THE Madame Furtado Heine Is dead. She was decorated by the late President Carnot for her charity A board of army officers are engaged in testing the alleged defective armor plates at Newport News, The Marquis of Montcalm, the last male descendant of the defender of Quebec, died NEWS. on Wednesday at Montpellier. Spanish papers bitterly criticise President Cleveland's message and blame Minister De Lome for not correcting ‘false’ statements in it Attorney-General McCormick sult against the Reading road to determine bring Rail fide may reorganized whether it 1s a bona corporation The entire plant and fixtures of the Ne braska City Distillery were sold for $60,000 by Gen. John MceNulta, of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company. The of Kx aroused forces of tha receiver Southern part Bacyrus in f Are ia killed Rall and armed men search of an unknown tramp who a brakeman on the Chicago and Erie road, The tariff committee's report to the Cham making ber of Deputies insists upon jual to those of Aus Frenoh sugar bounties eq tria and Germany formerly ow withdrawn , which involve the 200.0 Ki 000 ships, An oll ar near Findley, O 1 gas well was d , whieh pr of the greates the Ohi estimate capacity of 15,000, 0K gas a day and 50 barrels of oll \ general resumption of « coal mines will t river Ine days, giving en The miners will receive of 37 cents per 100 bu holding good 1 \t a meeting feature is a sca ton, a s dent Clevy States was adopted in favor action in the the Dingley am tariff bill The C state Federal bonded the ta will twalarially increases tucky, and will also Uring int treasury considerable arrears of At a meeting of the Michigan ation in Grand Rapids, Mi *alled the Hardw Traverse City red basis Rn ize gents in January. rganiz the list Ex-Jud mem! deniy i Btate Gran H. nal Grange, indorsiog J f ths Nati righ master * B Ham 0 ¥ has resig Le ints are in ba ie shortage on 1 known there is a possi! saveral thousand ¢ P. Frank Evans, medicine, was f cigar factory at Warwics He had cide during the night. No ea HARE, who stead FREERTR bole in his temple, ommitted Fa PAD an 1 . f signed | or the suicide, The works of the Roxbury pany, Boston, Mass , which were shat 4 the day belors Thanksgiving, ations on full time, A employed, A special from Lima, O., says Steeps, of Van Wert, O.. an Beeretary for the Coltmbian Loan Association of Columbus, has fled, Carpet Com we resgmed oper wat 2000 hands are “Charles D, att and Building and He ney, is a defaulter for a large amoont About 1 o'clock Monday morning a mot tay county farmers broke into the Jail at Lexingron, Mo , securad Jasse Winner and James Nelson, held for the murder of Mrs, Winner and her two babies and lynch ed them FP ypulist Gov. <Eleet John W. Kaus 8, in an interview outlines a proposi- tion to unite Kansas Populists, Democrats and Silver Republicans into one party are only different in names,” sald he want to ses thess factions united,” We “yr koown guide in the accidently killed, He was struck and his skuil was crushed by a tree which he was and possessed of remarkable strength, was 70 yoars old. The will of William Ivison, the publisher who died last May, leaving an estate valued at nearly $5,000,000, is being contested by a large number of nephews and nieces, to whom bequests were not made. The bulk of the fortune was left to David B. Ivison, a nephew, who was named as exesutor cc a M. Baint-Basns, the Freach composer, is about to start on one of his long journeys that he so frequently takes, being often ab- sent from Paris Months at a time, leaving his friends sntirely in the dark as to where be 7A a IAs ten Official reports of General Wevler's prog- ress through Cuba, represent the country as desolate and lo ruin, where formerly 1t was pletaresquely beautiful, Gen, Galixto Garels woports a victory over the Bpanish forees. THE MESSAGE. Mr. Cleveland's Last Review of the Country’s Condition, CUBA THE CHIEF TOPIC. ————— | Cuban Home Rule Under Our Guar antee Suggested to Spain. o When Spain is Helpless In the Taland Then Mr. Cleveland Thinks We Should Intere Limit Our fere-«""A to Turkish Waiting" ee Atrcelties Scored and Venez. uwelan Dispute Declared EEodede..The Fresent Tariff Law is Approved-..Cuor. rency Reforms Saggestodelireenbaoks Should Ee Retired by Long.Term Bouds-~The Heports of Departments. Wasnixot mossage As represe: islative b have assem and axesllence of the fitness of , With or the least sig structure. When we sontampiate manly subn heated cln eovsr abund en the part of avery verdiet « euntrolied at all ths agencies satal