The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-04
President Has Been in Office One
Fourth Of His Term and Started
the Second Year This
Morning.
LIST OF ACHIEVEMENTS
Official Duties Have Caused Him to
Lose Only Seven Pounds Of
Weight During the
Year.

j What Taft Has Done in Year.
| Travelled 2O,63S miles by railroad
and 5000 by automobile
Visited thirty states and two terri
tories.
Made 34S speeches. Roosevelt, in
his last year as executive made only
242).
| Appointed 6.s17 federal officers
Sent eighteen messages to con-
gress.
4 Lost seven pounds; weighed s26 on
i March 4, 1909, and 319 on March 8.
1910.
i Obtained enactment of new tariff
law.
i Took initial step looking to prose
cution of the beef trust
4 Unearthed customs frauds at New
York.
!, Discharged three federal officers
Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot, AS
sistant Forester o. ". Price and Law
4 Officer A. w. Shaw.
Instituted an inquiry into the high
, cost of living.
Forced the abdication of President
zelaya. dictator OF Nicaragua.
Shook hands with President Diaz
) on Mexican soil
Yesterday was the last day of the
first year of the Taft administration.
!. The catalogue of things done and
2 things begun by President Taft makes
variegated reading.
Among other things. he has smashed
two presidential records. In point of
railroad mileage, the present occu-
pant of the white house in his first
years travel has topped tina. of any
8 of his predecessors. Colonel Roose-
welt in the year in which he made the
journeyed a greater distance, but not sc
far in Pullman sleeper. President
Taft has to date been hauled 20,63s
!. miles by locomotive. In addition, he
3 has set new mark in automobile
mileage, travelling about 5000 miles
3 in this way. Averaged, he has jour
20 neyed fifty-six miles for each day il
the year
President Taft has made 34'
speeches. Colonel Roosevelt, wh'
gained quite a reputation TO
loquacity, made only 242 in the las
in and most speechful year of his ad
o. ministration.
Tue imnnrtout oonoraceional invoc
legations resulted from condition
= transpiring in the first year of tn
Taft regime-the conservation squat
BILE and the high cost of living.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua los
his job as head Of the Central Amer
can Republic through mourning tn
If, displeasure of the washington at
ministration. AS result of cond
tons discovered by Collector Loeb a
Az New York. President Taft has weet
ed out those responsible for custom
frauds and obtained the indictment {
sugar trust officials. He has ais
ordered new prosecution Of the bee
trust.
eli During the year the president ser
nd eighteen communications to congress
Der Eight of these were legislative me-
be sages and ten were letters TRANSMIT
ny ting departmental reports or othe
n after for the information of the Law
ith making body
IN Action has not really begun yet
zen congress on the recommendation
no made in the Taft messages.
'eu To date, the only administratio
10 measure of Importance enacted hs
nd been the Payne Aldrich tariff bill, wit
asst the corporation tax appendix ar
VS., provisions for customs court. tart
m, board and maximum and minimum
OF rates in the discretion of the exec
~ tive. The publicity feature of IL
~ corporation tax law is still held
"a. allowance on account of the lack
appropriations to make it effectiv
zen and the customs court has not y
ON been established.
TN With half the present session
w. ', congress over, the bills especially re
III. commended this year by President TIA
not are still strangers to the statute book
/ One has passed the house; sever
for have been recommended for passa;
srlt by the various committees on bo
cry sides. but most of them have be,
hos laid away until next session or to
uld more distant epoch.
,rse The house has passed the Arizol
and New Mexico statehood bill, al
less that measure is now tied UP in t
lter senate committee on territories. t
I'M IN, federal incorporation bill is in char
NC of a subcommittee of the sena
nm judiciary committee, which is
n ported to have locked it up in bun
and lar proof safe and thrown the k
the away.
One conservation bill has been +,
~ commended for passage, out OF nj