The Falls City tribune., 1910-12-09
President Discusses Work of
Tariff Board-Ship Sub
sidy Is Urged.
WORK ON PANAMA CANAL
Need Of Legislation Anticipating Corn
pletlon Of the Ditch Is Pointed
out-Chanee In Postal Rates
Parcels Post and Postal
SaVings-Economy
Urged.


Washington, Dec. president
Taft's annual message TO congress
contained 40. 900 words, aud is said to
be the longest document of It's kind
ever written. In 1t he reviews the
work of each of the administrative
departments beginning with the state
department. He devotes considerable
space to the satisfactory settlement
of the fisheries dispute with England
through the medium of the Hague
Tribunal. and recounts both the his
tory OF the fisheries dispute and the
establishment Of the tribunal.
In connection with the state depart
msnt he tells OF the important poll
teal happenings OF the past twelve
months throughout the entire world.
and the action OF this country In con-
nsctiop with them.
Tarin Negotiations.
Referring to the negotiation Of new
tariff agreements President Taft
says:
The new tariff law. In Section ),
respecting the maximum and mini
mum tariffs Of the United States,
which provisions came into effect on
April 1. 1910. imposed upon us re-
sponsibility Of determining prior to
hat date whether any undue discrim-
ination existed against tho United
States n its products In any coun-
try Of the world with which We sus-
tanned commercial relations.
In the a Of several countries In
stances OF apparent undue discrimina-
ton against American commerce were
found to exist. These determinations
were removed by negotiation. Prior
to April |. 1910, when the maximum
tarin was to come into operation with
respect to importations from all those
countries in whose favor no proclama-
tion applying the minimum tariff
should be Issued b. the president. one
hundred and thirty four such procla-
nations we're issued.
This series of nroclamations EN-.
braced the entire commercial world
ard hence tie minimum tariff of the
United States has been given univer-
raj application. thus testifying TO the
satisfactory character of our trade
rela tons With fore N countries.
Mar, ed advance to the com
wer,o q the United states we're OBJ.
Tough these tariff settle
y &c broader and closer
I as vth Z e Dominion of
was iai.,s'ai in the ad-
j. tae rsatwsm ard mini.
mum lea aas g lie tariff act of
Argu-t, 1909. la proved mutually
beneficial. II justtdes further efforts
for the readjustment of the commer.
eial relations of the two countries so
that their commerce may follow the
channels natural to contiguous coun.
tries and be commensurate with the
steady expansion of trade and indus-
try on both sides of the boundary
line"
Ship Subsidy.
The president urges such action as
he believes will increase American
trade abroad. and says.
Another fundamentally indispen-
sable to the unhamapered and natural
development of American Is
merchant marine. All maritime and
commercial nations recognize the i'm
portance Of this factor. The greatest
commercial nations, our competitors,
3~salously foster their merchant ma
rine. Perhaps nowhere is the need
for rapid and direct mall, passenger
and freight communication quite SO
urgent as between the United States
and Latin America. We can secure
in no other quarter of the world such
immediate benefits in friendship and
commerce as would flow from the es-
Enlistment Of direct lines Of com
munication with the countries OF
Latin America adequate to meet the
requirements of a rapidly increasing
appreciation of the reciprocal depen-
dence of the countries of the western
hemisphere upon each others prod
ucts, sympathies and assistance.
II alluded to this most important
subject in my last annual message; II
has often been before you and l need
not ~recapitulate the reasons for it's
recommendation. Unless prompt &C
ton be taken the completion OF the