the creation of new bureaus which would make for the general welfare of the peo- pie.
 The gathering which crowded the great place to the doors was held in Com mons. the dining hall of Yale university. Besides President Taft the other speaker was President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, in place of Governor Hughes of New York. who was unable to leave the bed l side of his father in Albany. In his address President 1adley said there were two sets of problems with which the government had to deal Those which should be decided by specialists, and those which should be decided by the people, he said.
 Of the latter he fnstanced slavery, the relations between state and nation and the annexation of the Philippines.
 But" he said, currency. taxation of the railroads and the tariff require ex- pert advice if the government Is to be more than a piece of wasteful bungling.
 President Hadley said that the thing which makes the situation serious now Is that a number of public questions have come into the foreground of kind not foreseen by the framers of the constitu- ton.
 Those questions, he declared, need the advices of specialists.
 President Hadley indorsed the appoint ment of tariff commission. The expert ment of specializing. he said, must begin with the people, and work upward. We must form the habit of supporting and correcting these bodies of experts by or ganized public opinion said the eminent educator