THE NEWA Miss Ella Haines, of Biddleford, Me,, has brought suit against the estate of Luther Bryant, a millionaire, for§260,000. —— Louise Alberti, of Galveston, Tex., polsoned her flve children fn a fit of dementia, Kansas City physicians are using antitoxine, the new diphtheria remedy, with great sucouss, — During a fight in Fouitland, Wash. H. C. Cummings shot and killed Tish Roberts, Claude P. Campbell was hazed by students of the University in a recount football game — Mrs, Mary Ellen Lease, of Kansas, will remove to Calilornia. She says she is tired of Kansas, ——3, W. Riderburg, the missing ex-deputy county clark of Cook county, Iii, is said to be a delaviter to the extent of §50,- 000, ~—Dr. Carl F. Renbaugh, a prominent physician and botanist, is believed to have been murdered in Mexico by his servant, The village of Cedarville, in New Jersey, was visited by a big fire, and property valued st £40,000 was destroyed, ——A smelter combine is about to be formed, Tho object of the trust is to raise the rates. —The jury of Thomas McLaren, charged with the mur- der of Jennie Kui:tle, was discharged io Jor soy City, having reported a failure to agree, The jury was out tweaty-four — AD attempt was made to steal the silver statue ol actress Ada IRlshan in Chicago, - der Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, is eritically iil at Chicago,—-The Egyptian Sanitary Pottery Works, of the in the case hours, ~LOminan- ¥ tin Laypluan by fire. The damage is estimated from tea to fifteen thousand dollars. The fire is lieved to have originated Irom the frame kiln shed igniting from the kilns, Three Kklins filled with ware were also destroyed, Tho suicide of Arthur M. Batley luth caused suspicions of the existence suicide club thero, ——Joe Bean, a man, killed A DP. farmer, living near Newman, Johnson Barber died lottesville, Va. Loe 1 stabbed and Ga, 1, at his home in 8 now in charge of the national bank It has a capital of £75,000, —— Mrs, R E. A Crofton, wife of 2 Mrs. Croften was nder Sehubriek, aged sixty years, dgughter of Comms United States Army Benjamin W, ing, who was United States attorney Lastern Distriet of New York during tion of President Cleveland's first term, in Florida, aged 65 Toe hood of Paluters and Decorators met in special session in Cleveland. ——Tha Lexow Committee continued its work in New York Beveral witnesses were examined, C. K. Handes, a Boston man, who bad been Downe Years brother. woman Territory two ther, Henry, who bad weeks searching fallen heir 000 found him near ( bicknesha, where ig for a grand he was wor cattieman, —— Robert Huston, jormerly treasurer th Grand Couneil of lliinois i American Legions of Honor, committed suicide in a h hotel, ~—Judge Denny served notice of con- test on Congressman elect Owens in Ashland & Williams, News, Va. Matthews, a district, Kentucky, — furniture dealers, at made an ass. gament, WwW. 8 business man of Lynchburg, Va, was ar raigned in a Richmond ecurt on complaint of Mrs Kate McFarian, a widow, who charged bim with forcing bis attentions upon her.—— Farmers in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Oblo are looking for a man calilng bimsei! Frank Johnson, who conducted a commission house in Pitts. burg under the name of Kirkpatrick & John- son, and promised the farmers and agents better commissions than other houses could afford to pay. Four masked men with pistols, entered the house of George B. Sand ford, near Huntington, W. Va, and forced the family to give up #1,500.——The Osage Indians have made a partial agreement with the government commission to divide their jJands in Ckishoma, Chie! Big Heart has taken up the proposition to give each mem. ber of the tribe 320 acres, and will submit 8 to a vote of his people. - Barclay Newport ns TIO est ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE Gantearor's daughter Is engaged on a book descriptive of her father's home life. Privo Bissanck is partly of Slav origin Governor of Livonia. Hox. 8. T. Jerrs retires from the Gover- eight years in publio life. He proposes to lay aside care and next year will take a trip abroad, visiting Egypt and the Holy Land, Miss Fromexce Manmyar, the novelist and daughter of the famos=s Captain Marryat, is to deliver a series of lectures in this country on the following toples: “The Mistakes of Marriage,” “The New Woman" and “Can the Dead Return?’ Sctrrron Kirsox, of Boston, is a very busy man these days, and is Onishing up several heads before putting into clay, A bust of the Queen of Roumania, whieh he has just come pleted and shipped abroad, was a very fine plece of work, it is said, Mus. Dosa M. Avenz, the famons anti-slay- ery propagandist, who died in Chicago the other day, was born in Ohlo, She organized the first anti-slavery society ever known, in Ashtabula, O., and not a clergyman in the town would give notice of the meetings so late as two years before the war, Waex the late Oliver Wendell Holmes was in the zenith of bis carcer an ABODY MOUS weiter sont to him a few lines of verse and asked Mr. Holmes’ opinion as to the worth while of the writer's continuing to write povtry. “Yes, by all means,” replied the @utoerat. His eorrdspondent was Bret Harte, then a California newspaper reporter, Tux manager of Colonel Robert G, Ingar- #0ll says he does not eare for social attention when he goes to a town to lecture, He goes to a hotel generally on the European plan, where he can eat whatever pleases him. /g the home of a prominent citizen#he old-time 8lar lecturer was generally there on exhibi- tion before a Inrge number of guests, whom he was expected 10 entertain. Unlike the platform orators of other days, Colonel In. gorsoll has no one to make a fulsome address of introduction to his audience, He walks alone on the stage and does not evan have the time-hunosed, pitehs of 0 keep THE MESSAGE. Ra President Cleveland Discusses the Nation's Affairs. Favors Repeal of thie Differential Duty on Refined Sugar. Sugeeafan Divorce of the tiovernment and the DBaak%s — Exemption of Certain State Banks From Taxa. tion on Circulation Recommended - Pension Matters — Our Forelgn Relations and the Condition of Our Governmental Depacslaents, To tha Conpreas of the United States - The nssamblace within the Natton's legis. Intive halls of those ehargsd with the duty of making laws ‘or the henafit of a generons and free peoples imoressively snegests exalting obligation and inexorable responsi. bility involved in their task, At the throes. hold of sieh labor now to he undertaken by the Congress of the United Beaten, and in an exesntivs daoty enjoined stitution, I submit this communi. entlon, containing a statement of the onidition o our Nationa! affairs, and recom. mending «ah lesiaintion as seems to ms ness re nl ql axpediont, The histo vy of our recent dealings with ether Nations, and onr peasninl relations with at this time, additionally dems onstrate tht: advantage of consistently ade hering to a \lrm hat just forelen poliov, fraa from envious or ambitious National schemes sharacterizad by entire honesty and the disehqren nn’ Ye the hriaf them A serious tension of relations having arisen at the close of the war between Brazil and . by reason of the esaape of the ine it Admiral da Gama and his follownrs, a friendly oMoees of our representatives to those conntriss were exerted for tha proteo. tion of the suhiects of either within the jere ritory of the other, Although the Governor of Braz!l was duly notiflad that the commercial arrangement existing between the United States and that eountry, based on the third section of the Tariff act of 1850, was abrogated on August 28. 1804, by the ing of the Tarnifl law now in foree, that Government subse. quentiy notified us of its intention to termine. ate su~h arrangement on the fire day of Jan. unary, 1895, in the exarcise of the right re. served in the agreement belween the two niries, taking offoct sommission organized under the con. which we had entered Into with settlement of the outstanding of! each Government against adjourned at the end ol the period for ita continnanee, leaving un- number of American cases heen duly presented. Thess 8s are not barred and negotiations are progress for their submission 10 A new bunal, vention Chile for the tha TETATY WITH CHINA, On the 17th of March Iast, a new treaty with Chios in further rezuintion of emigra- tion was signal at Washington, and on August 13. it received the sanction of the Benate, Ratification on the part of China and formal exchange are awaited to give effect to this mutuslly beneficial convention, A gratifying recognition of the uniform impartially of this country towards all oreign States was manifested by the coinel. dent request of the Chiness and Japaness Governments, that the agents of the United States should, within proper limits, Ory rotection to the subjects of the other dur. ng the suspension of diplomatie relations due to a state of war, This delicate office was accepted, and a misapprehension, which gave rise to the belief that In affording this kindly unofficial protection out would exercise the same an belligerents had exercised, was promptly 4d Japan endangers no policy of the United States, it deserves our greatest oon. ur growing commercial interests in the two dangers which Acting under a stipulation in our treaty ming of the controversy to tender our good of the Initial difficulty growing out of the res forms in Korea ; but the unhappy precipita purpose, Deploring the destructive war between md anxious that our commercial interests in these countries may be preserved, and that the safety of our eitizens there shall not be jeopardized, [ would not hesitate to hee | ny intimation that our friendly aid ror e honorable