New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-10
PRESIDENT TO DECIDE
NATIONAL CITY CO. CASE
He Sends Papers Back to WASH
ington for Consideration
Next Winter.
TOPICS ON WESTERN TRIP
Will Deliver Personal Message,
Telling His Hearers How
the Government
Is Run.

Beverly, Mass. Sept 9-The papers in
the case of the National City Company and
the National City Bank. OF New York. in
voving the right OF a national bank 10
acquire the stock OF other banking insti-
buttons and other nice points OF the
tional bank act were sent back to Wash
ington by President Taft to-day. He Will
take the case up again next winter with
Attorney General Wickersham and Secre-
tary MacVeagh, who are understood TO
hold opposing views as TO the legality OF
the relations between the National City
Company and the National City Bank.
While the New York institution is the only
one directly concerned in this case IL is
said that there are nearly three hundred
similar relationships between banking con-
Germs in this country. The President de-
sires 10 hear arguments by his two adj
visers before he decides the case
He told visitors to-day that the Control
Ter OF the Currency had tacitly permitted
such relationships for about ten years, and
that a couple of months delay would be
more desirable than hurried decision. 1t
is probable that Mr.. Wickersham. who IL
said TO h9d the relationships Illegal, and
MIR. MacVeagh, who agrees with the Con-
| troler, will submit further arguments next
winter The papers returned TO Washing
ton to-day were the first opinions OF the
two Cabinet officers, but forthcoming re-
ports may be more satisfactory to the Pres
ident in reaching a conclusion.
The Presidents three thousand mile jour
ney. which begins next Friday and con-
tinues forty-six days, is to be favored as
l nd GO 70 ba
as broadly instructive on vital questions
OF government as he can make It. the
President intends 10 deliver personal mes
sage to thousands who will hear him speak
a message Ike those ne sends TO Congress
from time TO time. He will take the goTern-
ment machinery apart and tell those VINO
hear him and those who read what ne says
Just how things are run in Washington
and what is needed there. He told callers
at Paramatta to-day that the trip VIII give
him little opportunity for political speech
making, and that his five or six announced
set addresses will not be delivered OFTEN
The remainder Of the trip will be as educa-
tional as he can make II.
To the set speeches Of the trip the Presi-
dent to-day added more than dozen less
political and more general subjects, and
this list may be increased. Two subjects
he discussed with callers were a uniform
divorce law and trusts. particularly with
reference to the Supreme Courts decisions
in the Standard Oil and the American To-
bacco cases. His position with regard 10
these decisions was explained in speech
at the Yale commencement exercises IN
June. and he probably will expand the IDEAS
there expressed He thinks the decisions
are good. and said at Yale that business
should find in them a clear road 70 steer
by.
Other subjects. the President said to-day
will take I'm all sorts of government PROB
lens. Speeches on such topics the Presi-
dent feels. he can we'll make at almost
any place. and politics can be confined 70
| rnlitical organiZa lions.