Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

document of it's kind ever sent to
length the business of the year in the
various departments of the national
government. The settlement of the
tfshries dispute with England through
the Hague tribunal comes in for a
considerable share of the president S
attention. The history of the fisheries
dispute and the establishment of the
tribunal are cOmprehensively review
ed.
The president gives a resume of the
foreign relations of the government,
which are declared to be in a satisfac-
tory condition.
Tariff 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-
tsponsibility of determining prior to
that date whether any undue discrim-
5nation existed against the United
States and its products in any coun-
try of the world with which we sus-
tanned commercial relations.
''In the case of several countries in
stances of apparent undue discrimina-
ftiOn against American commerce we're
found to exist. These determinations
were removed by negotiation. Prior
to April /, 1910, when the maximum
tariff was to come into operation with
respect to importations from all those
countries in whose favor no proclama-
Ition applying the minimum tariff
should be issued by the president, one
hundred and thirty-four such procla-
mations were issued.
This series of proclamations en-
ibraced the entire commercial world
and hence the minimum tariff of the
United States has been given univer-
sal application, thus testifying to the
satisfactory character of our trade
relations with foreign countries
Marked advantages to the COM
merce of the United States were OBJ
tanned through these tariff settle
ments.
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, 1909, has proved mutually
beneficial. 1t justifies further efforts
for the readjustment of the CONNER
Cial 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
me believes will increase American
trade abroad. and says:
Another instrumentality indispen-
sable to the unhamapered and natural
of American commerce is
Easrohc..-nt marine All maritime and
nations recognize the i'm
lportance of this factor. The greatest
commercial nations, our competitors,
ljeaIously foster their merchant ma
Irine. Perhaps nowhere is the need
for rapid and direct mail, passenger
and freight communication quite so
urgent as between the United States
land Latin America. We can secure
lin no other quarter of the world such
immediate benefits in friendship and
commerce as would flow from the es-
Establishment of direct lines of COM
Imunication with the countries of
Latin America adequate to meet the
requirements of a rapidly increasing
appreciation of the reciprocal depen-
ldence of the countries of the western
hemisphere upon each others prod
tuets, sympathies and assistance.
81 alluded to this most important
subject in my last annual message; 1t
has often been before you and I need
mot recapitulate the reasons for it's
recommendation. Unless prompt ac-
Etion be taken the completion of the
Panama canal will find this the only
great commercial nation unable to
avail in international maritime bust
mess of this great contribution to the
means of the worlds commercial in
beTcourse."
Governmental Expense.
To no one subject does he devots
more space than to the expense CT
conducting the various government
departments and the urgent need for
economy, and in this conrNction he
says:
Every effort has been made by