The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-24
TAFT PLAYS GOLF
AND OTHERS WAIT
No Diplomatic Changes viii
Be Made fer Some Time
WILL DEFEND POLICIES
President VIII Defend Recent Tariff
LegisIation-DaIIas Delegation
Fails To Get the timer
airy Changed.
WILL DEFEND POLICIES

Beverly, Mass, August 23.-President
Taft's grasp on the shaft of the golf
club and the side of the automob bile
were considerably firmer today than
CD the reins of government, although
he found tine to glance over his morn
ing mail, discuss a few questions of
state with his Secretary Of the Treas
ury and pass smiling and unscathed
through the bi-weekly inquisitlon of
the newspaper men.
He saw no visitors of imF ortance, not
| even an anxious delegation from Dali
las. Tex, who made the long journey
to obtain the Presidents consent TO
| lcngthen his stay in that city until the
morning l.ght should break.
Tie most important news items of
| the day we're the statements that there
would be no diplomatic changes until
after Congress convened, the expected
arrival on Thursday OF Senator Nelson
w. AldlJch of Rhode Islaud TO discuss
the report of the monetary commission
and the intimation that the administra-
tion was prepared to defend to the last
ditch, or the last back platform speech,
its record on the recent tariff legisla-
| ton.
Any report of immediate changes in
some Of the foreign ambassies is dis
! coura6ed, although Ambassador Reid
Will see the President Friday and
propably will have few words to
| SLY regarding the attitude Of the Brit
is1 government toward this country at
! the rreLent time, and its wishes as TO
the next American rer1 esenratlve to
the court of st. James.
| Mr.. Reid desired to vl,,t Beverly
Thursday, but that day was already set
for the coming of Senator Aldrioh, WHO
will go over with the President and
! Secretary MacVeagh a portion of the
report Of tho monetary commission. 1t
| is understood that the report is in a
more complete form than ever the
| President expected and it is possible
that it will be in shape by the time
Senator Aldrich returns from his four
weeks trip to Europe
He will sail from New York Satur-
day.
II the western opponents of the new
| tariff law expect silence from the Pres
ident or a reluctance on his part to dis
cuss its different provisions, they will
be disappointed.
The administration has burned its
bridges and is ready and willing to de-
bate any and all the schedules
Relative to census appointments, the
| President has solicited aT-1yicn nd
has 134 more TO discover. He hopes to
! find most of them before he leaves for
| the west as well the members of the
so-called foreign tariff commission.
The Dallas delegation, composed OF
Mayor Hay, Judge j. NJ. Mccormack
and Henry D. Lindsay, reached Beverly
/ just after the President had left for My
opia and were compelled to confer with
Secretary Carpenter They asked thai
the stop in Dallas, which Is scheduled foI
few hours in the evening, be prolonged
until the next morning. in order that the
people might have good view of the chic
| magistrate. The delegation found, how
ever, that even such a brief delay woulc
completely upset the itinerary and coult
not be regarded as advisable.
The persistent report of a reduction OF
| the standing army was again brought t.
the Presidents attention and once more
1t was learned, however that while tht
full strength of the army is $780, /
numbers 900 at the present time, a fore,
which the President and the Secretary o.
| War deem sufficient. Any formal orde
! for reduction must come from the com
mander-in-chief, and no such order ha
been issued contemplated
Agreeable outdoor recreations again oc
cupied the greater portion of the Pres
ident's time today. He defeated Edito
Ogden of the New York Evening Post a
golf, 2 up and l to play on the Myopi
course The President thinks the tent
hole at Myopia the hardest golfing propo
sition he has yet tackled.
This afternoon after Captain Butt ha.
spent an hour in map studying, the BIZ
automobile started on another exploration
tour of northeastern Massachusetts. Thi
time Captain Butt knew the road an
brought the party back before dark. Yes
terday the Presidential party was lost TO
couple of hours In the highways o
Arlington, Cambridge and Somerville /
an effort to follow the route of the Brit
ish rereat from Lexington. 1t
scarcely twenty-five miles in q fairl
straight Line from Beverly to lie
ington but the record on the President
automobile marked "a miles when 1t finall
stopped in front of the Taft mansion a
D. m. after a fve-hour run