Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1886, Page 1

s e 2 TUESDAY, MORNING, DECEMBER 7. 1886, i ests hiave heen brought into existence, Modes | the security of person and property should | and consular appropriation approved | these exactions are made has a tendency to | ever known so that the fntrinsic or builion ent invitation of thewlepartent for bids YELAND SA N AL of intercourse between the respective coun- | be removed, and | trust that ‘in the interests | July 1, 155, the estimates subwmitied by the | conceal their true character and their extent. | price of our standard silver dollar at thag | £ urnish such of this material as 18 now tries have been invented and muitiplied, the | of zood neighborhood the statute referred to | secretary of stata for the maintenance of | But we have arrived at a stage of superfluous | date was less than 2 cents, The price of [ Authorized shall fail to induce domestic mans " ods of nducting the fisheries have | will be so modified as to eliminate the nresent | the consular service have been reeast on the | revenue which has aroused the people to a | silver on the 30th of November last was such | ufacturers to undertake the large expendi- vbeen wholly changed, and ail this is neces- | possibilities of danger to the peace of Uie two | basis of salaries for all ofticers to whom such | realization of the fact thatthe amonnt rqised, | as to make the dollars intrinsicaily worth 7% [ tures required to prepare fo this new manus sarily entitled to candid and carerul consid- | countries, | allowance is decmed advisable, advantage | professedly for the support of the govera: | cents each. ‘These difforences 1n valye | facture, and no other steps are taken by coue * SIXTEENTH YEAR. f).\lAll;\, ' » Nation's Condit! nd Reguirements | eration in the adjustment of the terms and OTHER LANDS, | lias been taken of this to redistribute tie | ment, is paid by them as absolutely. it added the coins ropresent the fl - | gressat its coming sesslon, the secretary The Nation's Condition and Requirements | eration ih the mlustieit of T temns e The governmient of the Netherlands has | salaries of the oficers now appropriated for, | to the price of the things which supply theit | tions in the price of &flver, And | congentblates with disaffection the necessity Tully Set Forth tween the United States and their neighbors | exiibited concern in relation to certain feat 1 accordance With the work performed | daily wants, as 1f it was paid at fixed periods | they certainly do not indicate that ¢ompul- | ot @btalning abroad the armor and the gun = along a frontier of over 00 miles. Thns | ures of our tariff laws which ipposed by | the importance of the representative duties | intothe hands of the tax gatherer. Those | sory coinage by the government enhanced | steel foRthe authorized ships. 1t would seem : o | prowuuits, community of Tanguage fnd o | tem to be aimed at o ciass of tobaceo prve | of the incambent and {he, cost of Iiving at who toll for daily wages are beeiining to | the price of that commerity of secures unt 4‘!‘1?; He Ut the wants of the army and the 'y - . | copation and similarity of political and so- | ¢ Inthe Fast Indies. Comment would | each post, The last consideration has been | understand that eapital, though sometimes | formity in its value. Every fair and legni | na®y in this regard should be reasonably . HIS ARGUMENTON THE REVENUE | (el dtions, indicate the practicability | feem unhecessary upon the unwisdom ot | too often fust sight offin te allowances here- | vaunting its importance’ and clamoring for | effort has been made by the " treasury depart- | met and that, 8 uniting ihe contracts, such | and ohyious wisdom of maintaining muta- | legislation appearing to lave a Al | tofore made, The compensation whicli may | the protection and favor of the zovernment, | ment to distribute this” currency mnong the | induccment inightbe offercd as would result ‘ iy benerieial *and | reiendly relations | national discrimination tor' its ebject, | sufice for g the ecent, maintenance of 4 | is dull und sluggish tll, touched by tip magt: | people. Tho withdrawal of United Statos In securing thio Mmestication of Uiese i p ovisi nd Reduct p- | Whilst T unfeiznedly desirous that such | which, although unintentional, may give rise | worthy and capable officer in a position of | cal hand of labor, it springs into activity, | treasury notes of small denominations and porta iterests, Reasons r."’ Rovision ar ],R notfon L s SHONRY extot botworh s arid i1 e to,injurious relations, onergus and representative trust, at a post | furnishing an ocesion tor federal taxation | thie issuing of small sitver certificates have | = VIE POSTAY. SERVICK cidly Placed Before Ceagress, habitants of Canada, yet the action of their The establishment, less than four years | readily accessiblo dnd whete the necessarios | and gaining the value which enables it tobear | been resorted to in the endeavor to accom- The affairs of the postal serviee show officials during the pist toward onr | azo, of a legation at Telieran is bearing truit | of life are abundant and cheap, may rovean | its burdon, dnd the laboring man Is thought- | piish this result in obeaionce to the will anid | marked and eratifying inprovement during fisherme ’h-'h been sneh ~\xv; ~-w‘w‘h in l'h" |“|" ,}H ; lmi h\l ?n-" -u‘.m B Ix;\- w;\,wm late m'H.l['x ‘e in distant lands where | fully inguiring whether, in these circums Ml-mum‘vnlwvv the re m:wlm m\.-\‘ f m.} o ::v:\”m\q“v ) |A\ n.\'r‘rul.nl aceo |1'|I :»r Au 5 threaten their continuance. Although dis- | ernimen fe industial activity of the | the better part of a year's pay is- consumed | staiices, and considering the tribute he con- | pie in the congress. - On the 2ith day of No- | transactions and condition 18 given in_the R R ted in o omy oeftorls o se- | United States andd the opportunities of ben- | in reaching the posi of duty and where the | stantly vays into the public treasuary as he | vember, 15, the people held of these coins | report of the postmaster general’ whicti will i A satistactory settlement of | ciicial interchanges, | comforts of ordinary civilized existence can | supplies his daily wants, he receiyes his fair | OF certificates ropresenting the noninal st be laid before you. ‘The reduction of the the dstiory_question, tegotiations aro still | | Stble governiedt is now happily restored | ony b ol 108 Reform 8bown to Be Atill the | pending with reasonable hope that hefore | in Peru by the clection of a constitutional | cosi, 1 trust that in considering the submit There 1s oo Reform 8hown to Bo Btill th close of the present. session of congress | president, and w period of rehabilitation s | ted sehedules 1o mistaken thoory of econ- | surpius of Pet Policy. an advancement may be made and an ac- | entered tipon, but recoyery i+ necessarily | omy will perpetuate & systein whieh pery ceptable conclusion reached, At an eaily slow from the exhaustion cav ned with diflienlty at exorbitant | share of ad A4, rate of letter postaze in 1883, rendering the antages. of 166,575,011, and we still have &7 A SHI055 | postal revenues inadequate 1o sustain the ex- 50 a suspicion abroad that the | in the freasury, as azainst about _$1 l\‘lru’\u:nln\ \‘l‘uln-...