Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-15

O'Clock and II was read. II tuii OF
statistics sbout the dehoil OF revenues
and recommends the immediate enact
ment Of tariff to ralse the requisite
revenue. No reference WAS made 70
Cuba or any other Of the foreign
questions.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
President Mckinley. to-day, sent the
following message to congress;
To the Congress of the United States:
Regretting the necessity which has
required me TO call you together
feel that your assembling in extra
ordinary session Is indispensable, be-
cause Of the condition In which We hnd
the revenues OF the government. II 10
conceded that Its current expenditures
are greater than It's receipts and that
such condition has existed for now
more than three years. With I'M
limited means ut our command, we are
presenting the remarkable spectacle Of
increasing our public debt by borrow
ing money to meet the ordinary out
lays, incident upon even an economical
and prudent administration OF gov
ernment. An examination Of the SUBJ
ject discloses the fact, In every detail,
and leads inevitably to the conclusion
that the condition OF the revenue which
allows 1t. is upjusti6abIe and should be
corrected.
The president then showed that
while In 1892 the revenues were, IN
round figures, S425 100000. the ex-
pendItures were S415, 900. 600 and
$40. 100000 was paid on the public
debt. Since 1898, the expenditures
have exceeded the revenue, steadily,
until last year, the receipts were sS72,-
0O0, 900, and the expenses Of the gov
ernment SAP 900, 900. leaving deficit
OF nearly $40. 100000. The president
then demands q tariff to increase the
revenue.
THE FREE LIST.
Among the articles on the free list o
the tariff, are the following: Any ami
NAL imported, especially for breeding
purposes, shall be admitted free, ami
mails brought into the United States.
temporarily. for period not sxceed-
ing six months; articles in crude state,
used In dyeing or tanning; when man
ufactured, tobacco, which has been ex-
ported without the payment OF the in
ternal revenue tax, shall be re-import-
ed. II shall be retained in the custody
of the collector until internal revenue
stamps are placed thereon; asbestos,
in its natural state, as taken
from the earth; asphaltum and
albumen, crude, not dried or other
wise advanced in any manner; ;
bullion, gold or silver; camphor,
crude: castor oil, castoreum; coal,
anthracite, and coal stores Of Amer
lean vessels; coal tar, COCOA, coffee,
coins, gold, silver and copper; grasses
and fiDres, jute, butts, MANILA, sisnl
grass, sum, hides, raw Or incurred,
whether dry sailed, or picked; angora
goat skins, raw, without wool, cnman-
ufactured; hoofs. unmanufactnred !;
horns and parts Of, not cut, horn strips
and tips, ice, Indian rubber, crude and
milk Of, mineral, crude needles, hand
sewing and darning, newspapers and
periodicals, the latter meaning un-
bound, or paper-covered publications.
containing current literature and issued
at periods; nuts, Brazil nuts, cream
nuts, palm nuts and palm nut kernels
ores of gold, silver, copper or nickel
and nickel matte; sweepiugs OF gold
and silver; paper stock, crude OF every
description, including all grasses,
| fibers, rags (other than wool), parch'
.ment and vsllum; pearl, mother OF, anr
shells, plants, trees, shrubbery, roots
seed cane and seeds, imported BY the
government, silk, raw or as from th'
coon, sulphur, lac or precipitated.