{ i & TAFT AND SHERMAN ARE INAUGURATED Multitudes Assemble to Witness the Ceremonies and Take Part in the Imposing Pageant—Snow Storm Causes Change in Program. President and Vic: President-Elect Inducted Into Office with Brilliant Ceremonies—Congress Closes Session. Washington, D. C.—In the senate chamber, which seldom before has witnessed so impressive a ceremony or held a more brilliant audience, in the presence of high dignitaries of state .and nation and the ambassa- |dors and the representatives of every country of the civilized world, Wil- liam H. Taft, shortly before 1 o'clock March 4th, took the oath of office as President of the United States. A blinding snowstorm, which swept in upon Washington at night and continued throughout. the fore- noon, caused an abandonment of the outdoor ceremony at the | capitol, which heretofore has marked the in- auguration of many Presidents of the United States. The change of program was a source of disappointment to thou- sands of persons who gathered in the snowdrifts and slush on the cap- itol plaza in the hope of witnessing the taking of the oath by the new President. _ Mr. Taft was anxious that the or- jginal plans should be adhered to, but, after he had arrived at the cap- itol, he gave consent to the change because of the danger the exposure to the elements would have entailed upon the veteran Chief Justice Ful- ler of the supreme court of the Unit- ed States and the older senators and members of the diplomatic corps. Mr. Taft's inauguration immediate- lv followed that of Vice President Sherman, which was carried out in accordance with the original pro- gram. The distinguished company which gathered in the senate to Wwit- ness the inauguration of the Vice President, and which afterwards was to have been escorted to the im- mense inaugural stands on the east front of the capitol, simply remained ‘in their places in the chamber to view the more impressive ceremonies attending the induction into office of the new chief executive of the na- tion. President Roosevelt, arm in arm with President-elect Taft, entered the crowded senate chamber shortly after 12 o'clock. The appearance of these two chief figures in the day’s events was a signal for a spontane- ous outbreak of applause on the floor and of cheers in the galleries. Speak- er Cannon, entering the senate chamber at the head of the house of representatives, took a place on the presiding officer’s bench, by the side of Vice President Fairbanks. Prior to the entry of the members of the house and the distinguished in- vited guests, the senate had adopted a resolution of thanks to Mr. Fair- banks, who replied with a farewell address. He then administered to Mr. Sher- man the brief oath of office prescrib- ed by the constitution and turned over to him the presiding officer’s gavel. Vice President Sherman made but a brief inaugural address and then rapped the chamber to order for ‘the further business of inaugurating the new President of the United States. SALARY BILL PASSED Congress Agrees to Conference Re- port on Bill Adjusting Latest Oversight. Washington, D. C.—By the adop- tion of the conference report on the legislative appropriation bill congress removed the last obstacle to Sena- tor P. C. Knox becoming Secretary of State. But the house won all of its contentions with the senate in the matter of increased salaries and with rezpect to the increase of the staff -of the state department. The provision for an Under Secretary of State and a Fourth Assistant Secre- tary went out. The salary of the president has been fixed at $75,000 a year, the fig- ure named by the house. The sen- ate held out for $100,000, but finally was obliged to capitulate. ‘When pe Mr. Taft’s induction into office was the same simple ceremony devised in the early days. He swore to uphold and defend the constitution, to en- force all laws and to protect the re- public against all enemies, both for- eign and domestic. The oath was ad- ministered by Chief Justice Fuller, who was officiating at such ceremony for the last time in his notable ca- reer as the chief presiding officer of the country’s highest court. i President Roosevelt, who became JAMES S. SHERMAN * x x bX * ll PRESIDENT TAFT'S Policies of His Predecessor, Urges Immediate Revision of the Says Progress of Negro Depends on His Thrift and Industry— Panama Canal Must Be Built Ac- cording to Present Plans. Washington, D. C.—After having been sworn in as President, Mr. Taft delivered his Inaugural Address which is, in part, as follows: My Fellow Citizens: Any one who takes the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter, or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obligation which the oath imposes. The office of an Inaugural Address is to give a summary outline of the main policies of the new administra- tion, so far as they can be anticipated. I have had the “honor to be one of the advisers of my. distinguished pred- ecessor, and as such, to hold up his hands in the reforms he has initiated. I should be untrue to myself, to my promises-and to the declarations of the party platform upon which I was elected to office, if I did not make the maintenance and enforcement of those reforms a most important fea- ture of my administration. They were directed to the suppression of the lawlessness and abuses of power of the great combinations