- abnormal | in the hands of the people and 72,865,570 te- | penditures, and business depression contrib- L in the | and excentional business profits, which, un- | maming in the treasiey one year ago. uting, resulted in an excess of gost tor the by the late | past, has virtually closed to deserving talent | der the system which produces sieh surplus, T'he divector of the mint again urges the | fiscal year ended June 50, 1885, eight and day there may b ore congress the | war and eivil disturbanees, convention to | many ¢ < where capacity aud attainments | inercase without eorresponding venefit tothe | necessity for more vault room for the purjx one-third millions of dollars. ~An additional ELABORATE TALK ON PENSIONS. | coirespondence nentol state i | adjust by arbitrat cliims of onr citizens | of a high order are indispensable, and in not | people at large. ‘The vast aceumulations of a | of storing these silver dollars, wiich are 1 check upon receipts, by doubling the measure relation 1o this important subject. so that | has been promised and is under considera- | a few cuses has brought discredit on our na- | few among our eitizens ose fortunes, | needed for circulation by the people. of weight in rating sealed corresponden I g r citizer wh v ivil Ser the listory of the past fisling season may be | tior tional chatacter and_entailed embarrassinent | vivaling the wealth of the most favored in | 1 have seen no reason to chinge the views | and diminishing onelalt the charge for filly disclosed and the action and the atti- | “The naval oflicer who hove to Siberia the | and even sutfering on those deputed to up- | anti-democratie nations, are not the natural [ expressed in my Iast annual message on the | Newspapers: cariage, was imposed by logis- The President Dwells on Them Partly by | fude of the administration fully comure: | testimonials bestowed by congress in recog- | hold our diznity and interests abroad. €rowth of a steady, plain and Industrious re- | gnbjeet of this compulsory coinage, and I [ Iation, wiich took effoct with “tho bexinning . hended. More extended refeience is not | nition of the aid given to the Jeannette sur In conneetion with this subject I earnestly | public, Our farmers, too, and‘those engaged | ®ain urge its suspansion on all the grounds | of - the = past fiseal year, while the . Way of Self-Defense, decined necessary in this communication, vivors lias accomplished mission. His | reiterate the practical neecssity of supplying [ directly and indirectly in supplying the | contained in my former recommendations, [ constant demand of our ‘teyritorial develop- - OUR WESTERN NEIGHBORS, Interesting report will be subiitted, It is | some mode of trustworthy inspection and | products of agriculture, see that day by day, | reinforeed by the signifieant ing @ of our | ment and growing population, for the ex- The recommendation submitted Tast vear | pleasant to know that this mark ot apprecia- | report of the manuer in which the consulates | and as INDIAN QUESTION REVIEWED. | that provision be made for a_preliminary re- | tion has been weleomed by the Russian gov- ondue _In the absel connoissance of the conventional houndary | ernment and people as befits the tra- s information, efficieny e line between Alaska and British Coliinbia | ditional friendshin of the two countries. ded or its opposite cor ar. as | tension and ancrease of mail facilities and anuual ad- ul estimate of tten as the daily wants of the house: [ gold exportations during the last v nce of such | hiolds recur, they are foree excessive | appears by the comparative statement hiere- | machinery, necessitates a steady i Scarcely be | and necdidss thsation. il Thair products | With presented. and for the fuither reasons | vanee in otlay, and the car coted. struegle in for n markets with the’ compe. | that the more this currency is distributed | a vear year agouhon the rtes of expeind s ronewed, Civil perturbationsin the Sawoan isleshas, | Increasingcombetition in trade has directed | tition of nations, which, by allowing a freer | anong the people, the creater hecomes our | ture then existing contemplated - Harbor Defenses Recommended — | isfenewed. L nyietion that | during tho past few vears, boen & soutee of | attention 0 tho VAIIE of the COnSUIAT FEPOts | exonanae or - mebdueriy tha e it | duty o protoct 1L from dishater: that wo now | avoidable augmentation of the defic in Land Legislation Required—Mexi- the Intimacy of onr te with Hawaii [ considerable embarrissient to the three | printed by the department of state, and the | enable their people to sell for prices which | have abundance forall onr necds, and that i “‘,".‘I"‘ yoar by nearly two miliion of iAk. Rubiprooity | DEoREy whd should be emphasized, As aresult of the re- | covernments—Germany, Great Britain ana | efforts of the government to extend the | distress the American farmer, As overy | there seems but little propriety in building | d . The anticipated revenue forthe lnst can Reciprocity caty ALy O 575 these. Jslantle on the | the United Statos—whse relations and extra usefuliiess of these reports have | patriotic farmer rejoices in the constantly ii- | Vaults to store sueh currency when the only | year failed of reaiization by about $(4,000, but ' Cutting’s Case -The Chi- oriental and Australian trafii territorial rights in that important group | created a wider demand for them at home asing pride of our people in Amertcan | pretense for its coinage is the necessity ot its | proper measures ol economy have so satis- “ nese Outrages —The are virally an outpost of Awmeriean com: | we giarantecd by treaties, The weakness of | and a spivit of envulation abroad, constituting | citzenship, and in the florv of our national | use by the people as a circulating medium. actorily limited the grow(h of vxpenditure, 4 merce and & stepping stone to the growing | the native adwinistration, and the conflict | a record of the charges oceurring in trade and | achievements and progress, a_sentiment pre- REVENUE LITIGATION. that the total deficlency, in fact, fell below. ishery Question. trade of the Pacific. The Polynesian island | of obposing interests in the islands, - groups have been o absorbed™ by otlier and [ King Malietoa to seek allia nore powerful governments that the Ha- | 1 some one quarter, i WP S || e ereat number of'suits now pending in | that of 155, and af this {ime the, incrowse ‘of puntries. ‘They aro sought for by | nation in its infano Foll; sreat | the United States court for the southern dis- | revenue is in gaining ratio over the increase fod i 1o SuBjocts Which they e | oeaon. 1 1t mfaneys may woll, to & SO8L | trict of Naw Yotk, growing out of tho col. | of cost demonstrating the sufficloncy of tho ave led [ of the prozress of the arts and invention in | vails that the leading strings, usefy nce or protection | foreign rdless of the dis- | all infere The Message. N 5 inet engagemer iy i it - pe { S0} 3 o ¢ t of ent rates of postage ultimately to sustam Waiian islans are lett alinost alone in the en- | tinct cngagements wihereby no one of the | brace, Amenican ingenuity, conragze and fearless | lection of the customs revenue at the por Rostage X t ] WasiiNGToN, December 6.—The comnlete | joyment of their autonomy, which it is | three treaty powers may acquire any para- TIE FINA 5 self-reliance. And for the privilege of in- | New York, and the number of sucly smt.