termination of hostilities would be accaptabls to both belligerents, Our relations with the Republic of France enntinus to be such as should exist heiwoon Kations so long bound together by friendly gy mpat governmant, The recent cruel assassination of the Presi. dent of this sister Repablic called forth such aniversal expressions of sorrow and condo lence from our people and Government as to leave no doubt of the depth and sincerity of our attachment, The reaciutions passad by the Senate and House of Representatives on the oesasion have bean eommunieated to the widow of President Carnot, Acting upon the reported discovery of Texas ever in cargoes of Amerionn cattle, the German probibition against importations of live stock and fresh meats irom this cous. try has been revived. It is hoped that Ger. many will soon become convinced that the Inhibition is as needless as it is harmtal to mutual interests, REPEALING DISCRIMINATING DUTIRS, The German Government has protested against that provision of the customs tariff aot which imposes a diseriminationg duty of one-tenth of one cont a pound on sugars coming from countries paying an export bounty thereon, claiming that the exastion of such duty is in contravention of articles ig and nine of the treaty of 1828 with Pras In the interests of the commeros of both countries and to avold even the accusation of treaty violation, I recommend the appeal of so much of the statue as impo that duty, and I invite attention to the aceom- [haying re of the Secretary of State con. ning a discassion of the questions raised by the German protests, Early in the present yoar an agrosment was reached with Great Britain eonoerning instructions to be given to the naval come manders of the two Governments in Bering Ben and the contiguous North Pasifie Ocean, for their guidance in the execution of the award of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration and the enforcement of the regulations therein p bed, forthe protestion of seal lite in the waters mentionsd, An under standing has also been reacted for the - ment by the United States of $425, mn full satisfaction of all claims whien may be fade x Great Britain jor damages growing COutroversy as r seals in Bors of British vessols Ing Bea, or the seizure i H be adjusted, and they have been subjscted by both Governments to a thorough examin. ation upon the principles as well as the facts which they involve. I am convineed that a suttlement upon the terms mentioned would be nu equitavie and advamageous one and I recommend that provision be made for the prompt payment of the stated sam, HAWALL YND JAPAN, Since communieating the voluminous cor respondencs In regard to Hawall and the action taken by the SBeoste and House of Reprossntatives on certain questions sub- mitted to the judgment an! wider discre- Hon of Congress, the organization of a gov- ernment in pines of the provisional arrange. ment which followed the deposition of the Queen has been announcad with evidence of its effective operation. The recognition paunl in such pases has been accorded the new Government, Apart from the war in which the Island Empire is engaged, Japan stiracts increas. ing attention in this country by ber evident desire to cultivate more liberal intercourse with us nnd to seek our kindly ald In furthers ance of her Inudable desires for complete auntomony in her domestic affairs and full quality ia the family of Nations, The Jupaness Empire of to-day ls no lounger the Japun of the past, and our relations with this progressive Nation should not be less broad and Hberal than those with olher powers, THE BLUEFIELDS INCIDENT, Prominent among the questions of the year was the Bluellelds joeident, in what is known as the Mosquito Indian Sirip, Lordering on the Atlantic Ocean and within the jurisdiction of Nicaragua, By the tresty af 184% Tirltain 3 Rui Nn betganny 4 earagity the former expressly recogni tha ti i . rer the ~qovernment ito Indians, Birip, a limited gunrantead EX epriNes 1 their sstoms, for tom. ve ther Awollors Hmite, The so-called native which grew to be largely nade un for many years dissaled the sore Niearugna over the richt to tioal ¥y ‘ndependent ment, Early of Nicaraguan to wn over the Mosqnito fisrions within overarsent the Sirin an mal therein in tha nn aintsin territory Histurhanes, eqiminsting $1 resslon of 1ppl the and tha native attempled substitution fn whieh Nisaragus and alien residents were to participate, Failure was fol insurrection whieh for a saraguan rile, expalling hor old organisating, gave place to the existin timn Y ring the established and upt the allen interests iearagan in thess tr been largely American that region for soma t is oh insactions have and the soumeros of wn and He, We or rig over this impos fefly aontro je i t YT On not for that shallengs sovereignty of Niearagua tant part of her