New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-14
from The Tribune Bureau.

Washington. June l3.
TAFT'S WELCOME To ROOSEVELT
President Taft Is determined that nothing
shall remain undone to make the reception
of his predecessor a memora Die occasion,
and TO that end he has requested the Secre-
tary OF the Navy to provide naval escort
to meet the returning ex-President down
the bay and accompany him TO New York
City. In accordance with the President s
wish, the hattleshp South Carolina and five
torpedo destroyers will sail down the bay
Friday evening, will meet Mr.. Roosevelt s
ship the following morning and will accom-
pany the ship back 10 New York. When the
Presidents wishes became known there was
perturbation in the Bureau of Navigation,
for the Atlantic feet has been disbanded
most of the vessels being at navy yards
and many of them In drydock, but it was
found that the South Carolina could be
procured. and she will be attended by five
destroyers. the type of vessel in which
Mr. Roosevelt displayed especial interest
when he was Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy. The Presidential salute Of twenty
one guns will he fired off Ambrose Light
The idea of providing naval escort and
OF welcoming Mr.. Roosevelt with the Presi-
dental salute emanates entirely from Pres
ident Taft. who would really Ike to go to
New York himself, and rather chafes under
the advice that it would hardly he becom-
ing for the President of the United States
to leave the national capital to welcome
any one, even an ex-President. The special
delegation, consisting of Secretary Meyer.
Secretary Wilson and Captain Butt. which
is to represent the President at the recep-
ton of his friend and predecessor. will he
taken down the bay on the Dolphin, the
vessel always used by the Secretary of the
Navy on ceremonial occasions.
THE BUSINESS OF THE. NAvY.-sec-
rotary Meyer is still making a valiant
effort to obtain from Congress authority to
administer the affairs of the navy on
businesslike basis. He is convinced that
he can effect saving of several hundred
thousand dollars a year If he can only in
duce Congress to give him the authority to
establish property account in lieu of the
various and complicated accounts which
are now part of the Anticipated system
which has come down from time imme-
mortal. Mr.. Meyer is striving to induce
Congress to grant this authority either by
an amendment to the naval bill or by a
provision in the sundry civil bill. He has
just received the report Of an investigation
conducted by business experts he employed
for the purpose, who find that the method
now in vogue is extremely complicated and
mbersome, and that it requires an in
vestment of several million dollars more In
stock than there is any necessity for Armed
with this report. Mr.. Meyer is seeing men,
bers of Congress and is endeavoring to
persuade them to look al the situation from
a business and unprecedented point of view,
and he is confident that If they do so they
will grant the needed authority.
CHANCE FOR RETIRED OFFICERS
Confronted by the probability that Con-
gress will adjourn without taking any steps
to increase the commissioned personnel of
the army, the Secretary of War has ordered
that wherever possible officers be restored
to their line duties, including those now
detailed to staff duty, work on the Panama
Canal, at educational Institutions etc. This
will not greatly affect the work on the
Panama Canal for the reason that most
of the officers on duty in the Canal Zone
are there by express provision of law, but
it will mean that many of the officers now
at military schools, etc, will be returned
to their regiments and their places filled
with retired officers found competent for
the work. The order VIII probably affect
officers on duty with the duartermaster
general. the commissary general in the
medical corps, etc. Secretary Dickinson
has also urged Congress Immediately 10
pass the bill designed to place the general