of capital invested in railroads and in industrial | enterprises carrying on interstate commerce. The steps which my predecessor took and the legislation | passed on his recommendation have | accomplished much, have caused a general halt in the vicious policies which created popular alarm, and have brought about in the business affected a much higher regard for existing law. To render the reforms lasting, however, and to secure at the same time freedom from alarm on the part of those pursuing proper and progres- sive business methods, further legis- lative and executive action are needed. Relief of the railroads from certain restrictions of the anti-trust law have been urged by my prede- cessor and will be urged by me. On the other hand. the administration is pledged to legislation looking to a proper federal supervision and re- striction to prevent excessive issues of bonds and stocks by companies owning and onerating interstate com- merce railroads. Mr. Taft expresses the belief that a reorganization of the Department of Justice, of the Bureau of Corpora- tions in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, is needed to se- cure a more rapid enforcement of the laws affecting interstate railroads and industrial combinations. He says he hopes to submit, at the first regular session of the incoming Congress, in December next, definite suggestions in respect to the needed amendments to the anti-trust and the interstate commerce law. It is believed, the Address con- tinues. that with the changes to be recommended, American business can be assured of that measure of stability and certainty in respect to those things that may be done and those that are prohibited, which is essential to the life and growth of all business. Such a plan must in- clude the right of the people to avail themselves of those methods of com- bining capital. at the same time dif- ferentiating between combinations based upon legitimate economic rea- sons and those formed with the in- tent of creating monopolies and arti- ficially controlling prices. I believe that the amendments to be proposed are just as necessary in the protec- tion of legitimate business as in the clinching of the reforms which prop- erly bear the name of my predecessor. On the subject of tariff revision Mr. Taft says: A matter of most press- pictures which are quadrennially section of the country. With all the color and movement of a military again a private citizen of the United States when Mr. Taft had kissed the Bible in consummation of his oath, was quick to congratulate his succes- sor in office, being second to the chief justice in exercising that priv- ilege. Mr. Taft delivered his inaugural ad- dress in abbreviated form in the senate chamber. The address for publication, however, stands in full. | When Mr. Taft had concluded, he was escorted to the waiting carriage outside the senate wing and there was joined by Mrs. Taft and by Vice President and Mrs. Sherman for the return ride to the White House. President Roosevelt walked out of the capitol amid a cheering throng and escorted by a thousand members of the New York Republican commit- tee, was driven to the Union station, several blocks away, and boarded a train for New York and Oyster Bay. Gay Night Scenes. President and Mrs. Taft were the centers of interest at the culminating features of the memorable day—the jnaugural ball in the Pension build- ing. The scene in the cavernous building which has been transformed into a canopied court of ivory and white was another of the ee PENSION AGENCY REMAINS Pittsburg Office Saved in Final Act of Expiring Congress Washington.—The house lating in 3 through- t act of adopt bill. appropriation bill Washington the 13 out the country, and the present congress the conference report The agencies will | the Ds: One action is th brilliant | receded | from the amendment to the pension | 1 ued as in| | spectacle, with the softening influ- ence of delicately tinted gowns and the interest of a personnel equaled at a social function, the in- augural ball holds a place unique in the history-making of the day. ‘While the ball was in progress in- doors a display of fireworks on the | monument lot in the rear of the | White House marked the end of the | outdcor celebration. End of Sixtieth Congress. Washington, D. C.—The Sixtieth Congress came to an end at noon March 4 and it glided into the Sixty- first so imperceptibly that the change was scarcely noticeable. The final act, though unofficial in so’ far as the house was concerned, took place in the senate chamber, where both houses witnessed the incoming of the new administration. Local Option for Washington. Olympia, Wash.—Gov. Hay has ex- pressed verbal approval of the local option bill which was passed by the legislature and will sign the measure. The bill is a compromise measure. Every incorporated city under the act is a separate unit and country districts is each county form a dis- trict unit. Qutrides President. Piqua, O.—Dr. G. C. Throckmorton, 65 years old, beat the military ride of President Roosevelt, riding three 13 hours and 45 minutes, through rain and mud. The result was tele- graphed to President Roosevelt. Baseball Bill Passes Indianapolis.