THE NEWS.
Col. John Ryan, who fought with Samu
Houston for the independ nee of Texas, died
a pauper in the City H spital in Kausas
City —Tio tall of siiver his had a very deo-
pressing eect in to silver d striets ot Color
ado aud Neval, and disast ous «ffocts
eity of coal cone irom a! paris of South
Dakot , North rn Nebraska ad Western
Towa, as a rosu t of the viizard that
over the Northw st. Ther is a scarcity ie
the hands of dele 8 tht in many
amounts to no supply at all. Dealers cha go
the railroads wih all the respon-ibiii.y,
saying tha! coal ordered ty them
fiscated en route by the railroads
in their engines, the railroad sup: ly not be
ing sufficient to furnish motive power for the
swept
Cases
wau cons
and used
way has been attache! in Rockland, Me
for $£3:5,0.0, it is supposed for the state tar,
as it is fu htigation, —- MeD m
Jerome 8,
ton, —Threo [taliaus we: e killed near Now
Orleans. According to the statement made
by one before death, it
work of the Mafia
Scephen Hite, Ne'son
Loawis were exccutad in Loui-vitle, Ky, for
murder. -—A young girl saved the Southorn
Pacific passenger trea from destrac tion near
Grant's Pass, Oregon, wreckers having taken
a guard rail from the t
The whipping post and pillory in Wi'ming
ton bas two victims, ~—Thomas Heuderson
Boyd was shot in Seattle by his wi e bec use
secording to her explanation, he had ceased
80 love her.——G. W, Kinzer, azed seventy
years, who recently came to Philadelp Ia
from Calilornia to superiotend the con truc-
tion of machinery for a
that stite, of which he was the orzenizer,
was seizad with hemorrhage of thy lungs
whilo seated in the office of the company
that was bui ding his macainery. He died
before medical ail cruld be summoned, ~——
Bucco- trerer Elward Rico was arrested in
Chicago just as he was about to lead a vie
sim to hi office, —Piano-forte workers are
agitating the .orma’ ion of & n tional union,
James Morris, who is eighty years old,
was married in Frerport, L. I, Mra
Phoebe 8 mpson, a youthfu! brideof seventy,
A verdict for £3,507 wes given in Sjra-
cuse against De. Jobin G a mag
netic healer. — Fire testroyad the door aud
gach factory cf the Hofner Lothmer Come
pany, a large twostory brick building, iu
St. Louis, Wate: from tbe engines de
#troye i prac ically the contents of a lage
warvhouse adjoining. Tho loss $100, 000,
fairly well insured. —— Moris Baer, a Ia
borer in ths rumbling department of the
Ringer sewingima: bine factory, in E habeth
N. J. was adjusting a belt when bis cloth,
ing was caught in the machin-ry. He was
whirled vioun: ly esoms4 the shaft and his
body mang ed in a horrible manner, boing
pearly torn to pieces. He died instantly,
Matthew A h on was arrest~d in Jar
wille Wis. on the cherze ¢f merderin: his
aunt, Mrs D.niel Stone, in whose death be
ras interested. — Fire which started at mil.
“ight destroyed tte Beaumont Company's
i'lapd B avkenbule:'s warehouss and mil
T Zanesville, 0. Loss is $50.00), with 820.-
suren ¢. ‘lbere was a large stock of fur-
iturein the war house, which was destroyed
—E Iward Hallioger, colored, the mars
r of hi. mitre 5s, was sentenced in the Hud
son county court-house, N. J,
on Decamber 22. ——A sma | fire broke out
in the bas~ment of the Frring Women's
Home, in Chicago, and in the panic that fol-
lowelam ng the twelve of tie
sixty eoien girls in the institution escaped.
we A gale in the green-house of A bert Fox,
in Chica .0, was brokea open and about $1,000
fz cash stole 1.
Fox, who wes saviag i: for a European trip.
wee Char 03 F Evare, mayor of Reading for
three teras—{rom 1573 to 18. and former.
I 3
is suspected to Le the
-Den is McCarthy,
Grant Thomas and
restle,
+ wie
BLO0K
company in
to
Morrow,
is
to be bange |
nm ates,
The mo. ey be ouged to Mrs,
prominent in Ee; ublican county and state
politic, » mm mber of thy Berks lar, and
years ago a pewspapor worker in this city,
was found dead i: his bedroom from heart
disease. Ho was a'out fifty years old —
John Koccis, who wes fuuad guilty a few
days ago o ki ling Mary Magolis, on July
th, was en «nced by Judge Sculder in hs
Mere r County Court, in Trenton, N. J, to
be hangel on F.bruary 10, 1:03, Counsel
for the condemned man will appeal to tha
chance lor for a writ of error,
The failure is anrounced (f LL. & XN, Wik
cinski, of Yazoo, Mie, for $4 00,00) ——W,
€. Bauers, a Fre ch creole, now in D aver
says be belonged to the Mafia at the time
Chief Hennessy, of New Orle ins, was shot.
ing Works, cffers 10 mak bet er silver dol.
jars for ninety cents thin those now in use,
at the Com’ erland Glass Works in Bridge.
ton. N. J, isa mas of ruins, and the work
lives,
fifty feet. Two biicklayer — Amos Bharp
and Waite B .nd-— were working at the top
when the fo ndation began to sett a
beard the cricking no se sand rushed down
the ladder, just reaching the ground as the
struciure swayed to and fro and thn the
oral workmen at the bottom of the stack
tramp ssutited asd murdered
Bryastat Je 1 co, Tenn. and was soon after
Jynched,
‘Fhe mystorions di appearance last Febru.
ary of Robert Hankin, a wealthy stock raiser
of Monmouth Ii}, basat Inst Leen accounted
& tran on the Cheago,
Lidivoke side. Dan Water , a votorious tough
was areosted for complucity in the murder.
me, big blag s nearly wipsd out the town
of Manchist vr, N, H. Lose about $110,000,
The tow i has no fire depariment — HK ire.