the affairs of 1 In ot meant, [© taln inf wit a} nthe su The Armenian Qaestion, ’ rau At the portant matters foreign powers, it w tion if I could assy disturbed dition ir daring the past Ee 14 wnt 8 re . Pa VAST RES ment, rapti who a their o Aan vy oof Jaf "na ! Caring for Our Rahjects in Turkey. Bavernl naval vessels } int Ma iit SHEAR 08 § io [4 + i Of nn Wal of missionary p arty irpoot and ash during vison 5 far the these demands has ne bean admitted, though our ¥ inister, to surh outrages and in antisipation of mor, demanded protection for the persons and property of onr mistionary citizens in the localities mentioned, and notwithstand fog that strong evidence exists actual gsomplicity of Turkish soldiers in the work of destruction and robbery, The facts as they now appear do not por. mit us to doubt the justice of those claims, and nothing will bs omitted to bring alo t | thelr prompt settlement, i A number of Armenian refugens having arcived at our porte, an order has int siy heen {| obtained from the Tarkish Government per mitting the wives and children of sush rely. gs to join them here. I! is hoped that hereafter no obteracle wili be interposed 10 i prevent the gseape of all those who seek to | avoid the perils which threaten them in Turkish dominions, Our recently appointed Consul to Freerum in at his post 1nd discharging the duties of his offices, though for some unaesogntabls reason hia formal exeqaatur from the Sultan has not been fasned, I do not believe that the present sombes prospect in Turkey will be long permittet to | offend the sight of Christendom. [t so mars the humane and enlighteged civilisation that belongs to the close of the nineteenth sone tury that it seems hardly possible that the Pnroost demand 5! good people throughout the Chr stian world for its sorrgetive treats ment will remain unanswered, The Insarrection in Cabs, The insurrection in Cuba still econtiunes with all its perplexities, It is difffenlt to peresive that any progress has thus far been made toward the pacification of the fstand or that the situation of affairs ns depicted In my last moousl m oe has in the least improved: If Spain still holds Havana and the seaports and all the sonsiderabis towne, the insurgents still roam at will over at lenst two-thirds of the inland country, It tha determination of Spain tz put dowa the insurrection seams but to strengihen with the lapse of time, and ix ovinesd by her une hesitating devotion of inrgsly increased mile Hary apd naval foress to the task, there is mach reason to believe that the insurgents have gaiad in point of numbers and eharae. ter and resources, and are pons the jess in. flexible im their resvive not to swecumb, ¢ Of withont practically securing the great oh. jest for which they took up arme, If Spain 18 not yet ro-established her authority, neither have the {osurgents yet made good their title to be regarded as an independent State, Indesd, ng the contest hans gone on, the pretence that eivi government exists on the island, exoept so iar ns Spain ie able to maintain it, has been practionlly abandoned, Spain does keep on foot such nn goverument, more or fin- perfectly, fn the large towns amd their ims mediate suburbs, But, that exception being made, the entire country is either given over to anarchy or is to the military occupation of ona or the other party. It is reported, indeed, on reliable authority that, at the demand the Commander-in-Chiaf of the insurgent army, the putative Caban Government has now given up all attempt to exorcise {ts funetions, leaving that governs ‘ment (what there is the best reason for supposing it always to have been in fact) a government merely on paper, Thinks the Cuban War May Ue longed Indefinitely, Were the Spanish armies able to {heir antagonists in the open, or in pitehed battle, prompt and decisive results might be looked for, and the Immense superiority of manish foroes in numbers, discipline iipment could hardly fall to tell to thelr advantage, Bat they are face a that shuns general that ean cho and d« own ground, that from the ns- untry is visible or invisible at and that fights only 1 ambuas- and when all the advants numbers are on its side, Joss stihioot ’ Of caonfessadly Pro« meet i called n fos VEO FOR ture of the o ale nil that ®t WAY Of is indispensable wd, ol and shelter | by thoso « thine $ sinilv i eapital iia the &iten *eruniary interest in ( ati Ati the yovearny 1 in Es otect American citizens, to for injuries to persons and timated at many millions Ask explanations and apologies fo of Spanish officials, whose