Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

accordance with the convention of
FEBRUARY s, 1907, has proceeded in an
u~neventful and satisfactory manner.
Many years age diplomatic interview
Ilon became necessary to the prOtec-
ton of the interest in the American
claim of Alsop and company against
the government of Chile. The govern
ment OF Chile had frequently admitted
obligation in the ease and had prom
lSed TINS government to settle it. There
had been two abortive attempts to do
SO through arbitral commissions, which
failed through lack of Jurisdiction.
Now, happily, as the result of the re-
cent diplomatic negotiations, the gov
ernments Of the United States and of
Chile, actuated by the sincere desire
to free from any strain those cordial
and friendly relations upon which boil
set such store, have agreed by u pro-
tocol to submit the controversy to
dotinitivc settlement by His Britannia
Majesty, Edward VII.
The N~icaraguan Difficulty.
Since the Washington conventions
of 1907 were communicated to the gov
of the United States as n con-
SultlnS and advising party, this gov
has been almost continuous
ly called upon by one or another, and
in turn by all of the five Central Amer
lean republics, to exert itself for the
maintenance of the conventions. Near
ly every complaint has been against
the Zelaya government of Nicaragua,
which has kept Central America in
constant tension or turmoil. The re-
sponses made to the representations of
Central American republics, as due
from the United States on account of
its relation to the Washington conven-
tons, have been at all times cOnserVa-
tive and have avoided, so far as pos
Slble, any semblance of Interference,
although it is very apparent that the
considerations of geographic proximity
to the Canal o n and of the very sub
tantia American interests in Central
America give to the United States q
special position in the zone of these
republics and the Caribbean Sea.
I need not rehearse here the patient
efforts of this government to promote
peace and welfare mon these repub-
lies. efforts which are fully appreciated
by the majority of them who are loyal
to their true interests. 1t would be no
less unnecessary to rehearse here the
sad tale of u~nspeakable barbarities and
oppression alleged to have been com
mitted by the Zelaya government. Re-
Gently two Americans were put to
death by order of President Zelaya
himself. They We're officers in the or
ganized forces of a revolution which
had continued many weeks and was in
control of about half of the republic,
and as such, according to the modern
enlightened practice of civilized ma
tons, they were entitled to be dealt
with as prisoners Of war.
AT the date when this message is
printed his government has terminal
ed diplomatic relations with the Zelaya
government, for reasons made public
in a communication to the former
Nicaraguan charge d~'affaireS, and is
intending to take such future steps as
may be found most consistent with its
dignity, it's duty to American interests
and it's moral obligations to Central
America and to civilization. It may
be necessary for me to bring this sub
iect to the attention of the Congress
in a special message.
The International Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics has carried on an i'm
p~ortant and increasing work during
the last year. In the exercise of its
peculiar functions as an international
agency, maintained by all the Ameri-
can republics for the development of
Pan-American and friend
ship, it has accomplished a great prac-
teal good which could be done in the
same way Wy no i"Hi"i'ral ~h"0a~~0o~t
or bureau Of ore Government. ard &c
therefore deserving nf your !i,er4'
support. The Tlot that il is abort. to
enter a new building, erected through
the munificcnce of an American phi
lanthropiSt and the contribution of all
the American nations, where both it's
efficiency of administration and ex-
pense of maintenance will naturally be
much augmented, further entities it
to special consideration.
Relations In the Far East.
In the Far East his government
preserved unchanged it's policy of sup
porting the principle of equality of OPP
p%ortunity and scrupulous respect for
the integrity of the Chinese Empire, to
which policy are pledged the interested
powers of both east and west.
Our traditional relations with the
.JapaneSe empire continue cordial as
usual. AS the representative of Japan,
his imperial highness Prince Kuni Wis
tied the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
The recent visit of a delegation of
prominent business men as guests of
the chambers of commerce Of the Pa
cifc slope, whose representatives had
been so agreeably received in Japan,
will doubtless contribute to the grow
ing trade across the Pacific, as we'll
as to that mutual understanding which
leads to mutual appreciation.
Expenditures and Revenues.
Perhaps the most important question
presented to the administration is that on
economy in expenditures and sufficiency
of revenue. The deficit of the last fiscal
year, and the certain deficit of the cur
rent year, prompted Congress to throw
a greater responsibility on the executive
and the secretary of the treasury than
had heretofore been declared by statute.
This declaration imposes upon the sec
rotary of the treasury the duty of as
sembling all the estimate of the eXecu-
tive departments bureaus, and offices, of
the expenditures necessary in the ensuing
fiscal year. and of making an estimate of
the revenues of the government for the
same period and if a probable deficit is
thus shown. it is made the duty of the
President to recommend the method by
which such deficit can be met.
The report OF the secretary shows that
the ordinary expenditure for the current
fiscal year ending June 80, 1910, will ex-
coed the estimated receipts by S3i.015.62O.
If to this deficit is added the sum to be
disbursed for the Panama canal. mount
paid on the public debt. the deficit of or
binary receipts and expenditures will be
increased to a total deficit of $73,0I5,-
$40. This deficit the secretary proposes
to meet by the proceeds of bonds issued
to pay the cost of constructing the PAN
anna canal. | approve this PROPOSAL.
The policy of paying for the conStruc-
ton of the Panama canal. not out of cur
rent revenue. but by bond issues, was
adopted in the Spooner act of 1902 and
there seems to be no good reason for
departing from the principle by which a
of the canal shall fall upon our posterity
who are to enjoy it: and there is all
the more reason for this view because
the actual cost to date of the canal, which
is now half done and which will be COM
pleted Jan. /. 1915, shows that the cost
$29T,766,000, instead of $139, 705, zoo. as
originally estimated. In addition TO engi-
neering and construction, the other eN-
penses, including sanitation and govern