Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-07

sage to Congress. The tarliI, the NC
araguan question, sugar frauds and
white slavery are among the ques'
tions discussed.
"Perhaps the most important ques
ton presented to the administration IS
that of economy in expenditure and
suffciency of revenue, says the Presl'
dent, who discusses the methods
taken to meet the deficiency. The
President declares ii unwise 10 at
tempt further revision of the tariff
until the facts are at hand upon which
such revision can properly be under
taken.
Speaking generally he says the coun'
try is in a high state of prosperity.
He notes the in crease in the cost OF
living, but says the tariff is not the
cause. In these products of the factory
and farm there has been no increase
in the tariff and in many instances a
very considerable reduction, the Presl
dent declares.
In beginning the President says:
"The relations of the United States
with all foreign governments have con
tinued the normal basis of amity and
good understanding and are very gen
orally satisfactory"
President Taft says the Zelaya gov
ernment of Nicaragua has kept Cen
tral America in constant turmoil. II
is unnecessary, he says, ito rehearse
here the sad tale of unspeakable bar
barities and oppression alleged to have
been committed by the Zelayan gov
ernment. Recently two Americans
we're put to death by order of Presi
dent Zelaya himself. They We're OF
ficers in the organized forces of revo
luton, and as such. according to the
modern enlightened practice Of civiliz
ed nations, they were entitled to be
dealt with as prisoners of war He
continues
cat the date when this message il
printed this government has terminal
! ed diplomatic relations with the Zelay;
| government for reasons made public
in a communication to the former Mic
araguan charge d'affaires and is in
| tending to take such further steps a.
NAV be found most consistent with it
dignity, its duty to American inter
ests and its moral obligations to Cen
| tral America and to the civilization
, 1t may be necessary for me to brin$
| this subject to the attention of the
Congress in a special message"
| Concerning the far east, the Presi
/ dent says this government preserves
unchanged its policy of supporting th'
! "open door" and adds:
Our traditional relations with th'
japanese empire continues cordial a
usual. The arrangement of 1908 TO
a cooperative control of the comin|
of laborers to the United States ha
proved to work satisfactorily"
Reorganization of the department o
state upon modern lines in furtheranc
of our foreign trades of American in
terests abroad is recommended.
Perhaps" continues the message
"the most important question present
ed to this administration is that O
economy in expenditures and sufficieI
cy or revenue.
THE report of the secretary show
that the ordinary expenditures for tn
current fiscal year ending June 81
1910, will exceed the receipts by $34
OTIS 5,G20. If to this deficit is added tn
| sum to be disbursed for the Panam
canal amounting to $3S,000,000 and 81
100000 to be paid on the public deb
the deficit of ordinary receipts and e1
penditures will be increased to a tota
| deficit of $73,075,6 $50. This deficit tn
secretary proposes to meet by the pre-
ceeds of bonds issued to pay the cos
of constructing the Panama canal.
approve this proposal"
The President says the cost of eng
neering and construction of the cana
which will be completed, January
1915, will be 1927 100000, instead {
s139, ,705 200, as originally estimated
Other expenses increase the cost b
$75, ,435 900 to total of $685. 900.
'Tn order to avoid a deficit for tn
ensuing fiscal year | directed tn
heads of departments in the prepari
ton of their estimates to make thel
as low as possible consistent with in
perative governmental necessity. Th
result has been as am advised by tn
secretary of the treasury, that the e
Inmates for the expenses of the goverl
ment for the next fiscal year endin
June 80, 1911 are less than the appr
priations for this current fiscal yea
y by $32,S1S,000. So far as the secretar
of the treasury is able to form a judi
| ment as to future income and compal
f it with the expenditures for the me-
fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, an
excluding payments on account of tt
t Panama canal, which will doubtle:
t be taken by bonds, there will be su
! plus of $35,931, 900.
''In the present estimates the neet
of the departments and of the COVER
j. ment have been cut to the quick, s
tn snaak and any assumntiOn nv Co