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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Indications Are That the Surplus OF
the Present Year Will Be Small.

From all sources, exclusive of the pos
tai service the receipts of the Government
for the last fiscal year aggregated $780, 1885,
STA. The expenditures for the same period
were $5O6, ,O99, ,O07 the surplus for the fiscal
year being s54 297, ,667. The indications are
that the surplus for the present fiscal year
will be very small If indeed there be any
surplus. A large surplus Is GER
tainly undesirable. Two years ago the
war taxes were taken off with the express
intention of equalizing the Governmental
receipts and expenditures, and though the
first year thereafter still showed a surplus
1t now seems likely that a substantial
equality of revenue and expenditure will
be attained Such being the case it is of
great moment both to exercise care and
economy in appropriations, and to scan
sharply any change in our fiscal revenue
system which may reduce our income.
Needs of Financial Situation.
The integrity of our currency is beyond
question, and under present conditions it
would be unwise and unnecessary to at
tempt reconstruction of our entire none
tary system. The same liberty should be
granted the Secretary of the Treasury to
deposit the customs receipts as is granted
him in the deposit of receipts from other
sources. In my message of December 2.
1902 called attention to certain needs of
the financial situation, and I again ask
the consideration of the Congress for these
questions
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
INsULAR POSSESSIONS.
Philippines Should Be Knit Closer by
Tariff Agreements.

OF our fnsular possessions the Philip
pines and Porto Rico it is gratifying to
say that their steady progress has been
such as to make it unnecessary to spend
much time in discussing them. Yet the
Congress should ever keep in mind that
a peculiar obligation rests upon us to
further in every way the welfare of
should be knit closer to us by tariff ar
rangements. 1t would, of course, be i'm
possible suddenly to raise the people of
the islands to the high pitch of industrial
prosperity and of governmental efficiency
to which they will in the end by degrees
attain; and the caution and moderation
shown in developing them have been
among the main reasons why this devel-
opment has hitherto gone on so
smoothly. Scrupulous care has been
taken in the choice of governmental
agents. and the entire elimination Of par
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
Competitive Examinations Promote
Efficiency and Economy.

During the year ended June 50 last 25,-
566 persons were appointed through COM
petitive examinations under the civil
service rules. This was 12,672 more than
during the preceding year, and 40 per
cent. Of those who passed the examina-
tions. This abnormal growth was largely
occasioned by the extension of CLASH
fication to the rural free-delivery serv-
ice and the appointment last year of over
5000 rural carriers. A revision of the
civil-service rules took effect on April
Is last, which has greatly improved their
operation. The completion of the reform
of the civil service Is recognized by good
citizens everywhere as a matter of the
highest public Importance, and the sue
cess of the merit system largely depends
upon the effectiveness of the rules and
and the machinery provided for their en-
forcement. A very gratifying spirit of
friendly cooperation exists in all the de-
partments of the Government in the en-
forcement and uniform observance of
both the letter and spirit Of the civil
service act.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
CLAIMS AGAINST VENEZUELA.
Reference to The Hague Court {
Great Triumph for Arbitration.

1t will be remembered that during the
second session of the last Congress Great
Britain, Germany and Italy formed an al
lance for the purpose of blockading the
ports of Venezuela and using such other
means of pressure as would secure a set
tlement of claims due, as they alleged to
certain of their subjects. Their employ
ment of force for the collection of these
claims was terminated by an agreement
brought about through the offices of the
diplomatic representatives of the United
States at Caracas and the Government at
Washington, thereby ending a situation
which was bound to cause increasing fric-
tion,i and which jeoparded the peace of
the continent. Under this agreement Ven
ezuela agreed to set apart certain per-
centage of the customs receipts of two
of her ports to be applied to the payment
of whatever obligations might be ascer-
tanned by mixed commissions appointed
for that purpose to be due from her, not
only to the three powers already men
toned, whose proceedings against her had
resulted in a state of war. but also to the
United States, France Spain, Belgium,
the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway,
and Mexico, who had not employed force
for the collection of the claims alleged to
be due to certain of their citizens.
A demand was then made by the So
called blockading powers that the sums
ascertained to be due to their citizens by
such mixed commissions should be ac-
corded payment in full before anything
was paid upon the claims of any of the
so-called peace powers. Venezuela, on the
other hand, insisted that all her creditors
should be paid upon basis of exact
equality. During the efforts to adjust
this dispute it was suggested by the
powers in interest that it should be re-
ferred to me for decision, but was clear
1y of the opinion that a far wiser course
would be to submit the question to the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION
Congress Should Give 1t Support as
Well as Recognition.

