(continued from first page)
In the report of the postmaster-general
some, very gratifying results are
exhibited and many betterments
of the service suggested. The revenues
of the department show an increase of
$50,000,000, while the estimate of the
vear X873 show a surplus of receipts over
the expenditures. The president's mes
sage reviews the postmaster-general's
recommendations on an ocean mail
service and says : "I do not think there
is any reason "for discouragement or. for
any turning back from the policy of
this legislation. Indeed, a good begin
ning has been made and as the subject
is further considered and understood by
the capitalists and shipping people,
we may date from the passage of this
law the revival of American shipping
interests and the recovery of a fair share
of the carrying trade of the world. I
commend to your favorable considera
Tbe tariff is discussed at great length
by the president. "I believe." said the
president, "that a full test will develope
the fact that the tariff act of the fiftv-
first congress is very favorable in its
average effect upon the prices of articles
flowing into common use. During ' the
twelve mouths from October 1st, 1890 to
September 30, 1891, the total value of
our foreign commerce, exports and im
ports combined, was $1,747,806,406,
which Was the largest of any year in the
history of - the United States. The
largest in n n v nravimiR vfAr w&fl in 1R9fl
when our commerce amounted to $1,647,-
139,093. '
It is interesting, and to some, it will
be surprising to know that during the
year ending September 30, 1891, our
imports of merchandise amounted to
$824,715,270, which was an increase of
nnn than 1 1 (W W nvop thn rnlnp
of the imports of the corresponding
months of the previous vear when
the imports of merchandise were
large in anticipation of the tariff legis
lation then pending. The average an
nual value of the imports of merchan
dise fnr iha ton vonra fmm 1 RSI tr 1 Sflf)
was $692,186,522, and during the year
ending September 30, 1891, this annual
average was exceeded by $132,528,469,
The value of free imports during the
the twelve months ending September
30, 1891, was $118,091,387 more than the
value of free imports during the corres
ponding months of the preceding year,
and there was during the same year a
decrease of $16,864,508 in the value of
imports of durable merchandise. The
percentage of merchandise admitted
free of duty during the year to which I
have reference, the first under the tariff,
was 14.18, while during the preceding
twelve months under the old tariff its
percentage was 34.27, au increase of 13.9
per cent.
If we take the six months, ending
September 30, last, which covers the
time during which sugars have been ad
mitted free of duty the per cent, of value
of merchandise imported free of duty is
found to be 5o,37K which is a larger per
rentage of free imports than during any
prior fiscal year in the history of the
government. If we turn to imports of
merchandise, the statistics are full of
gratification. The whole of such ex
ports of merchandise for the twelve
months, ending September 30, 1891, was
$923,291,181, while for the corresponding
previous twelve months it was $960,177,
115. There is certainly nothing in . the
condition of our people of any . class to
suggest, that the existing tariff and rev
enue legislation bears oppressively upon
the people or retards the commercial
development of the nation. It may be
argued that our condition would be bet
ter if our taYiff legislation were upon a
free trade basis, but it cannot be denied
that all the conditions of prosperity and
of general contentment are present in a
larger degree than ever before in our
history, and that, too, just when it was
prophesied they would be in the worst
state. Agitation for radical changes in
tariff and financial legislation cannot
help, but may seriously impede business
to tb prosperity of which some degree
of stability in legislation is essential
I think" there are conclusive evidences
that the new tariff has created several
great industries which will within a few
years' give employment tb several hun
dred thousand American working-men
and women.
The reoort of the secretarv of the
treasury shows that the total receipts of
the government from all sources for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, were
$458,544,233.03, while the expenditures
lor the same veriod were $421,304,470.46,
leaving a surplus of $37,239,762.67.
The receipts of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1902, actual and estimated, are
$433,700,000 and the expenditures, $400,-
miu.ooo. Under the law of July 14, 1890,
the secretary of the treasurv has pur
chased since August 13, daring the first
year 48,393,113 ounces of silver bullion
at an average cost of $1,045 per ounce,
The highest price paid during the year
was $1.202o and the lowest was $0.9636
In exchange for this silver bullion
there have been issued $5,057,496 of the
treasury notes authorized bv the act,
The lowest price of silver reached dur
ing the fiscal year was $0.9396, on
April 22, 1891, but on November
1, the market price was only 0.69, which
would give to the silver dollar a bullion
value of 74i cents. Before the influ
ence of the prospective silver legislation
was felt in the market, silver was worth
in JNew York about 0.9a per ounce
iho ablest advocates ot tree coinage in
the last congress were most confident in
their prediction that the purchase bv
the government -required bv the law
would at once bring the price of silver to
$1.2929 per ounce which would make the
bullion value of a dollar 100 cents, -and
hold it there. The prophecies of the
anti silver men of disasters to result
from the'eoinage of $2,000,000 per month
were not wider of the mark. I hope the
depression in the price of silver is tem
porary and that a further trial of this
legislation will more favorably effect it.
