The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-06
TAFT'S MESSAGE
up TO CONGRESS-
President Breaks Record for
Length Of Document.
DEFENDS PAYNE TARIFF ACT


judicial salaries--Reoommendation
For Fitting Honor For Peary.
Washington, Dec. 6.-The president
sent the following message TO con-
gress today:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiYes:
During the past year the foreign
relations of the United States have
continued upon basis of friendship
and good understanding.
The year has been notable as wit
Messing the pacific settlement of two
important international controversies
before the permanent court of The
Hague.
The arbitration Of the fisheries dis
pute between the United States and
Great Britain, which has been the
source of nearly continuous diplo-
matte correspondence since the fish
cries convention of 1918, has given an
award which is satisfactory to both
! parties.
Peace Commission.
| Approaching these enlightened ten
| dencies of modern times, the congress
at its last session passed law pro
viding for the appointment of COM
mission of five members ito be APP
pointed by the president of the Unit
ed States to consider the expediency
of utilizing existing international
| agencies for the purpose of limiting
| the armaments of the nations of the
world by international agreement and
/ of constituting the combined navies
of the world an international force
for the preservation of universal peace
and to consider and report upon any
other means to diminish the expend-
itu es of government for'milltary pur-
pose and to lessen the probabilities
] Uf war"
The work of the international fish.
| cries commission appointed in 1908,
under the treaty of April IL, 1908, be-
| tween Great Britain and the United
States, has resulted in the formula
ton and recommendation Of uniform
regulations governing the fisheries of
the boundary waters of Canada and
the United States for the purpose of
protecting and increasing the supply
of food fish in such waters.
The Far East.
The center of interest in far east
ern affairs during the past year has
again been China.
1t is gratifying to note that the ne
gotiations for a loan to the Chinese
government for the construction of the
trunk railway lines from Hankow
southwark to Canton and westward
through the Yangtse valley, known as
the Hukuang loan, were concluded by
| the representatives of the various
financial groups in May last and the
results approved by their respective
governments.
Tariff Negotiations.
The new tariff law in section re-
| specting the maximum and minimum
| tariffs of the United States, which
| provisions came into effect on April
], 1910, imposed upon the president
the responsibility of determining prior
to that date whether or not any un-
due discrimination existed against
the United States and its products in
any country of the world with which
We sustained commercial relations.
The policy Of broader and closer
trade relations with the Dominion OF
Canada which was initiated in the ad-
justment Of the maximum and mini
mum provisions of the tariff act of
August, 1903, has proved mutually ben
eficial, II justifies further efforts for
| the readjustment of the commercial
relations of the two countries so that
their commerce may follow the chan
nels natural to contiguous countries
and be commensurate with the steady
| expansion of trade and industry on
both sides Of the boundary line.
The Department Of State.
All tariff negotiations, so vital to our
commerce and industry, and the duty
of jealously guarding the equitable
and just treatment of our products,
capital and industry abroad devolve
upon the department of state.
The efforts of that department TO
secure for citizens of the United
States equal opportunities in the mar
kets Of the world and to expand Amer
ican commerce have been most sue
cessful. The volume of business OBJ
tanned in new fields of competition
and upon new lines is already very
great, and congress is urged to con
tinue to support the department of
state in it's endeavors for further
trade expansion.
An instrumentality indispensable 10
the unhampered and natural develop
ment of American commerce is mer-
chant marine. All maritime and com
mercial nations recognize the import