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our men were conducting themselves in a , ESS AGE Maa puiion ck ts sar took: tare Mat oe, , ci eA penile he «| saose tics eed hake weapenn WO Sets cabot oe while s few others, with some comme? from First Page. some of them, while being taken to were cruelly beaten and maltreated. PANS CASE. shows of the peace. So far as I have yet been able to learn no other explanation of this bloody work has been Suggested than thas it had its origin in hostility to these men as sailors of the United States, wearing the uniform of their government, and not in any individual act or: ‘The attention of the Chilean government wa at once called to this affair, and a statement of | the facts obtained by the investigation we bad conducted was submitted, accompanied by a Tequest to be advised of any other or qualify ing facts in the possession of the Chilean Gi ernment that might tend to relieve this affair of the appearance of an insnlt to this Govern- |ment. “The Chilean Government was also advised that if such qualifying facts did not | exist this Government would confidently ex- | pect full and prompt reparation. AWAITING AN INVESTIOATION. It is to be regretted that the reply of the Sec- retary for Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government was couched in an offensive tone. by a mob of Mi and discreditable have it origin talian people, Government of | of the nry of the mob as the supposed he murder of « bis matigal gunst law and ng the interna- fit. It was at an minister that been taken by and a demand jeiment of the partici anity to the families of It is to be regretted claims were romote a calm J; but this ment and t to the 4 evoked. | To this no response has been made. This Gov- to its oblign- | erument is now awaiting the result of an in- ed here were fully Vestigation which bas been conducted by the criminal court at Valpsraivo. It is reported unofticially that the investigation is about com- | pleted, and it is expected that the result will soon be communicated to this Government, to- ] gether with some adequate and satisiactory re- sponse to the note by which the attention of Chile was called to this incident. If these just expectations should be disappointed or further neediest delay intervene, I will, by a special message, bring this matter again to the atten- y for suchactionaxmay be neces- sary. correspondence with the Gov- ernment of Chile will at an early day be sub- mitted to Congress. I renew the recommendation of my special message, dated January 16, 1990, for the adop- tion of the necessary legislation to enable this government to apply in the case of Sweden and Norway the same rule in respect to the las its on of the affair ther there were ‘worthy ttention of I believe, be entirely | ake offenses rs domi- bie in the however, been nd courts have either for reign citizen or for the it would, for Com has not, ral off Itweems to me to| levying of tonnage ducs as was claimed and w. that the secured to the shipping of the United States in h police and 1828 under article 5 of the treaty of 1827. the considera- ut of ‘The adjournment of the Senate without ac- tion on the pending acts for the suppression of j the slave trattic in Africa and for the reform of the revenue tariif of the Independent | State of the Congo left this government unable | to exchange thoge acts on the date fixed, July 2, 1891. A modus vivendi has been concinded by which the power of the Congo State to levy duties on imports is left unimpaired, and, by agreement of all the siguatories to the’ general slave-trade act, the time for the exchange of ratifications on the part of the United States has been extended to February 2, 1892. OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA. The late outbreak against foreigners in vari- ous parts of the CLinese Empire has been a cause of deep concern in view of the numerous joWers In 5 of in in stions growing egarded im such cases as to make this Government ir acts in cases where it bie if the United States bad tonal power to define and treaty rights. TA CASE. i began in Jan- d, but fortunately with equent ond 1 rtant armed collisions, st. 25. when Congressional forces: iso and, after a bloody en- captured that city. President Bal- ce recognized that his eause 4 be answ us punish er! The civil war ar, lest, was con @ provisional government | establishments of our citizens in the interior of ad by the victorious | that country. This Governmentean do no less prompt .cted to than insist upon acontinuance of the protective and punitory measures which the Chinese Gov- ernment bas heretofore applied. No effort will be omitted to protect our citizens peaceably sojourning in China, but recent unofticial in- formation indicates that what was at first re- garded as an outbreak of mob violence against foreigners hat assumed the larger form of an insurrection against public order. ‘The Chinese Goyernment bas declined to re- ceive Mr. Blair asthe Minister of the United tates on the ground that, «8 a participant, while a Senator, in the enactment of the exist- ing legislation’ against the introduction of Chinese laborers, he has become unfriendly and objectionable to China. I have felt constrained to point out to the Chinese Government the untenableness of this position, which seems to rest as muca on the unaccepiability of our legislation as on that of the person chosen, and which, if admitted, would practically debar the selection of any representative #0 long as the existing Jaws remain in force. You will be called upon to consider the ex- pediency of making special provision by law for the temporary admussion of some Chinese artisans and laborers in connection with the exhibit of Chinese industries at the approach- ing Columbian Exposition. I regard it as desirable that the Chinese exhibit be facilitated t in every proper way. vernment has learned by ‘THE CAROLINE ISLANDS. ne Press that the | 4 question has arisen with the Government ‘on taard muni. | Of Spain touching the rights of Americam cit- of the marshal, | izensin the Caroline Islands Our citizens carrying on board this official, | there, long prior to the confirmation of Spain's cata point near the on ne claim to the islands, bad secured by settlenient + m4 % en : ‘this ‘Gaeternment would de. | "4 purchase certain rights, to the recognition {the Itata, and, as an evi. | 8d maintenance of which the faith of Spai it is not disposed to support or | was pledged. I have bad reason within the past action of the Inws of the | year very strongly to protest against the failure . the umigrsigned takes advantage | to carry out this pledge on the part of His al relations you have been good | Majesty's ministers, which has resulted in great with Lum since your arrival | injustice and injury to the American residents. to you that assoon as| The Government and people of Spain pro- riers his Govern- | pose to celebrate the four hundredth anniver- the arms and ma-| sary of the discovery of America by holding nm San Diego, at the | an exposition at Madrid, which will open on ited States. the 12th of September and continue until the trict court of the United | 3ist of December, 1892. A cordial invitation ern district of California | has been extended to the United States te take nited im a decision holding, | part in this commemoration, and, as Spain was auch as the Con- | one of the first nations to express the intention 1 been recognized as a| to participate in the Worlds Columbian Ex- position at Chicago, 1t would be very appro- priate for this Government te give this invita- tion its friendly promotion. ‘THE INTERCONTINENTAL RAILWAY. Surveys for the connecting links of the pro- jected Intercontinental Railway arein progress, not only in Mexico, but at various points along the course mapped out. Three surveying par- ties are now in the field under the direction of the Commission. Nearly 1,000 miles of the proposed road have been surveyed, including the most difficult