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Show 1'IK OF YEAR REVIEWED BI THE PRESIDENT Affairs of State Are Dealt With at Length in Annual Message. BUT LITTLE ABOUT TARIFF President Discusses Work of Tariff ' Board Ship Subsidy Sub-sidy Is Urged. WORK ON PANAMA CANAL I I Meed of Legislation Anticipating Completion Com-pletion of the Ditch Is Pointed Out Change In Postal Rates Parcels Post and Postal Savings Economy Urged. Washington, Deo. 6. President Taft's annual message to congress contained 40,000 words, and la said to be the longest document of Its kind , ever written. In it he reviews the . work of each of the administrative departments beginning with the state tepartment. He devotes considerable ace to the satisfactory settlement y the fisheries dispute with England trough the medium of the Hague iunal, and recounts both the Lis of the fisheries dispute and the Vf jshment of the tribunal. M innectlon with the state depart-. depart-. Mwl tells of the Important poll-Ikcal poll-Ikcal hJ)Denings of the past twelve th throughout' the entire world, Vhe action of this country in con-XjiO" con-XjiO" with them. VhoVTarlff Negotiations. VOtfo t negotiation of new ?" Presl iJk Taft Jpt the v y'ed corniby "la the caseSv Ounces of appal Hon against AniV found to exist. iV were removed by iW to Aprtl 1. 1910. wh tariff waa to come intoV respect to Importations K . countries in whose favor 1 lon applying the nilniv hould be Issued by the preV T hundred and thirty four Bilf0f&.n-J Bilf0f&.n-J tnatlona were Issued, j "Thia series of proclamations em- ' traced the entire commercial world ' - aad benoe the minimum tariff of the United States has been given universal univer-sal application, thus testifying to the satisfactory character of our trade relatione with foreign countries. "Marked advantages to the commerce com-merce of the United States were obtained ob-tained through these tariff settlements. settle-ments. "The policy of broader and cloaer trade relations with the Dominion of Canada which was initiated in the adjustment ad-justment of the maximum and minimum mini-mum provisions of the tariff act of August. 1909. has proved mutually beneficial. It Justifies further efforts for the readjustment of the commercial commer-cial relations of the two countries so that their commerce may follow the channels natural to contiguous countries coun-tries and be commensurate with the steady expsnslon of trade and Indus-try Indus-try on both sides of the boundary tUM." |
