PRESIDENTS MESSAGE CONGRESS URGED TO IMME- DIATE FINANCIAL ACTION, Cleveland Says Delay 1s Dangerous and Recommends That the Cur rency Problem Be Solved Issue of a Popular Loan -Fifty- Year Bonds for $20 and Upward, Prosi Nleveland sent to Congress the following special mossage on the flnancial question To the Senate an yuse of Rey In my last annual message I commended | to the serious consideration of the Congress | the consideration of our National finances, and in connec 1 with the = indorsed ‘the plan of currency legislation which at that time seemed f img ianger urnish protection against { lan has not been Ba be issao ore horized nearly YOoars ago, not well at Ar pr mes nave been drawn i8 the year for the or hoarding at ile n undred and three n lous of int were drawn out during the fir the year, a mt ag gregating more than two-thirds {f that amoun : ut sixty-nine millions, was drawn out { the following two months thus indicating a marke! » ration the depleting pr #8 with the lapse of time The obligations upon which this gold has been drawn 1r the Treasury are still out standing and are avaliable for use in reg Ing the eChausting operation with shorter futervals as our perplexitions aceumuinte Conditions are certainly supervening tend ing to make the bonds wnleh ms fasted to replenish our goll less useful for that DUT GOs An adequate gold resares 18 in all alrenme stances absolutely sssential to the uphold. ing of our publi eredit and to the mainte nanes of our high National eharacter I cannot see that the diffarences of opinion eoncerning the extent to which sliver ought to be coined or usad In our eurraney should interfere with the counsels of those whose duty it Is to rectify evils now apparent in our financial situation, They have to consider the question of Na tional eradit and the consequences that will fall from its collapse, Whatever {dens may be insisted upon as to silver or bimetallism, a proper solution of the question now press ing upon us only requires a recognition o gold as well as silver, and a concession o its importance, rightfully or wrongfully ao by the | resentatives : ; skull, quired, Isa basis of National erodit, a neces. sity in the honorable discharge of our obligations payable in gold anl a badge of solvency. I do not understand that the real friends silver desire a condition that might follow stion or neglect to appresiato the mean. ng of the present exigency if it should re sult in the entire banishment of gold from our financial and currency arrangements, Besides the Treasury notes, which cer talnly should ba paid in gold, amounting to | nearly $300,000,000, ‘hers will fall due in 1904 $100,000,000 in bonds issued during the last voar. for which wa have received gold, and In 1907 nearly $600,000,000 of four por cont, bonds {ssuad in 1877. Shall the payment of these obligations in gold be repudiated? If they are to be paid in such a manner as the preservation of our National honor and National solvency de- mands, wa should not destroy, o I peril, our ability to supply ourselves gold for that purpose, Ww 0 I and recognizad to consistent with finance preservation of Nati I am not willing to ished from our currency vert such aA consequer radical slial ti I there! Laan ADYy currency Prophecies as to the Trade of 18505 Vor raf ¢t Samuol | . fron J Al £100, 00 he he ‘ i the Gov ernmer gnif At the propio are contented, . } yf debt and making money “Ev y» 1873 values have boon shrink- fng nn onsen oo of the establishment of the » : tandard, and no one oan fathon lepths to which prices will fall “There is no evidence that we are at the lowest point of depression here Is no property, except gold, which Is not depre- ciating An average erop of grain in this country this year, with fair crops abroad, will send the price of wheat at Chicago, after the next harvest, down to forty cents per bushel, Prices for corn next fall will decline to tween. ty-five cents a bushel, Fat hogs will be #3 a 100 pounds gross for next winter's packing season Prices for wool, cotton, iron, ost. tle and horses will be on the down grade during the present year, Common shesp, after the wool Is taken off ext year, will sell for what the pelt will then bring, twenty five conta His Helght Was Fatal, Ihomas Peterson, six feet six inches tall, aol t 300 pounds and employed in the enr works at West Albany, N. Y., was put In charge of a new baszaw, After half an hour the saw, running at high speed, burst, One Inrge pieces out off the top of Peterson's He would have escaped Injury if he had been shorter in stature. Ho disd at the City Hospital, IE NEWS EPITO astern nnd Middle y 1 South and West National Woman National Woman » Su “i gah at Alia MIZED, States Suffragists rage As ita, tm syor by Mra, B5 Bennett, of Kentucky, Ne rk had thirteen delegates in attendances at th wnventio + oquosti without representation was Hyosy addresses hy Rav, Ant Hatch, of Maine, Mrs, Chap ivn, and Miss Routhw Anthony addressed the tavor of the sstablishn f pepers, m {f taxatl the su! i nm Shaw M nan { Bro Ohlo M vention briefly (no woman suffrage 1. Lo {IRD Cf the Seant China's Ran Amuack In Constantinople nd hare wy purderor esol Governor Nelson Steps Ont the Minnesota Governor Knu view Nanat r Cl rhyt Cleft Him in Twain, Joseph W. Taylor, a miller town, N. J... mot a terrible death at | mill, He fall on a big saw, which was rag ly revolving, and was it squarely int the waist Tux wile of Dr. K. 1, Mason, of I waa killed by the collapse of a folding. Her hushand and ohild, helplessly pinned § therein, were pescued nahurt, RAIN, 1 ater Patents Tr NB nls No Wi I'ra Whit iy Ninte Uariay Unaem Fimothy iover fel ity Hloam LIVE 870K Dooves, oity Jdressad Mileh Cows, co Calves, city Country Kheap, # 100 ha at Lambs. ¥ 100 he Chuhe Hogs~Live, ¥ 100 Ms... .. Dressed. .oooooniis vine to good Troan] |ronse. | SABBATH | CHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR FERRUARY 10 Lesson Text: “Christ and the Chil. dren,” Matt, xvill,, 1. 14 Golden Matt, xviil,, 14-Com- mentary. Successful Skin Grafting, Skin grafting has proved suceessnl In the onse of Mma. A. VV. Fhiggemid, of Ohi cago, and she is rapid recovering from burns, feared at one time as likely to be fatal, Bhe overturne | a lamp on October 4 Jas, and the biszing oll ignited her clothing, which burned the neck and breast! About six hundred pieces o! skin were taken by Dr. Webster from the husband, but he could not furnish enough, Capiain Walls, of Company K, First Regiment, I. N. G., with his whole command then offered. themselves to ther fellow member, Mr, Fite. yerald, and many hundred pieces of skin so Mlarod were utilinnd —— To Compel Avawers to Letters Representative Seabpry introduced in the House of the Texas Legicigure the most novel bill in the world, It provides that anv « one reeniving A letter and falling 10 answer ft within tens dave shall be flood 2 000 ar les setitenon | 10 one year in the county jail an L In aegravated cases both peaaitl » siall Le wnloremd,
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