The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-20
WHAT TAFT WILL
 DISCUSS IN WEST
Tariff Revision and Arbi- trati0n Will Be Main
 Issues Explained

| Washington, August 19-(SpeciaD.- The trip President Taft will make into 1 the west during September and October | is to be taken in order that he may have an opportunity to discuss from the platform the public questions that are uppermost in his mind. He Is pretty much disgusted with the Congress. He
 has a notion that the legislators are not reflecting public sentiment on some | of the large questions of the
 day and he desires to get out among
 the people and find out for himself
 whether he is right in this estimate of the legislative body
 The trip, which is to be extended to the Pacific coast, if the present plans are carried out, will give him a chance to lay before the people his programme l for the balance of his term. This he will | do in six or seven set speeches. | In the course of the four or five weeks of travel he will probably deliver 75 or 100 addresses, but the important things he will have embodied in the speeches he | will prepare In advance with great care. | What may be termed the big subjects | for the trip may be enumerated as fol- lows:
 ].
 2 The arbitration treaties between the
 United States and Great Britain and France
 3. Canadian reciprocity.
 4. The trust question.
 | B. Legislation under which the natural resources of the public domain of the United States proper and of Canada may be developed.
 S. Currency reform.
 '. Economy in public expenditures The President undoubtedly realizes the public does not intend that the tariff question shall be put aside until the All d.lch-Payne tariff law has ben revised. He
 will on this forthcoming tour of the coun- try make plain his position on this sub ject The probability Is he will not only deelare his determination to do his ut nest to obtain revision of most of the schedules of the existing law at the next session of Congress; but will give notice
 that he will seek legislation creating
 genuine tariff commission. His tariff
 speeches will undoubtedly be strong ar
 guments in favorof tariff legislation bas-
 ed on scientific Investigations.
 On this trip he will give the people
 of the country an opportunity to choose
 between him and the United States Sem
 ate as to whether the arbitration
 treaties designed to promote the peace
 of the world, shall be ratified. The
 contest over the ratification of these
 treaties promises to be one of the most
 interesting that has taken place be-
 tween a president and the Senate in
 a long time. Senators who were most
 directly instrumental in the emancipa-
 ton of the treaties In the committee
 on foreign relations did not suppose the
 President would fight. They know now
 they were mistaken.
 Last Tuesday evening the President
 said, as he was leaving for Ocean View, that he would not discuss the arbi-
 tration treaties before the Ocean View
 assembly. On his way over to the
 New Jersey resort he received a tele-
 gram anniuncing that Senator Lodge, for a majority of the foreign relations committee, had submitted to the Senate his report denouncing the treaties. He believes the people of the United States are heartily in favor of these treaties in the form in which they were sub mitted to the Senate, and 1t Is his intentiong to take advantage of this coming western trip to do what he
 can to strengthen this sentiment.