The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-09
Resume of the Work of the Various Departments of the Government Is
 Presented to Congress.
NEED OF ECONOMY POINTED OUT
Has Little 10 Say About the Tariff Work on Panama Canal Is Reviewed. Change in Anti Trust Laws---I Interstate
 Commerce Laws Are Discussed.

each department chief to reduce the estimated cost of his department for the ensuing fiscal year ending June 30, 1912. l say this in order that con gress may understand that these estf- mates thus made present the smallest sum which will maintain the depart ments, bureaus and offices of the gov ernment and meet it's other obliga- tions under existing law, and that a cut of these estimates would result in embarrassing the executive branch of the government in the performance of its duties. This remark does not apply to the river and harbor esti- mates, except to those for expenses of maintenance and the meeting of obli- cations under authorized contracts. nor does it apply to the public build ing bill nor to the navy building pro gram. Of course. as to these con gress could withhold any part or all of the estimates for them without in- terfering with the discharge of the or dInary obligations of these functions of it's departments, bureaus and of fees.
 The final estimates for the year ending June 30, 1912. as they have been sent to the treasury on Novem- Der 29 of this year, for the ordinary expenses of the government, including those for public buildings, rivers and harbors, and the navy building pro- gram, amount to $63O, O,494 ,013.12. This is $52,964 ,SS7.36 less than the ap- propriations for the fiscal year end ing June 30 1911. It is $16.S83.f53.44 less than the total estimates. includ- ing supplemental estimates submitted to congress by the treasury for the year 1911, and is $5.574 659.39 less than the original estimates submitted i by the treasury for 1911.
 These ffugres do not include the appropriations for the Panama canal, the policy in respect to which ought to be, and is, to spend as much each 1 year as can be economically and eff 1 fectively expended in order to com. ! plete the canal as promptly as possi- ble, and therefore, the ordinary mo- tive for cutting down the expense of the government does not apply to ap- propriations for this purpose.
 Against the estimates of expendi- lures, $640,494 ,01312, we have estimat- ed receipts for next year $6SO, ,000, 900, making a probable surplus of ordinary receipts over ordinary expenditures of about $50,O00,000, or taking into ac- count the estimates for the Panama canal, which are $56,92O,847. and which will ultimately be paid in bonds. It will leave a deficit for the next year of about $7,0OO,O0O, if congress shall conclude to fortify the canal"
 The Tariff.
 The President devotes but little space to the subject of the tariff law, and of it he says:
 The schedules of the rates of duty In the Payne tariff act have been sub l jected to a great deal of criticism, l some of it just, more of it unfounded and to much misrepresentation. The act was adopted in pursuance of a declaration by the party which is re- sponsible for it that customs bill | should be a tariff for the protection of home industries, the measure of the protection to be the difference be tween the cost of producing the i'm ported article abroad and the cost of | producing it at home, together with such addition to that difference as might give a reasonable profit to the home producer. The basis for the criticism of this tariff is that in re- spect to number of the schedules the declared measure was not follow ed, but higher difference retained or inserted by way of undue discrimina- tfon In favor Of certain industries and manufactures. Little, if any. of the criticism of the tariff has been direct. ed against the protective principle above stated; but the main body of the criticism has been based on the attempt to conform to the measure of protection was not honestly and sin. cerely adhered to-"
 The Tariff Board.
 The president refers to the appoint. ment of board of experts to investi- gate the cost of production of various articles included in the schedules of the tariff, and says:
 The tariff board thus appointed and authorized has been diligent in preparing itself for the necessary in. vestigations. The hope of those who have advocated the use of this hoard for tariff purposes is that the question Of the rate of duty imposed shall become more of g business question and less of political question. to be ascertained by experts of long train. Ing and accurate knowledge. The : halt in business and the shock to busi.