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TARIFF CONVENTION. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright NEW YORK, Feb. 17. The National Tariff Convention, comprising 3000 delegates, sitting at Indianapolis, discussed the question of appointing a Permanent Advisory Commission to inform Congress on all matters relating to tariff schedules, and periodically recommend changes with the object of endeavouring to keep the tariff out of partisan politics. "THE NAVY. Received 10.50 p.m., Feb. 18th. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. The. Senate Committee have urged President Roosevelt in the exercise of his discretion to keep one half of'the navy in the Pacific. Senator Hall, speaking, in the Senate, remarked that the United States navy cost £27,500,000 in 1909, that it would.be £32,000,000 next year, and probably £40,000,000 in 1911.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13833, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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115AMERICA. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13833, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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