zeal pression of rebellion pometimes blinds them tothe immunitios belonging t ing citizesas of a frendly power from the same cause that the United is vompelled to actively police a jong soa cost against un awlal moape of whish utmost not always sufflee (o prevent. Ths Question o! Intervention, Thess inevitable entanglements of Un Inrge Ameriobn property interests affected, and considerations of philanthropy and ha. manity in general, have lad to a vehement y thie tio the vigitanos will tha positive intervention on the part of the United States, It was at first proposed that belligerent rights & 1 be accorded to the insurgents «a proposition no longer urged because untitaely and in prastioal operation clearly § erilous and injurious: to our awa interoats, It has wince been and is now some mes contended that the iadependrnoe of the insurgents should be recognized, Bat imperfect nud resiricted as the Spauish government of the izland may be, no other «xigts there-aniess the will of the military offiesr in temporary command ol A particular distriot enn ba dicnifled as a spories of government. It is now also suggested that the United States shoula bay the isiand— ’ suggestion possibly worthy of consideration ! thers were any evidence of a desire or willingness on the part of Spain to enterain such a proposal, It is urged, foally, that, ali other methods falling, the existing inter. nocing strife in Caba should be terminated by our intervention, even at the cost of & war between the United States and Spals—a war which its advocates confidently prophesy could be neither large In its proportions nor doubtful in its issue, The correctness of this forecast nesd be neither affirmed nor denied. The United States has nevertheless a character to main. tain as 2 pation, which plainly dictates that right and not might should be the rule of its conduct. And yet neither the Government nor the people of the Unitea States have shut their ey» to the course of events in Cuba, or have failed to realizs the existance of sone ceded grievance, which have lod to the ent revolt from ths au of Boa grievances by and by Lhe Cories, voiced Ly the most palris otie and enlightened of Spanish statesmen, without regard 10 party, and demonstrated by reforms proposed by the executive and wpproved by the legislative branch of tae Kpanish Government, t is in the assumed temper and disposition of the Hpansh Gove srament to remedy these griovanees, forti- fled by indientions of influential public pinion in Spain, that this Government has hoped to discover the most promising and nffunstive means of composing the present irife, with honor and advantages to Npain und with the achievement of all the reason- While objects of the insurrection, Cleveland's Plan tor Ending the War, It would seem that {ff Spain should offer lo Cuba genuine autopomy-—-a measure of ome rule which, while preserving the soy #relgnty of Spain, would satisfy all rational requireronts of her Bpanish subjects-~thaere thoutd be no just reason why the pacifiestion of the island might uot be effected on that asis, Bunch a result would appear to pe in i true interest of all concerned, It kt onos stop the conflict whieh is now e suming the resources of the island and fing it worthless for whatever party may ul. { imately prevail, It would kesp intact possessions of Boaln without touching { her honor, which will be consulted rather than (impugned by the adequate redress of | sdmitted grievances, It would put the yor isinnd and the fo nes of ta jot within their ithout severing the ties which bind them tot 11d yet enable them to test for self government under it Hpai i L043 the mperity of the Own coutr natural and an hie mother country i! ’ ent {tants | nod we their . Fen hd nines heen oO sje ner nited States’ Offered Guarantees, varies — Hit we Poe 110 expects condition as wal i ft nie ng for 8 and Iries Ww cosslally with fanat £1 ALY © the inn Snain #4 10% deal ns be it is den nied (hat is extinat aba Tor all par ful existence, and when a the insur tisfind and gouty wes of ite right sive loge strg rarnl gle nergted into a strife which means noth and the utter destruction of the very ject-matter of the sonfliet, to the sovereignty of Spain will be au persed. ed by higher obligations, which we can hard. iy hesitate to recognize and discharge. De. fersing the choice of ways and methods until the time for astion arrives, ws shoulg make them depend upon the preeiss eondi. tions then existing: and they should not be dotermined upon without giving eareful i head to avery consideration invoiving our | honor and interest, or the international duty we owe to Spain. Until we facs the contin. gencied suggested, or the situstion is by { other jneidents imperatively changed, we {| should continue in the line of conduct horn. { tofore pursmed, thas in all clreamstances axbibiting our obedience to the require ments of publis law aad our regard for the duty enjoined upon us by the position we occupy in the family of! nations A contemplation of emergencies that may { arise should plainly lead us to avoid thelr | creation, either through a careless disregard | of present duty or sven an undue stimula { tion and illtimed expression of feeling, Bm I bave dosmed it not amiss fo remind the Congress that a time may arrive when 8 eorrest poliey and ears for our interests, a wnll aa a regard for the interests of other oa tions and their oitizens, joined by considera. tions of humanity and a desire to seen rich and fertile country, intimaleiv related to us, : saved from complete devasflition, will con. strain our Government to sueh action as will subserve the interests thus involved and of the same timo promise to Cabs aod its in habitants an opportunity to enjoy the bless ings of peace, The Veneznelan Roundary. The Venezuelan bound question hm 10 ba a matter of di on betwoer Great Britain and the United Siates, thel re gpective Gove the substantial ting the whole controversy : The provisions of the treaty are so eminent. Iy [ust and fair, that the assent of Yenonuely thereto may confidently be anticipated. Arbitration Treaty With England, Negotiations for a treaty of general arbi for all yd bet weon tration Great Britain and the United States are tr ad consummation ot an early date. Yacks ¥ioum Department Reporis, Having discussed the Cuban question at Jsngth, the President turns to other matters, Heo repeats his recommendation “in favor of providing at public expense official resi. dences for our ambassadors aod ministers st foreign capitals,” Figures are given showlog that the Gov. ernment’s receipts lust year were $409,475, 404.78 while expenditures in the same time wore §,454,078,604. 4%, the expenditures over receipts thias amounting to §25,208,245.70, Phe number of immigrants arriving in the United Btates during the fiscal your wis 848,207, of whom 040 468 wers permitted to Innd, and 2799 were debuired, on various prounds prescribed by law, and returned tc the countries ence they came, at the ax. pense of the stesnmshipreompnnies by which they were brought In, The increnss in fm. migration over Lhe preseding Your amounted to 84,781. The report of the Beeretary of War exhib mditio the § ie service intrusted te its satisfnetory ne in severn branches of the pub his chinrge, I'he Post Dapartment tition, and the exhibit made of | ation during the fiseal year ended June 1856, if allowanes is inthe laws applicable to it, is tory. Offios is in good [oer 30 eon in ade for | very satisfac mperiection of vessels for our now psacgted by 1 the genera “The eonstraction navy hins energetically pr the present Administration ug previously adopted, having seen no necessity f in prior methods un found to be progr satisfactory, here have prince Mare iy draft Deen line artment Manges was highly er which ri aEsing in been authorized fi, 1883. five ba sixteen to gunboats fie wight Ha Becretary ave for the 1isers and vo ot . kaj ’ i) he President o the 5 wall th 1 h aon tion made by Interi r, & riergst ign voor was 378], an ; & the vear wan @583 758! stitrios at the ¢ | the am «unin 5 apuropriat awe PUNE ree my in sited 3d wervati weed 1 appears that tent financial managem F saved 8 large sun agRregating 3 10 the closes ¢ rear " y one-fifth riated, T pilshed by a o ue study neads of the farmer and such a regard S2OROMmYy as the nine farmer ought to ap- preciate, supplemented by a rigid adherenos to elvil service methods In a which should be condusied in the interest of agriouiture instead of partisan politics The Becretary reports that the value of our exports of farm prodacts during the last fle. eal year amounted to $470,000.000, an increas of $17,000,000 over those of the year immedi. ately preceding. loss welcome besause of the fact that, not- withstanding such increase, the proportion of sxported agricultural products to our total exports of all desoriptions fell off dur- fog the year, ne penefli2 of an increase in agricultural exports being assured, the dea crease in its proportion to our total exports is the more gratifying when we consider that it 12 owing to the fact thal such total exports for the year increased mors than §75,000,000. The