Pore, in Now York. Ha was a commi sion
merchant ot 136 Pearl street. He died in a
Sow mivutes. Norea-on isinown for the
deed. He was a Cabin, thirty six years of
mge. Holived with his wie at the Et
Rewo.—~Fire destroyed the building in
New York occupied by Boorum & Pearce,
‘bank book miaoufactu ers, the I idustrial
Printing and Bind ng Company sod Frank
BR. Walker, Loss aout $10,000, cove: od by
: Pe Tv Besemer ra'l m li of the
Bothiehem Iron Company shut down ou ae
count of Jack of orders ~M, C. Kayser, a
reaithy Atlaniian, who was quite il, gave
900 to the Giaorgiy Baptist Orphna mw,
THE MESSAGE
‘President Harrison on the State
of the Nation.
a
“THE WORK OF FOUR YEARS.
Farting Disoussion of Important
Public Questions,
Pensions, Flecotions and the Treas.
ury—New Mail Subsidies Urged —
Also Continued Work on the New
Navy—Chiet Accomplishments of
the Departments,
To the Senate and House of Represantalives,
In submitting my annual message to Cou.
gress I have great satisfaction in bein able
to say that the general contitions affecting
the commercial ani fndu trial interssts of
the United States ars in the highest dezrae
favorable. A comparison of ths existing
conditions with thoss of the most favored
feria in the history of the country will, [
relieve, show that so hizh a degree of pros
perity and so gensrala diffusion of the con
forts of life were never belors enjoyed by
our people.
The total wealt's of ths conntry in
was $10 150 618 06%,
158)
In 15890 it amounted to
$62,610,000,000, an increase of 287 per cont.
Fue total mileage of railways in the
United Rtates In 184) was 31.033: ia 182) is
was 167.741, an increase of #48 per cent.
ant it is estimated that there will be about
4000 miles of tract added by the close of tae
year 1802,
CENSUS FIGURES,
The official returns of the Meventh Cen-
sus and those of the Tonth Census for
leading cities furnish the basis for the fol
lowing comparisons:
In i580 the casita: invested
turing was 31.332 830 670,
In 1890 the capital investad
turing was £2,900 705 884,
In 188) the number
* 5
il ONS
i
i
in manufac-
in manulac~
’
of employes was
In 130) the number of employes wis
2,951,184 :
In 18% the
——
$i,
In 1590 the
wazes earns | were $501 085, -
wages earned were $1,221,17),-
454
In 188) ths valu: of the projust was $2.
579,500 ;
In 1890 the va us of
$60,080, %37T.
1am mformed by the Superintendent of
the Census that the omission of certain in-
dustries in 1830, which ware inciuiled in
1897, aceounts in part for the remarkabls
increase thus shown, jut, after making
»t
i:
prolust was 8, -
deducting the returns for all iatersats not
inciuded wo the Census of 1881, thers remain
in the reports from these sevanty
an increases in the capital em
$1.532.74%.68 4; inthe valu» of the pro
of £3,024, 236,100; in wages earned of $877.
$5.00, and in the number of wage earaers
employed 830,000. The wage-sarnings
pot o show an increased acerogate, bus
an increase por capita from $356 in 1580 to
$547 io 19) or 41.71 pir cent.
The new industrial plants establishald sinea
Osteber 6, 1890, and up to October 22, 1637,
as partialiy renortad in the American Econo-
mist, number 343 and the extension of ex-
sting plants, I'S; the new cavital invested
amounts to £40,440 05°, the number of
additional employes to 3
The Textile World, for Ju y. 1802 s'ates
that during the first six the pros
ent calendar year 135 new factories wer
built, of which 40 are cotton mill
ting n woolen mils
4 push midis and 2 loen mills i
ton mis 21 bave been built in the South
ern Stater. Mr. A. B. Sheprerson, of the New
York Cotton Exchange, estimates the num
ber of working spindles in the United
States on Hptember 1, 1801 at 15.20.00,
an increase of 660.0X0 over thy year L
The consumption of by Amwricwn
mille in 159. was 2333.00 bales and in 1532
4.554. 000 bales, an inersasy of 185 007 bales,
From year 1530 to 1882, inclasivs,
thers has been an increase in the consump.
tion of cotton in Europe of 91 per emt.
