The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-11
TAFT SPEAKS
IN SOUTHLAND
Tells People Of Their Great
Prosperity. VI
PRAISES LATE CONGRESS

Says That In Matter Of Useful and
Progressive Legislation It Has
EeIipsed Any Legislative Body
Since the Civil War-Expeets Spe-
oisl Session viii Pass Reciprocity
Agreement, but VII Not Make
Much Effort to Tinker with Tariff.
Atlanta, Ca, March President
Taft does not expect the sixty.second
congress at the special session which
he has called for April I 10 take up
any important Legislation except the
Canadian reciprocity agreement. The
president made that appear in his
speech before the Southern Com.
mercial congress here He believes
that majority of the now congress
will favor reciprocity aud he thinks
that 1t will be passed regardless OF
party lines.
If the special session Of the Sixty.
second congress attempts 10 under.
take 4 general revision Of the tariff,
or II IL tries sto revise schedules of
the Payne-Aldrich law without sufii.
cient scientific data. the president
most likely will exercise his power
OF veto. This much came from
friends of MIR. Taft. II an attempt is
made 10 saddle a revision OF the
tariff or a revision of few impor
tant schedules like the cotton and
wooden schedules on the Canadian
agreement BILL the president would
have the same inclination to register
executive disapproval.
President Has Assurances.
There Is reason to believe that the
president has been assured that he
will not be compelled to make use o
| the veto. II was asserted here b,
| friends of the administration that tn,
| president has been assured by Dem
| ocratic leaders that no effort L
tinker with the tariff will be made
at the special session, but that thu
Canadian agreement will be taken III
promptly and disposed sof. and tha
then possibly other less importan
matters will be put through.
The president spoke to more thai
5000 people. With him on the plat
form were the governors of NOR
than q dozen states, Secretary o
| War Dickinson, Governor Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey and Georg
Westinghouse. who also made ad
| dresses.
A part OF the presidents specc
dealt with the south; what her pros
perity was, and what it meant to tn
rea. OF the nation, but much of |
was devoted to review of what tn
Sixty-first congress. and particular
the last half of that congress, ha
accomplished.
Has Splendid Record.
"The Sixty-first congress jus
closed" said the president. has OF
acted more useful and progrcssiv
legislation in its three sessions tina,
any congress since the war"
The most important work Of th
session, the president said, was tn
ratification Of the commerce an
navigation treaty with Japan. Th
most dismal failure recorded agains
It was that of the Canadian recipro'
ity bill in the senate.
The presidents. roll of honor Q
the last sessions achievements II
cluded the act changing judicial pr'
cedure and abolshing the circu
courts. the safety appliances act fo
the protection of railway employees
the law increasing the number of o
fcers OF the army; the two battl
ship provision in the naval law; tn
fortifcation of the Panama canal.
The great disappointment of tn
session, the president said, was tn
failure OF the bill TO create perm
nent tariff commission. He toll
however, OF his having increased tn
membership of the present board, fC