part, that through Ecuador and the southern partof Colombia. ‘The re- ports of the engineers are very satisfactory and show that ro insurmountable obstacles “have been met with. ‘On November 12, 1884, a treaty was concluded with Mexico reaffirming the boundary between the two countries as described im the treaties of February 2, 1843, and December 30, 1853. March 1, 1889, a further treaty was negotiated to facilitate the carrying out of the principles of the treaty of 1834 and to avoid the difficul- ties occasioned by reason of the changes and erations that take place from natural causes in the Rio Grande and Colorade rivers in the ortions thereof constituting the boundary ne between the two Republics. The Inter- national Boundary Commission, provided for by the treaty of 1589, to have exeiusive jurisdic tion of any question that may arise, has been named by the Mexican Government. An ap- propriation is necessary to enable the United States to fulfill its treaty obligation in this re- spect. Pine death of King Kalakaua in the United 4 States afforded occasion to testify our friend- ets origin in rival | stip for Hawaii by conveying the King's body pervert the relations | to Lis own land in a naval vessel with all due Ciile honors. The Government ot his successor, nt of Balmaceda | Queen Liliuokalani, is seeking to promote hich is unforvu- | closer commercial relations with the United ke history of the Central | States. Surveys for the much-needed sub- States. With the over-| marine cable from our Pacific Coast to wernment, Le and | Honolulu are in progress, and this enterprise owl oticers became at | should have the suitable promotion of the two lives and appealed to | Governments. I strongly recommend that «the forcigu naval | provision be made for improving the harbor of Pearl Kiver and equipping it as a naval station. The arbitration treaty formulated by the L ternstioual American Conference lapsed by reason of the failure to exchange ratifications fully within the limit of time provided; but several of the Governments concerned have expressed a desire to save this important result of the conference by an extension of the period. It 1s, im my judgment, incumbent upon the United States to conserve the influential initiative it has taken in this measure by ratify- ing the instrument and by advocating the pro- posed extension of the time for exchange. these views have been made known to th other siguatories. THE RUSSIAN BEUREWS. This Governinent bas found occasion to ex- press, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. By the revival of antisemitic laws, loug in abeyance, great numbers of those un- forturate people have been constrained to abandon their homes and leave the empire by reason of the impossibility of finding subsist- ence within the pale to which it is sought to confine them. ‘the immigration of these Bro: pis to the United States—many other count ing closed to them—is largely increasing and is likely to assume proportions which may make it dificult to tind homes and employment for them here and to seriously affect the labor market. It is estimated that over one million Will be forced from Russia within a few years. ‘The Hebrew is never a beggar; he has always kept the law—life by toil—oiten uuder sevel and oppressive civil restrictions, Itis also it in communication 0 scon as it should have character, which was cy of this civil con- ais Were made to this ent rights to the to their repre- d that policy throughout, whieh this Gov- wrenched by civil war, so e part of Eu- armed vessel com- icer of the insurgent rs and with soldicrs on process of the United 0, Calttornia, for a vio~ While in the eus- of the court the vessel was »m bis control and put to wave been inconsistent with the tof this Government not the itata uld be re- abide the judgment of lear to the Junta of d at Iquique, wat that port, the Pro- foreibly wre sea. It wou! of the per for, if this ate is corres, there is or revision and amendment. var in Chile this flices to bring ent, and it was at one i result might be reached; a. aval officers and to rom the first to the joined upon them the and absolute non- d that these instruc- our representa- i to use their intu- erest of humanity, eceasion, did 80 however, matic rela ns with the nu quite sure nuder circum: of Chile, been e has been pre- ad it is @ matter £ our own people should ar zes and com- ely given, accord- he naval vessels of by several of the can minister, xctinz upon the im- syInun to political perl. Ihave not ander of such of © American lega- Government of Chile vew of the precedents otest, and it unfriendly THE ATTACK ON THE SaILons. Gu the i6th of October an event occurred in Valparaiso so serious and tragic in its cireum- stances and results as to very justly excite the people aud to call for prompt non the partof this govern- sider.) le number of thesailorsof the mship Baltimore, thea in the yaxaire, Leimg upon ‘shore leave re assuuited by armed men in different localities in t was killed outright t seamen were seriously since died. So say- us the arsault that several of seven be stad w ore & two, and one as | true that no race, sect, or class has more fully stab wounds. Au investiga- | eared for its own’ than the Hebrew race. But Was promptly mado by a board } the sudden transiez of such a muititude, under ofthe Baltimore, and their report couditiors that tend to strip them of th abows thas these assaults were unprovoked, that 4 ‘a amall the; <n ahebacgebi ae arecuat peterasha that they were isc] no inal | army ind for charge being lodged against any one of them, | have rery clearly that they were innocent of | fr any breacl tll a THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D.C. WEDNESD. pS ees 9, 1891—TEN PAGES: and courage, is neither good for them nor for | months of the preceding year, when the tm- Os. The banishment, whether by direct decree or by not less certain indirect methods, of 80 large a number of men and women is not a citizens, endeavored to protect our men. | local question. A decree to leave one country Thirty-six of our sailors were arrested, and | is, in nature of thi an order to enter another—some other. C01 as tions of humanity, es the remonstrances which we nted to Russia, while our historic ip for that Government can not fail to the assurance that our representations are of a sincere wellwisber. ‘THE NICARAGUA CANAL. ‘The annual report of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua shows that much costly personal animosity. | and necessary preparatory work has been done | during the during the year in the construction of shops, railroad tracks, and harbor piers and break- | waters, and that the work of canal construc- | tion has made some progress, I dec it to bea matter of the highest con- cern to the United States that this canal, con- | necting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacitic | oceans and giving to usa short water commu- nication between our ports upon those two great seas, should be speedily constructed and atthe wmallest practicable limit of cost. The gain in freights to the people and the direct | saving to the Government of the United States | in the use of its naval vessels would pay the entire cost of this work within a abort series of years. The report of the Socretary of the Navy shows the saving in our uuvel expenditures which would result, The Senator from Alabama (Mr. Morgan), n his argument upon this «upject before the ‘onate ut the last session, did Hot overestimate the importance of this work when he said that “the canal ix the t important subject now | connected with the commercial growth and | Progress of the United Sta If this work is to be promoted by the usual financial methods and without the aid of this Government, the expenditures, in ite intereet- bearing securities nnd stocks, will probably be | twice the actual cost. This will necessitate | highor tolls und constitute a beavy and alto- | gether needless burden m our