Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-12-04

dian depredations, and / recommend that
every possible safeguard be provided
against the enforcement of unlawful and
fictitious claims of this description.
Cattle Diseases.
The secretary of agriculture in his re-
port says the regulation of 1892 concern
ing Texas fever has been enforced during
the last year, and the large stock yards of
the country have been free from infec-
tion. Occasional local outbreaks have
largely been such as could have been
effectually guarded against by the owners
of the afflicted cattle. tuberculosis is q
disease wide spread and more dangerous
to human life than pleuro-pneumonia
Investigations have been made during the
past year as to the means of its commu-
nication and the method of its correct
diagnosis. Much progress has been made
in this direction by the students of the
division of animal pathology, but the
work ought to be extended in co-opera-
tion with local authorities until the dan
ger to human life arising from this cause
is reduced to a minimum.
Civil Service law.
The continued intelligent nt-execution of
the civil service law, in the increasing
approval by the people of its operation,
is most gratifying. 4, I am, if possible,
more than ever convinced of the meal
culable benefits conferred by the civil
service law. ..N
Economy in public expenditures is
duty that can not be neglected by those
entrusted with the control of money
drawn from the people for public uses.
1t must be confessed that our apparently
endless resources, the familiarity of our
people with immense accum ulations of
wealth, the growing sentiment among
them that the expenditures of public
money should in some manner inure to
their immediate and personal advantage,
the indirect and almost stealthy manner
in which larger part of our taxes
are exacted and a degenerated
sense of official accountability have led
to growing extravaganza in governmental
appropriations.
At this time when a depleted public
treasury confronts US, when many of our
people are engaged in hard struggle
for the necessaries of life and when
forced economy is pressing upon the
great masses Of our countrymen, l de-
sire to urge with all the earnestness at
my command that congressional legisla
tion be so limited by strict economy, as
to indicate an appreciation of the condi
tion of the treasury and sympathy with
tho Strengthened circumstances of our
fellow citizens. The duty of public
economy is also of immense importance
in its estimate and necessary relation to
the task now in hand of raising revenue to
meet government expenditures and yet
reducing the peoples burden of federal
taxation.
The Tariff.
After hard struggle tariff reform is
actually before us. Nothing so import
ant claims our attention and nothing 80
clearly presents itself as both an oppor-
tunity and a duty. An opportunity to
deserve the gratitude of our fellow citi-
zens and duty imposed upon us by our
oft repeated professions and by the en-
phatic mandate of the people. After full
discussion, our countrymen have spoken
in favor of this reform and they have con-
'ided the work Of its plishment to
the hands of those who are solemnly
pledged. If there is anything in the
theory of d representation In public
places of the people and their desires, if
public officers are really servants of the
people, and if political promises and pro-
fessions have any binding force, our fail
ure to give the relief so long awaited will
be sheer recreancv. Nothing should in
terfere to distract our attention or dis
turb our effort until this reform is accom-
plished by wise and careful legislation.
While we should staunchly adhere to the
principles that only the necessity of
revenue justifies the imposition of tariff
duties and other federal taxation and that
they should be limited by strict economy,
we can not close our eyes to the fact that
conditions have grown up among US
which in justice and fairness call for dis
eliminating care in the distribution of
such duties and taxation as the emer-
gencies of our government actually de-
mand.
Manifestly if we are to aid the people
directly thorugh tariff reform one of its
most obvious features should be reduc-
tion in the tariff charges upon the neces-
saries of life. The benefits of such re-
duction would be palpable and substan-
TALLY felt by thousands who would be
better fed, better clothed and better
sheltered. These gifts should be the will
ing benefactions of a government whose
highest function is the promotion of the
welfare of the people. Not less closely
related to our peoples prosperity and
well-being is the removal of restrictions
upon importations of raw materials neces
sary to our own manufacturers. The
world should be open to our national in
genuity and enterprise.
In view of these facts the enormous ex-
penditures without legitimate returns of
benefits ought to be abolished. A meas
ure has been proposed by the appropri-
ate congressional committee embodying
tariff reform on the lines herein sug-
gested which will be promptly submitted
for legislative action. 1t is the result of
much patriotic and unselfish work and
1 believe it deals with its subject con-
sistently and as thoroughly as. existing
conditions permit. I am satisfied that
the reduced tariff duties provided for in
the proposed legislation addedto existing
internal revenue taxation will in the near
future, though perhaps not immediately,
provide sufficient revenue to meet tho
needs Of the government.
An Income Tax.
The committee, after full consideration
and to provide against temporary def
ciencv which NAV exist before the busi-