—Bj} ty than the ori House. a greater major- inal bill, the new t Sun base- painted here by the gathering of vast | and brilliant assemblage from every | seldom | horses in relays 120 miles in all, in | | $25,000 for traveling | the president. | bill, and Mr. Clark filibuster against that measure. by the senate going out. increased salaries for dent. CAPITAL NEWS NOTES. President, Mr. Sherman. social secretary. Isabella Hagner. tion looking to the discrimination against Jews traveling in Russia. sian resolution was adopted. President-elect Taft | of the Navy and his appectance. Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, for bu bass dent-elect Taft. two or three and mentioned particularly the r nation of ome. sador Ric the conference report was considered there remained an appropriation of expenses for But the Democrats | eave notice that they would insist | upon the item for traveling expenses being taken out of the sundry civil threatened to The salary of the speaker and of the vice president remains at $12, 000, the increase of $15,000 granted Also the the Federal judges were lost as was the provi: sion for a carrige for the vice presi: Immediately after adjournment of the Sixtieth Congress the proclama- tion of the president calling the sen: ate in extraordinary session to con: sider presidential appointments was read at the direction of the new Vice Miss Alice Blech an attache of the Bureau of American Republics, has been selected by Mrs. Taft as her She succeeds Miss By a vote of 47 to 35 the senate re- fused to put an Ariozna and Mexico staterood rider on the house resolu prevention of American The Rus- announced announced the selection of Beckman Winthrop to be Assistant Secretary reasons, has declined an Am- dorship at the hands of Presi The post was not definite, Mr. Taft saying there. were > vacancie S, a >OVernor. Judge Strang held the writ of search and seizure 3 out sufficient fact to justify t of the officers. j ) the pape ing importance is the revision of the tariff. In accordance with the prom- ises of the platform upon which I was elected, I shall call Congress into ex- tra session, to meet on the 15th day of March, in order that consideration may be at once given to a bill revis- ing the Dingley Act. This should se- cure an adequate revenue and adjust afford to labor and to all industries in this country, whether of the farm, mine or factory, protection by tariff equal to the difference between the cost of production abroad and the cost of production here, and have a provision which shall put into force, upon executive determination of cer- tain facts, a higher or maximum tariff against those countries whose trade policy toward us equitably requires such discrimination. The President believes there can safely be a reduction. in certain sched- ules while advancement will be re- quired in few, if any. The proposed -evision disturbs the whole busiress of the country; therefore, it is neces- sary that the bill be drawn in good faith and as promptly as possible. Mr. Taft because of this urges that no other legislation be considered at the extra session. The President states that the re- vision of this tariff is for the purpose of raising sufficient revenue to wipe out the year’s $100,000,000 deficit. Should it be impossible to do so by import duties, new kinds of taxation must ve adopted, and among these Mr. Taft recommends a graduated in- heritance tax, as correct in principle and as certain and easy of collection. omy in expenditures but not to an ex- | cannot, however, tent that will stop effective govern- went. NIUGURAL ODRESS Et ; Agriculture, the supervision of rail-|them ways and industrial corporations, and the putting of laws in force that will Declares For a Continuation of the |cOnserve our resources. of the ‘Panama Canal, should be treated | negro against any Tariff, Suggests Postal Savings | he paid for by the proceeds of bonds, | negro. Banks, and an Inheritance Tax— | the issue of which will distribute its teenth Amen b-nefits derived. the duties in such a manner as to; The consideration of this question be complete and full without reference to the negro race, its progress and its present condition. Mr. Taft says he stands for econ- There must be liberal ex- for the Department of | The Thirteenth Amendment secured freedom; the Fourteenth Amendment due process of law, pro- tection of property and the pursuit happiness; and the Fifteenth improvement, like Amendment attempted to secure the deprivation of the privilege to vote, because he was a The Thirteenth and Four- dments have been gener- cost between the present and future | ally enforced and have secured the generations in accordance with the | objects for which they were intended. It may well be sub- | While the Fifteenth Amendment has mitted to the serious consideration | not been generally observed in the of Congress whether the deepening past, it ought to be observed, and the and control of the channel of a great tendency of Southern legislation to- river system, like that of the Ohio or | day is toward the enactment of elec- of the Mississippi, when definite and toral qualifications which shall square practical plans for the enterprise have | with that amendment. been approved and determined upon, On the race question Mr. Taft should not be provided for in the | thinks: same way. “Of course, the mere adoption of a Other expenditures which Mr. Taft constitutional law is only one step in believes are absolutely necessary are