. while daring the same periol th) incraass
conaumption in thy United States has b
about 15] por cant,
Toe report of Ira Ayer, special azento
the Treasury Department, shows that at the
date of Septenbor J, 195) thera were
thirty-two companies manuafacturiag tin
acd terne piate in the United States and
| fourteen companiss Luil llog new woris for
| such manufacture, The estimated inv st.
| moot in Luildings and p ants at the eos of
| the ical year, June 3), 1848 if existing con
ditions were to be comntinusd, was #500 000,
and the estimated rate of prodatios 200, -
000, 000 pounds per anouwrn. The ac.ual pro
| duction for the quarter enliog Septembor
| 80, 1892, was 10.00.2515 pounds,
I've repars of Labor Commissionsr Pegg,
| of New Yore, shows that during the year
I8%1, in about six thousau i: manufacturing
tavtishments in that Hiate embraced
within the spec al loquiry made by him, and
representing 67 diferent in lustries, there
wasa net increases over ths year 180) of
»
Oa
moatas of
$51 Ont
BREET, Oo
yt
cotton
the
Ey
.
and of £5 457 915.99 in the amount of wages
paid. The repori of the co nmissionsr of
#45 mmdustries in that State pail
| $199.4 6,248 in wazes during tha year 1891,
£1.335, 945, and that thers was an inc ease
7346 in the number of persons employed in
the same period,
During the last six months of ths year
1591 and the first six months of 1597 the to
, tal production of pig iron was 9,710,519 tone,
| at against 9.200708 tons in the year 180),
| which was the largest annual proda tion
ever attamed. For ths same twelve months
| of 1501-¥3 the proluction of Bessemer ingots
| was 3.878 581 tons, an increase of 180.710
| gross tons over the Fae unprecadent 1
od production of 8,685 871 gross tons in
890, The productian of Bessemer steel
ra'ls for the first mx months of 153) was
Ti2 43) gross tons, as against 702,00 gross
Joh during the last six mooths of tue year
Sul,
FXPORTS AND IMPORT,
The total values of our foreign trade (ex-
ports and impor of mercoandise) during
the last Bacal your was $1 857.089 610 an in-
Sten se of SLM THLE over the previous fis.
cal year,
‘The value of our exports during the fiscal
year 1597 reachisl the highest figura in the
iftory of the Government, amountin¢ to
#1,080,775,148, exceeding by $143, 7 39% the
exports of 1891 and skemding value of
the imports by $2,975,955,
COASTWISE AND INTERNAL TRADE.
1a our cosstwise trade a most encsurat-
ing development isin there having
been in the last four years an inoreass of 14
per See. ia Itatuai tommeres Shia stipiatios
show no sch perio proaperi
ever bo ore existed, Toa freight i in
the consteise trade o tha Great Lakes in
tributaries in the sams yoar
grazated 0,405,043 tons, and
i 78
nz throu zh the Dateoit River,
BAVINGE OF THE
Another
perity of oe country is
that the number of depsitors in savings
banks increassd from (00.40 in 186) wo 4.-
{| 208.568 in 1800, an inerease of 613 per cant,
| and the amount of deposits from $149,277,
| O04 in 180) to $1,501 845.5% in 18D), an tn
crease oo BIL per cant. la 15801 the amount
of deposits in saviogs banks was $1,623,074,
M0, It is estimated that 9) per cent of
these deposits represent the savings of wage.
sarpners, The bank clearances for nino
months ending Septe nber 30, 1801, amounted
to $41,040 390, 808, For the sama months in
1503 they amounted to £45, 150,601,047, an ex-
cess for the nine months of #4, 140,211,150.
There bas never been a time in our his.
tory when work was so abundant or wnen
wages wo a% high, whether measured by
the currency in which tray ara paid or by
their power to supply the nec sagaries and
romforts of life, It is trus that the market
| prices of cotton and wheat hava been low,
! dt is one of the unfavorable incblents of az.
| riculture that tha farmer cannot projaca
upon oy ders, He must sow and reap in ig
norance of the nzgrezats pro lustion of the
vear, and is paeuliariy subject to the depri-
ciation whidh fo lows over rodustion,
| VALUE OF FARM PRODUOTS.
| The value of our total farm prolunsts has
! fnereasad from $1.3357450.507 in 1980 to 84.
MN000,003 in 1801, as estimated by statis
ticisns, an increass of 23) ner cent. The
number of hors Jann ry 1, 183, was 53,625 -
106 and their valu: $210,198, 935; an January
1, 1502, the number was ¥A904.010 ani the
value 841.731. 415, On January 1, 1531 the
number of ost» was 875.6415 antl ths
valus S$544,127.908: on January 1, 1832 the
rumber was 33 0651,230 and the values $70,
49,135.