trust that the Congress will continue to
favor in all proper ways the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition. This exposition
commentaries the Louisiana purchase,
which was the first great step in the ex-
pansion which made US a continental
Nation. The expedition of Lewis and
Clark across the continent followed there
on, and marked the beginning of the
process of exploration and colonization
which thrust our National boundaries to
the Pacific. The acquisition of the Oregon
Country. including the present States of
Oregon and Washington, was a fact of
Immense Importance in our history; first
giving us our place on the Pacific sea-
board, and making ready the way for our
ascendency in the commerce of the great
est of the oceans. The centennial of our
establishment upon the Western Coast
by the expedition of Lewis and Clark is
to be celebrated at Portland, Or, by an
Exposition in the Summer of 1885, and this
event should receive recognition and sup
port from the National Government
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
MERCHANT MARINE.
Commission Is Recommended to In
quire Into Needs of Shipping.

A majority of our people desire that
steps be taken in the interests of Amer
lean shipping, so that we. may once more
resume our former position in the ocean
carrying trade. But hitherto the differ
ences of opinion as to the proper method
of reaching this end have been so wide
that it has proved impossible to secure
the adoption of any particular scheme.
Having in view these facts, I recommend
that the Congress direct the Secretary of
the Navy the Postmaster-General and
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
associated with such a representation
from the Senate and House of Repreaen-
tatives as the Congress in its wisdom
may designate, to serve as a commission
for the purpose of Investigating and re-
porting to the Congress at its next ses-
sion what legislation is desirable or nee
essary for the development of the Amer
lean merchant marine and American COM
merce, and incidentally of a National
ocean mail service of adequate auxiliary
naval cruisers and naval reserves.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-President
Roosevelt's message to Congress was read
before the Senate and House today. Tne
text of the message follows:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
tives:
The country is to be congratulated on
the amount of substantial achievement
which has marked the past year, both
as regards our foreign and as regards our
domestic policy.
With a nation as with man the most
important things are those of the house
hold, and therefore the country is espe-
cially to be congratulated on what has
been accomplished in the direction of pro-
viding for the exercise of supervision over
the great corporations and combinations
Of corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce. The Congress has created the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, includ-
ing the Bureau of Corporations, with for
the first time authority to secure proper
publicity of such proceedings of these
great corporations as the public has the
right to know. 1t has provided for the
expediting of suits for the enforcement OF
the Federal anti trust law; and by an
other law it has secured equal treatment
to all producers In the transportation or
their goods, thus taking a long stride
forward in making effective the work OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
ISTHMIAN CANAL.
Review of Dealings With Colombia
and Recent Events.


By the act of June %, 1902, the Congress
authorized the President to enter into
treaty with Colombia for the building of
the canal across the Isthmus of Panama;
it being provided that in the event of
failure to secure such treaty after the
lapse of a reasonable time recourse should
be had to building a canal through Nj
caragua. It has not been necessary to
consider this alternative, as / am enabled
to lay before the Senate treaty provid-
ing for the building of the canal across
the Isthmus of Panama. This was the
route which commended itself to the de-
liberate judgment of the Congress, and
we can now acquire by treaty the right
to construct the canal over this route
The question now, therefore, is not by
which route. the isthmian canal shall be
built, for that question has been definitely
and irrevocably decided. The question is
simply whether or not we shall have an
isthmian canal.
When the Congress directed that we
should take the Panama route under
treaty with Colombia, the essence of the
condition, of course, referred not to the
Government which controlled that route
but to the route itself; to the territory
across which the route lay, not to the
name which for the moment the territory
bore on the map. The purpose of the
law was to authorize the President to
make treaty with the power in actual
control of the Isthmus of Panama. This
purpose has been fulfilled.
In the year 1876 this Government en-
tered into treaty with New Granada,
the predecessor upon the Isthmus of the
Republic of Colombia and of the present
Republic of Panama, by which treaty it
was provided that the Government and
citizens of the United States should al
ways have free and open right of way
or transit across the Isthmus of Panama
by any modes of communication that
might be constructed, while in return our
Government guaranteed the perfect neu-
trality of the above mentioned isthmus
with the view that the free transit from
the one to the other sea might not be
interrupted or embarrassed. The treaty
vested in the United states a substantial
property right carved out of the rights
of sovereignty and property which New
Granada then had and possessed over the
said territory. The Fame of New Granada
has passed away and it's territory has been
divided. Its successor. the Government
of Colombia, has ceased to own any prop
erty in the isthmus. A new republic, that
of Panama, which was at one time SOW
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11

