The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-11


TO the Auditorium. where the congress Is
I'm session. From there he went To- the |
Capital city club for luncheon. During |
the afternoon there was "A reception III
the governors mansion, a visit to the !
! University club u dinner nj the Piedmont |
Driving club and the address 10 the clos !
Ing session of the congress. In the after |
noon tho president addressed an audi
.nca Of negroes AT the Central Avenue
NJ. Z. church, where Colonel Roosevelt
! spoke yesterday.
Address OF President Taft.
"Gentlemen Of the Southern CONNER
| cial congress:
II was very much honored by receiv-
ing an invitation signed by the governors
of all of the southern states 10 he pres
ent and take part in your deliberations.
! The commercial ana industrial develop
ment Of this country Of the last twenty
! years is greater than that OF any other
| part OF the country.
[ life: the making and accumulation OF
money should not be the chief end of a
community.
For years after the war the south was
poor and was engaged in long and bit
ter struggle to recover from the DIS
But with the coming OF prosperity.
with the resumption of comfort in their
| lives. with growing sympathy on the
of the serious problems confronting them
and with the sense of triumph in their
success in overcoming their great Dim
! culties, the southern people have mol
lowed. The northern people have met
| them halfway. and never in the history
OF the country have the two sections
| been SO friendly and so near, In such
complete union as they are today,
The growth Of the south In wealth
ilization has contributed greatly to the
growth OF the country But making
/ greater south. you have made a greater
/ country.
Great Issues Now Pending.
But. my friends. I know you are not
so sectional or partisan as TO confine
your interest to southern commerce and
| trade. and that you will not object. If
! for short time and In the remarks
which ! am about to make l turn this
meeting into committee on the state
/ OF the union and consider some OF the
issues now pending. or which have been
| recently disposed OF.
The Sixiy-first congress Just closed
! has enacted more useful and corrective
! legislation i'm Its three sessions than any
| congress since the war, The close OF Its
third. It's last and its shortest session.
ging of business as TO leave the I'M
! preston that it had done at that session
little or nothing in the way OF helpful
laws 1t is due that congress TO remove
such an impression. for II has done sew
eral things that deserve commentator.
"One Of the crying evils OF the present
| day is the expense OF litigation. This
| congress has passed an act making sub
! stantlal reductions In tn" cost OF appeal
! ing cases from the courts OF first In
! stance to the court OF appeals.
1T has adopted a revised code OF the
| laws creating federal courts and fixing
their jurisdicticn. 1t has abolished cir
cult courts altogether. and IN this way
has been able 70 simplify the practice in
! those courts and greatly 10 reduce ex-
penses. II has Increased the salaries or
/ the supreme court justices $1,000 a year.
and It has finally done the Justice TO pro-
| vide that when federal judges trav-
cling. expenses shall be paid
Law Regarding Safety Appliances.
1T has added 10 the safety appliances
for the prevention OF injury TO railroad
| employees and passengers. and the saw
| ing OF lives. a provision for the inSpeC
ton of locomotive boilers. which il Is
hoped will still further diminish the loss
"It has provided for the purchase. erec-
! ton and furnishing. of embassy build
inss and legations for our ambassadors
and ministers abroad, so that they shall
| be properly housed and shall live in
style and dignity benttng the official
| representative In a foreign country of
| great nation like ours.
! This congress has passed the so called
| Appalachian forest reserve bill. author
iSing experimental forestation on a large
scale and the expenditure OF two millions
a year for this purpose.
/ THE same congress has made Il pro-
| vision by which we can issue 3 per cent
bonds TO pay for the Panama canal and
| this without disturbing the values of the
bonds already issued and driving down
the price Of such bonds To less than par.
! This was made possible only by the votes
| OF conservative southern congressman
with sound financial ideas,
In the same session the officers of
| the line OF the army were increased by
two hundred. the quartermasters by
thirty and the engineers by siNty-a very
wise provision. enabling the government
| to furnish Instructions TO the militia reai-
ments in each slate and 10 enable the
| engineer corps of the army much more
efficiently and promptly 10 carry out the
| the country is now directing so much at
! tention.
Naval Strength Increased.
''1n the naval bill the strength OF our
navy is increased by two battleships.
two coiliers. eight torpedo boat des-
two gunboats and two sea going tugs.
This is in accord with the plan adopted
some years ago and; If the rate is main
talned. we shall have navy com
mensurate with the dignity OF the coun-
try and able 10 resist any possible at
| tack.
The same congress has provided for
the fortitication of the Panama canal.
| The canal was built partly for CONNER
purposes so that the effectiveness of our
navy might be double in that 1t could be
quickly transferred from the Atlantic TO
! the Pacific seabcard, and vice versa.
"A great disappointment OF the session
was the final defeat OF permanent
tariff board of five to be a3pponted by
| we plCsluchl' "i'oSt iutS ~ pe
to acquire all possible Information as
TO the cost of production of articles at
home and abroad. and all other facts
relevant in the fixing of tariff. While
/ this bill failed. however provision was
made by appropriation In the sundry
! civil bill for the continuance of board
! which | had already created TO make the
same kind OF investigation and to ac-
emulation of the same kind OF lnforma-
! tion.
| with this board as long as the annual
/ appropriations are made. hope 10 secure
! substantially the same benefits that we
! would have had if the permanent tariff
board bill had become 4 law.
''The sundry civil bill, in which an ap
propriation was provided directed that
the new tariff board, II established.
| going to withdraw his protest. I had been
so Informed bv prominent and repre-
! sentative business man OF the city that
! such was Judge McMaster's attitude, and