US Presidency
1904

In 1907 there will be held at Hampton Roads the tricentennial celebration of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, with which the history of what has now become the United States really begins. I commend this to your favorable consideration. It is an event of prime historic significance, in which all the people of the United States should feel, and should show, great and general interest. In the Post-Office Department the service has increased in efficiency, and conditions as to revenue and expenditure continue satisfactory. The increase of revenue during the year was $ 9,358,181.10, or 6.9 per cent, the total receipts amounting to $ 143,382,624.34. The expenditures were $ 152,362,116.70, an increase of about 9 per cent over the previous year, being thus $ 8,979,492.36 in excess of the current revenue. Included in these expenditures was a total appropriation of $ 152,956,637.35 for the continuation and extension of the rural free-delivery service, which was an increase of $ 4,902,237.35 over the amount expended for this purpose in the preceding fiscal year.