New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-29
TAFT WILL REVIEW
THE WARSH|PS HERE
Chances His itinerary So as 10
Be in New York on
November 2.
IN oUANDARY ABOUT VOTE
President Denounces Recall OF
Judges and Dedicates Chi
cago Naval Training
Station.

Iron stan correspondent Of The rribunel
chicago. oct. 2S-Three vigorous.
straight from the shoulder speeches and
oro notable for its profession OF friend
ship for Great Britain. all Of which were
most cordially received, marked the
Presidents day here. incidentally he
Welded to the urgent request of the Sec
rotary of the Navy that he review the
Atlantic feet at New York on Novem-
ber2.
The most forceful speech of the day
uas that delivered at the luncheon of
the Chicago Bar Association, where, as
MI Taft said. he felt thoroughly at
homo. because in talking to lawyers II
WAS mot necessary to begin at the be-
Ginning" The President said IT had
been suggested TO him that he speak of
the recall as applied 10 the judiciary,
but he had discussed the subject so thor
ourhly I'm his veto message that further
discussion seemed hardly necessary.
However, he did devote some time TO the
subject. voicing his opposition with
great vehemence, to the evident delight
Of his hearers.
Declaring that he sometimes thought
those who professed dissatisfaction with
society AS 1T exists should employ law
yoTs 10 furnish them a legitimate ground
NJ complaint. the President then turned
his attention TO the laws delays. assert
inr that the all too often delayed justice
Ho ant ho n
the country should turn its attention TO
devisng a remedy for the conditions
which now place the impecunious hti-
CANT at a serious disadvantage as COM
nsred with a litigant possessed of album
dant means.
Finally the President severely con-
demned the tendency. most apparent In
the Western states. to curtail the power
Of the Judges. ito reduce them TO mere
puppets" and deprive them of all power
.to counteract the histrionic perform
ances Of counsel and analyze and ex-
Mode the rhodomontade aimed at the de-
voted heads Of defenceless Jurors UNI
skilled at law
Defends Statehood Veto.
without using his name. Mr.. Taft e
ferred TO the remarks of United States
Senator Clapp. of Minnesota. in this city
recently. in which the veto of the Ari-
zona-New Mexico statehood bill was
called the blacklist act of tyranny ever
committed on a free people"
Il knew I was guilty of good DEAL"
the President said, but l never knew
was guilty Of conduct that could be de-
scribed by such lurid terms. l was de-
termned that when a new state entered
the Union it should start with a knowl-
edge Of some things. ! was convinced
that it should start with a proper ap-
probation of the independence of the
judiciary The people of that state may
not he convinced yet, but at least they
know what l think. Congress has ap-
proved my action, for once and has gone
further 1t has passed law directing
and this is really more like an act of
blacklist tyranny'-the people to take
back their ideas about the judiciary.
When the territory is state it may
change its constitution to conform with
its own ideas about judges, but when 1t
obtains the results its people cannot say
that we did not give them warning and
did not jolt them.
MY friends are trying 10 gain credit
for me for my act. They have said
Il must have taken rare courage TO
veto the statehood bill. 1 deprecate this
kind Of talk. ] am a lawyer and judge
and if ! had acted differently from the
way / did / would have been worthy Of
neither title. | could not have done
anything but what | did. | wrote my
veto out Of my heart and l am proud
and glad ] wrote it,"
Before the sun rose over Lake Michi-
gan the President made his first public
appearance AT the American Mining Con-
gress. where he took occasion to indorse
unqualihedly the position taken last
night by Secretary Fisher with regard
I, Alaska. and. further said that he
would be under great personal obliga-
ton to the Secretary of the Interior il
he could bring order out Of chaos in that
territory and put an end to undertaking
IN connection with it.
Oedcates Naval Station.
Before the Bar Association luncheon
had ended the President was whirled
away 10 the Northwestern Railway sta
ton. where he boarded special train for
the Trit.d States naval station on the
shore Of Lake Michigan. Just north Of
Lake Bluff. which he had agreed TO ded-
tatc The ded'cation ceremonies. which
lasted two rours included o drill and
rev.e" Of the apprentice seamen brigade
The President was joined last night by
Secretary Fisher and to-day by Secre-
,ary Meyer, and on their earnest repre-
SITUATIONS he consented so TO change his
Plans for next week as 10 permit him 10
review the Atlantic fleet in the Hudson
River on Thursday November ,. He
VIII reach Washington about midnight
On Wednesday. but Will make no stop,
his special car being attached TO the