The Washington herald., 1911-03-11
TAFT PRAISES
SUPREME COURT
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vision was made by appropriation in the
sundry civil bill for q continuance of a
board which had already created to make
the same kind of investigation and to
accumulating the same kind of informa-
ton
In the Post-office Department. the
machinery for the postal savings bank
has been simplified and improved, and
that plan for the encouragement of the
post-office is well begun, and will inure
to the benefit of the people at large, and
aid the fiscal operations of the govern
menh
"Of course the greatest disappointment
of the session was the failure of the
Senate TO follow the lead OF the House
in ratifying the reciprocity agreement
made with Canada. Under this reciproc-
ity agreement, the duties upon the i'm
portation of agricultural products, in
cluding cereals. vegetables, fruits. and
live cattle from each country into the
other, are abolished and free trade be-
tween the two countries is established.
I'm addition to that. there is free trade
in fish and rough lumber, while there are
substantial reductions in iron ore, coal,
meat flour, and all secondary food prod
ucts and upon a substantial range OF
manufactures.
Has Protective System.
when we entered upon the negotia-
tions 1 asked the Secretary of State and
his commissioners TO offer free trade in
everything, but this Canada could not
grant. because she has a protective sys-
tenn, and she was afraid of the compeu-
ton OF our better organized industries.
Il ask your support because l regard
this treaty, il adopted. as the beginning
of a new relation with our rapidly grow
ing neighbors on the north and ourselves.
which will inure greatly to the benefit
of both.
Under my promise to use my utmost
efforts to secure the ratification of this
agreement by Congress, l have felt II
my duty, upon the failure of the Senate
to act, to call an extra session for the
purpose of securing the ratification OF
the agreement. My opinion is that a
majority of both houses. disregarding
party lines, will seize a great national
opportunity and promptly ratify the
agreement proceeding to other business,
If ii be deemed wise or necessary to
proceed to other business.
Earlier in the evening, Mr.. Taft made
the leading address at the meeting CT
the Commercial Congress. He told the
assembled industrialists about the re-
suits and failures of the Sixty-first Con-
gress. This he detailed after paying a
tribute TO the spirit which has reared
the new South from the wreck OF the
old. The failure 10 pass the Canadian
reciprocity bill in the Senate, said the
Executive. was the cause of the great
est disappointment CT his administration.
He said that the refusal OF the Senate
to vote justified the call for an extra
session. inasmUCh as il was plain TO all
men that the country as a whole was
in favor of this measure.
1t was asserted here tonight by friends
OF the administration that the President
has been assured, by Congressional lead
iff will be made n the special session,
but that the Canadian agreement will be
taken up promptly and disposed OF, and
that then possibly other less important
matters will he put through.
One Theme for Message.
The President expects to confine his
gress entirely to reciprocity Ne called
Congress in extra session only because
he believed that the preliminary under
sts nding with Canada required him to
do So He will confine his attention
therefore. to the subject which brought
about this extra session. II later on
subjects like that OF economy and eff
cheney in the government departments or
other matters of Importance come up the
President will send in special messages.
A part of the Presidents speech dealt
with the South; what her prosperity was
and what it means to the rest of the
nation. but much of It was devoted to
a review of what the Sixty-first Con-
gress. and particularly the last half Of
that Congress, had accomplished.
The SiKty-first Congress, just closed
said the President. has enacted more
useful and progressive legislation in its
three sessions than any Congress since
the war"
The most important work of the ses-
sion" the President said. was the rati-
fication of the commerce and navigation
treaty with Japan. The most dismal
failure recorded against 1t was that of
the Canadian reciprocity bill in the
Senate"
The Presidents roll of honor of tie
achievements included the
act changing judicial procedure and
the Circuit Courts: the safety
appliances act for the protection of rail-
way employees; the law increasing the
number of officers of the army; the two
battle-ship provision in the naval law;
the fortificatiOn of the Panama Canal.
by demonstrating its usefulness" he
said, I'VE may be able to induce the
coming Congress to make ii permanent
by enacting the bill which was defeated"
Speaking from the same platform with
tho President tonight was Woodrow
governor of New Jersey, who
Is being doomed in Atlanta tonight for
the Democratic nomination for the Presi-
iency; Secretary of War Jacob NJ Dick
nson. John Hays Hammond, and George
Westinghouse.
President Taft arrived in Atlanta