The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-03
TAFT BREAKS PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS FOR TALK AND
 TRAVEL IN PULLMAN SLEEPER
Last Day of His First Year of Service as Executive
 Ends Today

Most of the Legislation Rec
 commended by the Presi-
 dent Continues to Hang
 Fire But Postal Savings
 Bill May Pass Congress
 Soon-Zelaya's Downfall
 Due to Displeasure of Ad-
 ministration.
 One years record for w. H. Taft as President:
 Travelled, 2o;sss miles by
 Visited 80 states and two ter ritories.
 Made S4S speeches.
 (RooseVelt in his last year as Executive made only 242.)
 Sent IS messages to Congress.
 Lost seven pounds; weighed S26 on March 4, 1909, and 319 on March 3, 1910.
 Secured enactment of a new tariff law.
 Took tinitia1 step looking to prosecution of beef trust.
 Unearthed customs frauds at As
 Discharged three Federal of ficers-Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot, Associate Forester O.W. Price, and Law Officer A. w. Shaw.
 Instituted an inquiry into the high cost of living.
 Forced the abdication of Pres ident Zelaya, dictator of Nicara- gIla.
 Shook hands with President Dfaz on Mexican soil.
 Washington, March 3.-This is the sst day of the first year of the Taft administration.
 The catalogue of things done and aings begun by President Taft makes arigated reading. Among other a1ngs he has smashed two Presi- entia1 records. In point of rai1road 1i1eage the present occupant of the White House in his first years trave1 as topped that of any of his pre- ecessors. Colonel Roosevelt, during ne year in which he made the trip } the Panama Canal, probably jour eyed a greater distance but not so IF in a Pullman sleeper President aft has to date been hauled 20,6SS siles by railroad. In addition lie as set a new mark in automobile lileage, travelling about 5000 miles l this fashion. Averaged he has 9nrneyed 56 miles for each day in ae year President Taft has made
 
 aimed quite a reputation for 1oqua- on, made only PAP in the last and lost speechful year of his admins .ation.
 Two important Congressional in resulted from conditions in the first year of the aft regime-the conservation squab- le and the high cost of living. President Zelaya, of Nicara qua, lost is job as the head of the Central merican republic through mourning ne displeasure of the Washington Administrations As a result of con t New York, President Taft has ,eeded out those responsible for GUS pms frauds and secured the ind1ct- lent of sugar trust officials. He has lso ordered a new prosecution of ne beef trust.
 During the year President Taft ant IS communications to Congress light of these were legislative meas res and 10 were letters transmitting epartmenta1 reports or other matter or the information of the law mak- lg body.
 Action hasn't really yet begun in sade in the Taft messages. With half the present session of ongress over the bills especially rec nm ended this year by President aft are still strangers to the statute The Interstate Commerce bill, in Iudings the creation of a commerce Durt, will probably be passed by the enate and House after a heavy fight. times have attended the ostaI savings bill but it is due to ass the Senate probably late today. On the House side the administra- on's amendment to the anti-injunc on laws is held by the committee II Judiciary,
 If there is time, Congress may at smpt to carry out the reforms pro- osed by the President looking to lore speedy conduct of litigation Tn