The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-06
TAFT SUBMITS
GENERAL MESSAGE
WILL LEAVE FURTHER TARIFF
REVISION TO HIS SUCCESSOR
TOUCHES MANY TOPICS.

AT Nll IHdht IO lultu tHpiI W
have congress reduce the tariff. In
general message to congress
submitted today, the president clear
ly indicated his intention of leaving
further tariff revision to Mr. Wilson
and the congress just elected.
Now that new congress has
been elected on a platform of tariff
for revenue only rather than pro-
tective tariff and is to revise the
tariff on that basis" said the pres
ident, ut is needless for ME to oc'
cupy the time of congress with ar
guments or recommendation in ia.
vor of protective tariff"
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 government
except the state department, rec.
commended much of the legislation
which Mr.. Taft previously had urg-
ed upon the attention of congress,
and took up and discussed at length
several subjects comparatively new.
Mr.. Taft came out strongly
against independence for the Phil
ippines proposed, he said. in bill
now before congress. He depre.
Gated the new policy Of one battle
ship year instead of two; and in
dorsed again the scheme OF curren-
cy 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 compa-
nies which dam nayigable 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
supreme court for it's recently an
nounced changes in rules of equity
procedure. In this connection the
president asked congress to pass
legislation which would allow the
supreme court to formulate rules OF
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 few wo IDS, the president
prophesying its opening in the lat
ter half of 1913. He took occasion
however, to declare that congress
should reward the work of Colone
Goethals by an appointment as Ma
ior general with provision that
he become chief of engineers when
the term of the present incumbent
expires. He made only a briei ref
erence to the dispute with great
Britain over the Panama Canal act
and said that when a formal pro
test was lodged against that act
it would be 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
be made by law so that the nations
foreign regiments may be always
maintained upon war footing; and
he urged the passage of the pendinf
militia-pay bill, designed to make
service in the militia more entic
ing, and showed that the home
army bill will be nothing more
than skeleton" until congres;
provides that it be concentrated in
fewer posts than are now main
tanned. He urged also the passage
of another bill now before congress-
designed to raise quickly a volun
teer army in case Of war.
One of the striking arguments Of
the message was that proposing au
tonomy for the Philippines at once
and independence in eight years.
in the Philippine Islands we
have embarked upon an experiment
unprecedented ia dealing with de-
pendent 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 develop