The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-09

Washington, Dec 6.-In the longest document of it's kind ever sent to congress, President Taft reviews at length the business of the year in the various departments of the national government. The settlement of the fiShries dispute with England through the Hague tribunal comes in for a considerable share of the presidents attention. The history of the fisheries dispute and the establishment of the tribunal are comprehensively review ed
 Fhe 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 tarif law, in Section 9 respecting the maximum and mini mum tariffs of the United States, which provisions came into effect on April 1, 1910, imposed upon us re sponsibility of determining prior to that date whether any undue discrim- ination existed against the United States and it's products in any coun- try of the world with which we sus- tained commercial relations.
 Tn the case of several countries in stances of apparent undue discrimina- tion against American commerce were found to exist. These discriminations were removed by negotiation. Prior to April 1, 1910, when the maximum tariff was to come into operation with respect to importations from all those countries in whose favor no proclama- ton applying the minimum tariff should be issued by the president, one hundred and thirty-four such procla- nations We're issued
 This series of proclamations em- braced 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 ob- tained 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 It justifies further efforts for the readjustment of the commer- 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 he believes will increase American trade abroad, and says:
 Another instrumentality indispen- sable to the unhamapered and natural development of American commerce Is merchant marine All maritime and commercial nations recognize the inn portance of this factor. The greatest commercial nations, our competitors, jealousiy foster their merchant ma rine. Perhaps nowhere is the need for 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 the es- tablishment of direct lines of com munication with the countries of Latin America adequate to meet the requirements of a rapidly increasing appreciation of the reciprocal depen- dence of the countries of the western hemisphere upon each others prod ucts, sympathies and assistance.
 q alluded to this most important subject in my last annual message; it has often been before you and I need not recapitulate the reasons for its recommendation. Unless prompt ac- tion be taken the completion of the Panama canal will find this the only great commercial nation unable to avail international maritime busi- ness of this great contribution to the means of the worlds commercial in tercourse."
 Governmental Expense.
 To no one subject does he devote more space than to the expense of conducting the various government departments and the urgent need for economy, and in this connection he says:
 Every effort has been made by