The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-14


A new court of commerce was pro-
vided that shippers and railways
might secure prompt decisions.
Railway employees were protected
by a new safety appliance law.
The employers liability act was
perfected.
An inquiry into the issuance. of
railway stocks and bonds was inau-
gurated.
An inquiry into workingmen's com
pensation for injuries received was
instituted.
A new customs court was estab-
lished
A postal savings bank system was
authorized.
A corporation tax was adopted
which is an important source of rev.
enue and a new and effective method
of assisting the government tn su-
pervising corporations.
Two new battleships were added TO
the navy; bureau of mines was es-
tablished. -.
Seventy millio nacres of the public
domain were legally withdrawn from
| entry.
Twenty million dollars in bonds
were authorized to complete reclama-
ton projects, after a board of army
engineers now at work should com
plete its investigation of existing pro-
jects.
Enlarged appropriations were made
to survey public lands.
A definite commitment was made
against the "piecemeal" or pork
barrel" system of river and harbor
improvement.
New Mexico and Arizona were ad-
vanced toward statehood.
"A peace commission was authoriz-
ed.
An investigation into business
methods of conducting the govern
ment was begun.
The appropriations for the current
year were cut $26,OOOOOO below ap-
preparations for the year before.
The tariff was revised without the
usual disturbance of business. Be
cause of its reduction of tariff rates,
| it's maximum and minimum provis-
ions, the free trade it secures for the
Philippines, its revenue-producing
qualities, the Payne law is a credit
able bill.
Our platform promised to revise
the tariff Immediately and also to re-
wise it to accord with the difference
between the cost of production at
home and abroad. The two promises
proved somewhat inconsistent, in
that immediate revision conforming
to such a plan was impracticable, be-
cause the information needed was
not at once available; but the incon-
sistency was met by the provision of
tariff board to report the necessary
facts.
The new tariff commission, for the
work of which $4,000 was appro-
priated, has already completed its
preliminary report, and the cOmm:s-
sion is now at work in this country.
have authorized the chairman to
make a public statement of the pur-
poses and methods of the commits
sion, but l have directed him not to
make that statement until after the
the election, because insofar as pos
sible l desire the tariff commission
from its very inception to be kept
free from the vicissitudes of party
politics, SO that it Will gain the re-
spect and confidence of the whole
country, regardless of party lines.
Finally, since the bill passed. near
ly all republican candidates for con-
gress and republican state platforms
generally have declared that hereaf-
ter when the tariff shall be revised by
Republicans, it shall be revised one
schedule at a time, instead of by a
general revision of the entire tariff.
| We have provided the machinery
for further revision on the protect
i've principle when the necessary in
formation has been secured. In my
judgment, the country will hesitate
before entrusting a further revision
of the tariff to the democratic party
on free trade or tariff for revenue
principles. That party has not, with
in our memory, revised the tariff
without creating profound business
disturbances and its revision was i'm
mediately repudiated by the country,
after a short but bitter experience.
have thus summarrily stated the
republican accomplishments of a