Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-11

and bitter struggle to recover from
the disastrous condition in which she
was left.
but with the coming of prosperity, |
with the resumption of comfort in
their lives. with a growing sympathy
on the part of the north in their work |
ing out of the serious problems con-
fronting them, and with the sense of
triumph in their success in overcom-
ing their great difficulties, the south
ern people have mellowed. The north
ern people have met them half way
and never IN the history of the coun-
try have the two sections been so
friendly and so near in such com
plete union as they are today
you have the race question In the
south; YOU have the question Of ef-
ficient labor, Both are most serious
problems. but | believe strongly as
can believe anything the solution is
to be found in a system of primary
and Industrial education offered to
every youth. male and female, white
and black
The growth OF the south in wealth,
In education, in civil order and in
civilization has contributed greatly to
the growth of the country By maxi
Ing q greater south you have made
greater country. With what is almost
monopoly in the growth of cotton you
have swelled our exports to a polns
never reached before.
'In the spirit OF proper exaltation
over your Industrial and agricultural
successes, YOU representatives of the
southern states gather in convention
like this to devise new ways and
means for the delevopment of your
commerce. for the increase of your
manufactures and for promotion Of
better farming.
but, my friends. | know YOU are
not so sectional or partisan as to con-
fine your interest to southern COM
merce and trade, and that you will
not object II for short time and In
the remarks which | am about to
make, turn this meeting into a COM
mittee on the state OF the union and
consider some Of the issues now pend
ing or which have been recently dis
posed Of
The sixty-first congress just closed
has enacted more useful and correc-
! tive legislation In its three sessions
than any congress since the war.
The close OF its third. its last
and Its shortest session. was oh
| scured by such an apparent, clogg-
Ing of business as to leave the i'm
preston that II had done at that ses-
sion little or nothing In the way of
| helpful laws. 1t is due that congress
to remove such an impression for il
has done several things that deserve
commendatlon.
"One Of the crying evils OF the pre-
sent day Is the expense of litigation
This congress has passed an act max
Ing substantial reduction in the cost
OF appealing cases from the courts OF
first instance to the court of appeals
1T has adopted a revised code of the
laws creating federal courts and fix
ing their jurisdiction. II has abol-
ished circuit courts altogether and In
this way has been able to simplify the
practice In those courts and greatly
to reduce expenses.
1T has added to the safety APP
pliances for the prevention OF injury
to railroad employees and passengers.
1T has provided for the purchase,
erection and furnishing of embassy
| buildings and legations for our
ambassadors and ministers abroad.
This congress has passed the So
called Appalachian forest reserve bill
authorizing experimental forestation
on a large scale and the expenditure
of two millions a year for this pur-
pose.
THE same congress has made a
provision by which we can issue three
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 a
conservative southern congressman
with sound financial ideas
"A great disappointment of the ses-
sion was the final defeat of a perma- :
nent tariff board OF five to be ap-
pointed by the president. whose duty
1t should be. to acquire through impair
tial investigation all possible lnforma-
tlon 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, how
ver provision was made by appro-
priation In the sundry civil bin for
the continuance of board which |
mad already created to make the same
KIND OF investigation and TO accumu-
late the same kind of information.
until now the board consisted OF
'hree, and In order to shape the board
so as to be as near as possible that
provided for in the defeated bill, /
nave added two democrats to IL.
with this board, as long as the an
nial appropriations are made, | hope
to secure substantially the same bene-
tits that we would have had II the
permanent tariff board bill had be-
come law. BY demonstrating It's use
fulness We may be able to induce the
Incoming congress to make 1t per-
manent by enacting the bin which was
defeated.
THE sundrv civil bill In which