If any are disomtentel with this state
here: if any balisvay that wares or prices,
the returns for honest toll, ars inadegusta,
they should not fail to ramember that thers
is no other country in ths world whers the
conditions that seam to then hard would
not be accepted as highly prosperous. Ths
English soriculturist would be ziat to ex-
change the returns of his lahor for thoss of
the American farpisr, anl ths Man
chester workmen their wages for thos of
their fellows at Fill River,
A WORD FOR PROTECTION
| believe that the protective system, whic
has now for something mors thw thirty
PEOPLE.
indieation of thy general pros.
| slightly in excosss of the vessel tonnage pass-
| found in the fact
years continuously prevailed ia our lerisia-
tion, has besa a mighty instrument for ths
development of our national wasith anl a
most powerful agency in protecting the
homes of our workingmm»n from the inve-
sion of want, [havafelta mot solicitous
interest £O preserve to working peonie
rates of wages that would not oaly give
daily bread but supply a comflorianie mar~
gin for those home attractions anil family
comforis ant enjryments without whic)
lis is neither hops ul nor sweet,
They are American citizmng-—a part of the
great people for whom our Coastitution and
Government were framxd and instituted
and it cannot be a perversion of that Con.
stitution to so legidate as ta preserve in
their homes ths comfort, independency
loyalty and sense of ioterast in the Govern
ment which ars essential to good eltiznship
in peace, and which will rinz this stalwart
thron +, as in 1881 to the doles of the flag
when itis assatied,
It iz not m hers the
argument in tariff,
Toe reuit of the racont electisa must bs ac-
cepted as having introduce! a new policy,
We must sassurue that the prassnt tariff,
cmetructed upon ths lines of protection, is
f that thera is tu be sub-
stituted for it a tariff law constracted solely
with reference to rav that no duty i»
to be Dizher Decatise lucrease will Keep
pen an Amsrican Or kesp up the w
of an American workman, but that in every
case suc 1 a rats of daty i: 0 be imped as
will bring to ths Ireasur the United
States the largest retaras of ravaaae.
The contention has n beans betwen
schoadules, bus between agi it
i be off neive to he pre
party will not wo riniation
advocated nl the
10 tariff hills
sai by tha House Hepraseotat ves at
» Inst session wa I suppose—aven in
ri ~insdequate,
mt the Meaate
be were pot in
that a = revision could
not, therefore, be uudertaken.
I recommoasn i that thy
wholes subject
tariff revision be left to
it
the inconing Con
gross, is matier of ragrat that this work
ust be delave! [or at least taree month:
for the threat of great tari changes iotro-
duce: so much uncsrtainly that an amount,
not easily estimate! of business inaction
and of diminished roluttion will nessssarily
result, Iti: pasibis ales that this uncer.
tainty may in decreased revenue:
fron eustoms duties, for our merahiants will
make cautious orders fo: foreiga goods in
view of ths prospxwto: tariff redustions ana
jh uacartaiaty as t> waen thsy will lake
effzot.
Those who hav: alvocitel a protective
turiflf can wall aff l ty bive their disas~
trous forecasts of a caange of pobioy disap
vinte!, If asyeon of castoms duties can
we framed that will sof the idle wheels and
{om at Earop: in motion and crowd ou’
archousss with forsign-nsde grods, and
at tas game time kee) our orn milis busy;
that will givs us an i1vreassd pardeipatioa
in the “marcets of tie world” of greater
vaius than the home marist ws surren fer,
that will give increwsel work to forsign
worimen upon projucis to by coasunsl by
our people withou: diminisying th» amount
of work to by dons here; that will
enabls the American manufacturer
to pay to his work nen from
fitlty toa bundrad od cent, mors ia wages
than is pail in ths forsign mill anil ye! to
compete in our market anl foreign markets
ro luoer; that will farther
reducs the cost of articles of waar and fool
without reducing the wages of thos» who |
ou
ta ransw
orofecuvs
to be repealed, on
Ge
soni oid
i
that t
earry isto
by
Toe
wot
vailin
tha it
a peigie
of
%
& as
3
result
American cities, the authors and promoters
We hava bad in our histiry several ex.
this generation hai nod {sit thom, ani the
experienc of one geasralion is not highly
tective systam, wits nadiminishel con. |
lence in the prinsiples thay have ads
voonted, w.ll await the resu ts 0’ the now
exparimant,
LABOR AXD THE TI RFP.
The stra nal an tos often distucosl rela.
tions existing betwesa the employes anl
| the employers in our great manufacturing
esta lishments have not besn favorable toa
eal owmaideration by thas wage earner of
| the effect upon wagzas of thi protective sys
{ tem. The facts that his wag): wars the
highest pai | in lice orllings in ths world
this rats ol
wages, in the absmncs of protsdive duties
upon ths prodact of hin labor, was
| impossible, wers obwured by ths
passion evoked by tosses contmts He
may now be able to roview the qumtion in
the light of his psremal exserisacs uadse
the operation of a tariff for raveaus oniy, It
that experiencs shall demonstrats that
ent rates Of WA Ze: ars thereby main A
of ingregent. of or Auoiate or in Sat
ng power, an t (Ag Irega
Sony of work to be done in this conubry
is to be increase), or even maintainad, so
that there ars mors or an many days’ work
ina year at as good or battsr wages for the !
American wordmen as has been thy oases
utrler tha proteckive sy stan, every ons will
re
equalised; but ths conflict that stants be-
tween the profacer and that resalt and the
digtress of our working pe ple when itis at.
tained are not pleasant to contemplate,
The Society of the Unsmployed, now hold-
ing its frequnt an | throat ming para les in
the streets of foreign cities, shoul! not be
i
FOREIGN RILATIONS.
