New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-12-07

mum provisions OF the tarln act OF
August, 1909, has proved mutually
beneficial. 1t justi6es further efforts
for the REIMBURSEMENT of the CONNER
cial relations of the two countries SO
that their commerce may follow the
channels natural to contiguous coun-
tries and be commensurate with the
steady expansion of trade and indus
try on both sides of the boundary line.
The Department Of State.
ALI tariff negotiations, so vital to
our commerce and industry, and the
duty of jealousy guarding the equita-
BILE and just treatment of our products,
capital and industry abroad deyolve
upon the department of state.
The efforts of that department to
secure for citizens of the United States
equal opportunities in the markets of
the world and to expand American
commerce have been most successful
The volume of business obtained in
new fields of competition and upon
new lines is already very great, and
congress is urged to continue to sup
port the department of state in it's en-
deavors for further trade expansion.
An instrumentality indispensable to
the unhampered and natural develop
ment of American commerce is mer-
chant marine. All maritime and COM
mercial nations recognize the impor-
lance of this factor. The greatest
commercial nations, our competitors,
jealousy foster their merchant marine.
l alluded to this most important
subject in my last annual message It
has often been before you, and l need
not recapitulate the reasons for it's
recommendation. Unless prompt &C
ton be taken the completion of the
Panama canal will find this the only
great commercial nation unable to
avail in international maritime bust.
ness Of this great contribution to the
means of the worlds commercial inter-
course.
For many reasons I cannot too
strongly urge upon congress the pass.
age of measure by mail subsidy or
other subvention adequate to guaran-
tee the establishment and rapid devel.
opment of an American merchant ma
rine, the restoration of the American
flag to it's ancient place upon the seas.
Estimates for Next Years Expenses
The final estimates for the year end
ing June 80, 1912, as they have been
sent to the treasury on Nov 20 of this
year for the ordinary expenses of the
government, including those for pub
lie buildings, rivers and harbors and
the navy building program, amount to
$3.50, 494 ,013.12. This is $52,964,887.3 6
less than the appropriations for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1911. 1t is
$16,SS3,1 1884 less than the total esti
mates, including supplemental est
mates submitted to congress by the
treasury for the year 1911, and is S.,
574,659.39 les than the original esti
mates submitted by the treasury for
1911. Es
These figures do not include the ap
preparations for the Panama canal, the
policy in respect to which ought to be
and is to spend as much each year as
can be economically and effectively ex
pended in order to complete the canal
as promptly as possible, and there
fore the ordinary motive for cutting
does not apply to appropriations for
this purpose 1t will be noted that the
estimates for the Panama canal for
the ensuing year are more than $36.
100000, an increase of $20,000.000
over the amount appropriated for this
year, difference due to the fact that
the estimates for 1912 include some
thing over $19,O0O,OOO for the fortified
ton of the canal
Against the estimates of expendi
lures, $630,494,O13.12, we have esti
mated receipts for next year $3.50,
100000, making probable surplus OF
ordinary receipts over ordinary ex
penditures of about s50,O00,000, or
taking into account the estimates fol-
the Panama canal, which are $56,920,
paid in bonds, it will leave deficit
for the next year of about 100000
if congress shall conclude to fortify the
canal. The cost of the Notifications
is about $19,000,0O0. Should there be
no appropriations this year for fortifi
cations then there would be, even in
Guiding the Panama canal appropria
ton, a surplus of about $12,OOO,0OG.
It is not essential to the preventing
OF smuggling that customs districts
should be increased in number. The
violation OF the customs laws can be
quite as easily prevented and much
more economically by the revenue cut
ter service and by the use of the spe
cial agent travelling force of the treas