domain, reason the the time two, of our naval ships have stationed at Digeflalds for the all legitimate interssta of In Beptember last the Managua expellad from twelve or mors ine cluding two Americans, for i participation in the anditions or revointionary movements against the vr ah ie t Biuflelds already th h the sarnest ren Government the two Americans permitted to return to the peaceful ment of thelr business, nay manders at the soene by their constant exhibition good jadpment, contributed large prevention of more serious contequenos to the restoration of quiet and order, 1 regret that in the midst of those oocur reno there happened a most grave and Kiramguan justice. An American pamad Wilson, residing at Rama, in Mosquito territory, was murdered by one Arzuslio, the acting Governor of the tows, After some delay the murders wasarrestol, but so insecursly confinsd or guarded that he escaped, and, notwithstanding our re peated demands, it is claimed that his re. eapture has been impossible, by reason of his flight beyond Niearagaan jurisdiction, The Nioaragnan authorities having given notice of forfeiture of their concession to the canal company, on grounds parely tech. nical and not embraced {n the contract, have receded from that position, POACHING OX RUSSIAN SEALS, Fhe sealing interests of Russia in Sea are second only to our own, A heen proteastion of our citizans fits foreigners, fr allege tar of thease 4 eitinzen the Dearing molas the Imperial Government sealing in waters whish wors not compre Paris award, Occasion has been found to urge upon the Russian Government equality of treatment operations have been extended throughout Europe, Admitting, as wa do, foreign cor for our own in the ample flelds of competi. tion abroad, tut few cases of Interferenss with nate uralised citizens returning to Rassia have been reported during the'ofirrent year. One Kresmioski was arresto | last summer in a Polish province, on a reporte{ charge of ane permitted renunciation of Russian allegi ance, but it transpired that the proceedings originated in alleged malfeasance committed by Krzeminski while an Imperial official » number of years ago, Efforts for his res lnase, which promisad to be sucosssiul, were fo progress when his death was reported, TURKRY'S TREATMENT OF MISSIONARIEL In my last annual message I adverted to the claim on the part of Turkey of the right to expol, as persons undesirable ani dan. gerous, Armenians naturalissdin the United States and returning to Tarkish jurisdiction, Numerous questions in this relation have arisen, While this Government acquicsees in the assarted right of expulsion, it will not consent that Armenians may be imprisoned or otherwise punished for no other reason than having aequired without Imperial con sent American citizsnship, Three of the assailants of Miss Melton, an American teacher in Mosu!, have been con victed by the Ottoman courts, ani [ am ad- vised that an appeal against the acouittal of the remaining five has been taken by the Turkish prosecuting ofMoer, TROUBLES IN SAMOA, Raports received from our agents at Apia do not justify the belief that the peace thas brought about will be of long duration. It is their conviction that the natives are at heart hostile to the present Governments that such of them as profess loyalty to it do so from fear otf the powers, and that it would speadily go to pleces if the war ships were withdrawn, present Government has utterly failed to correct, if indeed it has not aggravated, the very evils it was intended to prevent. It has not stimulated our commerce with the fslands, Our pattisipation in ita establish. ment against the wishes of the natives was in piain deflanos of the conservative teach ings and warnings of the wise and patriotio men who laid the foundations of our free in. stitations, and [ favite an expression of the judgment of Congress on the propriety of steps by this Government look- Srnmont, as compared with the fiscal year There was oollected from the customs #131,818.580.62, and from internal revenus £147,10%,449.70. The balanca of the incomes for the year, nmounting'to $93,815 517.97, was derived from the sales of lands and other sources, The values of our total dutiable imports amounted to B275,190.036, being $146,657,625 less than durlog the preceding year, ana the importations free of duty amounted to £379,- 790,586, being $64,748,675 less than during the preceding yenr, Tho receipts from cus- toms wore $73,506.486.11 less, ani from in- ternal revenue $13,835,580.97 less than in 1808, The total tax collected from distilled spirits was $85,259 250.25 ; on manufactured tobacco #28,617,805.62,an 1 on fermented liquors, $31, - 414,783,004. Onr exports of merchandise, domestic and foreign, amounted during the year to $803, 240,572, belug nn Increase over the preceds gz your ol $44,405,378, The total amonat of gold