Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-12
PRESIDENT TAFT
SUBMITS SECOND
OF HIS MESSAGES
Il Deals With Fiscal. Military,
lnsular and Judicial Affairs
of Nation.
MONEY CONDITIONS ARE GOOD
Plans for Reorganization Of the
Army Explained.
FILIPINO BILL CONDEMNED

FILIPINO BILL CONDEMNED
Chief Executive Declares the Island
ere Are Far From Ready for Self
Government-Regulation Of Water
Power Site Projects urged-Pro-
noting Of Colonel ooethaIs Recon-
mended.
Washington, Dec. 6.-Congress to-
day received from President Taft the
second Of his messages to the short
session. 1t deals with fiscal, military,
insular and judicial affairs and In
part is as follows:
The condition of the country with
reference to. business could hardly be
better. While the four years Of the
administration now drawing to a close
have not developed great speculative
expansion or a wide field Of new In
vestment, the recovery and progress
made from the depressing conditions
following the panic Of 1907 have been
steady and the improvement has been
clear and easily traced in the statis-
tics. The business Of the country is
now on a solid basis. Credits are not
unduly extended, and every phase of
the situation seems in a state Of pre-
~paredness for a period Of unexampled
prosperity, Manufacturing oncerns
are running at their full capacity and
the demand for labor was never SO
constant and growing. The foreign
trade Of the country for this year will
exceed $4,000, 000, 900, while the bal
ance in our favor-that of the excess
Of exports over imports-will exceed
$500, 000, 900. More than half our ex-
ports r manufactures or partly
manufactured material, while our ex.
ports Of farm products do not show
the same increase Of domestic con
sumption. It is q year of bumper
crops; the total money value Of farm
products will exceed 50, $780, 900, 900.
1t is a year when the bushel or unit
price Of agricultural products has
gradually fallen, and yet the total
value of the entire crop is greater by
9 $1,000, 900, 600 than we have
known In our history.
Condition Of the Treasury.
The condition of the treasury is
very satisfactory. The total interest
bearing debt is 1868, 777,770, Of which
1874, 631,980 constitute the Panama
canal loan. The non-interest bearing
debt is $S7S,3 O1, 2S4.s0, including
$346,671,016 of ~greenbacks. We have
In the treasury $~150.000,000 In gold
coin rs a reserve against the out
standing greenbacks; and in addition
we have a cash balance in the treas
ury as a general fund of $167, 152,47S.-
SO, or an increase of $26, 975. 552 over
the general fund last year.
Receipts and Expenditures.
For three years the expenditures
Of the government have decreased
under the influence Of an effort to
economic. This year presents an APP
parent exception. The estimate by
The secretary of the treasury of the
ordinary receipts, exclusive of postal
revenues, for the year ending June
30, 1914, indicates that they will
amount to $710, 100000. The sum Of
the estimates Of the expenditures for
that same year, exclusive Of Panama
canal disbursements and postal dis
bursements payable from postal
revenues, is $732, 600, 900, indicating a
deficit Of $22, 000, 900. For the year
ending June 80, 1918, similarly esti-
mated receipts were 1857, 900, 900,
while the total corresponding esti-
mate Of expenditures for that year,
submitted through the secretary Of
the treasury to congress, amounted
10 $3.50, 100000. This shows an in
crease of $76,000,0O0 in the estimates
Tor 1914 over the total estimates Of
1913. This Is due to an increase Of
$25, 100000 in the estimate for rivers
and harbors for the next year on
projects and surveys authorized by
congress; to an increase under the
new pension bill Of $40, 800, 600; and
to an increase in the estimates for
expenses Of the navy department Of
$24,000,0 900. The estimate for the
navy department for the year 1918
included two battleships. Congress
made provision for only one battle
ship, and therefore the navy depart
tment has deemed 1t necessary and
proper to make al estimate which In
cludes the first years expenditure for
three battleships In addition to the
amount required for work on the I'M
completed ships now under construc-
ton. In addition to the natural in
crease In the expenditures for the I'm
completed ships, and the additional
battleship estimated for, the other In
creases are due to the pay required
Tor 1000 or more additional enlisted
mon in the navy; and to this must be
added the additional cost Of construc-
tion imposed by the change in the
eight-hour law which makes 1t ap-
plicable to ships built in private ship
yards.
With the exceptions of these three
items, the estimatessshow a reduction
This year below the total estimates for
1913 OF more than $4,000, 900.