The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-11
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 except the members of the cabinet, were excluded
 In spite of the dress rehearsal of
 ahe cabinet, held at the department
 of justice last Monday night, there were some violations of ethics in
 wearing apparel. Secretary Nagel dar- ingly wore a white tie with his frock
 coat and silk hat, and this lapse seem
 ed to jar the aesthetic natures of some
 of his fellow statesmen. In any event Secretary Nagel and other members
 of the cabinet disappeared quickly, leaving Secretary Knox and Postmas- ter General Hitchcock with the pres
 ident. The three conversed earnest | ly for two or three minutes, after
 which MT. Taft made his way No the
 White House automobile. | The president did not appear to
 have been fatigued by his long trip. Apparently he was no stouter than when he left in the summer, although
 it was whispered among his intimates that he had picked up several pounds
 as a result of his lengthy course of
 banqueting. When asked about it, he
 laughingly spread out his arms and
 invited inspection.
 When President Taft spoke at the city auditorium in Richmond this af- l ternoon he made his 266th speech of the long trip, which, according to the
 itinerary, consisted of 12,759 miles, 1 but with side trips amounted to more than 13, ,000 miles.
 Mr Taft leaves tomorrow afternoon for Middletown and Hartford. Conn.,, and in the meantime must deliver an address in Washington tomorrow be fore the Laymen's Missionary Society. The president returns to Washing ton shortly before noon on Saturday and Monday morning will settle down to the routine work of his office His
 message to congress is so we'll de fined in his mind and has been so well outlined in his speeches that it will require but brief time in dicta- tion. One of the last acts of the president on his "trip was to thank GeIritt Fort, of the New York Central lines for the manner in which the trip
 has been carried out under his direc- tion.
 In all of the 13,00O miles of travel, the train has everywhere been un time. President Taft said tonight that he would not make any of the important diplomatic appointments that are pending until after January l. He will not fill the vacancy on the SUI
 pseme court bench until after con- gress meets.
 President at Richmond
 Richmond, Nov. 10.-"Dmlng my
 sixty days of travel there has been
 moment or two of deliberation and during that time I have been stuoy. ing what 1t is the duty of an execu-  tive to recommend to an incoming congress in respect to future legisla. tion and when I think of the number of things congress ought to do, I am
 staggered lest 1t may not find time to do them"
 In the final speech of his 13,o0U mile trip before an immense audience this afternoon, President Taft thus prefaced preliminary statement of
 some of the recommendations his nrst annual message to congress woilld
 contain
 Tn the first place there Is the con- servation of our resources and the re
 clamation of arid lands" said the pres ident.
 We have reached a time now when
 a great many. people in the west are counting on an immediate supply of
 water for the land upon which they
 have settled which is not forthcoming
 because the money applied to the re- tAdIiidttOh uOto iiOl tOlil0 III dS quickly as expected or at least quick ly enough to meet the exigencies of
 the occasion, and I am strongly in faucE' of anticipating that fund, which is fund solely by the sale of public lands. by the issuing of bonds, the payment of which shall be charged to the same source of revenue" He added that the demand for the products of the soil is greater, be- cause of the growing population than
 the supply that acreage must be en- barged and the plain way seemed by reclamation through the application of
 water to land, heretofore desert, and by draining these lands which have heretofore been swamps. Those lands when brought into productiv- ity would yield. he said far more than the lands already under natural til- lage.
 Then we have great deal of val tio bio cao1 lsf,d .,tv, ad la, 4L . ,.-....