New-York tribune., 1909-02-21
Constant Reader Tells What tie
Missed in Last Weeks Papers.

Not much going was there! salu h'9'
Man Struck me as pretty quiet Week
1T was decided" said Constant Reader' aI'S
a conference between President-eiect laIl anu
Senator AIdrich that the special session oi Cou-
Cress at which tariff revision is to be taken UP
will he called on March 15- The Presldehl-e'eCI
expressed faith in the sincerity OF the party Ie'4
ers and believed they would give the country Il
genuine tariff revision All constitutional oDJeC-
tions to the acceptance by Senator Knox OF tne
most of Secretary of State in President Iait
Cabinet were swept away By legislation IN Iue
House Of Representatives Il vas asserted III
well informed circles that Judge wins van
vanter circuit Judge Of the Eighth Judicial DIS
trict of wyoming, had been offered and had aI-
cepted the post of Secretary of the Treasury IN
President Taft's Cabinet. The Presdent-eiect was
made a Master Mason by the grand master OF ONO
in Scottish Rite Cathedral Cincinnati
The President active as usual?
President Roosevelt transmitted 70 Congress
the report of the engineers who acconpanlei
President-elect Taft TO Panama and inspected the
canal The engineers approved the lock system
of construction now in progress and estimated
the entire cost Of the canal at $}6coo0e0- He ad-
dressed the delegates u the North American Con
servation Conference in Washington. asking for
worldwide cooperation 20 save national resources
Legislation which it is believed If enacted into
law. will make important epoch in the future
welbeing OF the dependent children of the nation
was recommended in a special message sent by
the President u Congress. in which he made
strong plea IN the interest OF children OF thlS
class.
The Commissioner OF Corporations reported 70
the President the Tobacco Trust The report
saws that the trust controls four-hfths Of the
output Of each kind of important tobacco manu-
factured in the United States. and that six men
James b. Duke. A. y. Brady, o. II. Payne. Thomas
F Ryan. ?. a. & Widener and William c. Whit
ney-coutroued the Consolidated Tobacco Company
at its formation. and through 1t the American and
Continental Tobacco companies. BY the foTna-
ton Of the Consolidated these six men made mill
ions OF dollars for themselves"
What did Congress do?''
THE Senate agreed the provision in the original
naval bin that the government should not pur-
chase powder from the so-called Powder Trust, ex-
cept in wartime. and voted for two 26.C00-ton bat
tIeships and 70 retain the marines ships of
war The Senate also ratified the agreement with
Great Britain providing for arbitration by The
Hague Court OF the Newfoundland fisheries dis
pute. The House passed the bill admitting New
Mexico and Arizona into the Union separate
states.
"A tariff convention held in Indianapolis
by merchants and manufacturers and the demand
was made that Congress create permanent tariff
commission for the following purposes and ends;
..First-The collecting and intelligent. thorough
and rejudiCed study Of tariff facts
''Second-The development and enlargement OF
our foreign trade.
''Thirl-The accomplishment of this by reCipro-
cal trade agreements based on maximum and min
imum schedules.