«:hln[ ! e l‘ng: is llh.L niore pleas- Lext of the president’s message, delivered to | Important forus should be preserved, Our | mount or” exclusive interest. In May last [ ‘I report of the secretary of the treasury | dulging this sentiment with true American | are almost daily instituted, are certainly heeause our people enjoy now v i 1o 3 one year's . | Malietoa offered to plaee Samon under the xhibits in detail the condition ot the ypublic sias ens are o willing to | worthy of the attention of the congress. [ both cheaper postage, proportionately to dis- s a ey oW te able o me year no: | i exhibit P enthusiasm, our eitizens are quite wi pud 4 shl s ad LR Hee Tt proyonitions b abrozate it would be, | proteetion of the Uit States, and the [t | inahess au of the several branchos o tho | foreso Mo suctiie 1 the b trefeurs., | These. logal controversies, bused Wpon con- | tances, and a vaster and more eostly soivice Lo the Congress of the United States—In | 540y G dgaent, most illadvised. The para’ | consnl, without authority, assuiied o grant | covernment related to his department, L [ and all the people know that the averace rate | flicting views by importers and the collector | than any other on the globe. Retrenchment the discharge of a constitutional duty and fol- |y )55 influence we have there acquired, | it Tlie proceeding was promutly disavowed | especially direct {he attention of the congress | of federal taxation upor. imports to<lay, in | 45 to the interpretation of onr present com- | has been efiected in “the cost ot supplies, lowing a well establisbed precedent in the | opoqyelinguished, coutd only with difficulty | and the over-zeatons ofilcial recailed, Special | to the recommendation coutained in this and | time of peace, is but little loss, while ipon | Plex and indeiinite revenue laws, might b | some expenditures unwarrantod by law have exceutive oftice, 1 Herewith transmit to con- | 05 euained, and a valuable colgn of vantage | AZents of the three governments have been | the last preceding report of the scerctary | some articles of necessary consumption, it is | larecly obviated by an amendment ot those sed, and the ontlays for mail cariiaze have kressat its reassembling cortain information | g5, "5hrerves might be converted into a | deputed to examine the situation in the is. | touching the simplitication and amendment | actually more than was imposed by the | Jaws.” But pending such amendment, the n sibjected to beneticial scrutiny, At the concerning the state of the unlon, together | (o, ngnold for our commereial competitors, 1 | lands. Witha nein the representation of | of the laws relating to the collection of our | grievions burden willingly borneat a time | present condition of this litization should be | eloso of the last fiscal year the éxpense of with sueh recommendations for legislative | Hriooommend tint the oxisting treaty | Al thice powers, and a harmonious under- | revenues, and in the interest of cconomy and | $hien - the government- eeded miltions | Telieved. — “Phere are now pending abont | transportations on star routes stood at an an- constderation as appear necessary and ex- | gijulations be extended for a further term of | Standing between then. the peace.prosperity, | justice to the government, I hope they’ may | to maintain by war the safety and | twenty-five hundred of these suits. More | nual rto of cost less by oyer 560,000 than at pedient. seven years, A recently signed treaty o this | autonimous administrationand " nenirality | beadopted by “appropriate legislation. 'The | integrity of = the United States. | than cleven hundred have been commenced | the close of the previousyear, and steamboat ond is now before the senate. The mport- | 0f Samoa can hardly fail to be secured. ordinary receipts of the government for the | It has been the poliev of the government to [ Within the past elehteen montha, and many | and "”‘",l.""‘“j"’f»'j‘})-?"“l'j“ ut nearly §200,- ance of telegraphic communication between 1tappearing that the government of Spain | fiscal year ended.June 50, 1856, w 56,439, | colleet the prineinal part of its rovenues by a [ Of the others have been at issue for more than [ 000 less i he service h\*ll‘n‘n-n. in the mean- these 1slands and the United States should | did notextend to the ‘tlag of the United | 72,06, OF tns amount SI0406,023.41' was | tax upon Imports, and no change . this | twentv-tive years. - These delays subject the | time, enlarzed and extended by tho establish- liot ba overlooked, States in the Antilles the whole measure of | feceived from customs and’ S16,S05.63013 | poliey 16 desiable. 130t the precentenndition | BOVernment to oss of evidence. and prevent | ment of new oflices, inerease of routes of car- The question of s general revision of tho | reciprocity teguisite under our statute for the {nternal revenug. ‘Ihe total receipts, as nere | of atfairs constrains our peoplo to demana | the preparation necessary to defeat unjust | ringe, expinsion of carrler delivery conven, i treaties of Japan is azain under discussion | continuance of the suspension ot diserimina- | stated, were S13749,020.68 gr than | that by a revision of our revenue laws the ve- | 8nd tictitious claims, “while constantly u_u"l.u Jnd additions o the railway mail ing the past year with other governments, | (iSSP TS bpen relations with | tOUs against the Spanish flag in our ports, 1 | for ghe previous yea the ot e Eoar R et aial baiTody aceruing interest threatens to double the | facilties, in accordance with the growing and none of those are bevond the reach of | 500, Uiited States have lost no op. | Wasconstrained, in October last, 1o rescind | inerease from customs “was 114308110 | the necossars ecpenso of its. seonomical demands involved. “In the present condition | exigencies of the country and the long es settlement i friendly counsel. We areas | JIRER GG ostity their consistent friend. | my predecessor's prockunation of February | and from internal revenue $4,407,210.04 mak- | ministration, and this demamnd should 1 of the dockets of th courts, well filled with [ tablished volicy of the government yet without provision for Ihe ‘settlement ot | [V, I IR RS SORRSINE 1 L4, 1884, permitting such suspeasion. —Anar- | neagain in these items for 'the lust year of | oznized and obeyed by the peopl private suits, and of the force allowed the lie postmaster general calls atfention to elaimsof eitizens of the United Statesagainst pih b SABLEHRIE HIEAREE RIS O] o8 ralgenent was, owever, snecdily reached, | $15,511 205,01, a falling off 10 other 1esotnees | Santatives i L Logistutive braneh of the gov- | GIStrict attorhey, no greater than is_necessi isting law forcompensating railroads, OUR FOREIGNGIELATIONS, OOur government has consistently main- tained Its relations of friendship toward all other poweis, and of neighborly interest to- ward Those Whoso possessions are contizuous to our own. Few questions have arisen dur- Chili for injuries during the late war with e R e s and upon notification from the government | reducing ihe total inerease to the smallor | mommey 1y for the ordinary and eurrent business of presses the opinion that a nethod miay Peru and Bolivia. “Tie mixed commissions, | & et uf extradition bevweon e, U of Spain that all differential treatment of our | amount mentioned. he expense at tho dit- | “T¥eadjusting the questions of federal tax- | I1s oflice, these revenue litigations eannot be | be devised which Will” prove more just to organized wnder elaims - conventions, ‘con: | GEES e ATRER, o SR ORI yessels and their carooes, from the United | ferent custom houses of collveting this