commerce | and that of the world. Every dollar of the bonds and siock of th sent a dollar exper economical pr only poss:bi; Sach sale at par time to time, I do not business fron needed. upon these was built methods, the cans! would, when fully inaugu- doubt that, rated, earn its fixed ¢ expenses. But at it at heavy discounts ges and operating ds are to be marketed nd every bond sold is to be accom gift of stocl come to | be expected | such enterprises, \the tratt burdened to pay inter: dividends. ian quite willing to recommend Government promction in the | prosecution of a work which, if no other means offered for securing its completion, is of such transcendent interest that the govern- | ment should, in my opink appropriations from 1 sot the Canal Com- } ry to the completion be so given as not to involve any serious risk of ultimate loss. The things to be caretully guarded are the completion of the work within the limits of the y, the subrogation of the United States | to the rights of the first-mortgage bondholders for any amounts it may have to vay, and in the meantime a control of the stock of the com- pany asa security aguinst mismanagement and joss. I most sincerely hope that neither party nor sectional lines will be drawn upon this great American project, so full of interest to the people of all our states and so influential in its effects upon the prestige and prosperity of our common country. THE NAVASSA LABORERS. The Island of Navassa, in the West Indian group, has, under the provisions of Title 72 of the Revised Statutes, been recognized by the President as appertaining to the United States. It contains guano deposits, is owned by the Navassa Phosphate Company, and is occupied solely by its employes. in September, 1889, a revoit took place among these laborers, result ing in the killing of some of the agents of the company, caused, as the laborers claimed, by cruel treatment. ” These men were arrested and tried in the United States court at Baltimore, under section 5576 of the statute referred to, as if the offenses had been committed on board a merchant vessel 0 United States on the high seas. There appeared on the trial, and otherwise came to me, such evidences of the bad treatment of the en that, in considera- tion of this and of the fact that'the men had no access to auy public officer or tribunal for Protection or ‘the redress of. their wrongs, I commuted the death sentences that had been passed by the court upon three of them. In April jast my attention was again called to this | i and to the unregulated condition of things there, bya leiter from a colored la- borer, who complained that he was wrongfully detained upon the island by the phosphate company after the expiration of his contract of service. A naval vessel was sent to examine into the case of this man and generally into the condition of things on the island. It was found that the laborer referred to had been detained beyond the contract limit and that a condition of revolt again existed among the laborers. A rd of naval oflicers reported, among otber 8, a8 follows: € would desire to state further that the discipline maintained on the island seems to be that of a convict establish Without its i until more attention is paid to te shipping of laborers, by placing it under Government supervision to prevent misunderstanding aud misrepresenta- tion, and until some amelioration is shown in the treatment of the laborers, these disorders will be of constant occurrence.” f recommend legislation that shall place labor contracts upon this and other isiands having the reiation that Navassa has to the United States under the supervision of a court commissioner, and that shail provide, at the expense of the owners, an oflicer to reside upon the islands with power to judge and ad- just dispates and to enforce a just aud buinane treatment of the employes. it is inexcusable that American laborers should be left witiin our own jurisdiction without access to any Goverhment ofiicer or tribunal for their pro- tection and the redress of their wrongs. International copyright has been secured, in accordance with the condition f the act of March 3, 1891, with Beigiun France, Great Eritain and the British possessious, and Switz- erland, the laws of those ccuntries permitting to our citizens tne benefit of copyright on sub- stautially the same basis as to their own citi- us or subjects. With Germany # special on has been negotiated upou this sub- Will bring bat country within the nefits of our legislatio ‘A guaray pany to an imount nece ject, whi Teeiprocal The Treasury Deparanen The general interest in the operations of the Treasury Department has been much aug- mented during the last year by reason of the conflicting predictions, which accompanied and wed the tariff and other legi of the last Congress effecting th to the results of this legislation upon the Treasury and upon the country. On the one hand it was contended that imports wolld so fall off as to leave the Treasury bankrupt and that the prices of articles entering into the liv- ing ot the people would be so enkanced as to disastrously affect their comfort and happi- | ness, while on the other it was argued that the | Joss to the revenue, largely the result of plac- ing suger on the free list, would be a direct gain to the people; that the prices of the necessaries = of dike, in cluding those most highly protected, would not be euhanced: that Ixbor would have a larger market and the products of the farm advanced prices; while the Treasury surplus and receipts would’ be adequate to meet the appropria~ tions, including the large exceptional expendi tures tor the refunding to the states of the di- Tect tax and the redemption of the 434 per cent bonds. It is not my purpose to enter at any | length into a discussion of the effects of the | legislation to which I have referred; but a brief examination of the statistics of the Treas- ury and » general glance at the state of busi- ness throughout the conntry will, I think, sat- isfy apy iapartial inquirer that its results | have disappomted the evil prophecies of its opponents and in a Jarge measure realized the hopeful predictions of its friends. Rarely, if ever before, in the history of the country has there been a time wlier “the proceeds of one day's labor or the product of one farmed acre would purchaseso large an amount of those things that enter into the living of the masses of the people. I believe that a full test will develop the fact that the tarstf act of the Fifty- first Congress is very favorable in its average effect upon the prices of articles entering into common use. a OUR FOREIGN TRADE. During the twelve mouths from October 1, 1890, to September 90, 1891, the total value of our forcign commerce (imports and exports combined) was #1,7/47,808,406, which was the largest of any year in the history of the United States. The largest in any previous year was in 18%, when our commerce amounted to 81, 647,139,093, and the Jast year exceeds this enor- mous aggregate by over one hundred millions. It is inte g, and to some will be surpris- ing, to know chat during the year ending Sep- tember 30, 13%1, our imports of merchapdise amounted io $24,715,270, which was an in- ¢zease of more than eleven million dollars over accumulations and to depress their onecgies | the value of the imports of the corresponding ' gave te Europe fresh evidence | of the nation, ports of merchandise were large in ant of the tariff legislation ing. ay cmueat talae ot ten toperts of merchandise for the ten from 1881 te 1890 was $692,186,522, and during the year end- ing September 1891, this average ‘was exceeded by $12,528,469. ‘The value of free imports a the twelve months ending September 90, 1891, was $118,- Soe ee nee corresponding twelve mon’ year, and there was during the same Period a decrease'of $106,846,508 in the value of imports of dutiable merchandise. Leg oa centage of merchandise admitted free of duty during the year to which I have