Show ME S S ke READ 7 TO CONGRESS needed legislation outlined by president taft WORKINGS OF TARIFF AC maximum and minimum clauc clause dl dis cusse tractability of portal saving savings bank banks considered to be beyond question basht washington n agton the message of the president pre t to congress may be sum marize d as follows the relation relations of the united states 0 to o all 11 foreign governments with the exception of the Ln unfortunate fortunate embroil ment with nicaragua are declared satisfactory that our friendly rela eions with mexico have beon cemented by the recent meeting of the pros pres identa of the two republics Is evidenced by the following passage in the message my meeting witt president diaz and the greeting exchanged on both amerl Ameri an and mexican moll oh served I 1 hope to signalize Ign alize the cloce clove and cordial relation relations which so 0 w wll 11 bind together ber this republic md the great re republic publia immediately to id we auth south b between e tween which there is so vat vast a network of f material interests A system providing tor for the pension pe nilon ing of civil servants eor vanta Is favored the message makes mention that criminal prosecutions against unworthy government officers in con lection with sugar trust custom house frauds are going forward the mes sag says 1 I regret to refer to t e act fact of th dis ry of t talve exton tn lve sIve fraud frauds in the collection of the customs revenue at isea york ity in which a amber of the dubor bor binate employee emp loye in he the weighing agh B and ther departments depart mente valre directly con berned and in which the were ere the american bug sugar r refining coma bany ny and other others the fraud frauds consisted in i the rayment of 0 duty on underweight df t the government ha has recovered from rom the american sugar kenning company all that it to hown shown t have been de do lauded tf ct the urn sum w rec received elved in lull full of or the amount due which might have 11 been bien recovered red by civil bult mutt wt against th the benen clary nf the fraud but there wa was in express reservation in the contract of settlement by which the settlement tH should not interfere with or prevent the crim inal prosecution of everyone ee who WM was aund to be to ther the ame same criminal prosecutions are re now proceed in inc acta agn dinst a number of the government cf the treasury trea aury department deVart ment and andee the department of justelle are exerting exer every effort to discover all the wrongdoer wrongdoers eluding the officers cers and employee 01 of t h tomp companies anle who way ipar have been privy to the fraud 1 it would seem to ras that an investigation of the franas by congress at present e kendir C the p probing by the treas ury W department atul VV 0 i ju S tice 1 I a proposed might by giving im 14 otherwise pro an abar mbar MAITTI tnt in 11 1 1 securing conviction of the dwity part leq on the lon of the tariff the president reassures the country as to possibility of tariff war over the max ma X ilium and minimum clause in the bill lie ile asks the people to have con floence that the chief executive tactfully carry out the provisions of the measure quoting the plank of the platform on fin which the republican candidate was elected the message declares the intention of the administration to tg uphold every principle of law but con damns the issuance of basty hasty injunctions deficit in the department the president declares clarea de Is due to the undercharging of second class mall mail matter rn atter ho he being of the opinion that such matter doea does not pay its due share toward expenses tee vie president conti continues the deficit every year la the poet post office department la in largely caused by the low rate of poste pa tage of I 1 centa cant a pound charged on class mail matter which include includes not only newspapers tout but magazines and tous periodicals the actual loss SW growing out of the transmission of this second blask dinall tri allor I 1 I 1 cent a pound amounts to about a year the average cost of the transportation 1 por tation of this matter to more than 9 cent a a pound it t app a re that the average d distance i ance over which newspapers new pape are delivered dell verea to their customer customers in 1 miles lnla while yso the average haul of magazines 1 in 1 04 9 itna nd of periodicals 1128 miles thu thus the average ayer aare haul of the magazine in three and one half times end that of the period leal ical nearly tour four time times th the baull of 01 the dally newspaper new paper yet all of thin them pay the ame same postage rete rate ot of I 1 cent a pound the statistics Ut itic 0 ot 1907 how show that s econe cla clax 9 nill mall matter bonatt 6 31 3 91 per c cent s nt of the weight 0 all tae tz 0 mall and yielded only 6 19 per st tt it ot the revenue cho figures given are st tart artIll ll a S 9 and land hor the by the government overn A ment f at denorn u subs lay to the new news paper p verb makane and periodicals 1 and Ja may well ton bonmer whether ther radical tt a hova not be taken to reduce the end in the post domce 01 d apartment part ment caused by this discrepancy between the actual coet cost ot af Imn sport tion and the alon fact exacted ld ther e or seat A reat vir might ht be u ade made amounting to munh more th than arhl half 0 ot the lose by upon maras 11 and nd periodic periodicals a higher rate ct ef pot post age they are re much heavier than newspaper newspapers and contain a much proportion of dver trin to reading dl matter and the average distance dis of belr their t Is three and a halt times aa an graat e rafa the institution of postal banka banks ie Is recommended ao an earnest recommendation Is made for the passage of a snip ship subsidy bill with the urging of legislation looking to the conservation conserva of our national resources the melease concludes con clide clides 1 I 1 I urgently recommend to congress that a law be passed requiring that candidates in election a a of member of be the hou bowe n of t re presen natives and commit tate in anre charge of their candidacy and cain laign ble file in a prope office of th tho united d state state government a statement tat ement of ibe the n buttons re received elved and ot of the ebyn io liburt irona incurred Incur rud d ein in the eam pira for uch such i and that similar lW be ed in respect to all other leuon elections rahm which are constitutionally within the con ton arol of f con congress rea |