in- | ation. & sound public poliey requires that suen | consideréd. ~In default of the adoption by | ¢ s and beneticial to the wovernunent, cluded by the Chilian government with ecer- oLk States or from any foreign country, had been | creased eustoms revenue was less than the | of our eitizens as have built up large and fm- | e congress of a plan for the general reor- | and the subjeet appears worthy of your early fain Eutopean states, have develoved an -y 0 conyess of Liberia and the dificuity | COmpletely and absolutely relinquished, I | expense attending the collection of such | portant industries under presont. conditions, | £anization of the federal courts. as here- [ consideration. amount of friction which we frust can be 4 vailed myselt of the discretion conferred by | rovenue for the eding year by $190.60% | Slould not be sudden: ining effective sovereignty over the nd to their inju tofore recommended, 1 urge the propriety of | ‘The differences which arose during tho avoided in the convention which our repre- [ of main ) 1 S \ * | law, and issued, on the 27th day of October, | 4 e increased receipts of internal revenue | depri ‘i , i 3 o | passing a law permitting the appointment year with certain of the steamship companies tiate, 2 i that this distant community is an offshoot of | $100 i the United States. * 1t is most pratify- | hurean of $155,944.9% less than the expense of resit, they shonld be content with such ¢ these government suits have accumu- | o the |1ul|‘(') of (he governuient approved by 5 THE CHINESE QUESTION i | O e it 118 b (o thes sy | 11& o bear testinony to the earnest spirit. i | such coilection for the previous year, Sideration as shall deal faitly and cque | Jated, so that'by continued sessions of the [ the conzress in the postal appropeiation af its e cruel treatiient of the ioflensive G- f GE oW1 Sysleny, owitie it orl 0 1o wseo- | wiiiel the govermment 'of the queen. toxent | e total ordingry expenses of the govern- | ety it toin | mterocis, i (e s e | eoutty devoted o the trial of these eases may | List session: and tho department now enjoys as, T restet to say, been repeated in | ciated benovolouce of Aweriean citl 23 met our cfforts to avert the injtiation | ment for he fiscal year ended June 30, 1% they be determined. 1t is entively plain thata | tiie utmost service offered by all vessels which nd terri- 4 SLIS pad Q ' < Al mandof the people for relief from need- the far westein states ed. A | great saving to the government would be ac- [ sail from our ports uj either ocean-—a ser- nd acts of violenee against those peo- | nueleus of eivilization in the Dark Continen of commercial discriminations, which are | wore $242,453,135.50, being less by $1 Y less taxation is honestly it : in o S R P po Y e T e i raraily| LosBr axs ISy 4 complished by such a remedy, and the suit- | viee generally adequawe to the needs of our Dlebeyand tie power of the focal constituted | Bive commanded respeet, apd symputhy | U political ood will of o countrios oy | Ing- and 1eAvmic SenrpwS i s tesnny at | Dosontble and el iy be phssibly | 0TS Who i L R RGN T authorlties to preyent and diflicult to punish, q ere, especially S o VU, | effect, The profitable development of the e close s lastiiseal year o itho strous shoek v res HIGJIlIcelbiroyRIEUBInyS e R AR e T Ao Toporied cven in disant Afaska. Shiel | Altbough a'tomal protectorate aver Liberia | T T s i a ;g,'m;;"g['."}f",,";"“{;3\,,2, 4 | IWLgu e N s Bk bojany, nterssunon THE WAL DEPARTMENT, merchanuts and manutacturers {or the estab- of this violente ean be- traced to race preju- | 18 contrary to our traditional, policy, the | United States and the Spanish Antles Is | irenoims yon makine an. inoreas o ey | S,cheerful conces Mion. often the out. | . The report of the secretary of war gives a | lishment of a direct service to the Argentine dice and competition of lubor, which canuot, | Moral right and duty of the United States to | yaurally” an objeet of solicitude. Ly e 105 01 SH0OARIE 20, rowih of Impationoe and dslayed Justics el aceountor ihpeduinsication oihle | Jiopubllc; and. for, seiimbamly, dianaloliss however, justify the oppression of strangers | assistin all proper Wways in the maintenance | olose at our doors, and finding here their [ ~ha oxpendituresare compared with those | %P regartd houtd be also. nevorded in any | epartment and contains sundry recommen- | o the empire of Brazil, and the objeet is Whose satety 15 goatantoed by our troaty | of its integrity is obvious. and has been con- | {180 Qi HOOKS su‘uvlv and demand, the | of the previous fiscal year, and classitied as | propa q,.‘f‘w.,}j.,m,,(.,n o tho interest of | dations for the improvement of the service | commended to your consideration. 1t is an with China equally with the most favored r'jn"!‘:‘gly i\ill;::::::‘l;‘;;zl“.:i:;r(v:llf‘ ’“nma mfi:“‘n welfare of Cuba and Porto Iico and their osves 1556, 188 which 1 fully approve. The army consisted, obvious duty to provide the means of postal nations. 4 eorzani- 13 American labor so far as they are involved, -t 4 4 i 3 reco L in | ni | production and trade are searcely less im- | Por civil expenses. $21,055,601.04 823,824,042,11 SR R s Ul - | thedateof thie last consolidated return,ot 2,103 | communication which our commerce 1 [ opening our vast domain to these ele- | Zution of ot navy. a small vessel, no loncer | Lortant (o 1S than to Spiin. Lhelr commet- | bos foriond smise: ! Y okongratuiato aluseligpthuc hionls oflicers and 24,846 enlisted men. The expen- | quires. and with prudent ' forecast of result, ments, the purpose of our law-givers was to ound adequ y e r cial and finaneial moves are so naturally a course. 23 il L IBE2,05500 513X0,911.00 | bounds and doomed under all conditions to | S5 0l he departinent for the last tiscal year | the wise extension of 1t may lead to stimulat: -« ©en 600,915,517,00 the inexorable fateof daily toil. Wo recozniza | Vore SS020.W3.25, including $6,204,505.43 for | ing intercourse and become the harbinger ot invite'assimilation, and_not to providean | Liberia, to be employed by it in the protec- v 204, " 3, 404,564.03 Indabor & ehiot Tactor - the wealth of g | Public worksand river and harbor ‘improve- | a profitable trafic which will open new aves part of our system tha bt arena of endless antagonisms. 'Lhe para- [ tion of its coastwise revenues. Je L L oob ireerinte cle to fuller, | por Indians. Corse shiouid be pennitted to exist, | pon :r:-“‘“ 6, T O o O e T A BT nia) | e standing isliltions of our ‘represen- | For the, militar Snubie actorin the wealth of tho | jents. 