referred, the first under the new tariff, was 45.18, while eding'twelve months, under the old tariff, the percentage was $4.27, an increase of 13.91 percent. If ‘we take the six monthe ending September 30 last, which covers the time during which sugars have been wdmitted free of duty, the per cent of value of merchun- disc imported free of duty is found to be 65.37, which is a larger percentage of free imports than during any prior fiscal year in the history of the Government. If we turn to exports of merchandise the statistics are full of gratification. ‘Tho value of such exports of merchandise for the twelve months ending September 30, 1891, was $923,- 091,126, while for the corresponding previou twelve months it was $540, 115, an increase of $62,914,021, which is nearly *hree times the average auntal increase of exports of mer- chandise for the preceding twenty years; this exceeds in amount and yalue the ‘exports of merchundive during auy year in tke history of the Government. ‘The ‘hicrease in the valuo of exports of agricultural products during the Year referred to over the corresponding twelve months of the prior year was $45,846,197, while the increase in the Yalue of exporis of manu- factured products was $16.83: ‘THE TARIFF. ‘There is certainly nothing in the condition of lc, foreign or ‘lomestic, there is certainly nothing in the condition of our people of any class, io suggest that the existing tari and revenue legislation bears oppressively upon the people or commercinl development itm be sgued that our con- dition would be boiter if tarifi tegisiation were upon a free-trade basis, but it caunot be de- nied that all the conditicns of prosperity and of general conientuicut are present in a large! degree than ever before in our history, and that, too, just when it was prophesied ‘they would ve in the worst state. Agitation for radical changes in tariff and financial legisla- tion can uot help, but may seriously itapede, business, to the prosperity of which some de- gree of stability in legislation is essential. I think there are conclusive evidences that the new tariff has created several great indus- tries which will, within a few years, give em- ployment to several hundred the d Ameri- can working men and women. In view of the somewhat overcrowded condition of the labor market of the United States every patriotic citizen should rejoice at such a result. ‘The report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows that the total receipts of the Govern- ment from ail sources, for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1891, were $458,544,233.03, while the expenditures’ ior the same period were $421,304,470.46, leaving 8 surplus of $37,239,- The receipts of the fiscal year ending June 30, 12, actual and estimated, are $133,000,000 and the expenditures $409,000,000. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, the estimated nts are $455,336,350 and the ex- Penditures $41,300,093. THE PURCHASE OF SILVER. Under the law of July 14, 1890, the Secretary of the Treasury has purchased (since August 18) during the fiscal year 48,399,113 ounces of silver bullion at an average cost of $1.045 per ounce. The highest price paid during the year was $1.2025, and the lowest €0.9636. In ex- change for this silver bullion there have been issued $50,577,493 of the Treasury notes author- ized by the act. The lowest price of silver reached during the fiscal year was 20.9636 on April 22, 1591; but on November 1 the market price was only $0.96, which would give to the silver dollar a ballion value of 7444 cents. Before the influence of the prospective silver legislation was felt in the market silver was worth in New York about 0.955 per oune ablest advocates of free coinage in the last Con- gress were most confident in their predictions that the purchases by the Government required by the law would at once bring the price of sil- ver to 1.2929 per ounce, which would make the bullion vaiue of a dollar 100 cents aud hola it there. The prophecies of the anti-silver men of disasters to result from the coinage of $2,000,000 per month were not wider of the mark. The friends of free silver are not agreed, I think, as to the causes that brought their hopefal ‘predictions to naught. Some facts are known. ‘The exports of slver from London to India during the first ni months 14 calendar year fell off over 50 per cent, or 02,730, compared with the same months of the preceding year. The exports ot domestic silver builion from this country, which had averaged for the last ten years over $17,000,000 fell in the last fiscal year to $13,797,391; while, for the first time in recent years, the imports of silver into this country exceeded the ex- ports by the sum of $2,745,365. In the pre- vious year the net exports of silver from ‘the United States amounted to $8,545, ‘The pro- duction of the United States inci ed from 50,000,000 ounces im 1889 to 54,500,000 in 1890, The Government 1s now buying and putting aside annually 54,000,000 ounces, which, allow- ing for 7,140,000 ounces of new bullion used in the arts, 18 6,640,000 more than our domestic product available for coinage. Lhope the depression in the price of silve? is temporary and that a further trial of this legislation will more favorably affect it. That the inereased yolume of currency thus supplied use of the people was needed aud that beneficial results upon trade and prices have followed this legislation I think must be very clear to everyone; nor should it be forgotten that for every dollar of these notes issue fall dollar's worth of silver bullion 1s at the time deposited in the ‘Treasury as a security tor its redemption. Upon this subject, as upon the tariff, my recommendation is that the existing laws be given a full trial and that our business interests be spared the distressing influence which threats of radical changes always im- part. Under existing legislation it is in the power of the Treasury Department to maintain that essential condition of national finance as well as of commercial prosperity—the parity in use of the coin dollars and their paper repre- sentatives. ‘the assurance that these powers would be freely and unbesitatingly used has done much to produce and sustain the present favorable business conditions. ‘HE QUESTION OF FREE COIsAGE. Tam atill of the opinion that the free coinage of silver under existing conditions would dis- astrously affect our business interests at home and abroad. We could not hope to maintain an equality in the purchasing power of the gold and silver dollar in our home markets, and in foreign trade the stamp gives no added value to the bullion contained in coins. The producers of the country, its farmers and laborers, have the highest interest that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Government shail be as good as any other. If there is one less valu- able than another its sure und constant errand will be to pay them for their to!! and for their crops. The money-lender will protect himself by stipulating for payment in gold, but the jaborer has never been able to do that. To place business upon a silver basis would mean a sudden and severe contruction of the cur- rency, by the withdrawal of gold and gold notes, and such an unsettling of all values as would produce «commercial panic. I cannot believe that a people so strong and prosperous as ours will promote such a policy. The prodacersiof silver are entitled to just consideration, but they shorid not forget that the Government is now buying and putting out of the market whut is the equivalent of the en- tire product of our silver mince. This is more than they themeelves thought of asking two 0. 