Evening star., 1911-08-15
ONE SENT IN, OTHERS READY
Statehood, Wool Revision and Free
List Bills in List.
CABINET MEETING HELD TODAY
Discussion of Departmental Matters
Prior to the Presidents De-
parture for Jersey.


started at noon today when he sent In
his protest against the statehood bill,
will. be continued at intervals through
this week. the rapidity OF White House
operations in this direction depending
upon the speed of Congress in furnish
ing the legislation to veto.
President Taft does not wish to be the
cause OF delaying adjournment of Con-
gress, and so he has his remaining veto
bills all ready to turn loose as soon as
the bills they are designed to touch reach
him from the legislative halls.
Having delivered himself OF his
views on the statehood bill, the Presi-
the veto OF tie wool bill. prepared by
him during the last week special
meeting of the cabinet was held yes
terday. when the statehood veto was
cons red. and 1T was presumed there
would be 10 regular session oe that
body at IL o'clock today. bu: TIE
President. who left Washington at
1880 o'clock for ocean Grove, n. j..
to talk to the assembled Methodists.
sent for his cabinet advisers at 10
o'clock and went over not only the
wool veto, but departmental and other
business.
Depends on Tariff Board.
III. c. Emery, chairman of the tariff
board, which has been working for months
accommodating facts and figures on the
wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich law.
was at the White House a short time.
The data of the board is still incomplete.
1t is upon the understanding that the
board will have complete figures by the
opening of the next session of Congress,
however, that the President will base his
veto Of the wool bill. He will maintain
that the tariff board was created at
heavy expense to secure for the infor-
nation Of the President and Congress all
available matter relating to tarif
schedules about to be revised, SO that
Congress might proceed with full light
upon its work.
The President will hold that in the abb
sence Of this information. which will
take a year or more to get, 1t was I'M
possible for Congress to revise so i'm
portant q tariff schedule as that relating
to wool. He will reiterate his views that
future revisions of the tariff board should
be based entirely .pon scientifically Sc
cured figures. sht-eng the difference in
cost Of production in given article
abroad and at home, SO that the pro-
lection might not extend beyond this dlf-
ference, IL at all.
Objections to Free List.
coSCN
upon the same reasoning as the other.
with additional trimmings that will be OF
interest to the country at large. This
veto is partly completed and will be sent
to Congress within a very few hours
after the receipt Of the bill at the White
House. The wool bill veto will have its
final touches in time for submission to
Congress when the bill gets to the White
House. Little time will elapse between
the arrival OF the bill at the White House
and the sending of the veto.
The President will return from Ocean
Grove tonight. reaching here tomorrow
morning. Until he leaves for Beverly, at
the close Of Congress. he will have an
other guest in his White House stag
party. Since Mrs. Taft went to Beverly
tary Hilles, Maj Butt and Mr. Heron.
his brother-in-law, as companions. He
has asked Secretary Stimson OF the war
Department, whose family Is away for
the summer, to join him. and Mr.. Stim-
son will move in within a day or two.
The President has fixed November l.
as a tentative date for a visit he has
been asked to make to Frederick, Md.
to attend the annual meeting of the asso-
ciated boards Of trade OF Maryland.
Seth Bullock. boon companion to for
mer President Roosevelt. and for many
years marshal OF South Dakota, ha.
written the President. urging that he stor
in that state when he goes west in Sep
tember Representative Martin OF South
Dakota personally urged the President
today to visit three or four places in the
state.
La Follette's Friends Active.
Mr.. Martin was decidedly frank to.
day when asked about the political sltua-
ton in South Dakota as concerning the
delegates to the next republican ma
tional convention.
1T would not be correct or fair for
me to say that opponents of the. Pres
ident are not active in my state" said
Mr. Martin Senator La Toilette has
many friends there and they are GO
ing TO make sharp contest for the
delegation from the state. In the north
ern part of the state. where We get our
largest republican ma jorities. the disaffec-
ton is greater than in other parts OF
the state. This is because of the op.
position to reciprocity among the farm
ers The La Toilette people are endeav-
oring to organize. which means that the
friends Of the President. who are loyal.
will have to be busy right along
the state will be for Taft, who is gaining
strength steadily but surely. The reci-
procity bill alienated much support from
the President in the agricultural sections
of South Dakota. These men. though.
are stout republicans, accustomed to
stand by their party, and l am sure that
after Taft has been nominated they will
turn in and help give the electoral vote
to him..
President Taft today signed the bill de-
fining and classifying health. accident
and death benefit companies operating in