Evening star., 1909-08-21
Real Cabinet Meeting to Be
Held There Today.
TO CONSIDER LEGISLATION
Taft Expects MacVeagh, Meyer and
WickerSham.'
CHAT WITH MIR. CRANE. TOO
President Desires to Impress New
Minister to China With Impor-
tance of Mission.

BEVERLY. Mass. August 21.-Beverly
is justly excited today over the prospect
OF real cabinet meeting this afternoon.
President Taft will confer with three
members of his official family at the cot
tage on Burgess point, and. to make the
most of a busy afternoon. will have a
long talk with Charles r. Crane of Chi
cago. the newly appointed minister to
China, who soon is to leave for his post
In the far east.
The cabinet conference will be attended
by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Attor-
ney General Wickersham. Probably all
three will participate in the discussion of
the plan for amending the interstate COM
merce and antitrust laws. which is par
ticularly the task of Mr.. Wickersham.
Secretary MacVeagh already has re-
ported to the President by letter the diff
ticulty he is having in selecting the right
men for appointment on the tariff COM
mission authorized by the Payne bill. He
desires to take up with the President the
question of whether The commission shall
consist OF three or five members.
President Taft believes that there is an
excellent opportunity TO extend American
trade in China and wide field for an
active diplomatic representative OF the
United States to work in. He gave more
thought TO the selection of a man to I'LL
the Chinese mission than to any other
diplomatic appointment he has made. He
is anxious to impress upon Mr.. Crane his
deep interest In China and the Importance
of the mission he is about to undertake.
Good Trusts and Bad.
One of the problems that Attorney Cen
eral Wckersham and the commission of
government officials who will meet next
week in New York to begin consideration
of changes in the interstate commerce
and antitrust laws will have to solve is
the difference between good trust and
a bad trust President Taft has an
Eounced that he believes federal supervi-
sion of corporations should be confined
to those combinations of capital which
have it In their power to effect a mo-
nopoly and to bring about a disastrous re-
straint of trade.
The President is convinced that changes
in the IN ear De Recommended by which
American business can be assured of sta
bility and certainty In respect to those
things that may be done within the law
and those that are prohibited. 4 more
definite expression of the law is needed,
according to Mr.. Taft's view. as essential
10 the life and growth of all business.
Mr.. Taft has said that the plan he has
iii mind. and which he has impressed
upon the cabinet officers and other Off
cials who are 10 frame the amendments
TO be recommended to Congress, includes
The right of the people to avail them
selves of those methods of combining
capital and effort deemed necessary to
reach the highest degree of economic ef-
iiciency, at the same time diferentiating
between combinations based upon legiti-
mate economic reasons and those formed
with the intent OF creating mOnOpOlieS
<tud artificially controlling prices.
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