1 believe it is the carnest desire of great majority of the people, as it is mine, that a full coin use shall be made of silver just a8 soon as the co-operation of other nations can be secured and 4 ratio fixed that will give cireulation equally to gold and silver. ‘The business of the world requires the use of both metais; but I do not eee any prospect of gain, but much of loss, by giving up the present sys- tom, in which a full use is nade of gold and a “ge use of silver, for one in whichsllver alone will circulate. Such an event would be at once fatal to the further*progress of the silver movement. Bimetallism is the desired end, and the true friends of silver will be careful not to overrun the goal and bring in silver mono- metallisy;, with ite necessary attendants, the loss of our gold to Europe and the relief of the pressure therefor a larger currency. 1 have endeavored by the use of ofliciat and unofficial agencies to keep close observation of the state of public sentiment in Europe upon this question, and have not found it 2 be ory as to justify me in proposing an international conference. There is, however, Iam cure, a growing sentiment in Europe in "he exports of Geld to Burope, wich e of to Europe, in February last and continued cat the, of July; aggregated over $70,000,000. ‘The loss of gold during the fiscal year was nearly $63,000,000. ‘That no serious monotary farbance rovalted was most gratifying, : ‘The | to who country and made necessary the intervention of the Department at frequent intervals to Telicve threatened monetary panics. The sur- plus on March 1, 1889, was $163,327,190.29. The policy of applying this surplus to the redem tion of the interest-bearing securities of the United States was thought to be preferable to that of depositing it without interest in selected national banks. “There have beon redeemed since the date last mentioned of interest-| securities $259,079,350, resulting in a reduction of tho annual interest charged of $11,684,675. ‘The money which had been deposited in banks without interest has been gradually withdrawn and used in the redemption of bonds, The result of this policy, of the silver legis- lation, and of the refunding of the 43¢ per cent bonds has been @ large increase of the money in cireulation. At the date last named the circulation was $1,404,205,896, or $23.03 per capita: while on the Ist day of December, 1891, it had increased to $1,577,262.070, or $24.38 per capita. ‘The offer of the Secretary of the Treas- ury to the holders of the 45; per cent bonds to extend the tume of redemption, at the option of the government, at an interest of 2 per cent, was necepted by the holders of about one-half the amount, and the unextended bonds are be- ing redeemed on presentation. The War Department. The report of the Secretary of War exhibits the rosulte of an intelligent, progressive, and business-like administration of a Department which has been too much regarded as one of mere routine. The separation of Secretary Proctor from the Department by reason of hie appointment a3 a Senator from the State of Vermont is a source of gregt regret to me and to his colleagues in the Cabinet, as I am sure it Will be to ail those who have had business with the Department while under his charge. Inghe administration of army affairs some especially good work has been accomplished. ‘Ihe efforts of the Secretary to reduce the per- centage of desertions by removing the causes tut promoted it have been so successful as to enabie him to report for the iast year a lower Percentage of desertions than has been before rexched in the history of the army. The re- sulting money saving is considerable, but the improvement in the morale of the enlisted men is the most valuable incident of the reforms which have brought about this result. ‘The work of securing sites fore shore batter- ies for harbor defense and the manufacture of mortars and guns of high power to equip them have made good progross during the year. ‘The preliminary work of ‘tests and plans, which so long delayed a start, is now out of the way. Some guns havo been completed, and with an enlarged shop and a more complete equipment at Watervliet the Army will soon be abreast of the Navy in gun construction. Whatever un- avoidable causes of delay may arise there should be none from delayed or insufficient appropriations. We sbali be greatly em- jarvassed in the proper distribution aud use of naval vessels until adequate shore defenses are provided for our harbors, Iccucur in the recommendation of the Sec- retary that the three-battalion organization be adopted for the infantry. The adoption of a smokeless powder and of a modern rifle equal in range, precision and rapidity of fire to the best now in use will, Lhope, not be longer de- a he project of enlisting Indians and organiz- ing them into separate companies upon the same basis as other soldiers wus made the sub- ject of very careful study by the Secretary and received my approval. “Seven companies have been completely organized and seven more are in process of organization. ‘The results of six months’ training have more than realized the highest anticipations, The men are readil; brought under discipline, acquire the drill wi facility, and show great pride in the right dis- charge of their duties and perfect loyalty to their officers, who declare that they would take them into action with confidence. The dis cipline, order, and cleanliness of the military posts will have a wholesome and elevating in- Huence upon the men enlisted, and through them upon their tribes, while a more friendly feeling for the whites and a greater respect for the Government will certainly be promoted. The great work done in the Record and Pen- sion Division of the War Department by Major Ainsworth, of the Medical Corps, and the clerks under him, is entitied to honorable mention. Taking up the work with nearly 41,000 cuses behind, he closed the last fiscal yepr without a single case left over, though the néW cases had increased 52 per cent in number over the pre- vious year by reason of the pension legislation of the last Congress. The Department of Justice. Teoncur in the recommendation of the At torney-General that the right in felony cases to areview bythe Supreme Court be limited. It would seem that personal liberty would have a safe guaranty if the right of review in cases involving only fine and imprisonment were limited to the circuit court of appeals, unless constitutional question should in some way be anyo}ved. ‘The judges of the Court of Private Land Claims, provided for by the act of March 3, 1891, have been appointed and the court organ- ized. It is now possible to give early relief to communities long repressed in their develop- ment by unsettled land titles and to establish the possession and right of settlers whose lands have been rendered valueless by adverse and unfounded claims. ‘The act of July 9, 1888, provided for the in- corporation and ‘management of reform school for girls in the District of Columbia; but it has remained inoperative for the reason that no appropriation hus been made for con- nor maintenance. Tho need of such ution is very urgent. Many girls could be saved from depraved lives, by the whole- some influences and restraints of such a school. I recommend that the necessary appropriation be made for a site and for construction. ‘The enforcement by the Treasury Depart- ment of the law prohibiting the coming of Chi- nose to the United States has been effective as to such as seek to land from vessels entering our porte. ‘The result has been to divert the travel to vessels entering the ports of British Columbia, whence passage into the United States at cbscure points along the Dominion boundary is easy. A very considerable number of Chinexe laborers have, during tho past year, entered the United States from Canada and Mexico. Tho ofticers of the Treasury Department and of the Department of Justice have used every means at their command to intercept this im- migration, but the impossibility of perfectly guurding ‘our extended frontier is apparent. ‘The Dominion Government collects head tax of $50 from every Chinaman entering Canada, ard ths derives ‘& considerable revenue from those who only use its ports to reach a position of advantage to evade our