The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-11-12
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TAFT'S MESSAGE
Legislation to Be Urged Clearly
Outlined In Speeches.
LONG PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS-

President Will Begin Work In Execu.
tive Offices Just BuiIt-He Expects
Framing of Document For Congress
Will In the Main BE Mechanical For
the Ideas He Will Express Have
Been Clearly Expressed Already In
His Carefully Prepared Speeches.
President Taft has indicated clearly
in his speeches that the annual
message to congress on his return to
Washington tomorrow. He has .indi-
Gated clearly in his speeches that the
message will recommend an unusually
long program for congress. That the
president has been looking forward to
opposition in his own party Is indi-
Gated by his recent speeches. He has
warned the public that congress and
not the president is to be blamed for
failure to enact laws clinching the
Roosevelt policies
Taft has declared that he, better
than any other man, is able to say
what the Roosevelt policies are. He
has described his predecessor chief
policy as determination to make the
great corporations obey the law.
One of Taft's most important recon-
nendations will be for the establish
ment of court of five members to ex-
pedite litigation over the decisions of
the interstate commerce commission.
There will be a recommendation that
the interstate commerce commission
be given supervisory powers over the
issuance of stocks and bonds by inter
state roads. Also, the executive will
recommend that no interstate railroad,
after a certain period, be allowed TO
own stock in any other road. He will
suggest reorganization of the bureau
of corporations, the interstate COM
meYce commission and the department
of Justice. In one of his addresses Taft
said:
VIII Urge Postal Savings Banks.
1--WE could not get along without cor
porations. They are a necessary III
stYument in the business of the coun-
try. But we give privileges, so they
must recognize the responsibility with
which they exercise power and we
must take some means of compelling
them to recognize that responsibility
and to keep within the law"
The narrowing of the scope of the
Sherman law is another recommends
ton Taft will make. He will advise
that application of the antitrust meas
uFe be limited to combinations and con-
SpiracieS to suppress competition and
establish monOpOlies. The president
has acknowledged that such an amend
ment of the antitrust act as he pro-
poses will exempt boycotts from it's
operation. He will point out that he
would be the last person to recommend
special legislation in favor of the labor
unions, but that he does not believe
that&CDngress intended originally to in
clude boycotts in the operation of the
Sherman law.
The president will urge the estab-
lishment Of postal savings banks. FIe
has indicated that he favors Senator
Aldrichs central bank idea, but he will
not be ready to give it his full indorse-
ment until details are before him.
AS to inland waterways, there is no
likelihood of any radical recommends
ton. The Mississippi river boosters
will be disappointed, for Taft has
made it clear he will go no further
than he did in the speeches that he de-
ivered on his cruise down the river.
He will insist that no project shall he
undertaken until engineers have ap-
proved the feasibility and determined
the cost of any proposed waterway inn
pYovement
Alludes to Aerial Transportation.
The president will recommend ship
subsidies especially for the develop
ment of lines on the Pacific and on the
Atlantic between American and South
American ports. He has suggested
that the $6,000,00O or $1,000, 900 annual
profit on foreign mails might be ex-
pended for subsidies as an experiment.