Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-12-17


spondencs and negotiation. II should be
remembered that such facilities exist In
the foreign ofnces OF all the leading COM
merciai nations and that to deny them
TO the secretary OF state would be to
place this government at great disad-
vantage in the rivalry OF commercial
competition
The consular service has been Inn
proved under the law OF April s. 1906
and the executive order OF June "a 1905,
and I commend to your consideration the
question OF embodylng In a statute the
principles OF the present executive order
upon which the efficiency OF our consular
service Is wholly dependent.
Expenditures and Revenues.
Perhaps the most important question
presented to this administration is that
OF economy in expenditures and suffl-
cheney OF revenue. The deficit OF the
last fiscal year. and the certain deficit
OF the current year prompted congress
TO throw greater responsibility on
the executive and the secretary of the
treasury than had heretofore been do
clared by statute. This declaration
imposes upon the secretary of the
treasury the duty OF assembling all the
estimates OF the executive departments.
bureaus and offices OF the expenditures
necessary In the ensuing fiscal year,
and OF making an estimate OF the reve-
nues OF the government for the same
period. and IL probable deficit Is thus
shown. 10 Is made the duty OF the presi-
dent TO recommend the method by
which such deficit can be met
The report OF the secretary shows
that the ordinary expenditures for the
current fiscal year ending June 30, 1910,
win exceed the estimated receipts by
S34, 0Tb620. III to this deficit Is added
| the sum TO be disbursed for the PAN
anna Canal. amounting TO ssS,ooo,0oo,
and $1,000. 900 20 be paid on the public
| debt. the deficit OF ordinary receipts
and expenditures will be Increased 60
"A total deficit OF S73,O75,620. This def
| lett the secretary proposes to meet by
| the proceeds of bonds issued TO pay
the cost OF constructing the Panama
Canal. I approve this proposal.
In order to avoid a deficit for the
| ensuing fiscal year, directed the
/ heads OF departments in the prepara-
| tion OF their estimates 40 make them
| as low as possible consistent with inn
perative governmental necessity.
Civil Pensions.
am aware that there is strong
| feeling I'm both houses of congress. and
| possibly in the country. against the
| establishment of civil PENSIONS and
| that this has naturally grown out of
| the heavy burden of military pensions,
| which II has Always been the policy
| OF our government to assume; but |
am strongly convinced that no other
| practical solution OF the difhcultles
| presented by the approximation of
| civil servants can be found than that
OF a system OF civil pensions
Frauds In the Collection OF Customs.
regret to refer TO the fact OF the
| discovery of extensive frauds In the
collection of the customs revenue at
New York city. I'm which a number OF
the subordinate employees in the weigh
ing and other departments were d.
| rectly concerned, and In which the
benenciaries were the American Sugar
Refining Company and others The
frauds consisted In the payment OF
duty on underweights of sugar. The
government has recovered from the
American Sugar Refining Company all
\ that ~ -ts' shows ia 4haue- hecn defraua-
| ed of. The sum was received In full
| of the amount due which might have
been recovered by civil suit against
the beneficiary OF the fraud. but there
was an express reservation in the con-
tract OF settlement by which the settle
ment should not interiors with. or pre-
vent the criminal prosecution of every
one who was found to be subject TO
the same
Criminal prosecutions are now pro-
ceeding against number OF the gov
eminent officers. The treasury de-
partment and the department OF JUS
tico are exerting every effort to dis
cover all the wrongdoers including
the officers and employees OF the com
panies who may have been privy to
the fraud II would seem TO me that
an investigation OF the frauds by con-
gress at present. pending the probing
by the treasury department and the
| department of justice, as proposed
might by giving immunity and other
wise prove an embarrassment in secur-
ing conviction OF the guilty parties.
The Tariff Act.
Two features OF the new tariff act
call for special reference. by virtue
of the clause known as the maximum
and minimum" clause, II is the duty
OF the executive 10 consider the laws
and practices OF other countries with
reference TO the Importation into those
countries OF the products and mer-
chandlse OF the United States. and ~
the executive finds such laws and prac-
tees not to be unduly discriminatory
against the United States, the mini
mum duties provided in the bill are TO
go into force. Unless the president
makes such a finding. then the maxi
mum duties provided In the bill that
is an increase OF 20 per cent. ad valo-
rem over the minimum duties are to
be in force. Fear has been expressed
that this power conferred and duty
imposed on the executive is likely 20
lead to a tariff war. beg to express
the hope and belief that no such result
need be anticipated.
The discretion granted to the execu-
| tive by the terms "unduly discr,rn-
inatory" Is wide. In order TINT the
maximum duty shall be charged against
the imports from a country, II Is neces-
sary that he shall find on the part OF
that country not only determinations
in it's laws or the practice under them
against the trade OF the United States.
but that the determinations found
shall be undue; that Is, without good
and fair reason. I conceive that this