1 especially direct the attention of | mues for the disposition of the. produets of | defending the mterests of our own people | Tho encouraging deyelopment of bendficial | tativesat Mufrid and Hivana ave fof veurs | hliiin ra senublic, and we treat, thoso whto iave it | cohirdss to the recammendation that oficers our “industry, e clrcumstunees” of o may require the adoption of resources of re- | and H\Hmmh ‘x;ulnh‘ ut}u n th m;{ul been toleave no effort unessaved to further and harbor im- most careful regard and thoughtfal attention. | D€ reauired to submit to an examination as a | countries at the far south of our continent striction, but they siouli not tolerate the oy | and Mexioo, whieh has ‘beon <o marked | these ends, and ai o tme s the equal zood | provements and ‘This regard and attention should be awarded [ PriRinary to their promation, "1 seq 1o ob- | dre siich as o Invile our enlormrise wid afford \ e O e o OF oo Er e e o e o Pend sopea” | desire of Spain been miore hopefully miar rSODALS.ss oz es E them, 0t only because labor s the capital of | footite b IRV A antares th adonting this 1 the protiiss ot Suftctent ad vantages to justify aim not without assurance that the govern- f sion of conzratulation and d ¥ soliei- | fested than now. The government of Spain,in | por the navy il orKEDEIen, Sty entitled to e shaes | feature, whici has operated so beneticlally in | an unusual effort to bring about e eloser ré- ment of China, whose friendly disposition | tude. ‘I urgently renew wy former represen- | thus removing the consular tonnage fees 'on |~ Cluding O wovernuent favor, but Tor the further and | OUF DAVY departiment as wel as in-some | Ltions which gteater ficedom of communica- toward us 1 aan buppy to recogittee, will meot | tatlon of the necd of syeedy lezisiation by | enrioes shipped to the Antities, and by vedue: | fnieninery” and notless important réason that.the laboring | PR EATYS 1o roses and fortifica- | Hheuisned frop it Brant or State oy i us half way in devising a comprehe > gress Lo carry into ] rocity | ini’ passport fecs, has shown its recoznition | {lprovem on ts ARy T s i o cnses ar ca I agrant or“subsidy 'tor the medy by which an effective limifation of | commercial —convention of January 20, | of tlie needs of less trammeled intercourse. of havy yards.. 13,007,857 Lome, as a consumer is vitally interested in | LONs has been fully and carefully treated by | mere beneditof any line or trade “or travel, Chinese Subjeets, who remain in this coun- [ 1883 Our commer ) 18] : s 1 ¥ " the board on tortifications, whose renort was | whateve ial treaty of * 1831 | " An cifort has been made during the past | por Doy yards.. coutlay may bo required to intiontis 4 Bteinge all that cheanens the cost of living and_en- y i el try, may be secured. Legislation is needed | with Mexico was terminated according to its | yvear to reiove the hindranees to the procle Jid ST all that s t £ c and_en- | Gt at the ssion of congresss but | additional postal scrviee . nocessary . and o bxeeute tho provisions, of our Clifiess co- | progisions. i ISl, unon poliication given | mation of‘the trealy of naturalization with A s SR, Z:H{‘“’l",‘,',:::l'j.',,l."";',',:'(!",“',“',fi”f,'(’f\,,‘,','.”.’:‘.‘“' oirele Iino g ntruction e it recom: .-..Imt ot otherwise atty nable, shoui vention of 1580 touehing the opiun: traflic, by Mexico'in pursuance of her anuvounced [ the sublime porte, izned m 1534, shieh has B g 2 409 591 89 i aud advantages, This | jpended by the box s heen possible dur- ded as within the limit of legitimate LR AT olicy of recasting all hercommereinl (r Of Columbia. ... 2,802521L4 relation of the workingman to the revenue While the good will of the ¢ remained inoperative owing to a di Miscellaneous ex- laws of the country and the manner in which blombian goy- | Mexieo has since completed with severa A e i 0 I I fons for such purposes. The defenseless s extension of the free delivery seryie N atio crica Prests. o | @ avigation, del g all sof trade, « d 50§00 o [ alize 3 0N o orgotte, erfectly palpab } X ations made rtofore receive y sanctic [ B o and nvittd. THendiy actlon Tooking to | Din. consulne priviliges and the 1o, ~OUE | bo abie to krmneon g Ltrustsoon 10 | houses, “colloct- proper maintenance ot the supply | Wamod th the teport of the board should be | propriation suhicient o enabie. tho- penutal cern and invited riendiy action looking to . consular privi and the Jike, b able to announce i fayorable settlement of [ {ghe e 508 54,128,090, nd protection of well paid labor.” And | famed in the revort of the board should be | propris & » enable the penera the performance of te engagements of ‘the | vet “wnexeeuted reciprocity convention of | the differcnce as to he. interpretation, 1t has | Ethereventie, dn06,65.08 o1, Anid | fortified, and that work on the most import- | 1uspeetor of fourth-riass office has iy ap i these considerations suzgest such an ar- b ORIl AR Coneotn N e L tory 1553 covers none of these points, the settle- | heen highly satisfatrory ton the nprove: ascertained receipts up to Octobe: RS0, S 0 ) RHRLRANNA ant of these fortifications should be com- | probation. I rendered my approval ot the braced in the inter-oceanic transit, * With | ment of which is so necessary to good rela- | traatment of American missionarios e ‘\l';|!‘wlf.:‘3‘,d,’:'.‘il A :,’.,H:.:".}].L,.,I T ! T ‘,“ 1! | meneed at once, The work hasbeen thor- | recommendation of e postmaster “general the substdence of the isthmian disturbances | tionship. I propose to initiate with Mexic key,tas has been attested by their acknowledg- i Y ST ) reduce tho expense of living, while it does | gygnly considered and laid ont, the secre- | that another be provid oi 1d the erection of the State of Panama der of the year, amount to 350,000,000, “I'le | 10t curtail the opportunity for work nor re- it be provided for the i ing the last year from the Jack of appropria- | compensation for such service, l | of “‘the ‘constitutionat adminisiration At | - In conmifance With a resolutton of the [ Hyif. o " Steessful exertionsin theivbe | the smmo period are $200.00000% indicating | wnd miuriously aifeet”its condition and the | Theof COREREIUA acton. | [The absoluto | tontion to tho severs e Bogota, anew orler of things has boon in- | sonate, 1 communicated to that oy on | e exchange of ratication of the conven- O Al dbitneidlussmcritho Qigniticd place it holds in the estimation of | and foresichi, of our preparation for i effeet, Thid cor i EMITMENT 08 JURIICR 3 } M MR SEOpG 1 GTDINTACY EXCTGIoRS | SEhGALIves Lo, SorTaspoideiice 1n e e | (heveopmiom of e mwirio b’ gl e | o wial valito of the exports from the | ' BUEOur” farmors and agrieutturists, those | Ul eetanes ncainet tho urwored shivs nd | | [The conduct ot the epsrimont ot Justion 3 of power by the delegates of the national | of A, K. Cutting, an_ Americ R of e pavards Of e Curacas | (7uited States to forelzn countries during the | whio from the soil produce things condumed | freel KA of modern construction whi appar- | detailed in in . the of iy A authority, promises much improvements, | citizon” then imprisoned in " Mexico, | 18, lias 1ot yet heen effected owine to the | N3l year is stated and compared with the | by all, are perhaps more directly and plainly | ont that { hope effective stops will be talon | attorney zeneral. and 1 inyite the $ ) WITH EUROPEAN POWELS. charged with | the commission of delily of the. cxecutive. of it repiblic i | Preceding year as follows: concerned than iy otherof oiv citizens 1| i it direction immediately, The valuable | earnestattention of the congress to the samo § /Ihe sympathy between the peovle of the | penal oifense in Texas, of which a Moxican | ratifyine the measure. | trust that this post- | 10F the year ending— Juneso.1sss, | histand caveful systen of federal taxation, | and sugsestive treatment of this question | and due ¢ leration of the recominendi- § United States ‘and Franee, born during our | eitizen was the object, After demand had | nonément wili be brief: but should it mueh JUNO . THE M908 BOg b e | by the secretary of war is earnestly com- | tions therein contained. In the report sub- H colonial struggle for indenendence, and_con- | been made for his rel motely conneeted with tiis kind of $720,652, 041 se the charge azainst | longer continue, the delay may well be Domestic mdse, o1 Pamestiomds otely. ool niended to the consideration of the congress. | mitted by this oflicer to the last session of the rly one-half of our population, tnuing to-day eived a tresh impulse | him was amended 5o as to inctude a violation | garded as a resission of the esmpaet and a ) ; 4 : B In September and October last the hostile | congress, he strongly recommended the erec- i in the successtul completion and dedication | of Mexican law within Mexican territory, | failure on the part of Venczuela to complete | Gold . \nuvml'\-u harder 'rl.