The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-08
IA. FLORIDA WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER s. 1909.

ensuing fiscal year, directed the
heads OF departments in the prepare
ton of their estimates to make them
I as low as possibly consistent with i'm
! peTative governmental necessity. The
/ result has ben, 1 am advised by the
secretary OF the treasury, that the esti-
mates of the expenses of the govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June
! 90, 1o11-that IS, for the next fiscal
! year-are loss by So, 663 900 than the
| total of appropriations for the current
t fiscal year, and less by s94, 100000 than
| the estimates for that year. So far
| as the secretary of the treasury Is able
| to form a judgment as to future in
| come, and compare it with the ex-
| penditures for the next fiscal year
! ending June 30, 1911, including the
payment on account of the Panama
! canal and the public debt. there viii
/ be no deficit in the year ending June
/ 80, 49,. but a small surplus of S7I2,-
| O0O"
The president IS not very specific,
save n one credftabIe instance. as to
/ the means he intends to employ to
chop the expenses of the next fiscal
year in order to start the 1911-12 books
with that small surplus of SIP. 600"
He is going to swing the axe in the
army and navy departments, where
new projects viii be wiped out, at
least for the present, and all progress
in military matters suspended for the
period OF one year. ResultantIy, We
may not expect to see the whole navy
of the United States assembled in
front nF I arIv hr
1910. as it was in front of Oyster
Bay in the summer of 1907. nor viii
there be another costly JOY sail of a
battleship feet around the world. So
far so good!
The president is Ienient. if anything.
with the men manifestIy responsible
fOr the sugaT-weighing frauds by which
the governments custom house at New
York was annually beaten out Of
double millions. He regrets" to re
fer 10 the discovery of gigantic frauds
that benefited the American Sugar
Refining company aud others. He has
an idea, the sugar paragraph in his
message would lead one to ...y.. una
the government has recovered from
the Havemeyer trust all the money
which the latter, by unGerw eighing,
succeeded in grabbing from the gov
eminent. He thinks" the treasury
department and the department of
justice must eventually get the chiefs
and the subordinate5 among this great
gang of sugar thieves-but of course
it won't do in a dignifiad presidential /
message 10 call EN- sugar thieves. /
How short and sweet.
The president thinks the navy is
Just about adequate the way it stands /
now. Indeed, he incIine5 to the View I
that some Of our coast defences are !
If anything a bit more complicated !
and elaborate than these DAYS CT all /
around peace, sweet potatoes and pcs
sum require. He thinks Chesapeake /.
bay. on the straight channel 20 Wash
inEton, ought 20 b. better protected. .
He says nothing about the Gulf de- +.
fences aud navy yards. We had hoped
that he would. And we had hoped.
too, that he would realize that while
were being cut a southern
yards they were being padded almost
to the bursting point at Northern
yards.
The president earnestly trusts"
that the meaningless and pue-ile plank
about injunctiOns that crept into the
Chicago pIa-form--he plank contain
ms those remarkably satisfactory
words tile Republican party viii mp
0old at all times rhe authority and in
tegrlJy Of the courts. both state an (.
and viii ever insist that their
powers 10 enforce their process and TO
protect life liberty and properly shall /
be preserved iEv.oiate-'-may 1a forti-I
lied by appropriate legislation.
We are surprised at this utteranCs
on the part Of man who was q sue
eessful p-aotiCiuE lawyer for many ,
years before his elevation 70 state
NJ federal bench. and who At one ,
lime stood very close 10 the ermine Of
a supreme court justice Of the United r
States We had deIuded ourselves all {
long with the notion that all good t