Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
MONEY CONDITIONS ARE GOOD
Plans for Reorganization OF the
Army Explained.
FILIPINO BILL CONDEMNED
Chief Executive Declares the Island
ere Are Far From Ready for Self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of Water
Power Site Projects Urged-Pro-
snoting Of Colonel GoethaIs Recon-
mended.


mended.
Washington, Dec. Congress to-
Gay received from President Taft the
second of his messages to the short
session. 1t deals with fiscal, military,
tnsular 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 close
have not developed great speculative
expansion or wide field of new In
westmept, the recovery and progress
made from the depressing conditions
following the panic of 1907 have been
steady and the improvement has been
rlear and easily traced In the stats
tics. The business of the country is
ncw on solid basis. Credits are not
Nnduly extended, and every phase of
the situation seems In q state of pre-
paredness for a period OF unexampled
prosperity. Manufacturing concerns
are running at their full capacity and
she demand for labor was never so
constant and growing. The foreign
trade Of the country for this year will
exceed $4,000 900, 900, while the bal
hnce In our favor-that Of the excess
Of exports over imports-will exceed
S600,000,000 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 viii exceed $9,500000, 900.
II Is 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
over s1,000,000,000 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, 777,77O, Of which
s134,63 $50 constitute the Panama
canal loan. The Notwithstanding
debt is $37S,S01 ,2s4.90, including
R346,671, 016 of greenbacks. We have
IN the treasury s15O,OOO,O0O In gold
ccin as q reserve against the out
standing greenbacks; and in addition
We have a cash balance in the treas
ury as general fund of s167, 152, 47S.-
90, or an increase of $26,e75,552 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 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 $710,000,o00 The sum of
the estimates Of the expenditures for
1hat same year, exclusive OF Panama
canal disbursements and postal dis
bursements payable from postal
revenues, is $780,, 100000, indicating a
deficit OF $22,0O0,O00. For the year
ending June 80, 1918, similarly esti-
mated receipts were 1867 ,000,0 900,
while the total corresponding esti-
mate of expenditures for that year,
submitted through the secretary of
the treasury to congress, amounted
20 656,000,0 900. This shows an In
crease of $76,0O0,OOO In the estimates
Tor 1914 over the total estimates of
1918. This is due to an increase OF
e25,000,0e0 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 $32,500,000; and
10 an increase in the estimates for
expenses Of the navy department Of
ga 200, 900. 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 It necessary and
proper to make an estimate which In
cludea the first years expenditure for
three battleships in addition to the
amount required for work on the un-
completed ships now under construc.
ton. In addition to the natural in.
crease In the expenditures for the IN
completed ships, and the additional
battleship estimated for, the other IN
creases are due to the pay required
Tor 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
efght-hour law which makes It ap
plicable to ships built in private ship
yards.
With the exceptions Of these three
items, the estimates show q reduction
this year below the total estimates FOL
1919 OF more than 5000. 900.