of Justice to conduct proceedings and
prosecutions under said laws in the courts
of the United, States. I now recommend,
as matter of the utmost Importance and
urgency, the extension of the purposes of
this appropriation, that it may be
available, under the direction of the At
torney-General and until used, for the
due enforcement of the laws of the United
States in general and especially of the
civil and criminal laws relating to public
lands and the laws relating to postal
crimes and offenses and the subject of
naturalization. Recent Investigations
have shown a deplorable state of affairs
in these three matters of vital concern.
BY various frauds and by forgeries and
perjuries, thousands of acres of the pub
lie domain. embracing lands of different
character ard extending through vari-
Gus sections of the country, have been
dishonesty acquired.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
RELATIONS WITH CHINA.
Signing of Commercial Treaty Cause
for Satisfaction.

The signing of new commercial treaty
with China, which took place at Shanghai
on the 8th Of October, is cause for sat-
isfaction. This act, the result of long
discussion and negotiation, places. our
commercial relations with the great ORR
entail Empire on a more satisfactory
footing than they have ever heretofore
enjoyed. 1t provides not only for the
ordinary rights and privileges Of diplo-
matte and Consular officers, but also for
an important extension of our commerce
by increased facility of access to Chinese
ports. and for the relief of trade by the
removal of some of the obstacles which
have embarrassed it in the past.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
FRAUDS IN PUBLIC SERVICE.
Appropriations Urged to Investigate
Land and Postal Affairs.

ton with the subject of the due regula-
ton of combinations Of capital which are
or may become injurious to the public,
recommend special appropriation for the
better enforcement of the antitrust law
as it now stands, to be expended under
the direction Of the Attorney-General Ac-
cordingly (by the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation act of February 25,
1903. 80 Stat, S54, S04), the Congress ap-
propriated, for the purpose of enforcing
the various Federal trust and Interstate
commerce laws, the sum of s500,0O0 to be
expended under the direction of the At
ney-General in the employment of spe-
cial counsel and agents in the Department
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
I'M MIGRATION.
Undesirable Class Must Be Kept Out,
That Wanted Better Distributed.

We can not have too much immigration
of the right kind, and we should have
none at all of the wrong kind. The need
is to devise some system by which unde-
sirab1e immigrants shall be kept out en-
tirely while desirable immigrants are
properly distributed throughout the coun-
try. At present some districts which need
Immigrants have none; and in others,
where the population is already congest-
ed, immigrants come in such numbers as
to depress the conditions of life for those
already there. During the last two years
the immigration service at New York has
been greatly improved, and the corruption
and inefficiency which formerly obtained
there have been eradicated. This service
has just been investigated by a commit
tee of New York citizens of high stand
ing, Messrs. Arthur v. Briesen, Lee K.
Frankel, Eugene A. Philbin, Thomas w.
Hynes and Ralph Trautman. Their report
deals with the whole situation at length,
and concludes with certain recommended
tions for administrative and legislative
action. It is now receiving the attention
of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
THE NAVY.
There Must Be No Let-Up in Work
of Increasing 1t.

Shortly after the enunciation of that IA
nous principle of American foreign pol.
icy now known as the Monroe Doctrine >
President Monroe, in special message
to Congress, on January 80, 1924, spoke as
follows: 1.-THE Navy is the arm from
which our Government will always derive
most aid in support of our rights
Every power engaged in war will know
the strength Of our naval power, the
number of our ships of each class, their
condition, and the promptitude with
which we may bring them into service
and will pay due consideration to that
argument"
I heartily congratulate the Congress
upon the steady progress in building up
the -merican Navy. We cannot afford a
let-up in this great work. To stand still
means to go back. There should be no
cessation in adding to the effective units
Of the fighting strength of the fleet.
Meanwhile the Navy Department and the
officers of the Navy are doing well their
part by providing constant service at sea
under conditions akin to those of actual
warfare. Our officers and enlisted men
are learning to handle the battleships,
cruisers and torpedo boats with high eff
cheney in fleet and squadron formations,
and the standard of craftsmanship is be-
ing steadily raised. The best work ashore
is Indispensable, but the highest duty
Of a naval officer is to exercise command
at sea.
The establishment of a naval base in
the Philippines ought not to be longer
postponed. Such a base is desirable in
time of peace; in time of war it would
be indiSpensabl BILE, and it's lack would be
ruinous. Without it our fleet would be
helpless. Our naval experts are agreed
that Subig Bay is the proper place for the
purpose. The national interests require
that the work of fortifcation and develop
ment of naval station at Subig Bay be
Of aor1ty dot fOr 1o,. +I,<,
best conditions it is a work which will
consume much time.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Agents Should Not Be Dependent
Upon Partisan Politics.

