Show BETTER TRADE RELATIONS is made that at the state department pre announcement pa parati rations uns are in progress for a complete readjustment of our trade relation with the nations of the world to follow the enactment of the new tariff law in view of the introduction of the maximum minimum policy into our law many treaties and arrangements covering trade relations will of feces necessity ity he be abrogated and new ones must be negotiated at present the united states has trade agreements with france germany italy spain portugal and holand holland and it will be necessary on the enactment of the new law notice to these governments that the present agreements must be terminated and new ones aan arranged ged the agreement with france can be abrogated d by either party at any time without notice but those with italy spain portugal and i holland require notice nutice of one year from either government and abs alys notice will be served by tins this government immediately on the passage of the new tariff law the agre agreement emont with germany is the one arranged bv president roose eit elt on june 1907 auder this mis agreement it will be necessary for this government to give germany six months notice before another arrangement can be affected much discussion is reported to have been going on in the navy as us to the advisability of making some changes in the methods of conducting canteens on board ship these canteens are virtually small stores where enlisted men may mav buy certain articles of use and the suggestion is made that the government buy out the present canteen stocks and place them on a firm and businesslike basis heretofore naval canteens have been run on much the came ame plan as is the company fund in the army under the arrangement proposed the canteen would be conducted like anny post exchanges and would woula be under the pay officer of a vessel vesse who would rep replenish lenigh the stacks stocks from the most reasonable markets in this way the variety and quality of the stocks of goods carried would be increased and the profits would be disbursed for the benefit of the men for whom the cante canteens eng are maintained according to a stati statistical abstract of the united states state to bo be I 1 issued in a few days by the but of statis ts of the department of commerce and labor about one third of the eighty eight million population of the united scales including alaska live in the thirteen origin rl states another third live in the states created from the territory ceded to the union by the original states and the remaining third on the area added by purchase of annexation with al all the mock modesty of a practical old politician ican senor 1 diax diaz announces that he is in the hands bands of hia his friends so far a as I 1 election to tho the presidency of mexico ia is concerned its cartro this and castro that and castro catro are you but every time ho lie trios to land its castro ou skidoo sk idoo the gi and old goer governor nor of grand old achs has hai handed the grand old legislature a grand old lerron that aught to hold the grand om old hou houston iton pest for a little abile castro traveling about on a mall matt ess loon s larger afian over e er ns i a featherbed soldier er s will it bo be so 0 o changed by thu the senate that it will he be ridiculous to call it the payne tariff bill i I 1 mrs edu eduard ard carma carmak Car mask k wife of the murdered senator having been left practically without means of support is proposed for the position of postmistress at columbia I 1 tenn we hope she will receive the appointment |