the right direction. It must be fairly those to enable our country to main- and justly enforced as well. In time tain its proper place among the na-|both will come. Hence it is clear to tions of the world, and is to exercise | all that the domination of an ig- its proper influence in defense of its norant, irresponsible element can be own trade interests. I refer, he says, prevented -by constitutional laws ta the cost of maintaining a proper | which shall exclude from voting both Army, a proper Navy and suitable | negroes and whites not having edu- fortifications upon the mainland of cation or other qualifications thought the United States and in its dependen- to be necessary for a proper elec- cies. At the same time the Presi- torate. The danger of the control of dent declares he favors every instru-|an ignorant electorate has ‘therefore mentality, like that of The Hague Tir- passed, * * * There was a time bunal and arbitration treaties made | when Northerners who sympathized with a view to its use in all interna- with the negro in his necessary strug- tional controversies, in order to main- | gle for better conditions sought to tain peace and to avoid war. give him the suffrage as a protection, On the subject of Asiatic immi- and to enforce its exercise against the grants the Address expresses the hope | revailing sentiment of the South. that “we may continue to minimize | The movement proved to be a the evils likely to arise from such failure.” immigration without unnecessary “There is in the South a stronger friction and by mutual concessions | feeling than ever among the intelli- between self-respecting governments. | gent, well-to-do and influential ele- * * * By proper legislation we [ment in favor of the industrial edu- may, and ought to, place in the hands | cation of the negro and the encour- of the Federal Government the means | agement of the race to make them- of enforcing the treaty rights of such | selves useful members of the com- ali~us in the courts of the Federal | munity.” Government.” “Personally,” observed Mr. Taft, One of the reforms to be carried | “I have not the slightest race preju- out during the incoming Administra- | dice or feeling, and recognition of its ton, declares Mr. Taft, is a change of | existence only awakens in my heart our monetary and banking laws, so|a deeper sympathy for those who as to secure greater elasticity in the have to bear it or suffer from it, and forms of currency available for trade | I question the wisdom of a policy and the incoming Congress should which is likely to increase it.” * - promptly fulfill the promise of the|* “The exercise of political fran- Republican platform and pass a chises by those of the negro race who prover Postal Savings Bank bill. are intelligent and well-to-do will be * The President then discusses the |acquiesced in, and the right to vote Panama Canal as follows: will be withheld only from the ig- The Panama Canal will have a norant and irresponsible of both most important bearing upon the races.” trade between the eastern and the far On the topic of labor Mr. Taft western sections of our country, and noted: that Congress had passed the will greatly increase the facilities for | bill fixing the liability of interstate transportation between the eastern | carriers to their employes for injury and the western seaboard, and may sustained in the course of employ- possibly revolutionize the transconti- | ment, abolishing the rule of fellow- nental rates with respect to bulky | servant and the common law rule as merchandise. It will also have a|to contributory negligence, and sub- most beneficial effect to increase the |stituting therefor the so-called rule of trade between the eastern seaboard | comparative negligence, and a model of the United States and the western | child labor law. coast of South America, and, indeed, I wish to say, he continued, that with some of the important ports on |in so far 2s I can, I hope to promote the east coast of South America |the enactment of further legislation ‘reached by rail from the west coast. of this character. I am strongly con- The work on the canal is making most vinced that the Government should satisfactory progress. The type of make itself as responsible to em- the canal as a lock canal was fixed | ployes injured in its employ as an by Congress after a full consideration | interstate railway corporation is made of the conflicting reports of the ma- | responsible by Federal law to its em- jority and minority of the consulting | ployes; and I shall be glad, whenever board, and after the recommendation | a0Y additional reasonable safety de- of the War Department and the Ex- vice can be invented to reduce the ecutive upon those reports. Recent [loss of life and limb among railway. suggestion that something had oc-| employes, to urge Congress to re- curred on the Isthmus to make the | quire its adoption by interstate rail- lock type of the canal less feasible | Ways. tLan it was supposed to be when the In conclusion the Inaugural Ad- reports were made and the policy de- | dress says: termined on, led to a visit to the Isth-| . Another labor question has arisen mus of a board of competent engi- | which has awakened the most excited neers to examine the Gatun dam and | discussion. That is in respect to locks which are the key of the lock | the ‘power of the