The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-03-29
ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE
PRESENT ADMINISTRATOR


Court OF customs appeals created.
Extnesion of the Rural free de-
livery of mail.
Thirteenth census made non-poli-
teal.
New Mexico and Arizona admitted
as states.
Strengthening interstate com
merce laws.
Bureau of Mines with life saving
devices.
judicial appointments taken out
of politics.
Rigid economy in departments OF
government.
Enforcement of law limiting hours
If labor on railroads.
Treaty with Japan negotiated,
bringing about genuine friendship
between her and the United States.
Affirmation by United States su-
preme court and executive recommen-
iation employers liability law for
railroads.
Postoffice department has been re
lieved of deficit of s17, 419,77O.
Al and a surplus created and de-
partment placed on self-sustaining
basis.
Passage of corporation tax law,
yielding thirty millions annually OBJ
tanned with the resultant surveillance
of corporate activities.
Scientific tariff revision put in
place of political giving and taking
ated.
The tariff bill. regarded by Pres
ident Taft as step in the right
direction, has turned a 100000
deficit into a s3O,OOO,O0O surplue.
Panama canal brought to a stage
approaching completion and the date
Of opening advanced by several
months through systematic work.
New treaties with Honduras and
Nicaragua that will make for per
mant peace for those countries. ne
gotiated and await action by the
Senate.
New policy as to river and harbor
appropriations begun, old pork bar
rel appropriation system abandon
ed, and business policy of continu-
ing contracts adopted.
Treasury agents and customs EN-
ployes reorganized, fraud weeded
out of customs service and many
thousands of dollars lost under
fraudulnet importations been re
covered.
Arbitration treaties with Great
Britain and France aimed at war,
negotiated, now before the senate;
similar negotiations with other pow
ers pending.
Great trusts made to feel that the
statutes carry penalties for them
as well as for the small trusts, and
individual yiolator of the law. More
than two score prosecutions pending.
Difficult situation resulting from
the revolution in Mexico arousins
deep feeling in the southern portion
of the United States handled with
diplomacy and tact, and the United
and order in a neighboring repub-
lie through preserving it with our
own.
Wool, cotton and so-callad farm
ers' free-list bills, originating in
Democratic house, vetoed because
they violated principles of the Re
publican platform, that revision OF
the tariff should be based upon the
difference in the cost of production
at home and Abroad difference
Ipon which at that time information
was lacking.
When a Democratic house threat
ened to involve the United States
with Russia in too hasty annul-
ment of the passport treaty, Pres
ident Taft assumed the weight OF
responsibility, and declared. in dip
lomatic form, that the treaty would
be abrogated on notice of one year.
which it required.
Also: the president has provided
for the accomplishment OF conserva-
ton policies. and obtained bond
issue for irrigation projects; oo-
rained legislation further extending
the power of the interstate commerc
commission and creating a court or
commerce to review the comission's
findings: chapioned the matter OF
civil pensions for superarnauted
clerks: recommended federal incor-
poration act and induced China to
open to American finance on equal
terms with the rest OF the world.