exported during the fiscal yenr was 876,804,001, against §108,- 687.444 during the fiscal year 1588. The amount imported was $72,440,118, as against £21.174,881 during the previous vear, The imports of sliver wore and the exports were §50 451,200, THE ARMY, The execution of the poliey of concentrat- ing the army at important centers of popuine. tion and transportation, foreshadowed in the last annual report ol the Bocretary, has resulted In the abandonment of fiftesn of the smaller posts, which was effected under @ plan which assembles organizations of the rr $18,230,552, same regiments hitherto widely separated, This renders our small forces 1 readily effective for any service they may called upon to perform, Increases the exte of the territory under protection diminis sing the security herstofors affords oonlity, improv sth ’ 1 esprit de cor lerably decreasing the ¢ wit fO any ing sn oon drain. w of the army, beslieg mt of 118 main. {foroes been ewnatl increased, Fhough the Lt the have more than three-founh stationed wont of the Mississi fuily matured policy, which se and greatest service the general weliare from Sine prising our regular army, shot nos be thoughtiessly embarrasses | by the ¢ ion of new and u MIGSSATY Dosis Throag Congress to gratily the ambitious or interests of iocalitieos, It is hardly nooessary to reeall that in obadience to the command Constitution and laws, and for the pur of profecting property of * ing sens of F r of the Dep: bs of th s still Care. bogt roaql ats of the i i: Fe] lawioss obstruer by the Government of yctions, It DRCATES DOCOSRAry isealities luring the your considerable the The OBEY discretion by the officers most gratifying proo the army deserves that in its « ency country The year hi by Indians, and thee redations on thei ing more remote a pro itu berit ite Jegith ¥ ¥ was urged and witn marked and 1 i, and the was thas afforded that es rt ie PONG piste confidence and discipline which fail Limes mind boen free distarinnoms urthes sonstantly bec G lmprobabie, Tha skill and iIndastry of our orananss of floers and have, it is belleved, overcome the anleal obstacles which have heretofors delaysd the armamen National taking upon which wo have entered may now procect as rapidly as Congress may de. With a supply of finished guns of large calibre already on hand, to which ad ns should now rapidly follow, the wis. {1nd od {nyant mes ments for thelr moun: cannot betoo strongly The total enroliment of the militia of the poveral States is 117.539 ofMloors and enlisted men, an increases of 5343 over the number the previous yoar, The reports of militia inspections by recular army officers show a marked increase in in. terest and efMelency among the Biate organ izations, and I strongly recommend a con practioal encouragement possibile to this im- portant auxiliary of our military establish. ment, The sondition of tha Anasha Indians, beid as prisoners by the Governmes olght years at a cost of half a mililon ¢ lars, has been chaneed daring the year trom eaptivity to ons which gives them an oppor sapport and st least partial civilization. Legislation enacted af the late session of Congress gave the War Department au thority to transfor the survivors, numbering 346, from Mount Vernon Barracks, in Alabama, to any saitable roser- vation. The department sslocted as thelr fature home the military lands near Fort Sill, Indian Territory, whars, ander military surveillance», the farmer prisonars have heen eatablished in agriculture ugler conditions favorable to thelr sdvancempat In recognition of the Tong and charge of delicate and responsible civil duties by Major-General John M. Schofield, now the General commanding the Army, It fs sugeested to Congress that the temporary revival of the grade of Lieutenant-Gensral aot, and would permit his retirement, now pear at hand, with rank befitting his merits, DEFICIENCY IT THY POSTAL SERVICE, The transactions of tha postal service ind! in the business of the country, Inasmuch, therefore, as business complioations con tinuad to exist throughout the last year toan unforeseen extent it is not surprising thatthe defioiency of revenus to mest the expendi tures of the Postoffice Department, which was estimated in advance at about eight million dollars, should be exceeded by neariy one and a quarter million dollars. The ascertained revenues of the last year, current year, baing less than estimated, the deficiency for the current year will be cor. respondingly greater, though the Postmas. ter-Genoral states that the latest indications are 30 favorable that he confidentially pro. dicts an inoroass of at least sight por cent, in the revenues of the current year over those of the last yaar. The expenditures increass steadily and necessarily with the growth and neads olths country, so that the defloieney is greater or less in any year depending upon