The Indian agents should rot be depend
ent for their appointment or tenure of
office upon considerations of partisan poll
tics; the practice of appointing, when
possible. ex-army officers or bonded super
intendents to the vacancies that occur is
working well. Attention is invited to the
widespread illiteracy due to lack of pub
lie schools in the Indian Territory. Prompt
heed should be paid to the need of edu-
cation for the children in this territory
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
RURAL FREE-DELIvERY SERVICE
System Must Be Extended, and SAL
aries of Carriers Adjusted.

aries OF CdrrIerS NdJUsteU.
The rural free delivery service has been
steadily extended. The attention Of the
Congress is asked to the question of the
compensation of the letter carriers and
clerks engaged in the postal service,
especially on the new rural free-delivery
routes. More routes have been installed
since the first of July last than in any
like period in the departments history.
While due regard to economy must be
kept in mind in the establishment Of new
routes. yet the extension of the rural free
delivery system must be continued, for
reasons of sound public policy. No Gov
ernmental movement of recent years has
resulted in greater immediate benefit to
the people of the country districts.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11

tisan politics from the public service. The
conGitlon of the islanders is in material
thirts far better than ever before. while
their governmental, intellectual. and
moral advance has kept pace with their
m .teriai advance. No one people ever
benefited another people more than we
have benefited the Filipinos by taking
nussessiou OF the islands.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
PENSIONS.
No Other Class Deserves So Well of
the Nation as the Veterans.

No other class of our citizens deserves
SO well of the Nation as those to whom
the Nation owes its very being. the vet
Grams Of the Civil War. Special attention
is asked to the excellent work of the
Pension Bureau in expediting and dis
posing of pension claims. During the
fiscal year ending July l, 1908, the Bureau
settled 251 1882 claims. an average of 825
claims for each working day of the year.
The number Of settlements since July /,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11

1903. has been in excess of last years
average. approaching 1000 claims for each
working day, and 1t is believed that the
work of the Bureau will be current at
the close of the present fiscal year.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
HAWAII.

Greater Power Should Be Vested in
the Governor.
/ recommend that an appropriation be
made for building lighthouses in Hawaii,
and taking possession of those already
built. The territory should be reimbursed
for whatever amounts it has already ex-
pended for lighthouses. The Governor
should be empowered to suspend or re-
move any official appointed by him with
out submitting the matter to the Legis-
lature
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11

TO CONGRESS
Chief Executive Sends Message to
Peoples Lawmakers
HANDLES MATTERS BEFORE PUBLIC

Favors Lewis and Clark Exposition Undesirable
Class of Immigrants Should be Kept Out-Ap-
~ point Commission to Inquire Into Needs of Ship
ping-Extend Rural Free Delivery-Better Legis
laton for Alaska-Panama Canal Question
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to CUE
Many Readers.

Germany is much pleased with the
message of the president.
An independent company to fight the
beef trust is to be established in St.
Louis.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-10

chance to build up the wasted and dis
eased tissue. Wine of Cardui regulates
the menstrual flow and Nature, when
relieved of the drains or Of the poisons
in the system, makes the functional
organs strong and healthy again.
Any woman who is silently suffering
untold pains because she is too sensitive
to undergo a physicians examination
and treatment can find no excuse for
not securing relief when Wine Of Car
dui is offered to her. There is no pub
licity to deter her. She can take Wine
Of Cardui in the privacy Of her home,
with as much assurance Of q final cure
sv though q dozen doctors recommended
il. Many physicians do recommend
Wine Of Cardui to their patients.
Why not get q tl.00 bottle Of Wine
Of Cardui from your druggist today?
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-10

The woman who has suf-
cred from female weakness
should do anything within
reason to secure health.
Wine Of Cardui is the lned-
cine that appeals to reasona-
BILE women women who
hold operations and cutting
in inhorror-womenwhoknow
that Nature is the best ply
sician. Wine Of Cardui
gives women back their
health bY giving Natura a
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-10
MRS. HELENA BLAV.

ZEN ! yhousand cured
women have written
to tell how Wine Of
Cardui bestows the
blessing Of health on every
woman who takes it, rich
and poor alike. Mrs.
Helena Blau, Nc. 1913 Sew
enth Street. Milwaukee,
Wis, is one Of the young
women whom Wine Of Car
dui has rescued from a life
Of suffering. She writes:
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-10

nR. L. BAGBY,
~ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office III New Ratclif Building. Tele-
phone IoT. Vinita, Ind. Ter.