cat the increased volume ot currency
thus supplied for the use of the people
was needed, and beneficial results
upon trade and prices have followed this
legislation. 1 think it must be very
clear to everyone, nor should it- be. lor
gotten, that for every dollar of these
rates issued a full dollar's worth of silver
bullion is at the same time deposited in
the treasury as a security for itsredemp.
tilVU. U pUfl' L LI 113 BUUJCtt, HP U)JUU HIC
tariff, my recommendation is that the
existing laws be given a full trial and
that our business be spared the distress
ing influence which threats of a radical
. changes a' ways imparts. -
'. tion the recommendation of the secre
tary of the navy that there should be no
hesitation in promptlv completing a
navy of the best modern type, . large
enough t to enable - this country
to . display its - Hag in all seas
for the protection of its . citizens,
and of its extending commerce.
The' provisions of adequate school
facilities of Indian children and the
locating of adult Indians upon farms,
involve the situation of the "Indian
question." There is a great advantage
I think, in bringing the Indian children
into mixed schools. This process will be
gradual, and in the meantime the pres
ent educational provisions, and ar
rangements, the result of the best ex
perience of those who have been charged
with this work, should be continued.
This .will enable those religious -bodies
that have undertaken the work of Indian
education, with so much zeal, and with
results so restraining and beneficent,
to place their institutions in new and
useful relations to the Indian and his
white neighbor. General Miles is en
titled to the credit of having protected
the settlers and of bringing the hostiles
Sioux into sub jection last December with
the least possible loss of life. .
The administration of the pension
bureau has been characterized during
the year by great diligence. The. total
number of "pensioners upon the roll on
the 30th day of June 1891, was 676,160.
There were allowed during the fiscal
year ending at that time 250,525 cases.
Of this number 102,487 'were allowed
under the laws of June 57, 1890. The is
suing of certificates has been proceeding
at the rate of About 30,000 per month,
about 75 per cent of these being cash,
under the new law. The commissioner
expresses the opinion that he will be
able to carefully adjudicate and allow
35,000 claims during the present fiscal
year. The appropriation for the pay
ment of pensions for the fiscal year of
1890-91 was $127,685,793.89 and the
amount expended was $119,530,640.20,
leaving an unexpended surplus of $155,
144.64. The report of the commissioners ot
railroads shows that the total debt of
the subsidized railroads of the United
States was on December 31, 1890, $112,
512,613.06. A large part of the debt is
now fast approaching maturitv, with no
adequate provision for its payment.
Some policy lor dealing with tnis debt
with a view to its ultimate collection
should at once be adopted. As it is
very difficult, well-nigh impossible, for
so large a body .as congress to conduct
necessary negotiations, 1 therefore
recommend that a provision bo made
for the appointment of a commission to
agree upon and report a plan for dealing
with this debt.
IThe work of the census bureau is in
advance and the ereat bulk of the enor
mous labor involved completed. It will
be more strictly a statistical exhibit and
less encumbered with essays than its
immediate predecessors. The methods
pursued nave been fair, careful and in
telligent and have secured the approval
of the statisticians who have followed
them with a scientific and non-partisan
interest.
If irrigation matters, are much longer
neglected private corporations will have
unrestricted control of one of the ele
ments of life and the patentees of the
arid lands will be tenants at will of the
water companies. The United States
should part with its ownership of the
water sources and the sites for reservoirs
whether to the states and territories or
to individuals or corporations, onlv upon
conditions that will insure to the settlers
their proper water jsupply upon equal
and reasonable terms. ...
The legislation of congress for the re-,
pression ot polygamy after many
vears of resistance on the part of the
Mormons, has at least brought them , o
the conclusion that resistance is un
profitable and unavailing. The power
of congress over this subject should not
be surrendered until we have satisfac
tory evidence that the people of the state
to be created would exercise the exclu
sive power of the state over this subject
in the same way.
I recommend that a provision be made
for the organization of a simple town
government in Alaska, with power to
regulate such matters as are usually in
the- statutes under municipal control.
The local organizations will give better
protection in such matters than the
present skeleton territorial organization.
Proper restrictions as to the power to
levy taxes and to create debts should be
imposed.