exclusion laws, ‘There seems to be satisfactory evidence that tho business of passing Chinamen through Can- ada to the United States is organized and quite active. Department of Justice has con- strued the laws to reqitire the return of any Chinaman found to be unlawfully in this coun- try to China asthe country from which he came, notwithstanding the fact that he came by way of Canada, but several of the district courts have, in cases brought before the overruled this view of the law and decided thai such persons must be returned to Canada. This construction robs the law of all effectiveness, even if the decrees could be executed, for the men returned can the next day recross our border. But the only approprintion made is for sending them back to China, and the Cana- dian officials refuse to allow them to re-enter Canada without the payment of the $50 head tax. I recommend such legislation as will remedy these defects in the law. In previous messages I have called the atten- tion of Congress to the necessity of so extend- ing the jurisdiction of the United States courts as to make triable therein any felony com- mitted while in the act of violating a law of the United States. ‘These courts can not have that independence and effectiveness which the Con- stitution contemplates so long as the felonious killing of court ‘officers, jurors, and witnesses in the discbarge of their duti¢s, or by reason of their acts as such, is only cognizable in the State courts. The work done by the Attorney- General and the officers of his s De seren under the present inadequat gislation, Produced some notable results in the interest of law and order. LEGISLATION NEEDED IN THE DISTRICT. ‘The Attorney-General and slso the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia call atten- tion to the defectiveness and inadequacy of the laws relating to crimes against chastity in the District of Columbia. A stringent code upon this subject has been provided by Congress for Utah, and it isa matter of surprise that the needs of this District should have been #0 long ‘The Post Office Department. In the report of the Postmaster General some very gratifying results are exhibited and many betterments of the service suggested. A pe- : mail-carrying steamships. Eight thousand miles of new postal service has been established upon railroads, the car distribution to sub-stations in the great cities has been increased about 12 Population. | His discussion of the inadequate facilities extended under our present system to rural communities and his suggestions with a view to give these communities a fuller par- ticipation in the benefits of the postal serv- ice are worthy of your careful considera- tion. It is not just that the farmer.who receives his mail at a neighboring town, should not only be compelled to send to the post office for it, but to pay considerable rent for s box in which to place it or to wait bis turn at a gen- eral delivery window, while the city resident has his mail brought to hisdoor. Itisstated that over 54,000 neighborhoods are. under the pres- ent system, receiving mail at post offices where money orders and postal notes are not issued. The extension of this system to these commu- nities is especially desirable, as the patrons of such officesare not posscased of the other facili- ties offered in more populous communities for tho transmission of emall sums of money. Thave, ina message to the preceding Con- ress, expressed my views as toa modified use of the telegraph in connection with the postal service. OCEAN MAIL SUBSIDIES. In pursuance of the ocean-mail law of March 8, 1891, and after @ most careful study of the whole subject and frequeut conferences with shipowners, boards of trade and others, ad- vertisements were issued by the Postmaster- General for 53 lines of ocean-mail service: 10 to Great Britain and the Continent, 27 to South America, $ to China and Japan, 4 to Australia and the Pacitic Islands, 7 to the West Indies, and2to Mexico. It was not, of course, pected that bids for all these lines would be re- ceived or that service upon them all would be contracted for. It was intended, in further- ance of the act, to secure as many new lines as possible, while including in the list most of all Of the foreign lines now occupied by American ships. It was hoped that a line to England and haps one to the Continent would be secured, ut the outlay required to equip such lines wholly with new ships of the first class aad the difi- culty of establishing new lines in competition with those already established deterred bidders whose interes; had been enlisted. It is hoped that a way may yet be found of overcoming these difficulties, The BrazilSteamship Com- pany, by reason of a miscaiculation as to the ed of its vessels, was not able to bid under e terms of the ‘advertisement. ‘The policy of the Department was to secure from the es- tablished lines an improved service as a con- dition of giving to them the beneiits of the law. This in all instances has been attained. Postmaster-General estimates that an expendi- ture in American shipyards of about teu mill- ions of dollars will bo necessary to enable the Didders to construct the ships called for by the service which they have accepted. I do not think there is any reason for discouragement or for any turning back from the policy of this legislation. In- deed, a good beginning has been made, and ay the subject is 1urther considered and under- stood by capitalists and shipping people, new lines will be ready to meet future proposals, and we may date from the © of this law the revival of American shipping interests and the recovery of a fair share of the carrying trade of the world. We were receiving for foreign postage nearly €2,000,000 under the old system and the outlay for dcean-mail serv- ice did not exceed $600,000 per annum. It is estimated by the Postmaster-General that, if all the contracts pr are completed, it will require €247,304 for this year, in addition to the appropriation for sea sid inlan already in the estimates, and that for fiscal year, ending June 30, 1993, there would probably be needed about $560,000. ‘The Navy Department. The report of the Secretary of the Navy shows a gratifying increase of new naval ves- sels in commission. The Newark, Concord, Bennington and Miantonomoh have been added during the year, with an aggregate of some- thing more than 11,000 tons. ‘Twenty-four war ships of ail classes are now under construction in the navy-yards and private shops, but, while the work upon them is going forward satisfac- torily, the completion of the more important vessels will yet require about a year's time. Some of the vessels now under construction, it is believed, will be triumphs of naval eugineer- ing. When it is recollected that the work of building a modern navy was only initiated in the year 1883, that our naval constructors and shipbuilders ‘were: practically without exp ence in the construction of large iron o} ships, that our engine shops were unfamiliar with great marine ongines, and that the manu- facture of steel forgings for guns and plates was almost wholly a foreign industry, the progress that bas been made is not only highly satis- factory, but furnishes the assurance that the United States will before long attain in the con, struction of such vessels, with their engines and armaments, the same pre-eminence which it at- tained when the best instrument of ocean co merce was the clipper ship and the most impres, ive exhibit of navai power the old wooden three- decker man-of-war. The officers of the Navy and the proprietors and engineers of our great private shops have responded with wonderful intelligence and professional zeal to the con- fidence expressed by Congress in its liberal legislation. We have now at Wi on 8 gun shop. organized and conducted by naval offi- cers, that in its system, economy and product is unexcelled. Experiments with armor plate have been conducted during the year with most important