Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-11-10
MUCH WORK AWAITS TAFT
President Reaches Home Tonight and
Will Find Many Matters Demand
ing His Attention.
fHerald Specially

Washington, D. c., Nov. 1O.-Wear'
led by his fifty-seven day trip across
the continent and return, President
Taft reaches home tonight to find his
desk piled high with matters demand
ing his attention. First of all he will
have to fill a great many vacancies in
public office Next in Importance to
the appointment of an associate jus
tice of the supreme court to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of JUS
tice Peckham is the appointment of a
minister to China. Then there is a
new assistant secretary of the treas
ury to be selected and also an assist
ant secretary of commerce and labor,
Since the beginning of the present
administration sentora and representa-
tives have not Jared very well in their
quest for places in the government
service for constituents, and there are
plenty of indications that as soon as
the president gets back to work he
will be besieged by the place-hunters.
But the president will have plenty
of business to engage his attention,
aside from that connected with the
filling of offices. For one thing, he
has the new tariff law on his hands.
When he departed on his $4,000 mile
trip, the indications were that the law
would probably go into effect without
a great deal of friction, but before he
had turned his face homeward compli-
cations of an important nature had
arisen. He returns to find the coun
try on the verge of tariff war with
Germany, France and Canada, with
the prospect that complications with
other countries may arise. The new
tariff law provides the president with
a so-called tariff board of three men,
bers, which is to assist him in arriv-
ing at decision as to whether the
maximum rate shall be applied against
any particular province or country,
but after all the responsibility will all
fall on the chief executive. So it is
evident that Mr.. Taft will have to
give close attention to the situation
that has developed since he started
on his long trip last September.
The president is not likely to get
comfortably settled down to work be-
fore the first of next week, as he is
scheduled to leave Washington tomor-
row night for Middletown, Conn, to
attend the Inauguration of President
Shanklin of Wesleyan University. 1t
was originally intended that the pres
ident should visit New Haven on this |
eIipJ bs-+- In MS anxiety u get JdcK to |
work as soon as possible the arrange
ments for the New Haven visit have |
been cancelled. After his return from
the president is likely to |
remain in the capital until congress
with the exception of a |
brief trip to Norfolk at the end of |
next week to address the waterways
convention there.
Following his long absence from the
capital, the president will resume
work in the new executive offices of
the White House. His new private Of
flee is circular room, plain in ap-
pearance, but light and attractive. 1t
is fitted out to a large extent with
woods from the Philippines. The new
addition in which the office is located
also provides a large room for cabi-
net meetings and a new office for
Private Secretary Carpenter.