Our relat ons with foreizn nations are now
un listurbad by any seriou: controversy,
Tne complicated and threatening diff erancass
with Germany and Eigzianl relating to
Namonn alfairs, with Eaziand in relation to
the seal fisheries in ths Bering dea, and with
Caile growing out of the Baltimore affair,
have been adjusted,
Thers hava ceen negotiate and concluded
under gaction 3 of the tariff law, commer
cial agreements relating to reciproosi trade
with the following countries: Brazil, Do
minican Roaspublie, Mpsin for Cubs ani
Faerto Rico, Goatemain, Salvador, the
German Enpire, Great Beitain for esrtain
West Indian Colonies ani British Guiana
Nicarazua, Honduras and Austrin-Huogary.
The alarme] atlention ol our Huropsan
competitors for the South American mar
ket has boon attracted to this pew Americ
policy an i to our anqal«tion and thelr low
of Bouth American trade.
THE BERING SEA TRIATY.
A treaty providing for thes aroiteation of
the dispute bstweasn Great Britain and the
United State: as to tne killing of seais in the
Bering Sea was concinisd on the 20th of
February last. This treaty was accompanied
by an agreement prohibiting pelagic sealing
pending the arbitration, anil s& vigorous
effor: was made during this season to drive
out sll poaching seaier: irom tus Being
Bea Six paval vessels, throes rev mas cutters,
and ona vessel from tis Fish Crimmission,
all uncer the command of Commander
Evane, of the Navy. wers sant into the sas,
which was systamatioally patrols! Somes
seizures ware made, and it {x beliavad that
the cater in the verinr Bea by poacaer:
amounted to less than 5) seals t is tras,
however, that in the Noth Picide while
the sal herds wer: on way $3
passes betwen the Aleurian [dands a
larze number, probably 35.0) were te
The existiny staioies of the United Bats
do not re<train ovr citizaoe fro n agin
in the Pacific O2oap, and peraaps should
not. unless ths probibition can Le extended
to the c tizaus of othr nations, I recom
mend that power bs tn the Pos
dent, bry proclamation, prohitag
takin: of sealer in the North Pace
by Americsn vessely, in case either
as the resut ol! ihe Hodiugs the
tribunal of arbliira‘ion, or otherwise, tha rs
straints can he annie! to the vessals of
all countries, The cass of the United Bates
for the tribunal of arbitration has boren pre-
wired with great cars and industry by the
fon. John W., Foster, and the couss® who
represent this Government express coafl
dence that a result subs antially
ing cur claims and preserving this
industry for the beueldl of all nations
be atiains?,
CANADA AND TUE UXITEDS
The controversy as to tolls upon the Wel.
land Cana’, which war praseatsi to Con-
gress at the last session by special mess;
having failed of atjastnent, [1 feit
strained to exercise thy authority conferred
by the act of July 24, 1832, and to pronisim
a suspension of the fra usm of St. Maryse
Falis Canal to carzoss in transit £5 in
Cansda. The Hecratary of ths Treasury
established suc: tolls a wars thou +t Lo be
ivalent to the exactions unjastiy levied
oof our commerce in the Canadian canals
1%. as we mus’ suppose, the political rela.
tions of Canaia anil disposition the
Canadiana Government ars remain ©
thea Ee
yy
Leni
a
given
to
3.
’
iste
gramt
will
esin
STATES
con
Baris
the of
to
changed, a somewhat radical revision of our
trade relations should, 1 think, be made,
Our reiations must eontinur 10 be intimates,
and they sould be friendly. I regret tosay,
however, that in many of the controversies,
notably those as to the flsaeries on the At.
jantic. the sealing interssts on toe Pacific,
and the canal tools our negotiations with
Great Britain bhava omtinususiy been
thwarted or retarded by unreassnable
and unfrien ily objections and prot sts from
Canade. In the matter of the canal tolls,
our treaty rights wers flagrantly disre-
gardel, Itis bardly tor muci to say that
the Canadian Pacific ani other railway
lines which paraliel our porthern boundary
are sudtained by oo arose Davin either ite
nrigin or tarmings both, in the United
Hentes, Canadian raiiroa crxnpete wilh
those of the United Stats traf»,
and without the restraints of our interstate.
commerce act. Their cars pass aimost with
out detention iatoant out ol
There is no disposition on th» part
people or Government of the United State
to interfera in the smallest degree wilh thy
political ralations of Canals. Tass qustion
is wholly with her owa pple It 1% tims
for us, hawaver. to consde: waestaer, il the
present stats of thingeani tran of things
is ta continue, our interchanges uHon Hoes
3e
ar
i
5
f -
i aq
¥
of land transportation shall nasi by pul up
on a different bass, ani our entre inis
mdenca 0! Canadian canals and of the Bi
AWranes as an oust to the sea secural by
the construction of an Amarin canal
around thy Fallsof Niazua ant the apenas
ing of ship cymmanicatios betwen tae Great
Lies and ons of our own ssap ris.
