The Ordway new era., 1910-12-09
President Discusses Work OF
Tariff Board-Ship SUBJ
sidy Is Urged.
WORK ON PANAMA CANAL
Med Of Legislation Anticipating Com
pistion Of the Ditch 70 Pointed
out-changs In Postal Ratss-
Parcels Post and Postal
oavinSs-Eoonemy
Urged.

Washington, Dec. s.-Prssident
Faft's annual message to congress
contained 10000 words. and 10 said to
- the longest document Of it, kind
ever written. In It he reviews the
work Of each Of the Administrative
departments beginning with the state
department.. He devotss considerable
hpace to the satisfactory settlement
q the fisheries dispute with England
through tho medium Of tho Hague
Tribunal. and recounts both the his
tory of tho fisheries dispute and the
establishment Of the tribunal.
In connection with the state depart
tical happenings Of the past twelve
months throughout the entire world.
and the action Of this country In con-
nsction with them.
Tariff Negotiations.
Referring to the negotiation OF new
tariff agreements President Taft
says:
"The new tariff law. In Section 2.
respecting the maximum and mini
mum tariffs of the United States,
which provisions came into effect on
April /. 1910. imposed upon US re-
sponsibility Of determining prior to
that date whether any undue discrim-
ination 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.
ton against American commerce were
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-
ton applying tho minimum tariff
should be issued by the president, one
hundred and thirty-four such procla-
nations were issued.
This series Of proclamations en-
braced tho 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 tho COM
tanned through these tariff settle
ments.
THE policy Of broader and closer
trade relations with the Dominion Of
Canada which was initiated In tho ad-
justment Of tho maximum and mini
mum provisions Of tho tariff act Of
August. 1909. has proved mutually
beneficial. 1t justifles further efforts
for the readjustment of the CONNER
eial relations Of the two countries 30
that their commerce may follow tho
channels natural to contiguous coun-
tries and be commensurate with the
e4sady expansion of trade and indus.
w on both sides Of the boundary
hn>."
Ship Subsidy.
The president urges such action ~
- believes will increase American
trade abroad, and says:
Another fundamentally indispeu-
cable to tho unhamapered and natural
development Of American commerce Is
hsrchant marine. All maritime and
commercial nations recognize the i'm
portance Of this factor. The greatest
commercial nations. our competitors.
tsalously foster their merchant ma
tine. 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 o.
tablishment of direct lines OF COM
nunication with the countries Of
Latin America adequate to meet the
requirements of rapidly increasing
appreciation of the reciprocal depen-
Aence Of the countries Of the western
hemisphere upon each others prod
ucts, sympathies and assistance.
II alluded to this most important
subject in my last annual message; 1t
has often been before you and l need
not recapitulate the reasons for its
recommendation. Unless prompt &C.
ton be taken the completion Of the