Show rIF IF TO TARIFF h NO NOr 7 r Would Wait ait 11 for r I T Ton Tariff id idof Board Worl and I I One Schedule did at of a o Tulle Time Condemns Pork Barrel Bar Bar- rel el f Methods and Urges Rigid Rigia Economy in Ex Ex- Wants Panama Canal forti Fortified d. d D. D C. C Dec 6 The G.-The The reading of President rafts Taft's to congress began shortly after 12 0 clock It con con- bout Dout words V l features of the message arc are these declares it is time to stop legislating with reference to to regu pj corporations and to witness the effect of a vigorous he laws already on the statute books The exact limitation ms methods imposed imposed- law by will win doubtless be ma made e pending decisions of the supreme court i lat pt at this time the president says he lie believes the activities of in addition to enforcement of oI the Jaws laws should be Coward foward economy of administration the enlargement of unities for foreign trade the building up of home jn industry e strengthening OJ of the confidence C of capital in doin domestic inV iu- nt it V V aft recommends strongly some form of ship subsidy to toe e merican shipping especially to South America c board is not rea ready y to submit a report on any of the S I c esaf ref the Payne law and Mr 1 rr Taft aft says he will not tariff legislation until the new ness congress ss convenes in De- De 1911 urges that the tariff board be made permanent and that all r visions revisions be made schedule by schedule ule He lIe vigorously J Jany any ae ata 1 revision I V e Panama canal should bould be forti forti- on of Tended un for this purpose Infest muSt be no moro more pork bar bar- J ol in river and harbor and I iD bills Tim The latter Jatter should mon p on the report of a commis s. s In Iii tho the past congress has baa much for buildings not enough b for buildings l ju f tt on for or a injunction anti i incorporation la laws ws are arc re reV re- J V that second ems class mail readjusted readjust so as to char charge charo o oAI AI a much b hi higher her rate on their n Jr representations arc are made mado for tor of a now new banking ency anc and several aux aux- aro arc urged for tho the na navy recommends that coal 3 and d oil lands and water pow pow- Disposed o of in the futuro future by for government o ex ex- 4 during the tho next fis- fis v 4 ari have been cut to v 1312 which is 2064 i. v viDess iDess L s than the actual ap- ap v l tion for tile tho current or orlU v 1 lU Khe o estimated receipts l I Kei next ext fiscal year arc arc 4 z lt ur urges es tho extension of principle to tho diplo diplo- d a corps and tho the ac ac- I Ithe p the government o of tho the J 3 and 1 oO offices for its diplomatic I I It t cism Just Much Unjust of the Payne Pano tariff riff 1 t t sa avs tho the president but I no ld be more moro officers for the tho h hi el engineer incer corps should be bo bot Lk t Uty at Corre idor isi- isi r. r t. t ba bay and at Pearl lcarl harbor h uld bo carried tarried to early eary com coin uz tho the Pan Panama ma canal enDal the tho thop J p B of the tho work is is i It will be bed Sad d well weB within tho the time timo muary ar 1 1 l 1915 and und with with- 1 I cd cost of or 37 ie 1 Tle slides slide's in n no great reat reason for lor do do- doy dori 0 y ri Tort fort if y tho Iho en canal nal would 1 hod State powerless to and equal JUIl use of ofa c a against aint a and enemy and would defeat if r C t the II lie canal 11 m l i in iii u tro ti of ot tho the Amor- Amor jhio hI I tolls should nut not cx exceed oad V ton on The president should to t 0 adjust II t. t the rates as ns neTho no- no Tho government go t should 3 ton management nl of tho canal hm not note only to Ute the na navy V buti butU but i U tITle info IVO R a well docks and and tho sale BAle of oal 1 ship supplies railroads should 1 be he pro owning or control controlling through mj-through h tho tim canal anal Court ourt Procedure n 11 r K the tho courts the president i ont V K li nerd of s tho United Unito of tho coat of liti judgment Tho Tin cit JL should bo lH from froni r Tho of ci y dC e should be bo iJ increased Rl l jn fI banks will bo ho shed 1 in a n number of oi tio 4 3 l. l A parcels post on onIe Ie I 1 routes is is 4 d cI Postmaster General Gonera I 4 I o oc w K is iR Ji given VOrt high hish praise 4 I 1 Hing tho the postoffice a depart depart- v m sustaining naRis baRis 4 of the civil d ie 4 f li lin ludo all of 4 1 and thus thuR taking biking 4 entirely ou out of r 4 I Jk cd i I 4 1 i out r. r recommends congress 5 ju fitting rj recognition ion 0 01 of th the of Commander I 4 The secretary of ot tho the nav navy suggests that Peary he be made a rear admiral admiral ad ad- miral and placed on tho the retired list The stupendous ous value valno of the a agricultural tural products amounting to this Ulis year ear indicates a good j ros- ros peet for bus business ness throughout the coun coun- try The pre present ent census promises to bo be tho the best ever taken but is not perfect The hc census aro are to bo be