the volume of Faceia, The Postmaster-General sav: that this deficiency is unnecessary and might be obviated at ones if the law regulating rates upon mall matter of the second-class was modifisd, The rate recsivad for the trans. mission of this second-class matter is one cent per pound, while the cost of such trans. mission to the Government is eight times that amount, In the general terms of the law this rate covers newspapers and foals, The extensions of the mean. 2 of these terms from time to time have admitted to the privileges intended for Isgitimate newspapers and periodicals a sur. prising range of publications and ereated abuses the cost of which amount in the ag. grogate to tha total defistency of the Post. office Department, Protended newspapers are started by business houses for the mar pu of advertising woo ls, compiving with the law in form only and discount. ing the pablieations as soon as the period of Advertising 1s ovat. tanpa to ios” of preten ANwapapets are a groat numbers for a like Jurpons only. The result 18 a great loss of revenus to the Government, besides its humiliating use fan an yp moans of a trick upon bota ita 4 n val houses and the regular and legitimate ~aovared literature, oon. Of trash the free carriage through the mafls of hun dreds of tons of seed and grain uselessly dis tributed through the Department of Agrical ture, The Postmaster-General predicts tha if the law be 80 amended as to eradicate those abuses not only wiil the Postoffice Das partment show no deficiency, but he believes that in the near {ature all legitimate news papers and perio lical magazines might be properly transmitted through the malls 1c their subscribers free of cost, I invite your prompt consideration of this subject, and fully indorse the views of the Postmaster. Guoneral, The Postmaster-Goneral renews a sug- gestion made in a previous report that the department organization be increased to the extent of creating a dirset distriot supers vision of ull postal affairs anl ju this sug- gostion I fully coneur, There are now connected with the Postofe in the elnssified service, This includes many who have been classified under the suggess tion of the Postmaster-General., He states tho department serves only to strengthen the Civil Service law in this public service, OUR NAVY, Attention is ealled to 1he report of the Bes. retary of the Navy, which shows very gratl- fying progress in the construction of ships for sur new navy, All the vessals now baild. ing. inclu {ing the thres torpedo bonts an thorigad at the last session of Congress and exorting the few shi lows will provably be completed during the coming flaca oS mates for the ineraase of the navy 3, Ara nrg entire sum equip all the new i, BO LHS Un oss for tne your ending Jane 30, 189 but they jnciude practically the NeESArY 10 compete und COMMmiissi s authorized the appropriations 3 for the fiscal year end , should fall below the este males of the sewing yesr by at lees $14 I'he BSecrstay prootids with mesh oura- estzose a Dies Tor tos authorization of threes additional battle ships and ten or tweive torpedo While the anarmored voss is heretolore anthorizgad, insiading those nom nearing completion, will constitute o fleet, wh it is believed is suMecieut for or- dinary cruising purposes io i wo have gow completed and in process of construction but four first-class hmttie ships and but fow torpedo boats. If we are to boats, tims of peace, have a navy for warlike operations, offensive and we certainly ougot to in- crease both the nimber of battie ships and torpado boats, 1 anufacture of armor re sive plant and the agereazation of skilled workmen 30 Arm to complete the vessels now building will be delivered before the first of June nex:, no new contracts are given out, contracto must disband their workmen an their plas must Je idle Battle shipsaattorized st th time would not be well under way until in the coming fiscal year, atid at legst th years and a hall the tract would be required The Beocretnry stato fifteen nt. of the cost of such si 1 the apps defensive, Lhe nn vjuires expen. many yr RAC ARan Ary from Her re per + included in wpriations 3 n be made battle and Japan has re pedient to despat walers, I ieel it my imperati ti to the tary in regard to the per the navy. The stagaati this, vital branch greal as 10 seriously I consider it of the utn importance t the young and middle-age Mears should retire ent, be permitted to reach a grade entitling them 10 active and mportant duty. Phe system adopted a few years ago regu- isting the employment of labor at the navy yards is rigidiv upbeid, and bas fal strated its usefulness and expediency, wishin the domain of Civi 48 WOrsinen are emp labor selected at saca given work without ¥ to eall atten recOmin of the Roecre. i of the line of promolion in service, is 0 s efficiency the before the eve of Dervioe re rm. wed throudh a navy vard, refer«noe to board of aud are preference, however, being given (0 ara} and’ navy veterans and those having formes navy yard experience, It is hoped that if this system continues to be strictly adhered $0, there will so & natural consequence, SUCH an of dalization of party benefit as will remove ad tempia- tion to relax or abandon ft, PUBLIC LANDS, The public land disposed of during th year amounted to 10,407,100. 