The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-06
Document Deals with Fiscal,
Judicial, Military and
Insular Affairs.
WANTS HIGH OFFICE
For General Goethals, the
= Builder of the Big
Panama Canal.

President Taft viii make no 1uFIne4
enort to have Congress reduce the
tariH. In a general message to
Congress submitted today, the pres
idenE clearly sadicated his intention
OF leaving further tarig revision to
Mr.. WiIson and the Congress just
elected.
Now that a new Congress has
been elected on a platform OF tarih
Tor revenue only rather than a pro-
tective tariR and is 10 revise the tar
III on that basis" said the presidents
VT IS needless for me to occupy the
time OF Congress with arguments or
recommendation in favor of pro-
teetive tariR''
This message, the second submit
ted by the president since the pres
ent session began. will be his last
OF a general character. 1t dealt
with every department of the gov
eminent except the state depart
ment, recommended much OF the
legislation which MI Taft previous
ly had urged upon the attention OF
Congress, and took up and discussed
at length several subjects compare
lively new.
Mr.. Taft came out strongly
against Independence for the Phil
ippines proposed, he said, in a bill
now before Congress. he depre-
Gated the policy of one battleship
year instead Of two; and Endorsed
again the scheme of currency reform
proposed by the national Monetary
Commission
Conservation was lightly touched.
the president recommending the
amendment Of bills now before Con-
gress so that water power companies
which dam navigable rivers will
contribute to the improvement OF
these streams.
He declared that no radical
change in the Sherman antitrust
law was needed. and praised the SUI
prene court for its recently an
pouuced changes in rules OF equlg
procedure. In this connection the
president asked Congress to pass
LEGISLATION which would allow the
supreme court to formulate rules o.
procedure under the common law in.
federal courts and predicted that
such action would facilitate justice
in those courts and reduce the cost
Of litigation to the public
The Panama canal was dismissed
in a few words the president proPh-
esying its opening in tn latte half
of 1913. He took occasion, how
ever to declare that Congress
should reward the work OF Colonei
Goethals by an appointment as ma
ior-generaI with the provision that
he become chief Of engineers when
the term of the present incumbent
exuires. He made only a brief ref-
ereuce to the dispute with Great
Britain over the Panama canal act
and said that when formal protest
was lodged against that act it would
he taken up by the United States.
The army the president discussed
at some length. He praised the
army legislation of the last Con-
gress but said that provision should
he made by law SO that the nations
fore,en regiments may be always
maintained upon war footing; and
he urged the passage of the pending
military pay bill, designed to make
service IN the militia more enticing,
and showed that the home army VII
be nothing more than skeleton
mill congress provides that it be
concentrated IN fewer posts than
are now maintained. He urged also
the massage of another bill now be-
Acre Congress designed to raise
quickly a volunteer army in case OF
war
One of the arguments of the mes
sage was that proposing autonomy
for the Philippines at once, and inde-
peudence in eight years.
In the Philippine islands We have
embarked upon an experiment I'M
precedented in dealing with depend
ent peoples" said President Taft.
I'VE are developing there conditions
exclusively for their own welfare
Through the unifying forces of a
common education. Of commercial
and economic development, and of
gradual participation in local self
government, we are endeavoring to
evolve a homogeneous people fit to