PRESIDENT TAPT.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 82, 6 March 1909, Page 2

PRESIDENT TAFT.

GETS A COLD INSTALLATION. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. [BY BLBOTRIO TBLHGBAPH — COPYRIGHT.] iFMJt PKICBB AtfgOOIAXION J Washington, March 4. A violent snowstorm at Washington necessitated the swearing-in of the President being performed in the Senate Chambers instead of outside the Capitol. The storm moderated before Mr Taft and Senator Sherman drove to the White House, which was illuminated in the evening. ' A thousand members of the New York Republican Committee escor* ted ex-President Roosevelt to the station, on his way from Washington to tiis private residence at Oyster Bay. Forty trains of sightseers from Philadelphia and New York were snowed up outside Washington. The telegraph lines were broken, and the newspapers are depending on trains for news. President Taft's inauguration address generally endorsed Mr Roosevelt's policies regarding trusts, in-ter-state commerce, and federal supervision of railways. A special session of Congress has been convoked for March to consider the question of the revision of the Customs tariff. The present conditions, the new President says, permit of the reduction of certain schedules and the advancement of few, if any. The expenditure for the current year will exceed the receipts by 100,000,000 dollars. If the tariff revision does not meet this deficit, a gradual inheritance duty will be imposed. 'Every precaution must be taken to prevent and punish outbursts against ' foreigners possessing -treaty rights. In any possible international controversies with the Orient arising but of the " open door " and other issues, the United States would be unable to maintain her interests without a suiable army and navy. Sympathetic references were made to negroes.