The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-11

state commerce tribunal more power 10
prevent delays now incident 10 appeals
to the courts. In my Judgment the best
way rs To create a special court and
have a court that is charged with the
knowledge and practice in regard to
the railroads. so that the matter can be
promptly disposed Of
= Iben ! am strongly in favor Of a
postal savings bank, | know That IN
That proposition | come up against Il
great MANY conservative bankers. and
also of great many who doubt the
wisdom of extending patcrnalism i'll tho
government. When il happens that the
government is so situated that it can
do thing better and more CcOnoml.
calIy than individuals can do it and
can supply Il want for means OF
thrift: ! am in favor of its doing if.
The monetary reform Is under con
sidcration by a committee. / am hope
iul that the commission may present
tho conditions that exist here and
tho conditions as they exist in Eu-
rope. and in this way point out to us
some steps that may be taken TO re.
form what is certainly today nothing
but patchwork.
Court Procedure.
'Thcn there is another subject that
is very near to my heart. We must i'm.
prove our legal procedure so as to make
1t both in criminal and in civil cases,
more simple. more rapid and less cy-
pcnSivc, and | mean 10 recommend TO
congress the appointment Of a commits
sion TO take that subject up with re-
spcct 10 the federal procedure and then
IT by the federal procedure VIC achieve
result that commeuds itself it viii
form model for the states
Mr.. Taft said he believed the time
had come for the organization of 4
federal health bureau.
THAT is a pretty long list Of things
To do, but if We set our shoulders to-
gcthcr we can do n lot in one or two
sessions Of congress- continued the
president
Referring to his avowed policy of
showing hIs consideration for the South
by appointing 10 federal Offices in the
South mon ''whosc appointment would
commend themselves in the communi-
tics IN which they live Mr.. Taft said
he had been carrying out that policy
as far as he had been able and would
continue Ia do so.
No Sectional Limos.
''Wc have reached point, | am glad
10 say, when the North can admire to
the full heroes Of the South and the
South admire 10 the full heroes of tho
North. said the president "Therc is
monument in Quebec that always com.
mends itself TO me--a monument to COM
memoratc the battle of the Plains of
Abraham, and on one face of that beau.
t'ful structure is the namo of Mont
calm and on the other side the name
of Wolf.
That always seemed TO mo TO bc
he acme of what we ought to reach
IN this country, and ] am glad to say
that In my own alma mater of Yale we
have established an association for the
purpose of erecting within her academic
precincts memorial not 10 the North.
crn Yale men, who died, not 10 the
Southern Yale mon, who died, but to
thc Yale men who died in the Civil
war.
And so | venture TO hope that the
project suggested by my predecessor
President Roosevelt. may he alluded to
by me with approval and the expression
of the hope that it is coming TO frui.
ton, TO wit; that there should bc a
great memorial in honor of General Rob.
crt T.. Lee. i'm the establishment of
what he himself would value most high
ly, great school Of engineering at
Washington and Leo university, and
take this opportunity TO express my
deep sympathy in that movement and
my desire to aid it in every way pos
siblc and proper