i vigor vigor- C Cousy prosecuted A bureau o of health should bo ab j V V 4 J n Should Reimburse Southern p Pacific i The rho Thoa Southern Pacific railroad should be he reimbursed for its expenditures in in the tho flood in the Imperial valley of California several years Tears ago Heavier tines lines should be imposed against steamship companies for vio yio- yb lating the immigration ration laws lawa Tho The fa a at Ellis Island X N. Y WY YM should not be bo so o increased as to offer an inducement in in- ini i to steamship companies companieS' to concentrate their immigrant business at one port Immigrants are fire needed in the rural districts Some provision should be mado for retiring superannuated government clerks ie 4 The only amendments sn suggested suggest suggest- est est- 4 ed cd in the tho interstate commerce 4 I law Jaw aro are an a appropriation Hon to to en- en t I 4 4 able ablo the interstate commerce 4 v 4 commission to ascertain the val val- v V nation of railroads and t fixing xin 4 v 44 the responsibilities of public 4 z I- I i carriers in the issuance of bills biUs 4 1 of lading A i I F CONSERVATION I That portion of the message reI atin at- at in ing irig to conservation reclamation reclamation- and the forest service is as follows T The e subject of tho conservation conser of the tho public domain has haM commanded tho the attention of the people within tho laet two or throe three year There Thero is no need for radical re rc form in the methods of ot disposing of what are arc really agricultural lands land The present laws Jaws have bave worked well The enlarged enlarge homestead law has bas basen encouraged en en- tho the successful farmin farming of lands in ill tho the r regions ions Tho The total sum already accumulated in tho the fund provided 1 bv by the act for V the tho reclamation of arid lands ands is about and of this all aJl but has b allotted to the various projects of which there are arc Congress at t its ts last session provided pro pro- vided for tho issuing of certificates cut of indebtedness S not exceeding twenty millions of or dollars to bo be re from front the tho reclamation fund when whon the proceeds of lands land sold and from the water rents tents should bo ho sufficient Meantime Mean Mean- time in in accor accordance aneo with ith the pro visions of the law law I appointed a nl board of or arm army engineers to examine tho Uio projects and antI to ascertain which are arc ure feasible and und worthy of completion i The rho hoard board has hns nindo a It report upon the subject subeet which I shall filial transmit in a u i isep sep separate message o within a few days Conservation Address In Tn September last laRt a J conservation congress was non hold at St St. Paul at nt which 1 delivered an Hn address R on the thc subject of or conservation so su far a us it wH was within tho the jurisdiction and amI pos JOS- JOS sible action of nf the federal government In that address 1 I assembled from the official records tho the statistics and facts aft llA to what whitt had Leon done dono in this behalf bo bo- half in tho administration of m mv my pro pre or rind and in in nt my own and indicated tho the In measures which I s I l bo V to be he wise WiM vin in or order er to secure I the best boat use in tho public interest of or what remains of our national domain There wat in this address a very full discussion of or tho the reasons which led Jod ma me I to tho lon conclusions stated 1 For or the purpose of havin having in an nn official record a and comprehensive re- re sumo of the statistics and facts gathered with Hit some difficulty in that address and to 10 avoid their repetition in the tho body of this message I venture to mako make the address an ing appendix pp The statistics aro are corrected to November lat last For the reasons ons stated l in tho the con address addre I recommend ie 1 First First That That the Ute limitations limitation Continued ou on page paco 10 S OPPOSED PP SED TO TARIFF I 1 from froni pa el 4 now hOW imposed upon the executive 4 v which forbids his reserving more morn rr 1 r forest fore lands in Oregon Wash Wash- v v- v 1 ington Idaho Idah lont l Montana Colo- Colo I z I rado and Wyoming bo be e rev re- re I I r i v pealed i 1 ii I 1 Second That Second That the tho coal a dei cle- cle ei e- e r i I posits JositH of the government g ho hio 1 r leased after advertisement inv in- in i v 1 competitive bids bidS' for forI for forI I I terms not exceeding fifty years 1 1 I 1 with a minimum rental and ami 1 royalties upon the coal coal- mined to be ho readjusted every ton ten or 01 orI I Ii i I- I years and ana with conditions condi condi- v as to maintenance which 1 I will secure proper mining and andas J as to assignment which will prevent combinations to 1 4 I monopolize control l of the tho coal foal 41 i in any anyone one district or market 1 I T do o not think that coal I 1 measures under 2500 acres of 4 surface would be lie too large largo an anS S amount to lease to any one ono y 1 I