results. It isnow believed that a plate of higher resisting power than any in use has been found and that the tests have demon- strated that cheaper methods of manufacture than those heretofore thought necessary can be THE NAVY OF THE FUTURE. Teommend to your favorable consideration the recommendations of the Secretary, who has, Iam sure, given to them the most con- scientious study. There should be no hesita- tion in promptly completing # navy of the best modern type, large enough to enable this coun- try to display its flag in all seas for the protec- ‘arch tis ellen son of ite extending com. Trnceful purposce of the Unibed Staten bat ne r nit , but we hall probably be in the future. more largely a competitor in the commerce of the world, and it is essential to the dignity of this nation and to that peaceful influence which it should oxor- cise on this hemisphere that its navy should be adequate, both upon the shores of the Atlantic and of the Pacific. The Interior Department. The report of the Secretary of the Interior complex and difficult Department. « The work in the Bureau of Indian Affairs was perhaps never so large as now, by reason of the Rumerous, negotiations which have been coeding with reservations, with the incident labor of making allotments, and was never more carefully con- ducted. The provision of —- echool fa- cilitios for Indian children ‘the locating of adult Indians farms involve the solution | | & of the Commissioner of Indian Affaire some contracts have been made with schools for the education of Indian children. There is great advantage, I think, in bringing the Indian children into mixed schools. This process will be gradual, ee present educational provisions and nts, the result of the | of those who have been charged | with this work. should be contmued. ‘This will | enable those religious bodies that have under- taken the work of Indian education with so much geal, and with results so restraining and nt, to place their institutions in new and useful relations to the ndisu and to bis white neighbors. TRE S100 OUTERFAR. ‘The outbreak among the Sioux, which oc- curred in December last, is as to ite causes and incidents fully reported upon by the War De- Partment and the Department of the Interior. ‘That these Indiaus had some just complaints, especially in the matter of the reduction of the ‘Sppropriation for rations and in the delays at- tending the enactment of laws to enable the Department to perform the engagements en- tered into with them, 1s probabiy true; but the Sioux tribes are naturally 1 and turbu- lent, and their warriors were excited by their medicine men and chiefs, who preached the coming of an Indian Messiah who was to give them power to destroy their enomies. In view of the alarm that prevailed among the white settlers near the reservation and of the fatal | consequences that would have resulted from an | Indian incursion, I piaced at the disposal of Gen. Miles, commanding the Division of the Missouri, all such forces as were thought b: him to be required. He is entitled to the cred of having given thorough protection to the set- ters and of bringing the hostiies into subjec- tion with the least poesible loss of life. ‘The appropriation of $2,991,450 for the Choc- taws and Chickasaws, contained in the general Indian appropriation bill of March 8, 1591, has not been expended, for the reason that i have | not yet approved a release (to the Government) | of the Indian claim to the lands mentioned. This matter will be made the subject of «| special message, placing before Congress all the facts which have come to my knowledge. THE INDIAN TRERITORY. The relation of the five civilized tribes now tion, The Interior shows with great is taken to e: the gratifring these pensions are goingare men not shgbt, but substantial war servioa. RAILROAD INDEBTREDNERA, ‘The report of the Commissioner of Reflroads shows that the total debtof the subsidised railroads to the United States waa, on Decom- ber 31, 1890, #1 | Some view once adopted. it is very dificult, well-nigh impossible, for #0 large s boay as the Congresg to conduct the necossary negotiations and in- vestigations. 1 therefore recommend that vision be made for the appointme: ot «Come Mission to agree upon dealing with this debe ee. TRE CeNSUS BUREAU. The work of the Census Bureau is now far t= advance and the great bulk of the enormous labor involved corapleted. It will be more strictly ® statistical exhibit and less encum- bered by ossays than its immediate predeces- sore. The methods pursued bave been fair, careful, and intelligent, and have secured the Approval of the siatsticians, whe have followed theta witu a suentine and non-partean amter= est. Lhe appropriatious necessary to the compicuon and publication ef the au Volumes should be given im time to secure against delays, wich increase the cost and ab the same tne dinuuish the value of the work, THE TERRITORIES. The report of the Secretary exbibits, with interesting fulluess, the condition of the Terri- tories. Ivey bave shared with the States the Sreat increase in farm products and are bring> ing yearly large areas inte cultivation by ex- tending their irrigating canala. ‘This work és bey ¢ Ly individuals or local cor occupying the Indian Territory to the United States is not, I Delieve, that best caleulated to Promote the highest advancement of these In- dius. That there sbould be within our bor- ders five independent States, having no rela- tions, except those growing out of treaties, with the Government of the Uuited States, no representation in the National Legislature, ite people not citizens is a staring anomaly. Itseems to me to be incvitabie that there shail be before long some organic cuanges in the relation of these people to the United States. What form these changes should tako I do not think it desirable now to suggest, ned in my ow y involve the accep zenship by the Indians and a rep: Cou These Indians should have 0 nity to present their claims end grievances upon the floor rather than, as now, in thelobby. La commission could be appoinied to visit these tribes to confer with thei in a friendly spirit | upon this whole subject, even if no agreement | were presently reached, the feeling of the tribes upon this question would be developed and discussion would prepare the way for changes which must come sooner or later. THE INDIAN LANDS. The good work of reducing the larger Indian reservations, by allotments in severalty to the Indians and the cession of the remaining landg to the United States for disposition under the homestead law, has been prosecuted during the year with energy and success. In September last I was enabled to open to settlement in the Territory of Oklahoma 900,000 acres of land, all of which was taken up by settlers in asingle day. The rush for these lands was accompu- | nied by a great deal of excitement, but Was, | happily, free from ineiients of violence. it Was # koUrce Of great regret that 1 was not able to open at thesame ume the surplus lauds of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe leserva amounting to about 3.000,000 acres, by Of the insufficiency of the approprintic making the allotments. Deserving and im- patient settlers are waiting to occupy these lands,and I urgently recommend that a special deficiency appropriation be promptly made ot the smallamount needed, so that the ellot- ments may be completed and the surplus lauds opened in time to permit the settlers to get upon their homesteads in the early spring. and Wisout that system which a fuil inary survey of the water supply and of the Irrigable lands would enable them to adopt he future of the lerritories of New Mexico, Avizoua,and Uth in their material growtla nd in the increase, independence, and > Less of their poopie ix very largely dependout upon wise and. tin eginiation, either by Congress oF their o¥n legislatures,” reguinti the distribution of the watet, supply Tavunsbed by their st . If tus master is much