Evening journal., 1910-03-03
.TAFT'S RECORD
FOR ONE YEAR
Last Day Of the First Year
of the New Admins
tratiOn
HAS BEEN A VERY BUSY
TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT

AAtIAA VAA AAA AeA0AOAANA
ONE YEARS RECORD
AS PRESIDENT. :
Travelled 20,63s odd miles by rail-
road and 5000 by automobile. .
Visited thirty States and two ter
ritories.
Made 34S speeches.
(RooseVelt in his last year as ex
eeutive made only 242).
Appointed 6,917 Federal officers.
Sent eighteen messages to Con-
gress.
Lost seven pounds; weighed 326 >
on March 4, 1909, and 319 on March
3, 1910
" Secured enactment Of new tar >
if law.
. Took initial step looking to pro-
seeution Of the beef trust.
= Unearthed customs frauds at New :
. York.
. Discharged three Federal officers .
. Chief Forester Clifford Pinohot, AS >
sociate Forester o. W. Price and >
Law Officer A. w. Shaw.
Instituted an inquiry into the
high cost Of living.
= Forced the abdioation Of Presi- .
dent Zelaya, dictator of Nicaragua. .
. Shook hands with President Daz >
on Mexican SOIL
By United Press Leased Special Wire
WASHINGTON. March s-This is the
last day Of the first year Of the Taft
administration.
The catalogue Of things done and
things begun by President Taft makes
variegated reading. Among other
things he has smashed two Presi-
Dental records. In point of railroad
mileage. the present occupant Of the
White House in his first years travel.
has topped off any of his predecessor.
Roosevelt. during the year in which he
made the trip to the Panama canal,
probably journeyed greater distance,
but not so far in a pullman sleeper.
President Taft has to date been hauled
20 63S miles by locomotive. In addi-
tion he has set a new mark in auto
mobile mileage. travelling about 5000
miles in this fashion. Averaged h,
I has iourneyed ffty-six miles for eacl
day in the year
President Taft has made s4S speeches
Colonel Roosevelt, who gained quite Z
reputation of loquacity, made only "a
IN the last. and most speechful year o
his administration.
Two important congressional investi
I cations resulted from conditions trans
spring in the first year of the TAT
regime-the conservation squabble. and
1 the high cost of living.
President Zelaya. Of Nicaragua. lost
/ his job as the head Of the Centra
! American Republic through incurrinf
! the displeasure OF the Washington ad.
ministration. a a result Of condition,
I discovered by Collector Loeb at New
/ York, President Taft has weeded out
those responsible for customs frauds
and secured the indictment of sugar
trust officials. He has also ordered
a new prosecution of the beef trust
During the year. President Taft sen
/ is communications to Congress. Eight
Of these were legislative messages, and
ten were letters transmitting de
partmental reports or other matter fol
the information of the law making
body.
Action has not really yet begun in Con
gross on the recommendation made in tn
Taft messages. To date the only admins
tration measure OF Importance enactei
has been the Payne-Aldrich tarin bill
with the corporation tax appendix an
provisions for a customs court. tarii
board and maximum and minimum rate
in the discretion Of the executive. tn
publicity feature Of the Corporation Ia
is stnl held In abeyance on account o
lack Of appropriation to make 1t effec
tive and the customs court has not ye
been established.
with half the present session OF Con
gress over. the bills especially recon
mended this year by President Taft ar
stiil strangers to the statute books on
has passed the House; several have bee
recommended for passage by the variou
committees on both sides. but most q
them have been laid away until next se'
sion or to a more distant epoch.
The House has passed the Arizona an
New Mexico Statehood bill, and tina
measure is now tied up in the senat
committee on territories. The federal ir
corporation bill is in charge OF sub-con
mittee OF the Senate judiciary Commit
tee which is reported to have locked
up in a burglar proof safe and throw
the key away. one conservation bill ha
been recommended for passage, out {
nine submitted.
The Interstate Commerce bill includin
the creation of a commerce court, wi
probably be passed by the Senate an
House after a heavy fight Troublor
times have attended the postal saving
bill. but Il is due to pass tho Senate prol
ably late to-day. The higher legislati,
+ body had acted favorably on the measuI
to issue sSo0o0.Oo0 in government certii
! Gates TO complete reclamation projects.
: In the House side the administration
+ amendment to the anti-injunction laws
: held by the committee on judiciary. It h'
, the hearty condemnation OF the America
2 Federation Of Labor. and. since this
? congressional campaign year. Will pro-
p ably be quietly side stepped by the la
makers. The Senate Judiciary committ'
has not yet taken up the question Al
7 other bill which is apparently doomed
innocuous deseutude is that providing f.
a ,,a,,- form, Of government in Alaska