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 :