We should not hwitate to avail ourssivar
of our great natural trads advantages. We
should withdraw the sussort wales fa given
to the railroads an | steamship tines of Can
ada by a traffic that proosrly baongs to us,
and no longer furosh the earnings wales
lighten ths otherwise crusiing weigtt of the
enormous public saosidies that hava been
given to them. Th: subject of the power of
the Treasury to deal with this matter with-
out further legislation has been under con:
sideration, but circumstanos hava poste
ponsd a conclusion. It is probable that a
vonsi leratios of the propriety of a modifica~
tion or abrogation of ths article of ths
Treaty of Wadi nzton re'ating to transit of
goods in bond is involve] in any compiete
soution of the qustion,
THRE OTILTAN TROUBLE.
Congress at the last session was kept ad.
vised of ths progressof the serious ani fora
time threatening diffsrences bstwesn the
Unite] States and Chile. It gives mie now
groat satisfaction to report that the Chilean
Uoveramant, in a most friendly and ho sor
able spirit, has teadere! ani paid as aa in-
demnity to the familia: of tae sailors of the
Aaltimore why were killed ani to thos» who
wars injured ia the outbrerk ia the city of
Valparaiso the sun of $75,000. This has bosn
acosptsd, not only as aa lndsmaity for a
wrong done, but az a mou gratifying evi.
dencs that the Goverammni of Caile rightly
appreciatss the disposition of this
went to act in a spirit of tis mos: absoluts
fairnsse and frien Hiinm: in our intercouse
witli that brave paople, A furdisr and oon
cusve evidsac: of ths mutual respact ant
confidences now existing is furaishal by the
fact that a convefition submitting to arbitra.
tion the mutasi c.sims of the citiz ms of ths
raspecave Goveramaiits has been agreed
upon,
THRE ITALIAN AFFAIR,
The frisally sc: of this Goveroment in
expressing to the Government of bait ite
reprobation and abhorrsnss ol the | ing
of Italian sab in New Udeans, by the
payment of 125,000 (rancs, or $11,31).9), was
ac sapted hy the Kiag of Italy with avers
manifesta i an
tha incident a oro promotive of
8 et {
wntual navi. En Wl oe
KELP THE NICARAGUA CAYAL,
I repeat with great earnestness the recom.
mendation whica I bave Jude 1 in several
previous mosenCes that prompt adequate
pport be given to the American Compan
Be SCR
Value Irom every standpoint of this gress
and securs to the Unitsd 8
ralation ta it waen complete 1.
HOPEFUL POR SILVER.
Conlerenes to cond isr ty qisition of
eniarga i use of siivar ware acc mntal by the
nations to which thay were al lresnl, The
con'eronce assembled at Bruwis on the
Wilof Novembar and has enters upon the
consideration of tals gress quastion, [have
not dou vied, and have not taken ote ion
to ex ress that bade”, a: wall 1a the
invitations issued ior this conference
a8 In my public meses res, that Las
free coinage of silver woos an arresd
international ratio would greatly promote
a her nations
what results
It is too eariy wo pre ie
may bs acconsiishyl by the
any temporary checs or
delay intervenss. | believs thu very
oom perelal eoaidltions will eosinsl the
reluctant Governments to unite with
this movement to gsecura tie on
of the volums of ecinel money
the transaclon ol the business o
THE TREASURY,
The report of the Secrstary of ths Treas
ury will attract espacial intersst in view of
the many misleading 82 de nrats taat Lave
been mado as to thy sini ol 01s nu slic rave
enuss, Three preininary {acts shoull not
only be stated, but evishasizs 1, bafors lok.
iny into details: Furst, thit the public
debt has besn raluzed sincy Marc: 4,
1450, $200,674,21), an ths annual
intswast charge $11,650.46); second, tnat
thero bave been paid out for pen
sions durinzy this administration up ©
November 1, 1802 (432.504,174.70, an exo’ss
of $114.400 34.00 over the sum ex mnded
during tas nerot fron Mares | 13385, to
irgem nut of
neaded for
thio worid,
i
nearly dou sled in tas last four
the number of monsy-or ler
than doable 1 within that tim»,
For the throes yours enling June 8), 1892,
the nostal vevangs a nounie io $197,744.59,
whios was an increase of $50.70, 1500 aver thy
y three ‘ vr Jaga 30,
faring in L tharss ysars
Parse nn! a ball times ae
groab as the inorsass daria ; ths tarss years
vars, and
oflcm mors
1884, the ineraase
isting tariff uo to Dscemosr 1 abou: $63.
000. 000 of revenue, walsh would nave hey
codeocted upon traosrte dl suzers if tis duty
had besn maintained, has gone into ths
pociets of the peonie and not ints the puis
lie treasury, as bafors,
It there are any who still think that the
surplus should have ven kept out of circa
lation Hy hoarding it in the Treasury,
depwitel in favorel banks witaout interest
while the Goverament coutinusd to pay
these very bans nla uoon the is
deposited as security for ths deposits, or
who think that tae extended prson legis
lation was a public roobery, or that the
duties upon sugar sould avs been main
tained, I am content to leave the argu nent
where (tnow rest, wh we wall 10 sss
whether thes? crilicising will take the {Oram
of legislation,
The revenuss for Le
June 80, 183%, from h
SS a me, and the ex en Litres
poses wera 8415 055 8 ¥ 54
of $0 914. 451.6 {a
ths vear upon the public debt #41.570
467.9%, The sarvus in the Tressu:
the nan’ releamotion fuad, pass | by |
of July 14, 185), 10 the general
tne cath availa?
any 48 roadie 0 on the
with the veur 1841,
duties [+l £4 -
8 walle ur fron nlaras
increase § $5.3 13. leavin~® the
of revengs from these princiss!
