Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12

! vent excessive prices
The power granted to the execu.
| tive under the maximum and mini.
! mum clause may be exercised to
secure the removal of obstacles which
have been interposed by foreign gov.
ernments in the way of undue and un.
| fair discrimination against American
! merchandise and products.
THE Philippine tariff section have
struggled to secure for ten years past,
and 1t gratifes me exceedingly by my
| signature to give 1t the effect of law
| am sure 1t will greatly increase the
| trade between the two countries, and
1t will do much TO build up the Philip.
pines in healthful prosperity.
The administrative clauses Of the
| bill and the customs court are ad-
mirably adapted to secure a more uni
! form and a more speedy final con-
struction Of the meaning Of the law.
The corporation tax is just and
| equitable excise measure, which 1t Is
/ hoped will produce a sufficient amount
| to prevent a deficit and which Incl
, dentally will secure valuable statis-
! tics and information concerning the
many corporations of the country, and
| will constitute an important step
! toward that degree OF publicity and
regulation which the tendency in cor.
! porate enterprises in the last twenty
| years has shown to be necessary"
No indications Of Hostility.
Six o'clock was agreed upon by tho
| two houses as the hour for final ad
| iournment. Senators loitered about
until the arrival of that hour.
Democrats and Republicans, regular
and irregular, formed little social
groups with no indication OF hostility.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Culbcr-
son, expressing the appreciation of the
senate for the able and impartial man.
ner in which the vice-president had
presided over the sessions of that body,
was adopted.
In especially happy language Mr..
Sherman thanked the senate for the
courteous treatment which had been
extended toward him at all times. His
life in the senate, he said, had been
made a continual pleasure by the con-
sideration that had been shown him at
| all times.
Concluding his remarks, by wishing
the senators a happy return to their
homes, he declared the extraordinary
session of the Sixty-first Congress ad-
journed without day
A burst of applause was accorded
the vice-president as he laid down the
gavel of his authority and at 5:5S
p. m, two minutes in advance of the
time fixed the senate adjourned sine
die.
With it's members almost exhausted
| from the heat and arduous labors of
| the last four months, the house of rep
| resentatives devoted the last day OF
the special session to perfecting the
| tariff bill, and transacting mass OF
routine business.
Cannon Announces Committees.
Speaker Cannon announced his com
mittee appointments, and they were
| ceiyed with varying degrees of salts
! faction.
The concurrent resolution amend
! ing the leather schedule of the tariff
! bill was adopted without a dissenting
vote after it had been discussed for
little over half an hour. No such
/ good luck, however, befell the Nc
| Cumber- Mel Laurin resolution, revising
the draw back provision and placing
cotton bagging on the free list which
| had previously been adopted by the
| senate.
1t was but few minutes before FIVE
o'clock when Mr. Payne's resolution
fixing 6 p. m, as the hour for ad-
| journment sine die was adopted.
Incidents of Signing.
A number of interesting incidents
occurred in the presidents room dur
ing the signing of the tariff bill. AS
the senators, one after another, filed
into the room, the president had
something of a personal nature to
say to each, and good nature appeared
to be overflowing.
Senator Taliaferro of Florida, in a
rather plaintive tone, said: "Mr. Pres
ident surely you are not going to
sign that bill with that pineapple par
agraph in it," He referred to the fact
that he had gotten the duty increased
on the pineapple schedule; but the
advance was eliminated in confer
! ence
"What would you have me do? Shall
/ strike out pineapples altogether, or
Just write in a rate to suit you?'
asked Mr.. Taft.
|. A short time afterward Senator
Fletcher of Florida was telling the
president goodby. The Floridan was
dismissed with a "Goodby, old pine
apples; take care of yourself"
Genial Greeting to Hepburn.
The president tried with his good
nature to mollify Senator Warren fol-
his disappointment over the abolition
of the duty on hides, and he greeted