THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT,

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 March 1909, Page 3

THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT,

(I'BSaa AB9OOUTIOH.— CoPXtiIOHX.] THE INAUGURATION. AN INCONVENIENT SNOWSTOBM WASHjIWUTON, Friday. A violent snowstorm at Wat'hington necessitated the swearing in of the new President in the Senate chamber, instead of outsida ihe Capitol. The storm moderated before Mr Taft drove to White House. There were illuminations in the evening. A thousand members of the New York Eepublican Committee escorted Mr Roosevelt to the station. Thence he proceeded to Oyster Bay. Forty train? of sightseers from Philadelphia and New York are snowed up outside Washington. The telegraph lines have broken down, and the newspapers are depending on the trains. The Senate ratified the Waterways Treaty. Mr Taft's inauguration address generally endorsed Mr Boosevelt's policies regarding trusts, inter-Slate commerce, and Federal supervison of railway?.^ A special session of Congress would be convoked in March, to consider the revision of the tariff. Present conditions permit a reduction in certain schedules, but advancement in few, if any. The expenditure for the current year would ■exceed the receipts by a hundred million dollars. If tariff revision did not meet the deficit, a graduated inheritance duty y r "*~ ; ?;\^be imposed? Every prccautjfj^ -^'"'Afcaken to prevent and puifei^ «v.A against foreigners' possessing ti.. '. '. *hts. In possible international controversies with the Orient arising out of the open door and other issues, the tlnitpd States would be unable to maintain its interests without a siiitable army and navy. The speech contained sympathetic references ro the negroes.