The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-04
PRESIDENT TAFT IS ID VOTE TUESDAY Will Appear Before Elec-
 tiOn Board PREPARES MESSAGE President Will Take Things Easy for Few Days at Hot Springs and
 Leave Tommorow for
 Cincinnati

night and swore he was qualified clec- tor AS a result he will leave here Sun day night make the necessary anidaVis before the5election board Monday, and De prepared on Tuesday to vote.
 MT. Taft arrived here early this morn- ing. Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taf1, who arrived here five days ago, met him at the station and he had breakfast with them for the first time in 10 weeks. With the arrival in Hot Springs probably to- morrow of Secretary Hilles, MT. Taft Will have data which he expects to use In ms third annual message to Congress. MT HiIles left the President at Washington last night, intending to secure informa- tion. from the departments for incorpora- tion in the message, which friends of MT Taft believe, will be the most important he has had to write.
 Works on Message
 President Taft has determined to oe some work here on his annual message to Congress- Secretary Hilles did not come to Hot Springs with the President, but dropped off at Washington. MT. llil!es will collect data from various government departments for the use of the Presidenl in writing his message. It Is expected this information will be brought to Ho, Springs tomorrow and the President VIII look 1t over as soon as posslDie.
 MT. Taft will devote much attention in the message in the discussion of tariH se- form with reference to the forthcoming report of the tariff board on the wool and cotton schedule. He will discuss me trust question:" and recommend that the federal incorporation bill, drawn up ana tad to De enacted into law.
 The reports of both the Hughes com mittee which investigated second class postage rates, and the railroad securities committed which is looking into the Iues- ton of stock watering, will be in Mir raft's hands in few days and they will enable him to treat these matters in b's message. Conservation, with some discus sio.a t,f Alaslsl naval leorganizl tipnf u' suggested In the Presidents statement is sued on the Presidents yacht Mayf1owei after the naval review at New York yes terday, and currency reform are among the matters which will be brought to tha attention of Congress.
 President Taft brought his second long tour of the country to temporary halt here today. MT. Taft expects to enjoy a rest in Hot Springs until Monday, with nothing to do but play golf. motor ana Idke every lliiiiS easy
 According to the official figures of the swing around the circle,' kept under the direction of Secretary Hiles, the trip has been the longest ever taken by a Present In going from Beverly, Mass, to Hot Springs by way of Seattle, San Francisco Los Angeles. Washington and a few hundred other cities. MT Taft has travelled 13, ,436 miles, beating his other previous record by just about 300 miles. Before he returns to Washington for the winter, the President will visit Ohio, Ken tucky-and Tennessee. and will add 1884 .niles to the record. MT. Hiles swing figures show that Mir Taft passed through 26 states and made speeches in 20 of them.
 Met Governors
 The governor of each state he entered gave him a welcome, and Governor Col qiitt of Texas, a state which was not visited, met him in Kansas. United States senators to the number of 27 met the President at various times. Six of these senators were democrats and seven were acknowledged insurgents" About a dozen senators pledged their support to the arbitration treaties on the trip. Sev- enty-seven members of the House were On reception committees or Weicomed MT Taft on his car.
 The President has been "on the road i9 days since he left Beverly and start ed west In that time his train stopped at 205 cities. towns and villages. He made 306 speeches of all sorts and lengths and according to MT. Hiles record, he er olxe to more than 500,000 people The greatest number of stops in any state was made in Kansas, where MT. Taft delivered 36 addresses, four more than he made in Washington, the nearest competitor. Chicago heard him speak Ii times. Los Angeles 10 times and St. Louis six times but many cities got one address only, and al scores of stopping places 1t was only a Good morning. and "Good-by'' from the rear platform. In the seven weeks the President was away from Washington he was never out of the touch with tho White House and government affairs More than 4S00 letters and telesrams were received by Secretary Hiles on the trip and the mails and telegraph wires were kept busy every day. Although nearly 90 railroads handled the special train, the President was late only once, and that was at Omaha, after the train had hean held up in Missouri by washout
 According to. persons close to Mir. Taft some of the important questions to which he will call the attention of Congress in his message are the tariff, the trusts. second class postage rates. 
 conservation, currency reform and navy reorganizat tion. The peace treaties tor which the President has spoken often on the trip west. will not be referred to, it was said. since they are now be- fore the Senate.
 A special message to that body alone Is believed to be In prospect later Ills Pittsburg speech showed that the Pres ident was opposed to amendment of the sherman antitrust law, and it indi : cated also that he did not believe 1t should be repealed. It is understood the messages will discuss the trust question at length.
 It was said the President will again offer to Congress his federal incorpora- tion bill drawn up by Attorney Generai Wickersham and offered to Congress two years ago. but since untouched and practically unreferred to.
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