The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-07

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attention of congress in a special
message"
On the relations of the United
States with the Orient the presi-
dent says:
America in the Far East.
I'm the Far East this govern
ment preserves its policy of sup
porting the principle of equality
of opportunity and scrupulous re-
spect for the integrity of the Chi
nese empire, to which policy are
pledged the interested powers of
both East and West.
Treaty With Japan.
"Our traditional relations with
the Japanese empire continue
cordial as usual. The arrange
ment for a cooperative control
of the immigration of laborers to
the United States has proved to
work satisfactorily. The matter
of a treaty between the United
States and Japan, which is ter
minable in 1912, is already be-
ing studied by both countries.
To Meet Government Debt.
The report of the secretary of
the treasury shows that the ordi-
nary expenditures for the cur
rent year ending June 80, 1910,
will exceed the estimated receipts
by $34,075,620. If to this deficit
is added the sum to be disbursed
lat the Panama canal zone,
amounting to $3S,OOO,O0O, and
$1.O00,000 to be paid on the pub
lie debt the deficit of ordinary
receipts and expenditures will be
increased to a total deficit of
$73,075,620. This deficit, the
secretary proposes to meet by the
proceeds of bonds issued to pay
the cost of constructing the PAN
ANA canal. i approve this pro-
|posal.
Pensions for Government Men.
II am aware that there is a
strong feeling in both houses of
congress and possibly in the coun-
try against the establishment of
civil pensions and that this has
naturally grown out of the heavy
burden of military pensions,
which it has always been the pol
icy of our government to assume;
but 1 am strongly convinced that
no other practical solution of the
difficulty presented by the SUPER
annuatiOn of civil servants can be
found than that of q system of
civil pensions.
Customs Frauds.
II regret to refer to the fact
of the discovery of extensive
frauds in the collection of the
customs revenue at New York
city.
Criminal prosecutions are now
proceedings against number of
the government officers. The
treasury department and the de-
partment of justice are exerting
every effort to discover all the
wrong-doers, including the Off
GERS and employees of the COM
panies who have been privy to
the frauds.
Don't Want Probe.
at would seem to me that an
investigation of the frauds by the
congress at the present, pending
the probing by the treasury de-
partment and the department of
justice, as proposed, might, by
giving immunity and otherwise,
prove an embarrassment in Sc
curing conviction of the guilty
parties.
As to Injunctions.
Recommending that legislation
be adopted to carry out the plat
form pledges with regard to in
functions, the president says:
1.-THE ends of justice will best
be met and the chief cause of COM
plant against ill-considered in
functions without notice will be
avoided by the enactment of a
statute forbidding hereafter the
issuing of any injunction for re-
|straining order, whether tenn
porary or permanent, by any fed
eral court without previous no.
ticc and II reasonable opportunity
to be heard on behalf of the par