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SM'INLEY'S MESSAGE. What He Recommends to o the Extra Session. $ ti THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES. t e- Urgs Congress to First Provide Fot the Meeting of Governlent Expenses and Then Take Up Other Necessary Legislatlon--Asks That a New Tarid 1311Bill Be Passed. $ W u~mHxorON, March 10.--The follow. tag is the message of President McKin- t i,:. le y in full, which w s sent to the extra ".::session of congress late yesterday after- , noon: To the Congress of the United States: F Regretting the necessity which has re- y quired me to call you together, I feel cl that your assembling in extraordinary 5i session is indispensible because of the si condition in which we find the revenues ai of the government. It is conceded that ol It current expenditures aregreater than Its receipts and that such a condition ol as existed for more than three years: 81 With unlimited means at our command iv wi arwe presenting the remarkable spec- a 'tadle of increasing our public debt 1 y S.borrowing money to meet the ordinary e: S etlays incident upon even an eoonom- 4 teal and prudent administration of the p governmeat. $ !iAss. examination of the subject die- O0 amse this fact in every detail and leads n iervitatly to the conclusion that the e laditlon of tike revenue which allows tl Oi::s unjustifiable and should be correo- ti M.L We find by the reports of the sec- p ttiary of the treasury that the revenues ci S,,r the fisoal year ending June 80, 1892. ic all sources were $425,88,260.22 81 6i 4 the expenditures for all purposes $ l $815,065,8088.56, leaving an excess l~ isoeipts over expenditures of $9.914,- n ý;*.6l6. During that fiscal year $40,570.. n 9~.7.9S was paid upon the public debt, t - W:blbhihad been reduced since March 1, y , 259,076,tt90, and the annual inter- n Scharge decreased $11,684,57t6.6. b .-.Te receipts of the government from si oaroes. during the fiscal year ending n 3n 0 80, IP3.1 .t:?ouuted to $469,874,- n A1an, and it txpenditures to $461.716,- , , UkO4., showing an excess of expendi- h ', s or r receipts of $2.141,674.29. a i:e.8 that time the receipts of no fis :i yesoar and with but few exceptions of t; i0 i month of any fiscal year, have ex .; the expenditures. The receipts o ie govrnmens from all suarces dur Mthe fsctl year endilngr Jase 80, 1894, p o $872.80t.498.20. a-.d its e.pendi- p 0,0*,606758.lS.. :,,:in a deficit, t7 tilri s sincee sheresu n,a,:o. of specie t4 of i$9,808,260.68. hstanding there was a derease 1 989,12t.78 in the ordinary ex of the government as compared b the previous fiscal year, its income is still not s·afoient to provide for its ei tecessitie and the gold reserve in d ry for the redemption of green "as drawn upon to meet them. I i did nota suffice, and the govern- tl hr; tesorted to loans to replenish t S i t 3i89 184, $0,000,0001i bonds iased, and in November following , - abd Ieae of $50,0,000 was ii en oemsy. the sum of $117, a ws realmed by the ale of these a bet the reserve was steadily de oauttIsa Febh8 l.P98, a third I ~arn.* faa PS. The recipt, of the goverument for I the fiscal y,ý:,r ouding June :30, 1895, g' were 1390.37". ;: u~3, and the expendi-. f ture $*43,178.4'ti.48, showing a deficit a of A41,805,-23.18. A further loan of $100,000,000 was negotiated by the gov ernment in February, 1896. and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within J' three years to $6'2,315,400. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, the revenues of the government d' from all sources amounted to $409,475,- t 408.78, while its expenditures were $434,678,654.48, or an oxcees of expendi- B tures over rece2pts of $25,203,2 45.70. In other words, the to;al receipts for the F three fiscal years ending June 80, 1896, were insufficient by $187,811,729.46 to bi meet the total expenditures. Nor has this condition since improved. For the first half of the present fiscal di year the receipts of th, government ex clusive of postal revenue s, were $157, 507,603.76, and its expenditures, exclu sive of postal service, $195,410,000.25, or tt an excess of expenditures over receipts O of $87,902,3906.46. January of this year the receipts ex- t clusive of postal revenues were $24,- t 816,994.05 and the expenditure3 exclus ive of postal service were $80,269.389.29, di a deficit of $5,953,895.24 for the month. In February of this year the receipts exclusive of postal revenues were $24,- of 400,997.88 and expenditures exclusive of postal service $28,796,056.66, a deficit of $4,3595,059.28, or a total deficit of $186,- t 061,580.44 for the three years and eight months ending March 1, 1897. Not only are we without a surplus in the treasury, but with an increase in ly the public debt there has been a corres ponding increase in the annual interest in charge from $22,893,883.20 in 1892, the is lowest of any year since 18692, to $84,- Ia 887,297.80 in 1896, or an increase of $11,493,114 40. It may be urged that even if the reve- , nues of the government were sufficient to d meet its ardinary expenditures during p the past three years the gold reserve 6 would still have been insufficient to meet the demands upon it, and that the bonds would necessarily have been is sued for its protection. Be this as it 0 may, it is clearly manifest without de- n nying or affirming the correctness of such a correction that the debt would a have been decreased in at least the t amount of the deficiency and business a confidence immesurably strengthened is throughout the country. Congress t should promptly correct the existing t condition. Ample revenues must be a supplied not only for the ordinary ex- o penses of the government, but for the prompt payment of liberal pensions, and the liquidation of the principal and in- T terest of the public debt. In raising revenue duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to pre- t serve the home market, so far as possi. ble, to our own produoers, to revive and w increase manufacturers, to relieve and encourage agriculture; to increase our a domestic and foreign trade, and develop I mining and building and to render to labor in every field of useful occupation the liberal wages and adequate rewards to which skill and industry are Justly v entitled. The necessity of the pamage of a tariff law which shall provide ample a revenue need not be further urged. The imperative demand of the hour is the ' promnpt enactment of such a measure, and to this object I earnestly recom- b mend that congress shall make every endeavor. Before other bustneua i. revenue to faithfully administer the government without the contracting of a further debts or the continued disturb ance of our finances. t WILLIAM MCKNLEZ. t TWO AMBASSADORS NAMED. John Hay Goes to Great Britanl and Horaee Porter to France. WASHNSOTON, March 16.