The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-17
f Congress Will Vote Him the
Funds Necessary.
HE LIKES TO TRAVEL
And Considers the Trip a Part
of His Duty
But Does Not Feel Able to Stand
the Expense.

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Taft, who believes that the chief mag
istrate of the nation should keep in as
close touch with the people as the du-
ties and requirements of the office ad-
NIT, is planning a notable trip during
the late summer and early autumn,
provided congress decides to continue
the annual appropriation of $4,000
for travelling expenses allowed during
the closing years of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration.
The presidents plans for the sum-
mer as far into the heated term as
August 10, have been completed. Mr..
Taft will leave Washington as soon as
he can arrange matters after the ad-
journment of congress and has been
told that the extra session will end
June 1. The president will go direct
from the White House to his summer
home at Woodbury. Point, Beverly,
Mass, and will spend two months or
more there as quietly and as free from
official worry as possible.
Mr.. Taft will devote most of his va
cation to golffng, motoring and per-
haps will take short cruises along the
northern coast. The reassembled At
lantic fleet of sixteen sbattleships will
maneuver off the New England coast
during the summer and the president
undoubtedly will want to see some of
the work of the ironclads.
The trip the president desires to
make to the west during the late sum-
mer will be entirely too expensive to
be paid for out of his own pocket. An
outline of the proposed itinerary has
been given to a high railroad official
and an estimate requested. 1t is said
the cost would be in the neighborhood
Of s15,0 900 to $4,000. If he goes west
at all, the president will include
Alaska in the journey, sailing from
Seattle, probably on a vessel of the
navy or revenue cutter service.
No president has ever visited the
far northern territory which for so
long has been a part of the United
States. The president has been invit-
ed to and is particularly anxious to at
tend the following gatherings:
Where He Wants to Go.
The annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at Salt
Lake City.
The Trans Mississippi congress at
Denver
The National Irrigation congress at
Seattle and the Alaska Yukon-Pacific
exposition at the same city.
In addition to his proposed visit to
the Rocky Mountain states, and to the
Pacific coast, the presidents tentative
plans for the trip include long swing
of the south itself
Many of the vessels Of the Pacific
fleet, which includes eight fine armor-
ed cruisers of the type of the North
Carolina and Montana, which Mr.. Taft
used on his recent trip to Panama will
be stationed in and about Puget Sound
during the exposition and the president
undoubtedly would make the trip to
Alaska on one of these. Returning from
the north, he probably would land at
San Francisco to begin from there the
journey along the southern border line
Mr. Taft has often of
kan trip, but it has not been known
until now that he had decided to make
it part of any trip he may take to
the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Taft, who is as fond of travel
as her husband. would accompany the
president on the tour.
Many Favor the Trip.
Western and southern senators and
representatives are particularly anxious
to have the president visit their sec
tions and will do all in their power to
provide the necessary funds. They be-
lieve with the president that such a
tour as he proposes to make should be
universal desire to keep the people in
close touch and sympathy with the CEN
trail government. They believe the
presidents trips through the country.
and his addresses are as much of a
benefit to the people as to himself
President Taft makes no secret of
his fondness for travel He believes II
to be the only way of obtaining a pro
per idea and perspective of such a hip
country. Mr.. Taft's stay at Beverly
will be interrupted by few short trips
to fill speaking engagements he has al
ready made and others which he has
under consideration.
Two splendid new motor cars. order
ed sometime ago, have just arrived at
the White House garage. making three
HI in
One of the cars he has been
using up to this time was Temporarily
provided by the factory until the snec.
ial cars for the president could be com
pleted. The president and Mrs. Taft
both are looking forward with pleasure
to motoring long distances over the