iarge and increasing exportation ot our agricultural products suggests the great ussfuiness of the organization Istely estab- lished in the Department for the purpose of giving to those engaged fu farming pursuits reliable Information concerning the condi. tion, needs and advantages of differant foreign markets, Inasmuch as the snocess of the farmer depends upon the advantageous sale of his products, and inasmuch as foreign markets mast largely be the destination of such products, it is quite apparent that a knowledge of the conditions and wants that affect those markets ought 10 result in sow. ing more intelligently asd reaping with a batter promise of profit, Sash information points out theway to a pradent foresight in the selection and enltivation of erope and to a releass from the bondage of unreasoning monotony of production, a glatied and ae- pressed market and eonsiantiy recurring unprofitable toll, Cpposed to Free Beads. In my opinion the gratuitions distribation of seads by the Agricultural Department as at t sonducted ought to be discon re ta a Bd , don ~ on this sa an ot t of questionable results of this 1 friends the pita have hewn gaocoin. nssient] { ’ Tho Weather Burean, now attached to the of Agriculture, has continued to of mstulne Fg B ey 5 5 of its foreonsts i ! ¢ . orenpations are relaled to Livin, woenther condi Clvil Service, The progress made in Civil Bervice Retorm furnishes a enuse for the utmost concratyulse It has survived i of its vuds as well as the raneor o has gained a parma hie ngroneios destined to ¢ i Wo improve, sconomive He neryios, I'he Civil Bervios rales s IASL Yer ids for a sie and rts method ! wligibility nl nog thn fl ¥ ent pine VE ATA Riv awed uni Vi i kitinns u onstrated « ney and falthfalness, The atwoenes of xed rides ou this subject bas infirmity in the system more aod more its other benefits have hee brat tosr tur) : en An rent bette The Matter oof Tarif, Conmserning the tariff? that © HW tifled ns sources of Government to me of it our present tariff is Grtunity wri portunity, will ir tarifY ars reve t the ne S InAIBIsua nee, nr revenue wi x pondityres In the a emt rit ther 10 fr P a t3 tis riper. rager Is In anger i position of ¢belef that { trasis a BC BOvYal personal ch sel Giness cannot han in rious Though Cor this malier by legisla t 3 that purpose thus far have pr not because of any ack « § fompt to enforce (hem, 1} the laws themselves as inte oourts do not reach the ie sufliciencies of existing Jaws can be remedied by further legitlation it should be done. The fact must be recognised, ¥ ® Ary in ri gress has git on this subject may fall hort of its purpose because of ob- siacies, and a because of the complex char- acter of our governmental system, which while mak ng the Federal authority sapreme within jis sphere, has oaref ply limited thst sphere bry metes and bourse which cannot be transgressed, The decision of our highest court on this precise guestion renders it quite doubtful whether the evils of tru<ts and mo- npopolies can be sdequateiy treated hrough Federal action. unjess they soek directly and purpoasely to include in their objects transpor- mation or intercourse between States or bee tween the United States and foreign coun tries, it goss not follow, however, that this is the limit of the remedy that way be anplied, Even though it say be found that |e eral authority is not oad enough fo fully rach the case, there ¢an be ho doubt of the power of the several 814101 85 scot effectively an the premises. and there should he no reason © doubt their willinguess 10 judiciously exercise #uch power, An Appeal fer Economy. In concluding this communication, ite last words shall be wn appen! So the Udagres for the most rigid sconomy in the expenditure of the money it hoids (a wast for (he people. The way 1 perplexing extravaganos is esey, but a return 0 frugslity is difficult. When, however, it 18 consfuercd {hat those who bear the burdens of taxation have no guaranty of honest care save in the Gdelay of thelr public servants, the duty of all possible retrench- ment is plainty manifest, When our differences are Torgol ten, and our contests of political opinion are no longer re. membered, nothing in the retrospect of our com duty however, that al ederal Jegisiation inherent as the recol Grover CLRYELARS, Erxocutive Mansion, Dec. 7, 1890. Joba Willian, a colored laborer at a stops 8 stick of dysamite into a Pot of boiling water. It exploded, together wih thirty other sticks near by, Williams was instantly
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