“WHI"“Hlm 1sly than | Apaches who, under the Ieadership of Geron- | tion of a penitentiary for the coniidement of i of the colossal statue of *Liberty Enlichten- | Thisjoinderof alloged offenses, one within | an arr they. o enactments limit their hours of g \gementt so persistently sought by | Sivers ing the World” in New York hutbor, thegift | and the other exterior to Mexico, induced me | her during many years, and assonted 16 by s of Frenchmen to Americans. to order a_special investigation of the case, | this zovernment i & <pivit of international | ing the last fiscal year, #s compared with the | enhanees to A convention between the United States [ pending which Mr. Cutting was released, | fairness, although o the detriment of hold- | value of the same for the year im: tely | their produets, imo, had for eighteen months been on the \ soners convicted and sentenced i the war path, and during that time had com- nited States counts, mitted many murders and been the eanse ot | recommen s of some of our leading exports dur- | 1Wil, and no iuterposition of the government any great extent the value of nd yet for many of the n and Le repeats the Ation in his report for the last constant terrors to the settlers ol Arizona, | year This 18 a matter of very and certain other powers for the protection | The incident has, however, diselosed a claim | ers of bona fide awards of the impugned com- | preeeding, is here given and furnishes jn- | essaries and comforts of life, which the most | gurrendered to General Miles, the military | great importance and should at once } of submarine cables was signed at Paris on | of jurisdiction by Mexleo novel in our his- | mission, formation both interesting and suggestive serupulons economy enables thew to bring | commander who succeeded GeneralCrook in | receive congressional etion, United. 1 March 14, 1554, and Lias been duly ratified and whereby any offense, committed any- CITIZENSHIP ANDNATURALIZATION For the year end- into their homes, and for their implements of | te management and direction of their pur- [ States prizoners are now contined § }3 proclsimed by this government, By ¢ by a foreigner, penal 1o the place of Lrenew the recommendation of my last ing June 50,155 Juneso,’ss, | husbandry, they are obliged (o pay & price | quit, Under the terms of their surrender, g in more than thirty different state , s agrecient betiveen (e bigh contractivg pai- | 1ts commission, and of ‘which o' Moxiean is | annual messaze, that *existing lesislation | Cottonand lavgely, ncreasad by wiatinal proit | thei reportod, and in view of the understand- | prisons — and - pemientiaries situated ~ ties this convention Is to o into effeet | the object, mav, it the olfender be found in | concerning citizenship and haturalization | ton manuf'e- whicl, by the action of the government, s | jng whieh' this murderous savigo | In every part of the country. ‘Lhey e the 1st of January next, but the legislation | Mexico, b there wied and punished in con- | be revised, We have treaties with many | turies.... 82 040,00 | given to the more favored manufacturer, seemed 1o entertain of the assur- | subjeeted o nearly as many different modes required for its oxecutlon in the United | formity with Mexiean faws. Jurisdiction | states woviding for renunciation | Tobac Lrecommend that, keebie in view all | qnees given them, it was considered best | of treatment and discipling, and are far too i States has not vet been adapted. 1 earnestly | was sustained by the courts of Mexico in the | of eitizenship' by naturatized alions bat go | WS . 24,107,505,00 | these considerations, the increasing and un- | 1o “juiprison them i such manner | much removed from the control and regula~ | recommend its en ok 5 Cutting ease and approved by the executive | statute was tound to give effect to such en- | Breadstuffs 160,570,521,00 | Decessary surplus of national income an- | gy to prevent thei ever engaging in such out- | tion of the government, 8o far as tiey aro 1 Cases have continued 1o oetur in Germany, | branch of that government upon the author- | azements, nor any which proyides u needed | Provisions. . 0,00 107,332,450,00 | nually aceumulating be released o the peo- | rages wzain, instead of teying them for mur- | entitled o humane treatient and oppor= E giving rise Lo much corresnondence, in rela- | ity of a Mexican statute. ‘The appeliate conrt, | central burean for the registration of natur- |~ Our imports during the fast fiscal year,'as | ple by an amendwent to our revenue Iaws | der, Fort Pickens haviis been sclected as a | tunity for improyement and reformation, the tion to the privilege of sojourn of our natar- | in releasing Mr, Cutting, decided that ti alized citizens. Experience suggests that our | compared with the previous year weré as fot- | Whichshall cheapen the price of the nee safe place of continement, all the adult males | government is responsible to them and ‘! alized eltizens ot German origin revisiting | abandonment of the complaint by the Mexi- | statutes regulating extradition may be | lows: saries of life and give frecr entrance to such | wore sent thither, and will he elosely guarded | society tiat these things are forthcoming. the land of their birth, yet T am hawpy to | can citizens agzrieved by the alleged erime | amended by o provision for the transit across imported materials asby Ameriean labor may | o prisoners. 1n'the meantime the residue of | But this duty can seareely be discharged A state that our relations “with that country | (alibelous publfeation) rémoved the basis of | our territory, now a conveniont thorounsh tare | Merchandise be manufuctured into marketable commodi- | {he band, who, thuizh still rewaining upon | without more absolute control and discretion have lost none of their aceustomed cordiality, | further prosecution and also declared justico | of trouble from one foreign country to an- | Gold...... ... ¥ ties. Nothing ean be accomplished, how- | {he reservation, weie regarded as unsife | B e aae Dl i dar e e tRa e “Uhe elaims for interest upon the amount of | to have been satisfied by the enforcement of | other, of fuzitives surrendered by a foreign | Silver C13,90,201,00 ever, in the direction of this mueh needed re- | cuspected of furnishing aid o those on the | Many of our good citizens have tdrested tonnase dues illegallyg exacted from certain | a small part of the orizinal sentence ¢ | governmentto a third state, Such proyvis- TARIEF REVIBION, form unless the subject is approached in war path, had been removed to Fort Marion, | themiselves with the most beneficial rosuits Geriman steamship lines were favorably re- | admission ot such a pretension would' be at- | fons are unusual in- the legislation of other | In my last annual message o congress at- | Patriotic spirit of devotion 1o the interests of | Fiye woulen and lurger ehildren of the hos- | on the question of prison reform, The genceral i ported in both houses of conigress at the last nded with serious results invasive of the | countries, and tend to prevent the mise tention was directod to the fact that the rey- | the entire country and with a - willinguess 1o | riles were also taken there, and arangements | covernment should be i sitiation, 3 session, and 1 trust will receive tinale aud fa- | jurisdiction of this government, and highly | iug of justice. 