The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-12-13
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.

Plans for Reorganization Of the
Army Explained.
FILIPINO BILL CONDEMNED
Chief Executive Declares tho Island
ers Are Far From Ready for Self
ooyernmsnt-RsouIatIon Of Water
Power site Projects Uroed-Pro-
noting Of, Colonel Goethais Recon-
mended. .'t.
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 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 stats
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 state of pre-
paredness for a period of unexampled
PROSPERITY: Manufacturing concerns
are running at their full capacity and
the demand for labor was never 80
constant and growing. The foreign
trade OF the country for this year will
exceed s4.00O,0O0,O 900. while the bal
ance in, our favor-that of the excess
of exports over imports-will exceed
$500. 100000. More than half our ex-
ports are manufactures or partly
manufactured material. while our ex-
ports of farm products. do not show
the same Increase of domestic con-
sumption. It Is a year of bumper
crops; the total money value Of farm
products will exceed $9.500.000, 900.
1t is a year when the bushel or unit
price. of agricultural products has
value Of the entire crop is greater by
ver'I3f. 000. 100000 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 ss63.777.77O. of which
1874. 631 $50 constitute the Panama
canal loan. The Notwithstanding
debt is $37s,301. 2S4.90. including
$346.671.016 of greenbacks. We have
in the treasury $15o.0O0.000 in gold
coin as a reserve against the out
standing greenbacks; and in addition
we have a cash balance In the treas
ury al general fund of 1857. 152, 47s.-
80, 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
economize.. This year presents an ap-
parent exception. The estimate by
the secretary of the treasury of the
ordinary receipts, exclusive Of postal
revenues, for the year ending June
80, 1914, indicates that they will
amount. to 471e.000.000. 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, rs 1892 100000. indicating a
deficit of $22.000000. For the year
ending June &c. 1918, similarly esti-
mated receipts were $667.000.000,
while the total corresponding esti-
mate of expenditures for that year.
submitted through the secretary of
the treasury to. congress-. amounted
to $s56,0O0.000. This shows an in
crease of $76,0o0,0O0 In the estimates
for 1914 over the total estimates Of
1913. This Is due to an increase OF
$25,006,000 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 s32 100000; and
to an increase In the estimates for
expenses of the navy department of
$24,000.000. The estimate for the
navy department for the year 1913
included two battleships. Congress
made provision for only one battle
SHIP and therefore the navy depart
ment has deemed 1t necessary and
proper to make an 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 construe-
ton. IN addition to the natural in
crease In the expenditures for the I'M
oonn1afad ships and the additional
battleship estimated for, the other in
I leases are due to the pay required
for 1000 or more additional enlisted
men in the navy; and to this must be
added the additional cost OF construc-
ton imposed by the change In the
eight-hour law which makes it ap-
plicable to ships built in private ship
yards
With the exceptions Of these three
items, the estimates show reduction
this year below the total estimates for
1918 of more than $5,o0o,000.