The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-24
TAFT BEGINS MESSAGE TO-DAY
Batk ~ BASHTNGTON ifTER
BB DAI ~ re HMOND.
Makss = Breakfast on Rarbrruea Rabi,it.
Reviews Cadets, Visits Ratticaeid
and Talks d Canals Progress and
Things Message Win Recommend.


and Talks ~ Canais Progress ana
Things Message Win Recommend.
WAsHISoroS Nov. ~ President Taft
= again in Washington and Tomorrow
MI! begin work on his annual message IA
ungress. lie will also give serious CON
Iteration Immediately to number
.H important appointments soon Ia be
r.ads
The President arrived IN Mashin gion
from Richmond. Va. at $50 tonight
and went directly To the White House
In his message the Presldcni 1t IL
harmed. will recommend the passage Of
an ocean mail subsidy bill and will prob
ably renew his Recommended ions for the
iassage of AN act authorizing Federal
incorporation. A. the DIRECT result Of his
visit 10 Panama n. viii make a number
nf recommendations Tor legislation look
ing toward the fortification Of the canal
the question Of tolls and the form ~
government for the lanai Zone II III"
President adopts tn. recommended ions
Of Col. q. ". Goethal- chief engineer,
h" wi" urge upon Congress a military
form 81 government for the L0ne.
The President also will recommend
legislation looking to reorganization
Of the government Of Alasaa
1t II not likely that tn. President will
make any sweeping recommendations
for tariff legislation. although h. may
submit 10 congress certain conclusions
based upon the Investigations conducted
hv the tariff board especially as to paper
and wood pulp, and possibly on the wooll@u
and cotton schedules. IL il tn. opinion
Of those Who have talked with the Presi-
dent that he has no intention Of calling a
special session of Congress 10 deal with
the tarih. a. has been suggested 70 him by
some NJ his political friends II general
rev ision Of the tariff is To toe taken M u
will he left 10 the Democratic Hous. to
initiate It when il meets a year hence
President Taft concluded a strenuous
dav in Richmond and departed for Wash
ington on n special train AZ 5.la o'clock
this afternoon. He began the day with A
breakfast Of barhacued Ia hbIt With Gov
Mann at the Executive Mansion From
the Jefferson Hotel where the President
spent the night he ~.s taken az clock
TO the Executive Mansion under the
escort of local committee ~ citizens
and the Cadet Corps OF Tho Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
After the breakfast ~ which about
twenty -five prominent citizens 81 Rich
rnond sat. Mr.. Taft went to the Jefferson
Davis monument. in the shadow nf which
he reviewed q parade Of cadets from tn.
virginia Polytechnic Institute
he next night was in an automobile
20 the battlefield Of Seven Pines. stopping
on the way To make brief address t.
some negro students. II was about /
o'clock when Mr.. Taft returned To- the
Jefferson Hotel covered with dust from
his swift ride To the battlefield.
Already another enga gement VAS
crowding upon the President Making
hi aa.fs ntla b..
az luncheon given in his honor by ?SD
business men at which sI-tiov J
Montague was toastmasf"r The Pr-sl-
dent remained at the luncheon Until
asd aroused great enthusiasm N -aid
Nov. IL u near completion. I am da
lgItsd 70 say ;hat II YOU were :" 90 fhru-Igh
the experience. that NV paTrv AMI ha,"
gone through the four DAYS u" "-.' on the
9Th nus you would not need answer uT a.
-iIrsnCe from me
We are engaged m raEinx OFT of the
Hlehra 'Et an average 4 month Of ~ ,.N
wards We are taking nlI- 81 ~. other
Iart- Of the canal enough so n.aNs that
average about SO $50 cubic wards II O.,
Voc excavation only We would not hay.
30 much difficulty. because ~ would then
he completed about January :. Isif. hat
there are thesa great lotn structures tor
instance ~ Gatun. which are nearly mil.
outside - feet in width and wall IN the
middle of :" feet IN width
We are engaged nov IN lAVInz that con
rete at the rate II about . san CUhic wards
day on each side. that j.. 50 CO. bic yards
at 6atun and about I. sDr on the other sids .
at Pedro Miguel and Mirafore- The men
ia each division are full NJ N. spirit ~ com.
peution 10 see which group can do NOR.
yArdage IN day and lower cost between
fhem they 10 about r.O-r cubic ya-r'- IA
a day
think generally tho people Of th. nir"d
~ a'e- favor a sea level canal Th"v thought .
- loci and It's gates A. diTioTir and com
ri"s'ed machinery. and ihev though 'hs
If"a Of lifting 4 vessel Of .i.,sI tons nv Vaier
and machinery was 80 full 81 d~i'IUy .
that u would present obstacles every time
steamer vent through But the adv an
age Of Visiting the I-rhmu- ~ 10 ,orf-m
ne Judgment os the engineers in tho mind
~ N. layinan that that hing Is nov easy
u - shaping itself The dam which
see med su"h n tremendous work L. = long
7A' toward 'omplei ion. and Wh"n you walk
""er n YOU dom realize that ~ j. dam
y - so big u seems a. II u were WORK
Of nature itself They are preparing on 'h.
oI'aide zoe 81 h. dam N have golf course.
ana 'harn i r'lsntv Of room there for ~
" = half = mil" from 'he inward toe of 'ha
Jam IN he out ard toe Of he dam. and - -
an feel from one end TO The other You
an make ror own calcuIst ion The slope
"a'h NAV - very gradual and YOU hardy
Hali-s VI hen on Top 81 u tha' II - :. feet
! IN
don venture 10 prophs-v whom tho
ana I'll =" ready for fun u-e think
'ha' u - we're necessary for Va To put pns
~ our 'ar-hip- through there u could u"
arranged S"Tr considerable time before
no la-' II January. 1913. when the canal
vii re 'otn petsd hu' u l. well not to press
y" much hut 10 do maj l. done thoroughly.
:" hat "h-n ~ - completed Their. III no
8. defect which can he made ha-is for
o "'" plant against 'hOS~ no are Responsible"