1t is also desitable, in @ nues of the government exceed: its | yield somethine for the public good, have heen made (or putting the children of | sinee there must be United Sthtes prisoners, { vorable action at an early day dangerous to our eitizens in-foreign Tands, | to " present uncertainties, that awthority | actual needs, and it was sugzested | [HE PUBLIC DENT, 4 proper age in udian schools. o furnish important aid inthis movement i THE CANADIAN FISHE Therefore L have denied it and protested | should be conferred on the secretury | that legislative action should be taken to re The sum paid upon the public debt during THE NAVY and should be able to lustrate what may be n ‘The recommendation contained in my last | against its attempted exercise “as uo- | of state o isswo & certilicate | lieve the people from the unnecessary burden | the scal year ended June 50, 150, was 2H- | Phe report of the seeretary of the navy | practieally done in the dircetion of 1his re annual message in relation to amode of set- | watranied by the prineiples of law | in case of an arrest for the purpose of extra- | of taxation thus made apparent. 1In view of [ 51,0486, “During the twelve month contains a detailed reportof” the condition | form to present an example in the treatment tlement of the iishery vights in the waters of | and international usages, A sovereign | dition to the ofticer before whom the pro- | the pressing importance of the subject [ | October i1, Ixv, three per cent bonds were | of his departuent, with such a statemnent of | and improvements of the prisoners wortiy British North Ameriea, so long a subject of | has inrisdiction of offenses which take effect 7 ings is pending showing that a requisi- | deen it my duty to again urge its considera- | ealled for redemption anounting to £1 he | the action needed to improve the same as | of imitation. Wil prisons under its owi anxious difterence between the United States | within nis territary, althongh concerted or | tion for the surrender for the person eharged | tion, The income of the govermment, with | 100, of which 50,615,200 was 50 called o | should challenge the earnest attention of con- | control the government could deal with the and Great Britain, was met by an adverse | commeneed ontside of it, but the right i de- | has been duly made. Sueh a certificate, it | inereased thorough econoniies in its collees [ answer the requirements of the law reluti gress. The present navy of the Upited | somewhat yexed question of conyiet labor, 8o vote of the senate Aptil 13 last, and there- | nied any toreign sovereign to pur citi- | required to be received before the prisoner’s | tion, Is now more than ever in excess of pub- | 10 1he sinking fund and 5 LA00 for tho | States, aside from the ships in ourse of con- | tar as its conviets weie coneerned, aceording l upon negotiations were instituted to obtain | zen of the United States for an offens n examination, would preventa long and ex- | lic necessities, ‘Tha application of the sur- | Purpose of reducing the public debt by appli- | struction, consists of : First, fourteen single 4 plan of its own adoption and with doe i an agreement with her Britanic najesty’s ummated on our soil in violation of our laws, | pensiae judicial inquiry into a charge which | plus to the payment of such portion of the | catisn of a part of the surplus in the treasury | furpeted monitors, none of which are in com- | regards to the rights and interests of our i government for the promuleation of sich | even though the otfense be st a_subject | the foreign government might not desire to | public debtas is now at our option, subject | 1o that object. Of the bands thus called $I102- | wnission, nor at the present time serviceable, | Taboring ¢t ans, instead of somotines s joint interpretation and definition of the | or eitizen of such sovereign. ‘The Mexican | press. to extinguishment if continued at'the rate | 308,450 became subject under such call 1o re- | ‘I'he balteries of these ships are obsolet g in the wlon of a l] fele of the couvention of 1515 stion makes the elaim broadly, L also recommend that express provision ba | which has lately prevailed, would retire that | demption prior o November 1 1556, | and they can only be relied upon as ausiliary ystem which causes amonyg them irritation I velating 1o the tewritorial waters and inshore ciple 1t couceded, would ereate | made for the immediate discharge from cus- | elass of indebtsdness. within less than one | The remuinder amounting to- £25,015.690 | siips in ngrhor defense, and then after sueh | wid discontent, U pon conside nof tois tisheries of the British provinees as should il responsibility in the citizen and lead | tody of persons committed for extradition | year from that date. ‘'hus a continuation ot | mature under - the —calls = after that | wn expenditure upon them as might not be ibject it mieht be thought wise toereet more = secure the Canadian rizhts from encroach: a conlusion destruetive of that certainty in | whére the president is of the opinion that the | our present revenue would soon result in [ date In addition to the —awount | deemed justifiable. Second, five fourth-rate | thiah one of e nstitutions, loeated in I went by United Stateés fishermen, and, at [ the law which is an_essential of liberty, | surrender should not be made. the rteceipt of an annual income much | gubject to payment and cancellation prior 10 | yessels of sinall tonnace, ouly one of whieh | b places as would best subserve the purs the sawe time, insure the enjoyment by the 0 citizens of the United States volun INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, greater than neceasary to mect goy- | November1 there were also paid before that | yas designed as a war vessel, and all 0f | poses 0f ConyeRIeNee and economy in Lrins latter of the privileges cuavinteed to ‘them [ tarily o into a forelen country, they must | The drift of sentiment in eivilized commu- | ernment expenses, with no indebtediess [ day certain of these bonds with the interest | \hieh are ausiliary Ihird, twenty- | portation, The consideraple cost” of main. by siich conyenti Lhe questions involved | abide by the laws there in foree and Wikl not § nities toward full recognition of the rights | upon which it could be applied. We suould | thereon amounting to $5,0725%0, which were | Soven crulsing ships, t which'aze bullt thiese convicts, us at present in state are of long standing, of gr eonsequer be protected by their own government from | of property in the ereations of the luman in- | then be confident with vast quantity of | antieipated as to waturity, of which €2.604,- | ot jron, of small tonnag { twenty-fourot | 1nstitufions, would be'saved by the adoption and from time 1o time, for nearly three quar- | th sequences of au offense against those | telicet has” bronght about the adoption by | money, the cireulating medinm of the coun- 0 had not been