MR. TAFT'S POSITION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1913, Page 8

MR. TAFT'S POSITION

HIS INTENTIONS. .(From Out Own Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, 25th Dec. -What is going to happem to Mr. Taft wheAhe is no longer President of -the United States? The question hsw been answered in many different , ways since his ignomirriotts defeat last month, but hie future seems uncharted even now. One interesting story has it that in 1914 >he will make a ■ lecturing tour of tho woTld in the interests of international peace, visiting and speaking in. the principal capitals of Ettrope. Peace propagandists of America have previously financed sach "tours, lecturers.whom they have sent to other countries including David Starr Jordan, of the Leland Stanford University, and President Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard University. In view of Mr. Taft'fi efforts to bring abont tho adoption of unlimited arbitration, treaties between this country and' Great Britain and France, there wohld be no lack of appropriateness in 6ucb use being made of his talents. The only certain thing about the retiring President's immediate future » that he -will loctuTe in the la-w college of Yale University, he having accepted the Kent Professorship of Law. It is said that Mr. Tart has saved about £20,000 from. Mb earnings in official life. The income from this, together with the salary of .£IOOO a year from' the law dtofe&orship, he regards as sufficient for the ipeeds of himseH and ' family. Tho President's first plan was to enter upon tho practice of "the law in partnership with his son, but ho has *elt that he would be embarrassed in appearing before the mahy Federal Judges whom he has appointed.' Indeed, a majority of the members of the present Supreme Cerart of the United States were appotflt<sd «by President Taft, including the Chief Justice. Mr. Taft himself may .yst 'become a member of that Court — the final tribunal for • ] 00,000.000 people. That ha«i- always been his ambition, and rf remarks attributed to President-elect Wilson were really uttered by him, the new chief executive will honour his predecessor by making a Judge of him. Mt. Wilson ift credited with having said to a friend : "I know what I shall do with, on© ex-President, if "he will be gracious enough to allow me to so dispose of him. I ' shall ( ask Mr. Taft to fill the • first vacancy that occurs on the Bench of the Supreme Court."

To-morrow evening a moonlight harbour excursion will be hold, "the s.s. Duchess leaving* the Ferry Company's wharf at, 7.46. A feature of tho excursion _ will be the music ( of the Central Mission Silver Band, which will play on board the steamer, and also in the liay's Bay grounds. ' Additional attraction will centre in the appearance of the recently formed Boys' Band, and altogether fifty performers will participate.The .first term of 1913 at Wellington College will begin on Thursday, 30th January. At No. 68 .Manners-street, the auction sale of drapery, clothing, boots, etc., will bo continued. Messrs. Gurney Bros., Manners-street, announce the commencement of a fire «advagejsste( t oj Jh.e ffihol? fit their etsck.