The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
TAFTEXPECTSNO SUMMER VACATION Hard Work in Sight for
 President PLANS FOR THE SPRING Golf Every Afternoon, Long Walks in Early Evening and Horse
 back Rides Are on the
 Programme
PLANS FOR THE SPRING
By SYDNEY EPsEY

By S1DNE1 EPSEf
 Washington, April S.-(Special.) .)-Presi- dent Taft has banished all thought of summer vacation, and his friends say he will stick it out in Washington as long as Congress feels that 1t should remain in session. When he called the extra session to pass upon the Canadian reel procty measure, he was aware that the democrats, with control of the House, would not be content to go into the Can adian reciprocity measure alone, when the people are demanding tariff reform
 Washington in the summer months is anything but an ideal vacation city. Con- gressmen know this as well as govern ment officials. In the hot days of July and August the asphalt on the streets Is soft and readily takes the impression of the foot of all who walk over it. President Taft, being rather a large per son. is not fond of hot places. He had made all arrangements to spend the sum mer this year again at Beverly. Mrs. Taft will go to Beverly early in June. Should Congress decide to do nothing but pass the Canadian pact the President will be ready to go with her. If the demo- crats in the House decide to hold on all summer, the President will stick to the White House and keep his eye on legislation.
 Democratic leaders are declaring that an all summer session of Congress is in- evitable. They point out that they were given control of the House by the people, who demand a change in the high cost of living, laid to the door of the Payne- Aldrich tariff law. They feel that they ct ,frly ftoir l,,ftr To oct&- ington is hot in summer. and they say they will have to stay here and do what they can to change the obnoxious sched- ules of the present tariff law.
 Although the Senate may remain in- active, 1t cannot adjourn without the consent of the House, unanimous agreement as to adjournment being nec- essary. The House can therefore go ahead with its tariff revision, doing its share of the work. and leaving the coun- try to fix the blame should the Senate kill all attempts to revise any of the schedules Under the term of the con- stitution neither House, without the con- sent of the other can adjourn for pe- riod greater than three days.
 President Taft has made elaborate plans for pleasant spring. Golf every afternoon, the weather permitting, is on the bill. Then there will be long walks in the early evening, horseback riding
 
 travel jaunts. During the middle of April he will go to New York as the guest of the New York Hungarians The fourth of July will find him in Indiana. In September he will go to Hutchinson, Kan. to attend the Kansas State fair. This trip will be extended, 1t Is under stood, to take in many of the middle western states, where insurgency is rid ing rough shod over the old line republi- cans. ~
 With Congress on his hands President Taft will practically be alone in Wash ington, so far as official society is con cerned. The beginning of June will wit ness an exodus of the diplomatic corps to the Atlantic coast resorts. All of the embassies have summer quarters. The social followers of the President and Mrs. Taft will also leave for their sum- mer homes. The cabinet officers, too, will be away from Washington.
 President Taft is ready to aid the dem- ocrats In their tariff revision. It is un- derstood that he will shortly send to Congress special messages dealing with the woolen, cotton, farming machinery, and metal schedules, facts and figures concerning which have been gathered by the tariff board. He will also renew his request that a permanent tariff commits sion be created. The present board has enough funds to carry it along for a year, but It's composition is not stable enough to please the President. It was created by a resolution of Congress, and now the President wants definite legisla- tion dealing with the personnel of the commission, salaries of the commission CTS, their clerical aides, and a congress sional definition of the commissions powers.
 Should there be radical revision of the tariff and a consequent reduction of the customs receipts. it is said, on good authority, that the President may send another special message to Congress urg- ing the enactment of an income tax law. The President favors such a law. It is pointed out that an income tax would bring in a revenue to the federal govern ment of not less than s200. 0.000,O 900 and pos siby $300,000.0O0 annually. The demo- crats want such a law. MT. Taft, when campaigning for the presidency, declared his belief in the necessity for an income tax law. It is the understanding that the democratic leaders in the House would like to SO maneuver that 1t will be nec- essary for the President to make such , recommendation. The democrats &C., ,s cording to their leaders, would like to see the customs receipts fall off and thus compel the President to put up the in- come tax proposition to Congress Its passage by the House would be as- sured It is doubtful if these senators . who are opposed to 1t could stem the tide in the upper body, and prevent It's enact ment into law.
 President Taft, his friends say, will welcome a condition that would result : in an income tax provision going on the statute books. He favored the corpora ton tax law and his prediction that the supreme court would uphold Its consti- tutionality has been borne out.
 An income tax law would make the President, 1t is said, intensely popular with the masses, but not so with wealthy people, who would be compelled to share ! their incomes with the federal govern ment. Expenses of the national govern ment are on the increase. and despite efforts to hold them down, Congress each year adds more to the hundreds of mil lions of dollars necessary to maintain the federal institution. If the customs receipts, through the lowering of tariff duties, should fall off, an income tax law, to the political leaders, seems the