called; thus $107,54L560 | Wood, '~ Of tl eati- | of the plan proposed, and by employine them tors of a contury, have given rise to earnest | laws committed in sueh foreizn eountry. | many important nations of an international | try, hoarded in the tzeasury when it shonld | had been actually applied prior to the Istof | yated by 1 1 1 be | in the manuiacture of such articles a5 were P International aiscussions,not unaccompanied | But watchful care and interest ot this gov-§ copyiieht convention, which was sigued at | bé In their hands, or we should be drawn into | November, 1555, “to the extinguishment of | Joryiceq A period of £ix years, at | heeded for use by the government. Quiie a 4 by irrtation 1porary arvangement by | einment over its citizens are notrelinguished | Lerne on the 15th of September, 155 as- | wasteful publie extravagance with all the | our ponded and interest-bearing debt, lea which ~time " it 1 p said that n twould be realized in Heatios liave served to allay friction, wi because they have gone abroad;and ifehareed | much as the constitution gives'to congress | corrupting national demozalization ~whichi | 11k on that day still outstanding the sum of | of *the present fores noll tial ret iy nowever, has revived as each treaty was | with crime commitied in the foreign land, a | the power to promote the prozress of seience | follows in its trat, But it 1s not the stmple | $L,116,443112 " Of this amount $30,815700 | fuz worthy the will remain acan urge @ nze in the federal terminated, he fast arrangement, under | faicand oven trial, conducted with decent re- | and useful arts by seeuring for limited times | existence of this surolus and its threatened | Were still represented by 3per cent ‘bonds. | Afl the ye Nere authorized ar tem 1o o uts - of the ueaty of 151, was abrogated after due | gard for justice and_humanity, will ve de- | toauthors and inventors the exclusive right | attendant evils which furnish the stroncest | They lwm'\fl.émv been since November | wnder contract or o coirse of eonst e ple t ielays notice by the Umnited States, June 0, 155, | manded for them, With less {han that this | 10 their respective wiitings and. ois overies, | argument against our present seale of fed- | 14, or will at on€e be further reduced by s except the armored the torpe e rify Prese ) but T was enabled (o obtain for our ishérmen | gove it will Dot be content wl this government did not feel warranted in | eril taxation, 1ts worst phase is the esaction | 606,150, being bonds which have been called, | dynamite boats, aned dition of a Jupenny Sabs tor the remainder of that season the enjoy- | the life or liberty of its citizens is at stake- | bezowing a sig pending the action of | of such a surplus through a perversion of the | a8 before stated, but not redeeimed aud can: | Jast of these, the bids we the | agreed that so \ b dong. and ment of (he privile aecorded by ‘the | Whatever the deégree to which exira ter- | colgiess: upol weasures of international | relations between the people and their goy- | celled before the latter date, limit lixed by congress . e i Ay Py termnnating teaty, The joint commission | vitorial crimival jurisdiction way have been | copyright now before it, but the right of ad- | ernment, a dangerous departure from the SILVER COINAGE Ihe production in the United tes of | vise to the plan sugge by 1 tormoy ' by whom the treafy had ‘been negotiated, | formerly ullowed by eonsent aid recipro hesion to the Berne convention Lereafter hias | rules which limit the right' of federal faxa- th al year ended June 20, | armor und gun stec 1 t i general at 1 t ¢ the ress although 1nvested with pletary pover to | agreement among ecrtain of the Europ been reserved, Itrust the subjeet will tion, Good government, of which every there were ‘coined under thé | seems n % to attib aliin ety f e sandad 1n. s last anoual L ke perinanent seitlemcnt, wore content | states, no such doctriug or practice was e ceive at your hands the attention it deserves, | American citizen boasts, has for its objects | compulsory silver coinage act of 1505 | the armored wat v ate 10 be - completed 1he recolmen ) is Dere 1o ewed, With temporary - arrancements, after the | known to the laws of this country or of that | and that the just claims of authors, so | the protection of every person within its | 20,53%.540 silver dollars, and the cost of | with those iuuteral t howe 11 i wother ab e “ termination of ‘which the question was rele- | from which enr institutions have mainly been | urgently pressed, will be duly heedoa borders, with the greatest ' liberty consistent | the silver used in such coinage was 15, 8 4 [ t « K " of I ‘ gated to the stipulations of the treaty of | deny case of Mexico there are | Représcntations eontinue to be made to me | with the good of his country and his perfeet | 90.01 ‘Ihere had ‘been coined up o the tigat y W0 | cou g dist als, Isls, as fo Mhe drst of ‘wlhich | reasons e ally strong for pertect harmony | of the injurious effcet upon American artists | security ~ in the epjoyment of. his | close of the previous fiseal year, under the | be and by t " nittees f \ « « I to the w0 constriction satis o hoth [ in al exercise ot jurixdiction. | studying abroad, and having free access 1o | earnings, with the least passible diminution | provisions of the luw, 20 r dol- | gress within ihe last t 1 t r 1t tof cotintrics has ever. been agroed dpon. ‘Iio |- Nature has wade us irreyocably neizhbors, | theart collections of foreign countries, of | for public needs. When more of the people’s | lars, aud on the first day of ber, 1856, | of the n ton 4, ot tot I ut and ¥, i ivilizidion and growth of popu: | and wisdom and kind feeling ‘shonld make | maintaioine a discriminating duty agalnst | sustenance is exaeted through the form of | the total amount of such coiage was $247," | board au fostifical J it Uiy our § sl provinces, 10 which the | us toends. The overllow of capital and en- | the introduction . of the Works of - thelr »u than is necessary fo meetthe just | 150,049, The director of the mint reporls | and the report of (e ttees of r f DEPA KTV i 0 are coltigions, and he | terprise from the United States isa potent | brother artists of other countries; and [ am | ations of the government and the ex- | that at the time of the passage of the law of | (wo house 1o at the is n i £ the secretar the.in r | pepansion of dommercial aliereourse be | Hactor in assisiing the devclopment of the | induced to repeat my recommendation forthe | pense of its economical adiinistration, such | 157, directing this colnage the intrinsie value | gress, have cutirely « el Hisa L mary il the ween Lhem and the United States, present | resowrees ot Mexico and in budldiug up the | abolition of that tax, action becowes tuthiless extortion and a yio- | of the dollars thus coined was $44 cents | far as preliminary eatization I8 in \ of Y " v to-duy o condition of allairs scarecly real prosperity of bath countries, To assist this 3 THE CONSULAR SERVICE. lation of the fuudaweutal principles of @ free | each, and that on the ~|nl.; of July. 1556, | and in their recomendations they connetted with L Sblo.ab ise duleof 1518, New aud yust inter- | good work wil grounds of apprebesion lar] Pursuant (0 a provision of the diylomuc“ownum«n-. The iudirect manber in which | the price of silyer reached the lowest siage | stantially sgieed. " du Tt oveut that |t suggestions and recom : T