THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15124, 13 October 1909, Page 7

THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

DISCRIMINATION IN FAVOUR OF AMERICAN SHIPS. Press Association—By Electria Telegraph—Co pjnight. NEW YORK, October 11. Senator Elkins announces that he will introduce a Bill in Congress to reduce by 5 per cent the duties on merchandise imported in American ships. This, he claims, will have all the good effect of a subsidy without expense to the Treasury, and will stimulate shipbuild-

PRESIDENT TAFT'S MISSION. OReceived October 12, 11.60 p.m.) LONDON, October 12.

The New York correspondent of tho " Times " states that President Taft's western tour failed to reconcile the Republicans in the Western and Middle Western States to the upward revision of the tariff instead of the expected downward revision.