83 734,417.95 .
of
W032
ile
fiscal year ending
POUrae: were 2425,
for =il pur
saving a balunos
srs ware vald dur nz
ant
£4
iN
a
ts from castoms
# from all sources was
The revenues, estimated an
tae flecsl vear ine Jans A
placed by the Besoraiary at
ant the axnmiitarss st
sho ving a surn sol
on
uz of ra
fhe cash balan
050 3
the HBesal year iti
tures ¢ 0
Iressury at toe end
ertimated will be $2 200 377.00
Thos estimats | rece 3s for tne
ending June, J are $40
oN 03 + srame $457
issving an estimate] surn us
P30
y paytaent
'
dag ® i
TT ¢xonn lilures «
This does not includ
oeinis OY 4]
8a
confi lence in the
Government to
Hour money issu
Or paper, must remain uoshaken
mand for gold in Europe anitheo
calls upos BERS Nn A tera le
the result of the efforts of f tue
pean Governmsals to ince
rts shoals pe Met DIV
aporonriate legislation on our part fan
eon iitions that have created this drain of
the Treasury gold are in an im ori
gree political and not eommercia In vie
of the fact that a general revisoy o 00
revenue jaws in the naar futars sso 1
probable, it would be better taatany «
should bs a part of that revision rather ia
of a tomoorary nature
RILYER BOUSAT
During the last fiscal year the Seore
purchassd under the act of July 14
5.455.548 ounom of sliver. and issued
payment thorefor $54, 106.6) 5 in notes
total purchases sines the passage of ths art
have been 120,479 81 cuncoss, ant the
gregate of notes issuszd $116,781.50) ]
average pric: paid for giiver wuriag tie year
was 1 oenis por ounce, the highest price
ing $1.03% July 1, 1821, ani toe lowest $0. 44
March 21, 1882, [a view of the fact that the
ponslary conferencs is now gitting and that
no conclusion has yet brea reach, I »ithe
bol | any recommandatios as to legisiatioa
upon Laie subjeci
ARMY RUORGANIZATION DEMAXDED
Ths repyrt of ths Sserstary of War
brings again to thy attention of Congres
some important suzgasstions as 19 the re.
organization of the infantry ani artillery
arms of ths service, whe his pre leces.
sors have befors urgently presented Oar
srmy 5 email out it organizstion
should all ths more bs» put upra the most
modern basis. The conditions
oalisd the '‘lrontier”
have hereto ore requirel the main.
tenance of many small posts, but now
the policy of concentration is ooviousy tas
right one. The reorganization and enlar ye-
ment of the Bareau of Military Information
whics the Sec stary has effected is a work
the usefulness of whic wili become every
The work of building
beavy guns and the construction of coast
defens-s has been well begun and should be
CRs
roperye, and thes off
fa
=
3a
AND CUBED
os
CLAIME AGAINIT THE GOVERN UEST,
The azgragate of claims pending agains
enormons, Claims to ths amauat of nearly
the properiy of parsons cmiming to ba Lival
durinz the war ara now balore that court for
examination. Wasa ty ties? are aidai the
11 tian depre lation claims and the French
swilation calms an aggzragats is resciel
that is indasd starsiiag. Ia the delense of
their evidencs, whereas the agents of the
ing the war. If this groat threst aguas
| talent
in the defense of thew claims atl to pursue
its vague searca for evidenss eff setively,
POSTAL AFFAIRS
Tas postal revenus have inorsae Lduriny
ths last year naariy $5,000.00). Toe
for the year en ling Juae 3), 130, is $848.
311 less than the defi vienay ol thy din
year. ‘Ths deflcioncy of thy prasest flson
year, it is subim stad, will by ralasal to $i,~
552 439, whie's will nal only by extingi'vhsl
during the next flood yaar, bul a surplus of
vearly one million dollars should be
shown, In these calonlations the payments
A whe Siang of ley anions
having in it much pron, as i seems to
moe, was bezun by thy av of darea 8 1871.
Onder this law contracts hav + nads by
tha Pout aastar- 3 snr ; sven msi
router, The exnzn liturs by thess
mtracts {or th 13 OX
antes $015,123 raeaits al-
realy reached 16 Aner caastmmehing of an
Br rrevate Lonnasze of 57 eating
Be sotsd to
* RX
As nn
PE
3
0 U0
Amarican sainvarl
Jae, 1 thing, wm wsariy toneiss
tas POWs ani th siaerity of
y than tais of Lis des wy nent of
our mercasnt marias uo! r gus. Lf we
could ender 19lo conlersucs with other om
preiiy sul all would ager: to withhold
Government all wa tate our
caances with ail ths rast, bal our yrastoom
petitors have estiblisasl al msintainsd
their lines by unnl subsidies dati
they now Dave praciizaily extu isl us from
participation. Ia mv o no cages is
left to us put Lo pursus, #y at isast,
Tlie Bae ines,
OUR NAVAL PROG
The report of the Borat
oXiLils gra: progres
of Our new DAVY.
