Show f FRAUD U wl m AT ATIN T TI I IN r S Secy SeC Taft 1 Says Ss Government Had HadS S To Shut Onu pc Eye Itye to Some Irr NECESSARY FOR PUBLIC PUBLIO GOOD Had it Not ot Pone Done Inter Island Trade of or Would Disappeared OI I Washington 21 Secy Taft I Iwas was heard by the th house lousa committee committe on merchant mart marlue fi 1111 fisheries today on pending bills commerce be between between tween the Philippine Islands and the United States Sin tell iho hl committee has hils be before before fore tore It a IL bill pitting In force torce tho th United States coastwise trAde laws after July 1 I 1901 alto also a bill po sod sed by tho the senate fix fixing fl lug ing the date t V tr later Inter The Tho secre secretary tory tary said therl th r ii ivas hot much dependent I on these mea A as mis II long JonK as 1111 thorn there was not fre free trade b this country and the th Philippine The hemp lter lt was taken care of now MW and little oC of tobacco o or sugar under bader the present tariff rates In lit favor of freedom of or traille In the Philippines Philippine Vt M Had not tile tle government of ot the tho Philippines oll at lit the tho assimilation of ot native ive and fi forein r vessels that Is II cf or foreign transferring tran their vessels to r Filipino 1 compa companies mules nies the tho trade of or the Phil PhilIppines could bat h l have been carried on The Tho secretary explained c that the gov government hat Mn been een compelled to one ono eye to tf sm u n 1 in order that the commerce or Of the Islands should not come to ruin Ice e WAS Willi asked what the effect of or sucH su l would bo lx after tho the laW haltS 1 i mire are applied R to 10 the tho islands and The Tho situation I that bat of or feeding n it 1 starving map man the Jho interchange of ottom corn com commodities of tile Ile different Islands lands Isa 1111 ne tie necessity It I ii t likely that a system of ef small fines Vt u l prevail had and the same slime ships that thai tuA ard engaged In the would j to bundle It In iii violation of ot the tho Jl laws lawn If IC the tho that hat I have bet bei n permitted In this fashion to lo carry curry freight Jt ere m shut out I dont know what MuM happen hll The people leollo could not gel ge KOIK Secy Ree Toft Said laid ld that he had hod never Investigated ke Po fI situation In iii tim the to learn r tho ho reported scarcity of vessels IB wAs vAd vA ired rM l because e he 1113 wits satisfied In to tho th situation He lie had avoided purposely becoming pos possessed of ot In which would be become become come conic tur He f gave It ns na hl hIs hh opinion that hut tho t c treaty of Paris limits the special f c of ot Spanish B vessels to trade n spain and the tho Philip Philippines PhilippInes PhilIppines pines mId and to not authorize them to engage In th tn nt l trade There Ther url are ir enough sel 1 In It the time trade now t to te take care of or o i demands said the tha secretary bilt b u Mot enough to tako take cart care of ot a 11 normal Increase r lee In liv the commerce cf ef the he Islands ll jI III thought the building of or ships might k ell pare paco with tho the Increase of trade bitt that Congress md lied rejected Ui tM LimO rc WilleRt Ue t of the tho ho Philip rhilip lime I f that skilled in n ship be bo permitted to como come Into nto the tho i for tor u IL period of vo ve years ears Taking lip u tHo tn subject of or tho the industry In tn th Secy aee Taft Tatt paul Hald that tle tIo l l have hIO n a monopoly In Iii n the fluent that Is III raised In the tho World Wend and cannot ho bo raised any allY anywhere anywhere where clue elRe t f 11 tb the thc Philippines Philippine generally Secy Taft pd stid that his Illg great treat object t H to 11 tiC i tariff to at nt least lenat 25 fI r rc cent c of tho rate ral though person pernon pcr personally on ally he ho rt fren to trade Becy MA tilt hi he lie did not lint think In 1 sugar augur would destroy ho the sugar of the tho United lie He tl of the pending bill bUt would liy destroy nil all tho thio trade trado there wan between botwen bE tho the fluid and the tho 1 fl except the tho li hemp mi mirado rado have the tho benefit o ot of That trade tie lid h said h Sp and amid 5 |