The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-12-11

the meantime, he declared, every le-
gal obstacle standing in the way vi
the building, purchase and Ameri-
can registration of ships should be
removed.
The president told congress that
proposals would be made during the
coming session for the purchase or
construction of ships to be owned
and directed by the government.
The measure, he said, would be SIM
liar to that submitted to the last
congress-, but modified in some es-
sential particulars.
New Taxes
In outlining the financial condi-
ton of the government, the presi-
dent followed closely the statement
recently given out by Secretary Nc
AdOO. He said that the additional
evenu required to carry out the
program of military and naval prep
aratiOn would be $3,S0O,000 for the
fiscal year 1917; that if the pres
ent taxes were continued through
out this year and the next there
! would be a balance in the treasury
o. about $4,000, 600 at the end of
he present fiscal year and a defic-
1t at the end of the next year of
some $4,000, 900, reckoning in
$4,000, 5000 for deficiency appro-
%priations.
Proposing that the new bills
should be paid by internal taxation,
the president suggested that by low
ering the present limits of income
exemption, income taxes would
Yield sums sufficient to balance the
books of the treasury at the end
of the fiscal year 1917 without any
where making the burden
ably heavy. He estimated Ina. a
line and naptha would yield $10,-
600 900; a tax of SO cents per horse
power on automobiles and internal
explosion engines, $4,000, 900; q
stamp tax on bank checks, probably
$4,000, 900; and a tax of 25 cents
pei tOh ou ldUil CdlCu HUI IL oLC'.t
probably $4,000, 900.
Gravest Threat at Home
The president said there was rea-
sOOn to hope that no question in
controversy between this and other
governments would lead to any seri-
Gus breach of amicable relations,
and that he was sorry to say that
the gravest threats against nation
al peace and safety had been ut :
tered within the country's own Dor
der.
There are citizens of the United
States, l blush to admit" he declaI-
ed, born under other flags but
welcomed under our generous nat
uraliZation laws to the full freedom
! and opportunity of America, who
have poured the poison of disloyal-
ty into the very arteries of our ia
tional life; who have sought to bring
the authority and good name of our
government into contempt, to de-
stroy our industries wherever they
thought it effective for their vindic-
tive purposes, to strike at them and
to debase our politics to the uses of
foreign intrigue"
No federal laws exist to- meet
this situation, said Mr.. Wilson, be-
cause such a thing would have been
deemed incredible in the past. "Such
creatures of passion, disloyalty and
anarchy must be crushed out. They
are not many but they are infinite
ly malignent and the hand of our
power should close owe them at
once"
Turning again to military ques-
tions, the president said he might
find it advisable to call into sys-
tematic consultation with the direct
ing officers of the army and navy,
men of recognized ability who are IA
miliar. for example, with the trans
~portation facilities of the country
and therefore competent to advise
how they may be co-~ordinated wien
the need arises, those who a sug-
eest the best a to bring about
prompt cooperation among the
manufacturers. and those wh)
could assist to bring the technical
skill of the country to the aid of