tary enterei unon nis da iss
modern steel vessels worse iu
ne vessels sinns pul in
be pul in conmissing ar i
make a total of 19 da his ald
tion of the Department, Dariog the cur
rent year 10 war vase! i 4 navy tugs
haze heen lanociel aanl during tas four
years 2) vessels will hav +3 iauanchel
fwo of arg: rig ; edo
ars yatrac iwmn them
well advanerd, asd tay four monitors ars
Awaiting oly to armor,
which h layed, ¢
they wonid in oum-
Lisson
Contracts
ministration
the increase of the N
gos aid Lael
of $3 5.000 vin
IGriGg the sams
yards upon
the snatwsl SO4r
£ in
cu
Lovar
wy of the Navy
in tay conswraction
Wan ths present Bec
¥ thires
eymmission.
ya and to
vinter will
ninistrs
0%
se]
der ¢
ben
avs
2K 25°
D230 D3.OT2 iis
bave be ny this ad
un jer
y tos amount
1 expended
at navy
without
if fraul or
and t
pariality
It is
process ia the ©
{ ei w i Yom i y ¥ 51
higher ressting
BUY War vesssis
torped
that as t tof new
. Wo Armor pialte
with dales
power than
afloat. We
fave baen
efic.ency of
contr nas been
and the r of constru
beng on wu
we armor
[rie z ani shop in
structed and equipped 1 onstructivu
i 2
Delieva ld
19 Iasy
MIsLry
jound in
wer's with
raade to as
dX ersnt
adopted,
tou
ut
eriain Lo
ve
shelis w 1
ve
what is be
r to any be
* has been
wder for
CEDORTYA
#1 from ser
We ars now
be a project
forein use, A smoke on
deveioped and a VW
guns of large oalibrs,
capable of use in large sh
vies guns, has been foun i, an i manu-
facture of gun
that
nt
of them
Hevel to
Bo
esti
the a
de : i
THE XAYAL MILITY
The development of a nay
has been organized
brouht
Lia, Wwaich
ates and
ive reis
imoortant
E INTRERION
the Inter
WATE ver in
than eve istration
ty nension
‘susui, the
balora
No
law, the tak ng «
of Secrelary
ovening of the ress Intian
wattle
acd ths n
Gan ands
anis
RBOoma,
wn of In
ritealars of
acabevad
industry
his offi-
nent
testify to the ability,
of the head of the Denar: un. ani
cient assistants,
The wor inthe Inlian 7
eution of the poudcy of re
bern largely direc. eito two
First, the allotment of jan is in se
the Indians an
Biates of the sarpius an is
the work of educating the in
protection in his closer o
Rite man and Tor tae intel
bis new citizenship, 1
been called upon to remove Indian azeats
appointed by me ant | anne sO
promptly uson every susiaine i compaiat of
unfiness or miscon ine i be feve, hows
ever, that the In Luan service at the agencies
has osen improved asd is now administered
on the whole wit a gol derres of effio-
jency. II any legis ix possible by
which the selactios of Indian ageats can be
wholly removal iron ail partisan suggs-
tions or cous erations, 1 au sare would
baa grest relief to tne Exscutive and a
great benefit to the service,
1 the exe
ion, nas
ATONE
voaralt vv. to
United
2d, ya diy, to
wn for hisown
with the
x “reise of
eral times
the Oesuon
RYe
Tn
%
iv
THE SUBJECT OF PEXKIONS
The report of the Commissionsr of
Pensivne, to walch exten led notics is given
by the Secretary of the Interior in his
yeport, will atirect great atlsation.
Judged by the ag rezate amioual oo work
done the last year ass brea ths greats: in
the history of the offi2+ I Lisisvas that the
orgenization of the offi>s is offiziens, asd
that the work has bsen dons witn Hielity.
The paseage of what 1 known as the disabil-
ity bill has, as was forssean, very largely
increased the annual disourssmenis to
the dismbled veterans of thes civil war, The
estimate for this fled year was §idd.-
$54,000, and that amound was appro-
priated. A deficiency amounuing to 810,-
S086 must be provided for at {bis session.
The estimate for pensions ‘or the fiscal year
endiag Jase 3%, 1804 is $165,000.00 Toe
Corpissioner of Pansons bsuieves Saat if
the t legsiaton ani methods are
maintained and fathw ad litions to the pen
won laws are not male, te maztimoen ex-
ven liture for pensions «ul ua reachsd Jane
dL 18M, ant will be at thy Lighest point
$183 000,000 par annum,
1 adhere to the view: expromsd in previous
messages that thy care of the dis sol
dier: of the war of tha re wllion is a matter
of pational concern ani ty. Parhaps wo
emotion 00 is sooner than that of ta de,
but [ cannot believe that this proomss has
yet rosched a point with our peoples that
won'd sustain the ar of remitting the
cars of these disalel veterans to the inades
qiate agencies, provide! uy oss laws Toe
parade on the of By temonsr last
tha streets of this capita: of sizty Viossand of
the surviving Usion vatean: of the war of
the rebellion was a most wacking an § thrill.
iag episo te, and ths res and gracious wel.
Colum rich ol
: apse
from Poo of thonusads of pao.