The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-02
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any proposed increase of rates until
the Shippers shall have chance TO be
hedrO as 10 its reasOnableness. Inter-
state telegraph and telephone COM
panies We're brought within the regula-
tion OF the commission.
A new court of commerce was pro-
Nided IN order that shippers and rail-
ways might secure prompt decisions.
=, new customs court was estab-
A postal savings bank was author
A corporation tax was adopted
Whieh IS an important source OF reve-
ME ana new and effective method
OF assisting the government in super
Sslng corporations.
Two battleships were added 10 the
navy a bureau OF mines was estab-
Twenty million dollars In bonds
were authorized TO complete the Fecla-
NATION projects. after q board OF army
engineers now at work should complete
It's investigation Of existing projects.
Enlarged apprOpria tiOns were made
10 survey public lands.
definite commitment was made
asalnst the "piecemeal' or pork bar
rel system of river and harbOr inn
provement.
New Mexico and Arizona were ad-
Vanced toward statehood.
A peace commission was authorized.
An lnVestiga tiOn into business meth
begun.
The appropriations for the current
year Were cut S26,O00,000 below the
appropriations Of the year before.
The tariff was revised without the
usual disturbance Of business. Be
cause of its reduction of tariff rates,
Its maximum and minimum provisions,
the free trade IL secured for the Phil
ippines. its fine revenue producing
qualities. the Payne law is a credit
able bill.
Plan Further Revision.
We have provided the machinery for
q further revision on the protective
principle when the necessary infOrma-
tion has been secured. In ing judg-
ment. the country viii hesitate before
entrusting a further revision of the
tariff 20 the Democratic party on free
trade or tariff for revenue only pFin-
ciples. That party has not, within our
memory. revised the tariff without
creating profound business disturb
anceS, and It's revision was tmmedi-
ately Iepudiated by the country, after
a short but bitter expert zee.
l have thus summar. stated the
Republican accomplishments OF a short
eighteen months. Everything fore
Swallowed In our platform. however,
there was not time TO consider and
carry out.
We agreed to adopt measures for
the Improvement of our foreign mer-
chant marine, which everyone viii ad-
NIT 10 be in a condition OF decadence
olsgraeetul to country Of our size
and power.
We agreed to pass a law embOdying
the best practice in the issuing OF in
functions without notice When this
Is carried out il viii. I believe. do
much 10 remove a fruitful source of
political discussion which arouses
prejudice and class feeling, and which
Is fed by misrepresentation
Need of Conservation Laws.
We need the enactment of laws au-
thOrlZing the disposition of coal, phos-
phate. oil ana gas lands by the gov
ernmenL and the water power sites
owned by the government along
streams in which there Is valuable wa
Ter power. now uncontrolled and un-
appropriated. under leases OF grants
that shall induce investment OF private
capital in those lands, but shall con-
tinue the government as ultimate con-
trOller OF he properties. with an equi-