SECOND EDITION
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
VARIOUS SUGGESTIONS. WORLD COURT NOT MENTIONED. Received December 8, 1.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Stipulating that, in upproaching the farm relief problem, Congress should avoid anything savouring of price fixing, President Coolidge, in his annual message to Congress to-day, xuged a sound solution for the marketing problem and some form of temporary tax. He suggested that steps be taken at an early date to transfer the Philippines from the military to the civil branch of the Government, and renewed hi? stand for a protective tariff and complete observance of the prohibition laws. The message did not mention the World Court or Mexico. The President suggested legislation embracing coal control; adequate’military and naval preparedness; support of the Geneva preliminary conference and other movements for the reduction of competitive armaments; radio'control undtr the Department of Commerce ; tho return of alien property and anti-lynching legislation.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 10
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150SECOND EDITION Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 10
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