77 acres, includ ing 28 976.05 of! Indian lands, it is estimated that the pu slice don remainiof amounts to a tle more 600,000,000 acres, Including, however, 360. 000,000 acres in Alaska, as well as munary reservations and raliroad and other tions of Iands yet unadjadieated. The total cash receipts from sale of lands amonnted tH 82.674. 285.79, Inguding €91.- $81.03 reosived for Indian landd, Thirtv-five thousand patents were issuad for ngricuitural lands, and thirty-one hun- din still selec. ments of their holdings in severally, the I fully indorse the resommendation of the vided for our forest reserves and that a com- prehensive forestry system ba inangurated, Sach keepers and superintendents as are necessary to protest the forest already re. sorved should be provided, 1 am of the opinion that there should be an abandon. ment of the policy sanotionsd by present laws under which the Government, for a very small consideration, is rapidly losing title to immense tracts of land coverad with tim. ber which should be properly reserved as per manent sources of timber supply. The sugeestion that a change be made in the manner of securing surveys ofthe publie jnnds ia espacially worthy of consideration, 1 am satisfied that these surveys shoald be made hy a 00 of competent surveyors under the immediate control and direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Ofae, I concur in the opinion that the Commis. stonsr of the General Land OMos should be relieved from the duty of deciding litigated land eases, that a nonpartisan cooart should be ereated to pass on such Sano, and that the decisions of this court shoul be final, at least so far as the decisions of the department are now fiasl, The propos court might be given author ty to corti! questions of law, in matters © espesial importanos, to the Suprema Court of the United Stales or tha Court of Apppaals for tha District of Columbia for decision, The orsation of such a tribunal would expadite the disposal of eases nnd Insure decisions ol a more satis. fastory character, The registers and receiv. ors Ww originally hear and desids thess disputes shoald not be invested with authors fty to compel witness to attend and testily before them, THR INDIANS, Though the sondition of the Indians shows nu stondy and healthy progress, thelr situa tion Is not satisfactory at all points. Roms ol them to whon allotments of land have boon made are found to ba unable or Aisin. poor my men the Chayennes and hone, who, ns it appears by reports of a and in of expsiiencs and {§ntelligence find thelr fot nn hard one, we ought not to expec Indians, unless far advanesd in civilization and habits of industry, to support them. selves on the small tracts of land usually allotted tothem, I am convinesd that the proper solution of the Indian problem mod ths success of evary step taken in that direction depend to n very large extent upon the intelligence ani honesty of the reservation agents and the interest they have in thelr work, An agent fitted for his places cin do mush towaris preparing the Indians usder his charges for eitisnship and allotment of thelr lands, and his advice as to any matter oon corning their walfirs will not mislead, An unfit agent will make no sffort to advanpe the Indians on his reservation towards cigil- ization or preparation for allotment of lands in severaity, and his opinion as to their con dition inthis and other regards is heedichs and valueless, The indications are that the detail of army officers as Indian agents will result in lm proved management on the reservations, The intelligent Indian schon] management of the past year has been followed by grati- fying resalts, Efforts have been made to advances the work in a sound and prastical manner, Five institutes of Indian teachers have bodn held during the year, and have proved very bensfieial through the views ox. changed and methods discussed partion. larly applicable to Indian education Efforis are being made in the direction of gradusl reduction of the pumber of In dinn contract sof that in a compar atively short time they may give way alto- gether to «hools, and it is bop : r be so gradual as 10 be perfected without 100 great expenss Lo the Government or undae disrezard of in ¥ by have estab. made |} maintaining such contract Gols, 80 fyove oped that thee ssf ments those Who ila wee schools, The Jished appropriation for the current year, ending June 89, 1855, applicable to the or dinary expenses of Indian service, amounts to $6,733,008. 