Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-29
USES BUT ONE TEXT
Presidents Message to Con-
gress Devoted to Trusts.
OTHER TOPICS COME LATER
Communications Submitted at Inter.
walls Will Cover the Field.
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF TARIFF
Document Just Completed Approved
by the Cabinet-Berlin Com
mission Makes Report.
OTHER TOPICS COME LATER
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF TARIFF

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Congress will break records in that 1t
will discuss only one subject-the trusts
The forty and odd subjects that usually
go to make up a White House message to
Congress at the opening Of that body
each year will be missing-left by the
wayside-some of them to be treated in
special messages later on and others to
get no mention at all. The President
fooled all the message makers by con-
fning himself to the one subject that he
believes to be strongly in the minds of
the people. In 1887 President Cleveland
devoted his annual message entirely to
the tariff. but not since then has this
action been duplicated.
Mr.. Taft's message will be a compare
lively short one, too-about 5000 words
in length-and it is his belief and that of
his cabinet officers, who considered the
message yesterday for six hours, that the
people will give more time and attention
to a brief one-subject message than to
one Of the usual kind.
The regular message is to be followed
by at least half a dozen others, each deal
ing with one subject. The tariff will be
the most important Of these and there
may be two messages on this question,
one regarding wool and the other cotton,
to carry out the Presidents purposes. The
tariff messages probably will accompany
the reports and findings Of the tariff
board as to cotton and wool. AS the wool
report will be ready for the President and
Congress some time before that on cot
ton, the understanding now is that there
will be two tariff messages.
Stocks and Bonds Issue.
Another important message will trans
NIT to Congress the report and recon-
mendations of the stock and bonds COM
mission as to future issues of stocks and
bonds by the railroads. This report and
the recommendations bring forward the
subject of federal supervision Of the issu-
ance of these securities.
Other subjects of messages will be de-
partmental affairs, including the work Of
I AZ ,ncy ~onIniss n
foreign affairs, including international
arbitration; conservation, including the
affairs of Alaska; the report of the postal
commission. with executive comments,
also including the question of parcels
posts, and one dealing with the affairs Of
the District of Columbia.
The Pres dent, in his regular messages,
follows the line fixed by him in speeches
and interviews with calIerS-the retention
Of the Sherman antitrust law upon the
statute book with supplementary legisla-
ton that will cover phases that have not
heretofore arisen in the courts, but have
been considered by thoughtful men In the
government service and business world.
There was no disagreement between the
President and his cabinet officers as to
the trust message. Their long conference
Yesterday was devoted to discussion Of
changes proposed to different paragraphs.
The changes were not extensive, after all,
as the message was In the hands or the
public printer shortly after adjournment
of the cabinet.
uoroca Uosa Re1ated
The big Narragansett gray turkey that
Horace Vose of Westerly. L. l., shipped
to the White House yesterday for the
Thanksgiving dinner Of President Taft
and his family had not arrived today,
but is expected during the afternoon or
evening Expressmen always watch for
this turkey to get to the city. and they
invariably take 1t Immediately TO the
White House. The reports from westerly
are that the Turkey is the biggest ever
sent to a President-weighing forty
pounds. The fowl was specially fed.
Give Account of Stewardship.
Representative Bartholdt and c. B.
Wolfram Of New York, who were the
commissioners from the United
States to Germany to present the
statue of Gen. Steuben to the German
government today reported to Presf-
dent Taft the outcome Of their mis-
sion They told the President that
Kaiser Wilhelm placed high value
upon the gift, and had it put in front
of the old castle of Potsdam, the; his
torical residence of the Hohenzo1lern
kings. The emperor gave dinner In
honor Of the commissioners. at which
all the leading princes and officials OF
the empire were present.
The kaiser proposed q toast to Presi,
dent Taft, to which the distinguished
assemblage responded by rising from
their seats.
1--WE left the German capital with the
conviction that the kaiser is true
friend and admirer of the United States
and it's President" said Mr.. Bartholdt
;sculntor who desi ned the repl IA,
presented the President with medal
lion modelled from the Steuben statue
Mr.. Jaeger presented similar medal
lion n the kaiser,