Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-08
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| state s letter of this date, whereby it | will be possible to develop and make permanent the reorganization of the de- | partment upon modern lines in man. ner to make it thoroughly efficient | instrument in the furtherance of our foreign trade and of American interests | abroad. The plan to have divisions of
 Latin America and Far Eeastern affairs and to institute certain specialization l in business with Europe and the near | east at once commend itself. These po- litico- geographic divisions and the de- tail from the diplomatic or consular ser vice to the department of number of
 men, who bring to the study of compli- cated problems in different parts of the
 world practical knowledge recently gained on the spot clearly is of the greatest advantage to the secretary of state in foreseeing conditions likely to
 arise and in conducting the great va riety of correspondence and negotia- | tion. It should be remembered that
 such facilities exist in the foreign of | fees of all the leading commercial na- tions and that to deny them to the sec
 retary of state would place this gov
 ernment at great disadvantage in the | rivalry of commercial competition. The consular service has been greatly i'm
 proved under the law of April ,, 1906,
 and the executive order of June 27, 1906, and I commend to your consid-
 eration the question of embodying in a
 statute the principles of the present ex.
 ecutive order upon which the efficiency
 of our consular service is wholly de- pendent.
 In modern times political and com
 mercial interests are interrelated and
 in the negotiation of commercial treat ies conventions and tariff agreements,
 the keeping open of opportunities and the proper support of American enter
 prises, our diplomatic service is quite
 as important as the consular service to the business interests of the country.
 Impressed with this idea and convinced
 that selection after rigorous examina tion, promotion for merit solely and the
 experience only to be gained through the continuity of an organized service are indispensable to a high degre of
 efficiency in the diplomatic service, have signed an executive order as the | first step toward this very desirable re- suit. Its effect should be to place all
 secretaries of the diplomatic service in
 much the same position as consular of | feers are now placed to tend to promo | tion of the most efficient to the grade
 of minister, generally saving for out
 side appointment such post of the grade
 of ambassador or minister as 1t may be
 expedient to fill from without the ser vice. It is proposed also to continue the practice instituted last summer of giving to all newly appointed seere- tares at least one month s thorough | training in the department of state be- | fore they proceed to their posts. This
 has been done for some time in regard | to the consular service with excellent
 results.
 Under a provision of the act of Aug
 ust ,, 1909, l have appointed three of | ficials to assist the officers of the gov
 ernment in collecting information nee
 essary to a wide administration of the | tariff act of August ,, 1909. As to | questions of customs administration, they are co-laboring with the officials
 of the treasury department and as to matters of the needs and the exigen- cies of our manufacturers and exporters with the department of commerce and | labor. in its relation to the domestic aspect of the subject of foreign com meree. In the study of foreign tarlI treatment those will assist the bureau of trade relations of the department of state. It is thus hoped to coordinate
 and bring to bear upon this most lm-
 portant subject all the agencies Of the
 government which can contribute any thing to its efficient handling
 As consequence of section or the tariff act of August l5, 1909, 1t be-
 comes the duty of the secretary of state to conduct as diplomatic business all
 the negotiations necessary to place hum
 in A position to advise me whether or not any other particular country un-
 duIv discriminated against the United
 States in the sense of the statute re- ferred to. The great scope and complex
 itv of this work, as well as the obliga- tion to lend all proper aid to our e& handing commerce, is met by the expan- sion of the bureau of trade relations
 as set forth in the estimates Of the de- partment of state. F I have thus in some detail deserlpeo the important transactions or the state f department since the beglnnlng or thls 2 administration for the reason that there - is no provision eltner ny etatu'S O a custom for formal report of the sec 1, retary of state to the president or to : congress and a presidential message is 2 the only means by which the condition . of our foreign relations is brought tc the attention of congress and the pub I lie.
 In dealings with the affairs of th' i, other departments, the heads or whlci all submit annual reports, l shall touci n only those matters that seem to me t' f cali for special mention on my par q without minimizing in any way th' ', recommendations made by them fol 2 Legislation effecting their respective de n partments, in all of which l wish t' n express my general concurrence.
 e Economy Urged
 o Perhaps the most important question h presented to this administration IS tha
 of economy of expenditures and sufli
 ciency of revenues. This deficit ot tn ,e last fiscal year and the certain defcl $. of the current year, prompted congress n to throw greater responsibility o i the executive and the secretary Of tn