Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
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stituted.
IAN inquiry into the issuance Of railway
stocks and bonds was inaugurated.
"A new customs court was established.
"A postal savings bank system was
au -horized.
"A corporation tax was adopted. which
is an important source of revenue and a
new and effective method Of assisting the
government in supervising corporations
Two battleships were added to the navy.
IN bureau OF mines was established.
Seventy million acres Of the public do
main were legally withdrawn from entry.
Twenty million dollars in bonds were
authorized to complete reclamation projects
after a board Of army engineers, now at
work, should complete it's Investigations
of existing projects.
Enlarged appropriations were made to
survey public lands.
First Attack on Pork Barrel.
"A definite commitment was made
against the piecemal or pork barrel sys-
TEN of river and harbor Improvement
New Mexico and Arizona were advanced
toward statehood.
"A peace commission was authorized.
AN investigation into business methods
of conducting the government was begun.
The appropriations for the current year
were cut $26 10000 below the appropriations
Of the year before.
| Tariff was revised without the usual dis
turbance OF business Because of its re-
duction Of tariff rates, its maximum and
minimum provisions, the free trade 1t Sc
cures for the Philippines its fine revenue
| mr. hn Iaxny &c N
producing qualities, the Payne law is com.
ing generally to be recognized as a credit
able bill
| sour platform promised to revise the
tariff Immediately and also to revise It 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 a plan was impracticable, because the
information needed was not at once avail.
able; but the inconsistency was met by the
provision of a tariff board to report the
necessary facts.
New Tariff Commission.
"The new tariff commission for the work
Of which S25O,00O was appropriated has al
ready completed it's preliminary report anC
the commission is now at work in this coun
try. .-. ... -
! II have authorized the chairman to make
a public statement of the purposes and
methods Of the commission, but have in.
| structed him not to make that statment un.
til after the election, because insofar as pos
sible desire the tariff commission from Its
very inception to be kept free from the vic.
isstudes of partisan politics, so that II will
gain the respect and the confidence of the
whole country, regardless of party lines.
FINALLY since the bill passed nearly every
republican candidate for congress and re-
publican state platforms generally. have de.
clared that hereafter when the tariff shall
be revised by republicans, 1t shall be re.
vised one schedule at time instead of by
| a general revision of the entire tariff
I'VE have provided the machinery for a
further revision on the protective principle
when the necessary information has beer
secured. In my estimation the country will
hesitate in trusting further revision of the
tariff to the democratic party on free trade
or for revenue principles.
THAT party has not within our memory
revised the tariff without creating profound
business disturbances and it's revision
was Immediately repudiated by the country
after a short but bitter experience.
other Propositions Next Session.
/ IT have thus summary stated the re.
publican accomplishments of a short eigh.
teen months. Everything foreshadowed ir
our platform, however, there was not time
to consider and carry out. We agreed tc
adopt measures for the improvement of ouI
foreign merchant marine which every one