18, being leas by $653,- 240.54 salle aC the than the »1 on the sount for the prev sum PENSION MATTERER At the close of the ia i on the 80s y of June, 1884, thers wers 960.544 persons on our pension rolis, being a net in- crenss of 3582 over the number reported at the end of the previous year. Tires pensioners may be Soldiers and sailors, wars, 758,968; widows and relatives of de- sensed soldiers, 215,162 ; army narsss ia the War of the Bebeliion, 414. Of these pension- sre 52,080 are survivin of Indian and other wars prior to the Civil War, and widows and relativ yes soldiers, The remsinder, nu SEIVIOR pensions o1 the Re on, An fider the 3 , 1890, sometimes sion nw, o total amount expanded yeusions z the year was $139,851, 461.05, leaving pected balance from the sum appro. od of $25,205,712.65. The sum necessary to moet pansion sxpon- Jans 33, 1836, is Mary year laseifi=1 as fol survivors »f all ws sidiers the act ealied the deponds for itures for the year en iin wstimated at $140,000 000 mmissioner of Pensions is of the i on that the year 1835, thir- tioth after the close of the War of the Rebel. « t t, accord human he C ag the g to all sensibls tion, see the highest limit of the pen~ , and that after that y oar it must be deriine, » ciaims pending in ti tecressed more than 90,000 A inrge proportion of are for increase of pansion the rolls, The number of certifientes issasd was 50,- The names dropped from the rolls for all eauses during the year numbered 37 851. Among our pensioners are nins Widows and three daughters of soldiers of the Revd ion and forty-five survivors of the War of be Dbarefased and extensive pensipn frau is exposed under the direction of the courageous and generous veteran soldier now at the head of the bureau leaves no robm for the claim that no purgation ol our pene sion rolls was neaded, or that conting’l vigilance and prompt action are not nes sary 10 the same sad, Toe accusation that an effort to detect pension frauds is evidence of uafriendliness towards our worthy veterans gnd a d-nial of their claims to the generosity of the Govern suggests an unforiunite iu lifference to the commission of any offenses» which has for its motive the scaring o! a peason, and in licates a willingness to ba biiad 10 the sx istenioe of! mean and frescheroad orimes which play upon demagogic lears and make sport oi the patriotic impuiss of a gratelul people, the 213. ment mens, THE ELEVENTH CEXSUS The sompletion of the Eleventh Census is now in charge of the Commissioner of Lavor, The total disbursements on account of the work for the fisoal vear ending Jute 30, 1894, amounted to $10,265 676.851. Atthe close of the year the numbsr of persons em. ployed in the Census Offices was 678. Ar present there are about 403. The waole num- ber of volumes necessary 10 comprehend the Eleventh Census will be twenty-five, and they will contain 22.270 priate | pages, Toe assur ance is confidently made that belors the clogs of the present calendar yesr the material still incomplete will be practically in hand, and the censas can certainly be closed by the #th of March, 1835 After that, the revision and prool-res ling neces. ro. required, AGRICULTURAL APFAIRS . The Secretary of Agriculture in his report reviews the operations of his department fop the last fisoal year, and makes recommenda tions for the further extension of its useiul- poss, He reports a saving in expenditures during the year of $600,030, which is coverasd back into the Treasury, This sux ieiwentf- three per cent. of the entire appropriation, A special study has boen made of the mand for American farm products in all {ot eign markets, especially t Britain, That country received from the United States dur ine the nine months ending September 30, 1884, 305,910 live bee! eattie, vaiusd at $386,- 500,000, as against 182.611 cattle, valusl at $16,634,000, during the same perio | for 1883, During the first six montis of 1884 the United Kingdom took, also, 112,000,000 pounds of dressed beel from tae United States, valued at nearly $10,050,000, The report shows that duriug the nina months immediately pressdmg Soplamber 80, 1804, the Unfted States exported 10 Great Britain 222,676.000 pounds of potk; of a ples, 1,900,000 bushels, value! ar #2500, 0: and of horses, 3511, at An average vaue of 81890 per head, There was a fal'ing off » wheat exports of 13.505,000 ! als, and the Searctary in inclined to bellows that wheat may not, In the future, be the staple export céreal product of dar «0 by bat that corn will continue to advance in portance as an export on account of the new uses to which it is constantly being appros od, ; Pe exports of agricultural prodascts from the United States for the flanal var :
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