Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-09
Precedent Discusses Work of
Tariff Board-Ship Sub
sidy Is Urged.
WORK ON PANAMA. CANAL
Need of Legislation Anticipating Conn
nletion of the Ditch Is Pointed
out-change in Postal Rates
Parcels Post and Postal
Savings-Economy
Urged.

Washington, Dec. 6--President
Taft's annual message to congress
contained 10000 words, and is said to
be the longest document of its kind
ever written. In it he reviews the
work of each of the administrative
departments beginning with the state
department He devotes considerable
space to the satisfactory settlement
of the fisheries dispute with England
Through the medium of the Hague
Tribunal, and recounts both the his
tory of the fisheries dispute and the
establishment of the tribunal
In connection with the state depart
ment he tells of the important poll
fical happenings of the past twelve
months throughout the entire world,
and the action of this country in con-
nection with them.
Tariff Negotiations.
Referring to the negotiation of new
tariff agreements President Taft
says:
q
respecting the maximum and mini
mum tariffs of the United States,
which provisions came into effect on
April l. 1910, imposed upon us re-
sponsibility of determining prior to
that date whether any undue discrim-
fnation existed against the United
States and its products In any coun-
try of the world with which we sus-
tanned commercial relations.
I'm the ca %eof 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 vita
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 were issued.
This series of proclamations EN-.
braced the entire commercial world
and hence the minimum tariff of the
United States has been given univer-
sal application, thus testifying to tho
satisfactory character of our trade
relations with foreign countries.
Marked advantages to the COM
merce Of the United States were OBJ
tained through these tariff settle
ments.
: The policy Of broader and closer
&rAde relations with the Dominion OF
Canada which was initiated in the adj
.5ustment of the maximum and mini
mum provisions of the tariff act of
August. 1909. has proved mutually
beneficial. 1t justifles further efforts
flor the REIMBURSEMENT 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
dine"
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 i'm
portance of this factor. The greatest
commercial nations, our competitors
sealoUsly foster their merchant ma
zine. Perhaps nowhere is the neet
Tor rapid and direct mail, passenger
and freight communication quite So
urgent as between the United State!
and Latin America. We can secur,
in no other quarter of the world sucl
immediate benefits in friendship ant
commerce as would flow from the es
tablishment of direct lines of com
snunication with the countries o
latin America adequate to meet tn,
requirements of rapidly increasin,
appreciation of the reciprocal Deepen
dence of the countries of the western
hemisphere upon each others prod
ucts. sympathies and assistance.
81 alluded to this most importan
subject in my last annual message;
has often been before you and l nee
not recapitulate the reasons for it
recommendation. Unless prompt &C
einn be taken the completion Of tn