The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-12-09
president Discusses Work of
Tariff Poard-Sti2 Sub
siLy Is Urged.
WORK on PANA.aA CANAL
aSeed Of Legislation Anticipating Com
pietlon Of the Ditch 10 Pointed
Out-Change In Postal Rates
Parcels Post and Postal
Savlng@Economy
Urged.

Urged.
Washington. Dec. 6.--President
TAft's annual message to congress
contained 40. 900 words, and Is said to
he the longest document OF its kind
sver written. In it 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 b
establishment of the tril unal.
IN connection with the state depart
nent he tells of the important poll
dcal happenings Of the past twelve
months throughout the entire world,
and the action of this country In con
UeCtion with them.
Tariff Negotiations.
Referring to the negotiation Of new
tariff agreements President Taft
Ia
The new tariff law, in Section .,
respecting the maximum and mini
mum tariffs Of the United States,
which provisions came into effect on
April l, 1910, imposed upon us re-
uponsibility of determining prior to
4hat date whether any undue discrim-
4pation existed against the United
States and its products in any coun-
try Of the world with which we sus-
&aiDed commercial relations.
I'm the case of several countries In
stances Of apparent undue discrimina-
ton against American commerce were
found to exist. These determinations
were removed by negotiation. Prior
10 April /, 1910, when the maximum
7eariT was to come into operation with
respect to im~portations from all those
countries in whose favor no proclama-
ton applying the minimum tariff
should be issued by the pre- 5ident, one
hundred and thirty-four such procla-
nations were issued.
This series of proclamations EN-
nraced the entire commercial world
AND hence the minimum tariff Of the
United States has beer given univer-
aal application, thus testifying to the
satisfactory character OF our trade
relations with foreign countries,
Marked advantages to the com
nerce Of the United States were OBJ
tatned through these tariff settle
a1ents.
The policy of broader and closer
trade relations with the Dominion of
Canada which was initiated in the ad-
sjustynent Of the maximum and mini.
mum provisions of the tariff act OF
August. 1909. has proved mutually
beneficial. It justifies further efforts
Tor the readjustment Of the CONNER
cial relations of the two countries SO
chat their commerce may follow the
channels natural to contiguous coun-
steady expansion OF trade and indus
Try ON both sides Of the boundary
HFua~
Strip Subsidy.
Tho president urges such action as
~ believes will increase American
N&200 2OIOaO, duu says.
Another fundamentally indispen-
sable to the unhamapered and natural
development Of American Is
DsrchAnt marine. All maritime and
commercial nations recognize tho i'm
Dortance Of this factor. The greatest
commercial nations, our competitors.
jealousy foster their merchant ma
sine- Perhaps nowhere is the need
Tor rapid and direct mail, 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 tie es-
adjustment of direct lines of COM
uunication with the countries OF
Latin America adequate to meet the
requirements OF a rapidly increasing
appreciation OF the reciprocal depen-
Aence Of the countries of the western
hemisphere upon each others prod
ucts, %sympathies and assistance.
At alluded to this most important
subject in my last annual message; It
has often been before you and | need
not recapitnlate the reasons for it's
Recommendation. Unless prompt ac-
stnn be taken the completion Of the