The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-08-27
PRESIDENT SPENDS
THE SABBATH DAY AT
SUMMER CAPITAL
BUSY AS THE PRovEaBIAL BEE
UNTIL LATE IN THE AFT
ERNooN.
DIDN'T ATTEND SERVICES
Pardon Cases Considered At The
Hour of Worship-New Tariff
Board Was Discussed BY The
Cabinet.

a BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. 18Th
4 cares of state weighed too heavily o
4 President Taft Sunday to permit NOR
!. than an hours absence from the sun
!. mer White House, and il was not Ut
, til the sun was setting that bushes
, gave way to pleasure and the bii
motor car whirled the Chief Execu
tive away from a Cabinet meeting
for a drive along the Essex country
shore with Mrs. Taft.
Even church attendance was omit
ed in the interests of humanity, fol
during the forenoon a long list OF
pardon cases were considered, while
in the afternoon, with the cool breezes
sweeping in from the sea, Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh and At
torney General Wickersham and Sec
rotary of the Navy Meyer discussed
for an hour or more the intricate
and delicate questions of the person
mel of the new tariff board, the
changes in the interstate commerce
and antitrust acts and some econom-
ic measures which have been iRsti-
tuted in the Navy Department.
The makeup of the new tariff
board was discussed in detail and
list of forty or more names for the
three places was carefully examined.
The Cabinet paused for some time
over the name of James B. Reynolds, ,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
before fastening to the others, and it
is thought probable that the Massa-
chusetts tariff rate expert may be
further considered. No definite ac-
ton, however. will be taken until a
more complete Cabinet meeting is
held
Regarding the proposed change in
stated that the efforts of the present
administration will be toward lifting
rom the shoulders of the present
,oard the work of investigating rates
nd alleged violations of the act, and
hitting such labors to the Depart '
1ent of Commerce.
After long conference of the Sher- +
ian antitrust act and in the light of I
of decisions, the administra- Z
on is firm in the conviction that only p
lie most carefully considered changes L
| even the wording of the different d
ections of the act can be suggested p
} Congress and that those suggestions u
Mould deal only with the application Y
cases which it is believed were new NJ
in contemplation by the trainers of
e original statute. Take two in CT
ances: A merchant or manufacture oi
engaged in a legitimate business
at covers certain States wishes to W
II his business and his good will, and tu
In the terms of the sale obligates tr
mself to the purchaser not to. go into oe
z
ch a restraint of trade has always sa
en- enforced at common law. Again,
2 employees of an interstate railroad nc
mbine, enter upon a peaceable and Jul
vful strike to secure better wages. an
common law such was not a re- Iri
amt of trade or commerce or d vio-
ion of the rights of the company or ME
, public. 1t is the belief of the ma
ute lawyers of the present admins Oh
ton that neither case ought to be Tor
de a violation of the Sherman act.
danv other nhases of the Sherman Off
also were discussed and will be ash
ught later before other members of
Cabinet. VIII
he retrenchment plans which Sec
ary Meyer has inaugurated in the res
W Department are expected to take
mite shape before Congress meets, NJ
ough the report of the three boards
oh are making a rigid dnvestiga.
along such lines.
l the course of week Secretary
Ter expects to visit the Portsmouth
/ for an inspection. phS
definite denial was made! "Ae
he summer capitol of the report '>eS
reduction of the regular army 'oi'
under contemplation. pres