Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-01
innovations of United States Government Most
Radical in Quarter of Century
INCOME TAX DIRECT SENATORIAL ELECTIONS
These Changes Brought About by the Perfection of the First
Constitutional Amendments Since 1870 Physical Val
uation of Railways Begun--Tarif and Currency Law
Supreme Court Decisions of Deep-Rooted Importance.

decisions of deep-rooted Importance.
1t decided that owners Of Copyrights
and patents may not control the pflce
at which retail dealers resell their
products to the consumer. 1t sus-
tanned the validity of the Sherman law
as a criminal measure for the first
time in the turpentine trust case. In
the cotton corner case it laid down the
principle that q corner in any COM
modify was g. violation of the anti
trust laws. In the state rate cases it
decided that states through their rail-
road commissions have control over
the rates of lines within their borders
irrespective of the interstate COM
merce commission.
Our Foreign Relations.
In foreign relations, affairs of the
year were hardly less eventful. Sec
retary Bryan's plan for international
peace was accepted in principle by
more than thirty nations. and treaties
with the United States actually were
signed by Netherlands and Nicaragua.
The most important pronounce
ments of the administration foreign
policy were made by President Wilson
when he withdrew the support of the
United States from the bankers in the
So called six power German loan; in
his Latin American statement, in
which he proclaimed the intention of
the United States to recognize on the
western hemisphere only those gov
ernments founded on law and ORDER"
and in his now noted Mobile speech, in
which he pointed out the menace of
foreign concessions to the peace and
security of Central and South America.
Relations with Mexico, the American
governments refusal to recognize
Huerta and a spirited exchange Of
notes on the subject were the diplo-
matte event Of the year. Great
Britain's protest against the exemption
Of American shipping from tolls in the
Panama canal and Japan's protest
against the anti alien land legislation
in California were the two other pT1n-
cipal features. Both still are IN the
course Of diplomatic discussion.
New Portfolio in Cabinet.
Plans for an extension of American
trade abroad by the creation of COM
mercial agents of the department of
commerce were launched. Important
steps in the governments participa-
ton in relations between capital and
labor were the creation of a new port
folio in the cabinet for a secretary of
labor, to which William B. Wilson of
Pennsylvania, a prominent labor lead
err was appointed. and the creation by
congress of federal commission on
industrial relations which has begun
study of the entire subject.
Commanding features in the inter-
nal affairs of the nation were the an
nouncement Of a liberal policy for the
development of Alaska with the pro-
posed building of a government rail-
road, a policy Of conservation for the
immense properties of the Indian
tribes and proposed federal control of
all deposits of radium, lately become
SO valuable in medicine
Year of Agricultural Prosperity.
Agrfcu1tufally, the year was one of
unprecedented prosperity, While the
volume Of crops was below the aver
age, their value totalIed nearly ten
billion dollars.