Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-30
TAfTS MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS
Success or Failure Of Short
Session Rests Upon It
WILL NOT WITHDRAW PROGRAM


House-Unlikety to Insist on Action
On Tariff at Present-severai I'm
portant Measures to Be Pressed
During Next Three Months
Washington. Nov. S,-President
Taft, 1T is said, is in doubt as TO what
course TO pursue as regards tariff ac-
ton I'D his executive message. The
chances are he will not insist on ac-
1lon during the approaching session of
congress.
1t is thought that he WI offer to the
Democratic house and the Republican
senate, a year hence, program for
tariff revision which will be bolstered
up with facts and figures gathered tw
the meantime by the tariff board.
When congress meets a week from
today it WIFI have just three months
IN which to perform whatever may be-
Uhe demands Of Republican admins
rratton. After that the fate of the
Tatt legislative program will depend
upon the wifi Of a Democratic house
and Republican senate. a condition.
which will continue until the end Of
President TafTs, present term of Of
tee.
Confronted with a situation full of
confusion, the, success OF failure of
the approaching short session of the
Sixty first congress is believed to rest
with the character of the executive
message to be sent to the legislative
bodies, according to Republican party
leaders who arR now in tire city.
Many of the regular Republicans
who were defeated in the recent cleo
lions are not expected to accept with
the best Of grace the blows so harshly
administered, and this fact will cut
out for the president task far more
difficult and complex than any that has
been presented TO an executive within
a, score of years.
Realizing that he will be criticised If
he fails to demand of congress further
revision of the. tariff-and fully cog
infant Of the fact that the prospects
would be all against the success of
such a program if sumbitted. the
president, it is said, has not made up
his mind definitely what his course
will be.
Personally the president has made it
clear that he does not purpose to with
draw any part of his program, al
- nj
somewhat, just because the Democrats
are about to- come into control of the
house of representatives.
/ Within the short session which be
| gins next week fourteen regular an
| preparation bills, carrying an aggre-
I gate of a billion dollars Or more. ms.
| be passed. Otherwise there wOu!d Be
! necessity for an extra session n9Ef
! spring The result of such a sessiO,
would be to bring the Democrats face
to face with the necessity OF dcjn@
something nine months in advance U1
the time they would ordinarily X
! called upon to assume responsibility.
For many reasons neither Democrat:
nor Republicans want to preciDitatf
this situation and it viii be avOnfet
! if possible AS far as appropriation
bills are concerned, it is not believed
there will be lack of operation Il
facilitate their passage.
There is some sympathy anr9~s
Democrats with the presidents D'al
for federal incorporation act AMI -
the modification of the laws rw1a;ir'
to injunctions and trusts AFR thr~'
questions are complicated, fToweyer
Among the measures to be nree-o
are those providing for the TOT; ."
ton of the Panama canal. ana t~ig.
is conceded will provoke cOntrcve~ey
Il the amendment of the postal 's"-T
as to provide for parcels post IL
rural delivery routes, and for
creased postage on the advert:~i1
portions of 1agaZines: the g~77-i~r
ship subsidies; the pensjoEIn@-0t s ln0*
animated employees OF the civil sa"7T5ar
the creation of a public land cou
and the establishment of forest re
J servations in the White mountains i,
the north and in the Appalachians il
the south. Opposition to the nava
program for the annual addition of two
battleships to the navy may be ex.
pected, but it probably will not be
effective in the approaching session.,