Show TAFT PROPOSES J TRIP TO P PANAMA 1 Evidently Wor Worried ned ried ri d Over the Prospects of Finishing the Canal APPROVED BY ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWED A 1 VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE Washington Dec 12 Taft contemplates a visit to Panama before his Inauguration This visit is approved by President Roosevelt and Secretary Root Hoot While it has not been n ni j finally determined upon Mr Taft an announced announced flounced tonight that It was his in inclination to go Should this be his final decision he will depart the last week 0 In January for a trip which will cover 1 approximately twenty days das There are many man reasons in Mr Tafts view why his trip to the lath Isthmus Isthmus mus would be of decided advantage President visit proved a stimulus to the work the three visits which Mr AIr lr Taft has made as secretary secreta of war were all of advantage there are constancy arising and accumulating minor tangles of administration which the presence of the might ml ht make possible of elimination with little difficulty difficult His Only Opportunity Mr Taft feels that this Is practically his hia only opportunity to visit the tho leth isthmus Isthmus mus during his forthcoming term as an president The visit would put him in indirect Indirect Indirect direct personal contact with the situa situation situation situation tion The only objection to the expedition which has been pointed out by careful students of the laws and constitution tl n nIs is that pending the official declaration decla of Mr Ir Taft as by tho the action of the electoral college and his bis Inauguration as president there is no constitutional or legal provision for the substitution of oC any an one ore else in inthe the event of anything happening to himIn him In Panama The news of or this trip followed a con conference conference ference terence last night with President Roosevelt and today again at the tho White House and later with Secretary Root Further details of today con conference conference ference were not made known beyond the statement by Mr Taft that the tho se selection s lection of his cabinet was thoroughly discussed Mr Taft said aid tonight the interviews he had had yesterday esterday and today woth Voth Secretary Aldrich and Senator Hale le had led Ie l him to believe that the d df of f these two leaders In the senate re te tariff revision was decidedly favorable to the kind of or a tariff he has hall been advocating A conference with Senator Crane of o Massachusetts also J confirmed this view j Several Sev rat Conferences Chairman Frank IL H Hitchcock Hitchc ek k who came tb today from irom New NewYork NewYork NewYork York saw Mr Taft tonight The Cu Gu Cuban Guban Cuban ban situation was discussed thorough thoroughly thor ugh ly at a conference with Governor Ma Magoon Magoon Magoon goon and Secretary Wright and Gen General eral Clarence R B Edwards of the Insular Insular lar bureau talked with Mr Taft about departmental and Philippine matters Senator Bourne of Oregon Bishop OGorman of Sioux Sh ux Falls S 5 D Sec See Secretary Garfield and Representatives Martin of South Dakota and Needham of oC California also talked with Mr Tart Mr Ir Taft Tart planned to leave heave Washing Washington ton for New York following the dinner dh ner of the Gridiron clu He will there be bethe bethe bethe the guest of his brother Henry W Taft Tart until Thursday when he will go goto goto goto to Augusta Ga for weeks |