If the establishment of the depart
ment of agriculture is regarded by any
one as a mere concession to the un
lightened demand of a worthy class of
people, that impression has been most
effectually removed by the great resul s
already attained.
The grain crop of this year was the
largest in our history. ' Fifty per cent,
greater than that of last year and vet
the market that has' opened and the
larger demand resul tine from short
crops In Europe have sustained prices to
such an extent that the enormous sur
plus of meats and bread stuffs will be
marketed at good prices. Th9 value of
the grain crop of - the United
States is estimated by the secretary to be
this year $500,000,000 more than last
year and of meats $150,000,000 more and
ail products of the farm $700,000,000 more,
It is not inappropriate, I think, how
ever, to suggest here that our satisfac
tion in the completion of this marvelous
addition to the national wealth is un
clouded bv any suspicion of the late cur
rency bv which it is measured and in
which the farmer is paid for the product
of his fields.
The heads of the -several executive
departments have been directed to the
establishment at once of an efficiency
record as a basis of comparative rating
of clerks within a classified service with
a view to promoting methods thereon.
I have twice before -called attention of
congress to the necessity of legislation
for protection of the lives of railroad
employes, but nothing has yet been
done. - Daring the year ending June 30,
1890, 369 brakemen were killed and 7841
maimed, while engaged in coupling cars.
The total number of railroad employes
killed daring the year was 2451, and the
and the number injured 22,590. This is
a cruel and largely a-needless sacrifice
A law requirinz of 'every- railroad en
gaged in interstate commerce the equip
ment each year of a given number of
its freight cars with' automatic couplert
and air brakes to be used would very
soon and very greatly reduce the presen's
tearful deatn rate among raitroad em
ployes. " : -
- The method of appointment by states
and electors of the president and vice-
president has recently attracted renewed
interest by reason of a departure of the-
state ot Michigan from the methods
which had become uniform in all the
states. After a full test . of other
methods,- and without any purpose of
party advantage, as we must believe,
but soieiv upon consideration that uni
formity was desirable and that a general
election om .territorial divisions, not sub
ject to change was most consistent with
the popular character of on if institutions
and best preserved the equality of the
voters and effectually removed the i
choice of president from the paneful in
fluences of "gerrymander," the. practice
of all states was brought into harmony
with this concurrence should now be
broken, is I think an unfortunate and
even a threatening episode. The gerry
manders for congressional purposes ace
in most cases buttressed by a gerry
mander of the legislative district thereby
making it impossible for a majority
of the legislative voters of the
state to correct the ' apportionment
and equalize . the congressional
districts, and a minority rule is estab
lished that only a political convulsion
can overthrow. I have recently been
advised that in one county of a certain
state three districts for the election- of
member of the legislature are consti
tuted as follows, one has ' 45,000 popula
tion one 15,000 and one 10,000. While
in another county detached non-centizu-ous
sections have . been united to
make a -' legislative district. These
methods- have already found effective
application to the choice of senator and
representatives in ' congress.' It is not
my purpose here to discuss the question
whether a choice by the legislature on
or by the voters of equal single districts
is a choice . by the state, but only to
recommend such regulation of this mat
ter by constitutional amendment as will
secure uniformity and prevent that dis
graceful partisan jugglery to which such
a liberty, if it exists, offers a temptation.
If I were called up to declare where in
our chief national danger lies, I should
say without hesitation in the overthrow
of a majority, (control by the suppres
sion) or perversion of the' popular, suf
ferage alluded to gerrymander or are
effecte V by the method of selecting
electors of the president, by congres
sional districts, - but the priminary
intent and effect of this form of political
robbery have relation to the eelection of
members of the house of representatives.
The power of congress ample to deal
with this threatening and intolerable
abase. I must yet entertain the hope
that it is posstble to secure a calm pat
riotic consideration of such constitu
tional or statory .changes as may- be
necessary to secure . the choica of the
officers of the government to the people
by fair apportionment and free elections.
I believe it would be possible to. consti
tute a commission non partison in its
membership and composed of patriots
wise and impartial men to whom
a consideration of the ; question of
the evils connected with our
election system and methods might
be committed with a good prospect of
securing a unanimity in some plan for
relieving or mitigating these evils into
the subject of elections as relating to the
choice of officers of the national govern
ment with a view of securing to every
elector a free and unmolested exercise of
suffrage and near an approach to an
equality of value in each ballot cast as it
is attainable.
A POOR SPECIMEN OF A JUDGE. ;
He Was Cross Eyed and Red Headed and
the Yankee Was Astonished.