lessee The rhe secretary of the interior thinks H there are arc difficulties in the way of leasing public coal lands which objections objections objections ob ob- ob- ob ho has set Ret forth in his report the force of which I freely concede 1 entirely approved od his stating at atlen len length th in Ins his report the objections in order that the whole subject may be presented to congress but after a full consideration T I Tavor favor avor a leasing system and recommend it Third Third That That the tho law should provide provide pro pro- vide the same separation in respect to government phosphate lands o of surface surface sur sur- face faco and mineral rights that now obtains ob oh- in coal lands and that power to lease such lands ands upon terms and limitations limitations limi limi- similar to those ab above vo recommended mended for coal leases with an added condition enabling the government to regulate and if if- need be to prohibit the export to foreign c countries of the tho 5 product Would Allow Oil Prospecting Fourth That That the law should Cal Callow a allow al- al low Iowa a prospector for oil or gas to h hive have havethe ve the right to prospect for two years over a certain tract of government go land the right to be bo evidenced by a license for which ho he shall pay a s small naJI sum an and that upon por discovery a lease may be bo granted upon terms seeming securing a minimum rental and proper royalties to the government government- and also the conduct conduct con cou duct of the oil or gas as well wen in accord with the best method for husbanding the supply of oil in jn tho the district The Tho period of the tho leases should not be he as long as of coal but they should contain similar provisions as to toas assignment as as- so 80 as to prevent monopolistic t combinations Fifth That Fifth That water power sit sit-es be le directly di lIi- leased by the federal govern jovern- government ment mont after advertisement and bidding for not exceeding fifty years upon a proper rental and with a condition fixing rates charged to the tho public for units of electric ver po power both rental and rates to be readjusted equitably ever every ten tori years by arbitration or otherwise with suitable provisions against assignment assignment assign assign- ment to prevent monopolistic Or that tho the law aw shall provide t that at upon application made by the authorities aUthorities au aiX- of the state where the water power site is situated it m may v be patented patented patented pat pat- to the st state to on cond condition tion that the state shall shaH dispose of it under terms like ike those just described and shall enforce enforce en en- force those thos terms or upon failure to comply with with the condition the waterpower water waterpower waterpower power site and all aU the plant and un- un on on the site shall be forfeited and revert to the tIle United States the nt being given iven tho the power to declare do- do clare dare the forfeiture and to direct legal proceedings for its enforcement Eith- Eith Gt or of these methods would d I think accomplish tho the proper public purpose in iu respect to water power sites but one or the other should be De promptly adopted Wants Conservation Legislation I o I earnestly urge upon congress con- con v 1 gress that at this session on general v vr r conservation legislation of the v character indicated be bo adopted v i. i 1 At its last session this congress v vr r took most careful and proper o I Ie steps in the cause of conserva v I 4 v tion by allowing the executive vj v through withdrawals to suspend j r 1 tho the action of the existing laws Jaws v 1 in respect to much of the p public v i domain I have o not thought v vI I. I that the dan danger er of disposing of I o oal lands lands' in ill the United States v vv I 4 v under the present laws Jaws in large larg-e I v quantities was so great as to v call for their withdrawal beI because because be- be I- I cause under the present provi- provi provi j 4 v ions it is is' reasonably certain 5 S that tho the go government will receive rev re- re v eive the real value of the theland land J v But in respect to oil lands or v vJ J phosphate lands and of gas as 01 v vv I v 1 J in the tho United States and andin andin Ir in in respect to coal lands in AlasI Alas Alas- I ka Ida I have exercised the full J h h power of withdrawal with the J 4 1 hope that th the action of congress ress 4 s 1 would follow promptly and pro pro- Io I i o vent that tying up ui of the re- re rev r v 4 sources of the countr country in the 1 1 western and less sparsely set- set 4 v tied portions and in Alaska ox 4 r which means stagnation and v I 1 retrogression retro Tho The question of conservation is not nota a partisan one and I IB I. sincerely sincerely- hope that even in the short time of the tho present present pres pros ent out session Bession consideration may b bo given en eu en tp to those questions which have now been much discussed and that action n may bo be taken upon them I I |