longer negiccted, private Corporaigons will Lave umre= stricted control of ous of the elomente of tile and the patentecs of the arid lauds will be tenants at will of the water companies. The United states al part with ite owners ship oft and the sites for ree ervoirs, whether to the States and Jerritories or to individuals or corporations, only upon conditions that will msare to the settlers proper Water supply upon equal and reasonable terns, im tho aerriories this whole subject is Uuder (Le full control of Congress, and in the States it 48 practically so asiong asthe ri at holds the tithe to the reservoir ces aud can grant thera W8 as At chooses to impose, t granting of franchises of without recompense to the trom which they proceed tion of the pubis such coud improva ous valve State or mi ali and without proper duterosts, is the Most noticeable and Sagran® evil of modera te m This fault should not be committed 1m dealing with « subject that will, belure many years, aflect so vitally thousands of our peo} IAN AND PoLYGaMT. The legislation of Congress for the repression of polygamy lus, after yours of resistance on the part of the Mormons, at last brought them to the conclusion thatresistance is unprofitable aud un The power of Congress over this eubject should not be surrendered until we have sti ry evidence that the people of the State to be created would exercise the Stale Over Us subject he yuestion is net whether poople Row obey the laws of Con yeawy, but rather would they ‘aud waititall such jaws thetaselves a uiely treo to regulate the subject. We u uot alford te eaperiamont with tun subject, for wacn 4 state is once constituted the act is tiual aud auy mistake irretrievable. No com- pact in the enabling act could, an my opinion, be bindiag oF eflective. exclusive power of tin Au the same way. tere Daring the past sammer the Gherosce Com- mission have compicted arrangements with the Wichita, Kickapoo, and ‘Tonkawa tribes, whereby, if the agreements are ratified by Congress, over £00,000 additional acres will be opened to settlement in Oklahoma. ‘THE CHEROKEE STRIP. The negotiation for the release by the Cherokees of their claim to the Cherokee Strip has made no substantial progress, so far as the Department is officially advised, but it is still hoped that the cession of this large and valuable tract may be secured. The price which the Commission was authorized to offer —one dollar and a quarter per acre—is, in my jadgment, when all the cirenmstances as to title and the character of the lands are consid- ered, a fuir and adequate one and should have accepted by the Indians, ce March 4, 1882, about 23,000,000 acres have been separated from Indian reservations and added to the public domain for the use of those who desired to secure free homes under our beneficent laws. It is difficult to estimate the increase of wealth which will result from the conversion of these waste lands into farms, but it is more difficult to estimate the better- ment which will result to the families that have found renewed hope and courage in the owner- ship of ahome aud the assurance of ac fortable subsistence under free and health- ful conditions. It is also gratifying to be able to feel, as we may, that this work has proceeded Irecomivend that provision be made for the orgauization of 4 sumple form of town govern= qmeut in Alaska, with power to regulate such Mstters as are Usually an the Sues under municipal couwol. 1 isese decal civil organiza Yous wil give belier protection im some mat ters than the present skeleton Werritorsal organization, Proper resiricuums as to the | power to levy tats and to create debt sbould be umposed. ‘The Department of Agricuttare. If the establishment of the Mepartment of Agriculture was regarded by anyone as @ mete concession to the unenlightened demand of a worthy class of people, thet impression bas been most effectually removed by the great res sults already attained. Ite home influence hae been very great in disseminating agricuttural and horticultural information; in stimulating and directing a farther diversification of in detecting and eradicating diseases of domes tic animals; aud, more than all, im the close au informal contact which it has established and maintains with the farmers and stock- raisers of the whole country. Every request for information has Lad prompt attention and every suggestion merited consideration. The scientific corps of the Department is of @ high order and is pushing 1% investigations With method and enthusiasm, ‘The inspection by this Department of cattle and pork products intended for shipment upon lines of justice towards the Indian, and that he may now, if be will, secure to himself the good influences of @ settled habitation, the fruits of industry and the security of citizen- ship. ARREARAGES IX THE LAND OFFICE. Farly in this administration a special effort was begun to bring up the work of the General Land Ofice. By faithful work the arrearages have been rapidly reduced. At the end of the last fiscal year only 84,172 final agricultural en- tries remained undisposed of, and the Commis- sioner reports that, with the present force, the work can be fully brought up by the end of the next fiscal year. Your attention is called to the difficulty pre- sented by the Secretary of the Iuterior as to the administration of the jaw of March 3, 1891, establishing a Court of Private Land Claims. ‘The smali holdings intended to be protected by the law are estimated to be more than fifteen thousand in number. The claimants are a most deserving class and their titles are supported by the strongest equities. The diticulty grows out of the fact that the lands have largely been surveyed according to our methods, while the holdings, many of which have been in the same family for generations, are laid out in aarrow strips a few rods wide upon a stream and run- ning back to the hills for pasturaze and timber. Provision should be made for numbering theve tracts as lots and for patenting them by such numbers and without reference to section lines. ‘THE PENSION BUREAU. The administration of the Pension Burcau abroad has becu te basis of the success whick has atte rs protests and petitions this subject from the packers aitd stock-reteers of the United States have beon directed agains® these restrictions, which so seriously Limited our markets and curtailed the profits of the furm. It ina source of feneral congratulation thet success hasat last been attained, for the eflects. an enlarged foreign market for these meats willl be felt, not ouly by the farmer, but in our pub= lie finances and in every branch of trade. 18 is particularly fortunate thas the increased de= mand for food products, resulting from the re- moval of the restrictions upon our meats and from the reciprocal trade arrangements te which Ihave referred, should have come ate time when the agricultural jus is so large. Without the help thus derived, lower would have prevailed. ‘The Secretary of Agri- culture estunates that the restrictions the impertation of our pork produets into Bi dost us # market for $20,000,000 worth of these products aunuaily, THE GRAIN cnoP. The grain crop of this year was the largest im our history, 50 per cent greater than that of last year, and yet the new markets that have been opened and the larger demand resulting from short crops in Europe have sustained prices to euch an extent that the enormous sure Plus of ments and breadetuiis. vil be marketed at good pri it rel to an industry that was much doprested. The Sooimatecee ante estima’ ecrel hundred milion my more than last; of meats, one huudred and fifty millions and of ail products of the farm, seven banared| millions more. 1t is not inappropriate, I think, here to suggest that our satisiaction in the cons templation of this marvelous addition to the should receive the careful attention of the op> ponents, as well es the friends, of this reform, f i tt iY 4 i ! i | i 8 fl i i ponent, euiety Sapsend een WS.