The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-11-11
THE PRESIDENT
REACHED HOME
IN GOOD HEALTH
Has Another Side Trip and
Will Then Settle Down to
....s, Work
SOME OF THE THING She
WILL RECOMMEND TO CONGRESS
Conservation Will be Headliner
While Government Mineral, Water
Power Sites, Interstate Commerce
and Postal Savings Bank Are Others

Power Sites. Interstate Commerce
and Postal Savings Bank Are Others
Washington, Nov. 11-President
Taft arose this morning apparently
none the worse for his $4,000 mile
trip. This morning he delivered the
principal address at the opening ses-
sion of the Laymen's missionary
movement He leaves this afternoon
for MiddletoWn, Conn. and Hartford.
Conn.,, but will be back by noon Sat-
urday and on Monday expects to
plunge into work. The presidents re-
ception on his return last evening
was all that he could desire. At the
station he was met by a score of
friends and a number of frock coated
and silk hated committees. The
president said smilingly: II am glad
to get back. I'm back again feeling
just as we'll as when l went away, or
even better"
In the final speech at Richmond
yesterday afternoon the president
thus prefaced a preliminary state-
ment of some of the recommendations
Ills III 81 dlllludl lIICSSdSS IL COusEoS6
would contain.
"In the first place there is the con-
servation of our resources and the
reclamation of arid lands" said the
president. I'VE have reached a time
now where a great many people in
the west are counting on an immedi-
ate supply of water for the land upon
which they have settled, which is not
forthcoming BECAUSE the money ap-
piled to the reclamation fund does not
come in as quickly as expected, or at
least quickly enough to meet the
exigency OF the occasion. and l am
strongly in favor of anticipating that
| fund which is a fund raised solely by
the sale of public lands, by the issu-
ing of bonds. the payment of which
shall be charged to the same source
of revenue"
Coal Lands.
"Then we have great deal of
valuable coal land owned by the gov
ernment. We have great many wa
ter power sites. the water power of
which will furnish an immense
amount of power for use by electrical
appliances Then there are millions
of acres of phosphate to be used in
the fertilization of the soil. Under
existing laws those lands are likely
to be parted with merely under
homestead settlement. They are of
such peculiar value that it seems
wiser that the government should re-
serve some control over the water
power sites and the coal lands and
the phosphates so that they may not;
int En hon op
ling corporation but may be retained
by the government, with the power to
restrict the prices at which the coal,
or at least at which the power Is sold
to prevent the absorption into one
command of all the power on the con-
tinent.
Then we have the antitrust law
on our hands for enforcement, and
the arrangement of the departments
of the government in such a. way as
to make it more effective if possible.
Then there is the interstate COM
nerce law which certainly needs
amendment in order to give the inter-
state commerce tribunal more power
to prevent the delays which are now
incident to appeals to the courts. In
my Judgment the best way is to cre-
ate special court and have court
that is charged with the knowledge
and practice in regard to railroads,
so that the matter can be properly
disposed of.
Then l am strongly in favor of a
postal savings bank. / know that in
that proposition come up against
a great many conservative bankers,
and also of a great many who view
with doubt the wisdom of extending
paternalism in the government,
Where it happens that the govern
ment is SO situated that it can do q
thing better and more economical
than individuals can do 1t, and can
supply a. want for a means of thrift
am in favor of it's doing it.
The monetary reform is under
consideration by a commission.
am hopeful that the commission may
present the conditions that exist here
and the conditions as they exist in
Europe. and in this way point out
to us some steps that may be taken
to reform what is certainly today
nothing but a patchwork.
Then there is another subject that
is very near to my heart. 1 have
been Judge and that is a subject I
know something about We must inn
prove our legal procedure SO as to
make it both in criminal and civil
cases more simple. more rapid and
less expensive, and l mean to recon-
mend to congress the appointment of
a commission to take that subject up
with respect to the federal procedure
: and then if by the federal procedure
we achieve result that commands
itself. it will form a model fne Aha