Federal courts to type. The report of that board |issue injunctions in industrial dis- shows that nothing has occurred in| putes. As to that, my convictions the nature of newly revealed evidence | are fixed. Take away from courts, which should change the views once | if it could be taken away, the power formed in the original discussion. {to issue injunctions in labor disputes, The construction will go on under a |and it would create a privileged class most effective organization controlled | among the laborers and save the law- by Colonel Goethals and his fellow {less among their number from a most army engineers associated with him, | needful remedy available to all men and will certainly be completed early | for the protection of their business in the next Administration, if not be-| against lawless invasion. The propo- fore. sition that business is not a property, Some type oi canal must be con- | Or pecuniary right which can be pro- structed. The .ock type has been se- | tected by equitable injunction is ut- lected. We ar» all in favor of hav-|terly without foundation in precedent ing it built as promptly as possible. | OT reason. The proposition is usually, We must not now, therefore, keep up | linked with one to make the sec- a fire in the rear of the agents whom |ondary boycott lawful. Such a propo- we have authorized to do our work sition is at variance with the Amer- on the Isthmus. We must hold up ican instinct and will find no support their hands, and speaking for the in-|in my judgment when submitted to coming Administration, I wish to say | the American people. The secondary, that I propose to devote all the ener- boycott is an instrument of tyranny, gy possible and under my control, to | and ought not to be made legitimate. the pushing of this work on the plans The issuing of a temporary re- which have been adopted, and to straining order without notice has in stand behind the men who are doing several instances been abused by its faithful hard work to bring about the j inconsiderate exercise, and to remedy, early completion of this, the greatest | this, the platform upon which I was constructive enterprise: of modern elected recommends the formulation times, in a statute of the conditions under The governments of our dependen- which such a temporary restraining cies in Porto Rico and the Philippines | order ought to issue. A statute can are progressing as favorably as could | 2nd ought to be framed to embody, be desired. The prosperity of Porto | the best modern practice, and can Rico continues unabated. bring the subject so closely to the The President’s address then de- attention of the court as to make votes considerable space to the South | abuses of the process unlikely in the and the negro race question. Mr. future. American people, if I under- Taft says: stand them, insist that the authority I look forward with hope to in- of the courts shall be sustained and creasing the already good feeling be- | are opposed to any change in the tween the South and the other sec-| Procedure by which the powers of a tions of the country. My chief pur-|court may be weakened and the fear- pose is not to effect a change in the less and effective administration of electoral vote of the Southern States. | justice be interfered with. That is a secondary consideration. Having thus reviewed the questions What I look forward to is an in-|likely to recur during my Adminis- crease in the tolerance of political | tration, and having expressed in a views of all kinds and their advocacy | Summary way the position which I throughout the South, and theexistence | Xpect to take in recoramendations of a respectable political opposition | to Congress and in my conduct as an in every State; even more than this, | Executive, I invoke the considerate to an increased feeling on the part | Sympathy and support of my fellow of all the people in the South that | citizens, and the aid of Almighty God this Government is their Government, | in the discharge of my responsible and that its officers in their States duties. are their officers. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. A’ permanent as a distinct enterprise, and should Haskell Loses Case. Guthrie, Okla.—Scott MacRaynolds, ¢- | of Brooklyn, N. Y., representative of William R. Hearst, won in the su- preme court a complete victory over Governor C. N. Haskell in his suit to compel the governor to return cer- tain papers seized at the instance of Senator Stephenson Is Re-Elected. Official of Miners Fatally Shot. Madison, Wis.—United States Sen- Wheeling.—At Glencoe, Ohio, nine ator Isaac Stephenson was re-elected miles west of Wheeling ok the Bal- to the United States Senate by the | .. s joint assembly of the Wisconsin leg- timore and Ohio Railroad, Patrick islature on the twenty-third allot, | Smith, superintendent of the Belmont having received 83 out of 123 votes | Coal Company, shot and fatally cast. wounded Noble Ault, a prominent of- | ficial of the United Mine Workers of | America and a delegate to the recent convention The shooting 1 Smith’s house, but the not been ascertained. R=ject Woman Suffrage. ston.—A bill designated to grax ffrage to womer j legislative com f Mr. MacRaynolds le amendments. in pur- ad da rt tl mk al al al Ba de pd BS hd bd PA A + — pf LE SLi Ea a
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