-The presi dent has sent to the senate the follow ing nominations: a John Hay, to be ambassador to Great li Britain. r Horace Porter, to be ambassador to s France. Henry White. secretary of the em bassy to Great Britain. Diseussed Hendersom's Senatorship. S WAsHINGTON, March !6.-The senate discussed at some length the right of John A. Henderson to a seat in the sen- L ate from Florida on the appointment of a Governor Bloxhall. Senator Pasco asked that Henderson be sworn in as Senator Call's successor, but Messrs. Chandler. t Lodge and Allen all protested at once that the case should go to the commit- C tee on elections for investigation. Sen ator Hoar, Pasco and Vest joined in a discussion and debated the rights of governors to fill senatorial vacanoeis. After a lengthy debate the credentials of John Henderson as senator from Florida were referred by the senate to the committee on privileges and elec tions without division. Exports ad xaeers. d WasixNorox, March 16.-The month ly statement of exports and imports of merchandise, gold and silver, from and into the United States during February issued by she bureau at statistics as fol lows : Merchandise exported, $79,738,898; merohandise imported, $59,193,868; of which, nearly $33.000,000 were free of duty; gold exported, $886,697; gold im ported, $544,700; silver exported, $4.* 660,362; slTer imported, $762,942. Another Nlearagua C:Oa% Tiietp. WasmauoroN, March t1&,-Secreary of State Sherman met the senate com mittee on foreign relations by his own appointment and was loseeeted with the members of the committee for some time. The principal subject under con. sideration was the Nioaragua oanal. It is understood an attempt will be made t to negotiate another treaty similar to that made by Secretary Preliaghuysea, which was withdrawn at the beginning of Cleveland' first administration. TEXAS LEGISLATURE. The Lead iI Thakes Up the Time er the Memse. AUsrix, March 16.-The feature of I the house yqeterday was debate or the land bill, which was Anally postponed until Friday. It provides fer the set ting aside of 50,000 acres recovered from a railroad companies or other land com- s panies for the use and benefit of a t branch university for colored youths, 60,000 for the governor's mansion, 100, 000 for the orphans' home at Corsicana, and the remainder for common schools. The senate was without a quorum and no business was transasted. ( The following bills have become laws I withot the overnor's signature: I House bill amending the law relating I to the carrying of concealed weapons by knoekmng out the imprisnment fet ieoe 4bi areasing a m ealSient ugaA spateam for Trar ljoay. · House bill amending the city charter of Galveston. House bill amending the law relating to the time and manner of making re turns to the secretary of state or elec tions for presidential electors. For Suffererr In India. OICsAoo, March 16.---The Methodist ministers at their regular weekly meet ing voted the appointment of a com mittee to devise a plan for holding pub lie meetings and securing speakers to raise funds for the relief of the famine suffers in Iudia. THE POPE'S BULL. How the Anugicans Received the Judg ment of the Vicar of Christ. When Peter speaks by the mouth of Leo, the world listens. Even beyond the community of the faithful those who refuse obedience to the apostolic see and soout its authority nevertheless find themselves unable to ignore any impor tant act or judgment of the vicar of Christ. The effect of the recent bull, "Apostolic~e Curs, " on Anglican or ders is an excellent illustration of this. The world at large, as represented by the professedly secular journals, has given it consideration and recognized its value as a judicial decision. "If the bull were a legal opinion, it would be justly described as learned," was the editorial conolusion of one great daily. The religious press representing other denominations than the Anglican has treated it in much the same way, ac POPE LEO IIII. T'lbea bove is a enuine photograph taken |es l the only photograph of the holy fa etý shoe is elevatfon to the pontifical a.- Ctholio world.) knowledging that, starting with the promise of a sacrificing priesthood es tablished by Christ and following Cath olic doctrine and precedent, no other de eision could logioally be reached. But the Anglican reception of the bull has been of a somewhat different sort. After the assertion--constantly re peated with insistent emphasis-that the pope's decision is of no consequence whatsoever, Anglicans being absolutely certain of the genuineness of their or ders, there is the rather paradoxical re salt of an increasing flood of newspaper articles, pamphlets and books intended to refute what his holiness has said. One Anglican writer seems to look upon all this as only a beginning, predict ing that "henceforth, as long as the world lasts, the pope's bull has made it inevitable that every school, college, seminary, class and pulpit in the Angli can communion will be mainly engaged in polemical strife with Rome." To this another Anglican very justly re plies that if such be the case "'Angli canism, as a spiritual force, " will sure ly enter upon a decline, "for no Chris tian body can thrive which cultivates such a spirit as its chief characteristic." -Catholi World.