No man in the state had a keener ap
preciation of humor than the late Judge
T; Lisle Dickie, who served many years
as a circuit judge before being elevated
to the supreme bench of the state. Al
though he had a rich fund of anecdotal
lore concerning the prominent members
Of the' Illinois bar, he never related a
good story of any of his fellow lawyers
with keener relish than the following in
cident of which he was the hero.- It is
necessary to a full appreciation of , the
story that the reader should be reminded
that Judge Dickie was cross eyed to an
intricate and marvelous degree, and also
gifted with brilliantly red hair.
' The story is as follows:
"I had been out shooting prairie chick
ens down below Ottawa, and was return
ing' home on the public road along in
the afternoon. It was hot and I had
already tramped far enough to get thor
oughly tired out, and, as it was several
miles to town, I was anxious to catch a
ride. The first team that came along
was a lightning rod outfit.
" 'Friend, can you take a passenger?
said I.
"He looked at me suspiciously. Per
haps I looked even more cross eyed than
nsual without my 'store clothes' on at
Buy rate he seemed, at first, of a mind
to drive on without me. Bat he finally
stopped his wagon and condescendingly
remarked: . '
" 'Yes; you can pile on back there,
top of the rods and ladders.'
"I gratefullly accepted that privilege
and we rode on in silence until we
reached a wayside watering trough.
The man dismounted; .unhooked a pail
from beneath the wagon, and proceeded
to water his horses. Meantime the pro
prietor of the premises came out to fill
his own paiL He knew me well and
said:
" 'How d do, judge. What luck have
you had shooting?' ,
"As the word judge' fell from his
lips I noticed a look of astonishment on
the face of . the Yankee lightning rod
man. The fellow was bolstering tip the
pail of water with his knee to a height
from which his horse could drink with
out unchecking, and his astonishment
was so great that he let his knee slip out
from under - the pail and splashed the
front of his clothes.
" 'Didn't that feller back there at the
waterin trough call you judge? inquired
the Yankee, as soon as we had started
on.' .-
"'Yes. I replied. '
',' 'What be you judge of, a hoss race?
he exclaimed, turning back to take a
second contemptuous inventory of ' my
personal charms. --.
" 'No; judge of a court,' I replied.
" 'What kind of a court?
' . "A circuit court, was my answer.
"Waal down . east,' where I come
from, ii took a considerable of. a fellar
to be circuit judge!.. How, big's your
circuit:-' -.
"lt reaches from the Wisconsin line
as far south as Peoria, I again replied.
- "Lifting the hickory stick of his drov
er's whip he sent its long rawhide lash
twirling in a succession of coils above
his head, which culminated in a crack
like the explosion of a pistol.
"My goodness! I'll . settle . in this
country myself if they make such a man
as you judge!' . exclaimed the disgusted
Yankee. It was his final dictum. He
did not offer to exchange .another word
with me.. We. parted in silence at the
outskirts of the town.M-:-Chicaffo Mail.
,y.omen,
The common aeiic'.Ious t't women arc sck-hecd-
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Btlso largely Irom etouiat-U diedrders. As Joy's
Vogctablo Earsaparilla is tbe only bowel regu
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NcrVous debility, Mrs. Fred. Loy, 827 Ellis St., S.F.
General debility, Mrs. Beldcn, 610 Mason St, S.F,
Nervous debility, Mrs. J. Lamphere, 735 Turk 8L,
8. F.
Nervous debility. Miss Ii. Bosenblum, 2S2 17th
DC, e. r.
Stomach troubles, Mrs. It. L. Wheaton, 704 Post
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Sick headaches, Mrs. SI. B. Price, 16 Prospect
Sick headaches, Mrs. M. Fowler, 827 Ellis St,S.F.
Indigestion, Mrs. C. D. Stuart, 1221 Mission St,
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175 Second St. " The Dalles. Or.
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Say the S. B. Cough Cure ia the best
thing they ever' saw. We are not
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Tew people know that tha
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the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows Is not the nat
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fact may be, it is nevertheless ,
artificial; mineral coloring
matter being used for this
purpose." Tbe effect Is two
fold. It' not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
M of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once mnder the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'flner appearance, ia carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
' especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo.- Thit method it e gem-
. eral that very Utile genuine uncolored green tea
it offered for tale." -.''
ft was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever sco any
genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ask youi
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to bo just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and tbe black to as.
It draws a delightful canary color, and Is so
fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for lest
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packages bearing this trade-mark:
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mis, zb cents, iieware oi counterfeits ana imi
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