Show I TAfT PARTY IS COMPLETE Thirteen Besides the President Will Make the Journey to the West and They Wiy Wi Travel in Two Private Cars OGDEN INCLUDED IN LIST OF PLACES TO VISIT President Hopes to Cut Gut Ex Expenses Expenses Fifty Millions of Dol Dollars Dollars lars tars During the First Year of His Administration CABINET HEADS HELPING Beverly Maon llau Aug 19 President dent Taft is giving some ome thought to the many speeches to be made on his long bug west wont western western ern era and southern trip and also to Ills his annual message to congress The president p al dent has thought out the general plan of his message menage he has hu several cabinet officers at work on the details de tans of certain certain tain tam phases of it and he will not take tak up the work of assembling a the document until a week or so before congress Is to toga gather ga The message is not likely to be oe bea a long one i The personnel of the presidents travel traveling travelIng traveling ing party has been completed John Hays Hammond Captain Archibald W Butt military aide Wensell ensell W V as assistant assistant secretary Dr J J Richardson of ot Washington D C James Sloan jr and L C Wheeler heeler of ot the secret service e and Major Arthur Brooks the presidents confidential messenger mea enger who just jut now is fighting with the red army of invasion about Boston will accompany the president president dent Six newspaper mep will make the entire trip The party part will travel in two private cars It was practically decided d to include Ogden Utah in the list of stopping places This Thin change cha will necessitate nece a curtailment of ot the stay in Salt Lake and was vas arranged in accordance with a re ye request quest from the Utah committee The pres pros president presIdent ident will reach reah Salt Lake late in the afternoon of Friday Frida Sept 24 On the th way to Salt Lake Lak it had been bet n arranged that there should be a stop top of one hour hout or more at Provo Utah The president is due in Butte Mont Monday morning Sept 27 I President Gets Elephant I The mall mail man brought to the executive executive I tive office this morning a stuffed gray suede elephant elepha t about twelve inches high addressed addre eed to President Taft The little II fellow had G O 0 P stamped on one side and aDd one ear On the front of th the elephant was 11 traced a picture of the pres pros president president ident and aad underneath were words Sun Sunny Sunn ny fly n Bill BIli The elephant came can from De Dc Detroit Detroit troit One of the important reasons for the visit of Assistant Secretary Sec tary of or the Treas Trena Treasury Treasury ury Norton to Beverly Be erly yesterday was to confer with the president in regard to the administrations plans for fOt economy in ID the public c I tt hi all siniE 9 and ant im hn improving proving the civil service a an f its I ad adjuncts and the amendment of the Sher Slier Sherman Sherman I man antitrust law la the program for a horizontal reduction in expenses is closest to the tb presidents heart bart No fixed limit has hu been bet n put on the amount that the th president wants wanta saved on this years es estimates e but he and the committee of cab cabinet ab inet hiet officers who have been at work ork cut cutting cutting ting Ung down the estimates e for tor the past two months are figuring now on saving close ciON to in the first year of the Taft administration With that as a starter tarter they hope to do better next year ear Of this amount 10 9 each will be saved by the army and navy departments Secretary Se Dickinson and Secretary Meyer have already submitted estimates in which cuts to the amounts stated are made Secretary Nagel of the depart department department department ment of commerce and labor is in line with economics and announcement was made in Washington yesterday that Post Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster master General Hitchcock will save 50 on the single item of letters carriers vacations at once by economizing during the summer summt r season and doing away with I extra carriers carri lII I All Departments Cut Expenses So with ith all the other departments A I committee has been organized organised in the va various various rious bureaus bureau in Washington which will have charge of the purchase e of supplies Tiis committee will iII buy in bulk for all aU aUthe the departments ta Under the old system each department bought its own supplies and half balf a dozen different prices were paid for the same line of materials Over at the po department Dr Granfield the first assistant a postmaster general is experimenting with an ice machine by which the entire department is expected to be supplied with Ice and if it proves a success the government next year will be able to declare Itself independent of the ice companies and Continued on Page 7 e TAFT PARTY IS COMPLETE Continued from Page 1 I thereby effect effet another big saving sving la In In half a dozen dosen don different directions these the economies are ar being put into effect and an amazing total of savings Is expected ext by the time tm all al of the estimates for the year have been put into the printers printes hands President Pr nt Taft took tok hold bold of this plan for economy in the public service the first firt day that he entered upon his du duties dute duties ties te At the th first meeting of the cabinet he tie impressed impe 4 upon his advisers the desire desira desirability der of cutting down don and he h expressed the hope hop that they they would without refer reference reference reference ence to any legislation cooperate with him in materially reducing the t growing gowing deficit A committee of oC cabinet members member was appointed to take up the subject To this committee were added the th names of several averal bureau chiefs chief and the depart department ment meat heads head Assistant Secretary Norton Is I a member of the th committee At every ever meeting of the cabinet the subject of economy was wal discussed Members were we encouraged to point pint out plans whereby cuts cut could be b made in estimates prepared by b f fellow el tow members President Taft Tatt made mad it plain that he desired dere department heads heds on making up their thir estimates to set st down the exact total of what they needed not what they thy would woul like to have He insists that it itis 1 Itis is not no good go business policy plic to ask ak for twice as much as a is wanted wante in the be belief b belie lie lief lef that the amount would be b cut in half hl by the committee on appropriations The Te last lat week that the president was ws in Washington ton he called cale a special meet meetIng mt Ing lug of the th cabinet to t go over the esti estimates estimates mates mate once more mo It I is understood that the estimates are now in such shape shap that the desired decrease dera In expenditures is 18 ison Ison on the th point pint of being bing realized And while this retrenchment Is being bel g made there is ie the new senate commit te tel teo on fl public expenditures that Is proper preparing prepa ing to exercise a a wise discretion dl In pass passing passIng ing upon all al demands upon the treasury This Thill committee is composed of the chair chairmen chairmen men of the he seven Hyen big committees m of the |