U.S. PRESIDENCY

Evening Star, Issue 14001, 6 March 1909, Page 5

U.S. PRESIDENCY

A STORMY INAUGURATION DAY. MR ROOSEVELTS ESCORT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 6. A violent snowstorm necessitated the swearing-in ceremony being performed in the Senate Chambers instead of on the stops of the Capitol as usual. The storm moderated before Mr Taft and Mr Sherman (Vice-President) returned to the White House. The city was illuminated in the evening. One thousand members of the New York Republican Committee escorted Mr Roosevelt to the railway station, whence the exPresident proceeded to his home at Oyster Bay. Forty trains of sightseers bound from Philadelphia to New York were snowed np outside Washington. The telegraph lines are broken, and the newspapers are depending on the trains to bring news. THE PRESIDENTS POLICY. TARIFF REFORM FORESHADOWED. WASHINGTON, March 5. Mr Taft’s inauguration address generally endorsed Mr Roosevelt’s policies regarding trusts, interstate commerce, and Federal supervision of railways. A special session of Congress is to bo convened to consider the revision of the tariff. The present conditions, said the address, permit of a reduction in certain schedules and advancement in lew (if any). The expenditure for the current year would exceed the receipts by 100,000.000d0] (£20,000,000). If tariff revision did not meet the deficit a graduated inheritance duty would be imposed. Every precaution must be taken to prevent and punish outbursts against foreigners possessing treaty rights. Owing to possible international controversies in the Orient arising out of the open door and other issues the United States would be Unable to maintain her interest without a suitable army and navy. Sympathetic references were made to the position of the negroes.