New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-02


| brought within the regulation of the
commission.
A new court of commerce was pro-
| vided in order that shippers and rail-
ways might secure prompt decisions.
Railway employees were protected by
a new safety appliance law. The en-
ployers' liability act was perfected
| An inquiry into workingmens COM
pensation for injuries received was in
| stituted.
way stocks and bonds was 1naugurateo
A new customs court was established
A postal savings bank system was
authorized.
A corporation tax was adopted. which
| is an important source of revenue and
| a new and effective method OF assisting
| the government in supervising corpora
tons.
Two battleships were added to the
navy.
A bureau of mines was established.
Seventy million acres OF the public
domain were legally withdrawn from the
| entry.
Twenty million dollars in bonds were
authorized to complete reclamation
projects, after a board of army engi-
neers now at work should complete its
Investigation of existing projects.
Enlarged appropriations Were made TO
survey public lands.
| A definite commitment was made
/ against the 'piecemeal" or pork bar
rel system of river and harbor inn
provement
New Mexico and Arizona we're ad-
| vanced toward statehood.
A peace commission was authorized.
An investigation into business methods
| of conducting the government was he
gun
The appropriations for the current
year were cut S26,0O0,OO0 below the ap-
| nrOprta riOnQ tho hafpro
The tariff was revised without the
usual disturbance Of business. Because
of its reduction of tariff rates its maxi
mum and minimum provisions. the free
trade IL secures for the Philippines, fits
Tine revenue producing qualities, the
Payne law IS coming generally TO be
recognized as a creditable bill
Tariff Board Free from Politics.
Our platform promised to revise the
tarir immediately and also to revise il
TO accord with the difference between the
cost Of production at home and abroad
These two promises proved somewhat
inconsistent, in that immediate revision
conforming TO such plan was imprac-
tlcable, because the information needed
was not at once available: but the in
consistency was met by the provision
OF a tariff board to report the necessary
facts.
The new tariff commission for the
work OF which $4,000 was appropri-
ated, has already completed its preIim-
mary report, and the commission is now
AT work In this country. / have author
lied the chairman to make a public
statement Of the purposes and methods
or the commission, but / have directed
him not to make that statement until
after the election. because insofar as
possible I desire the tariff commission
from its very inception to be kept free
from the vicIssitudes of partisan poll
tics, so that IL viii gain the respect and
the confidence of the whole country, re-
CARELESS of party lines.
Finally. since the bill passed. / have
recommended and nearly every Repub-
lican candidate for Congress and Repub-
licsn state platforms generally have Is
clared that hereafter when the tariff
shall be revised by Republicans il shall
be revised one schedule at a time. in
stead of by a general revision of the
entire tariff.
We have provided the machinery for
a further revision on the protective prin-
clple when the necessary information
has been secured. In my judgment the
country will hesitate before intrusting
a further revision of the tariff to the
Democratic party on free trade tariff
for revenue principles. That party has
not, within our memory, revised the
tariff without creating profound bust
ness disturbance, and its revision was
Immediately repudiated by the country
after a short but bitter experience.
have thus summary stated the Re-
publican accomplishments of a short
eighteen months. Everything fore
Swallowed in our platform however,
there was not time to consider and carry
out
Removing Sources Of Prejudice.
W. 5000 60 odon, ,oaaeures for tho
improvement of our foreign merchant
marine which every one will admit TO
be in q condition of decadence disgrace
full to a country of our size and power.
We agreed to pass a law embodying
the best practice In the issuing of In
functions without notice. When this is
carried out, il will, 1 believe. do much
to remove q fruitful source of political
discussion which arouses prejudice and
class feeling. and which is fed by mis-
representation.
We agreed to provide for the making
Of limited traffic agreements between in
terstate railways. subject to the ap-
prevail of the commission.
Then there is the badly needed legis-
lation for additional safety appliances.
refer TO the bills pending in Congress
for the government inspection of loco
motive boilers and for the elimination
hy government direction of danger to
employees from overhead and sideWay
projections.
we need the enactment OF laws au-
thorizing the disposition Of coal phos-
nhate. oil and gas lands of the govern
ment and the waterpoWer sites owned
bv the government along streams IN
which there is valuable water power,
now uncontrolled and inappropriate.
under leases or grants which shall IN
duce investment of private capital IN
the DEVELOPMENT of those lands, pul
arSrlrel sln
mate controller of the properties WIN
an equitable provision for readJustihehl
Of terms at comparatively snort perlous-
Indeed. the affirmative part of the "hole
nolicv of conservation awaits actlon, anu
the Republican party is pledged 10 give
this subject the attention IT deserves;
We need a new government Tor AlaShd'
with laws properly protecting the gov
eminent domain in that vast empire
We agreed TO supplement anu
strengthen the antitrust law in SO iaT aS
il might seem necessary. Existing anu
irust laws have been vigorously en-
forced. . 20
we are hoping for a read1ustnehI VI
our relations with Canada that snail
bring the two countries INTO cioSei
commercial union. beneficial to botn;
FINALLY. we are committed TO an ellm-
ination of the defects in our banking
and currency system. with respect 10
which the monetary commission mas &C
cumulated much material
Work of Progressive Republicans.
Of ,11ea SurpS