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e-.n, t of the awards under the copwJhSowever,
, f III« O'ltli Anril 1866. That republic Is'p
understood to he'rnw almost if n«t quite ill
tranouiiized. It is hoped, therefore, that it „««ts.
will lose no time in providing fov the unpaid Ä of
balance of its debt to the United State», k
wiiicli having originated in injuries to our
citizeus by ^Venezuelan authorities, and
having been acknowledged pursuant to a <.g>
treaty ill the most solemn form known 8
,iiuon ,T nations, would seem to deserve a of
preference over debts of a different origin,
contracted in n different manner. This sub
i„ct is again recommended to tiie attention
of Congress for such action as may bo doom
ed proper.
Our treaty relations with Japan remain
unchanged. Au imposing embassy froth
that interesting and progressive nation visit
ed this country during the year that is pass
ing, but being unprovided with powers for
the signing of a convention in this country, «t
no conclusion in that direction was reached.
It is hoped, however, that the interchange
of opinions which took place during their
stay in this country has led to a mutual ap
probation of the interests which may be be
promoted when the revision of the existing
treaty shall be undertaken. In this con
nection I renew my recommendation of one
year ago, that t.p give importance and to add
to the efficiency of our diplomatic relations
with Japan and China, and to further aid in
retaining the good opinion of those people,
and to Becure to the United States its share
of the commerce destined to flow between
those uatiODS and the balance of the com
mercial world, an appropriation bo made to
support at least four American youths in
eachof those countries, to serve os a part
of the official family of our Ministers there,
Our representatives would hot even then
be placed upon an equality with the ropre
soDtatives of Great Britain and some other
powers. A» now situated, our represents
tivoB ia Japan aud China lave to depend
tor interpreters and translators upon natives
of those countries, who know onr language
imperfectly, of promu» fnrtfie occasion the
services of employees in foreign business
houses, or the interpreters of other foreign
Minister«. j>«t
I renew the recommghtlàfion made on a
previous occasion, of the transfer to the De
partaient of tho Interior, to which they
seeut mure appropriately to belong, of all
the powers in' relation to the Territories
which the Department of State is now charg
ed by law or custom.
Congress, from the begiuniog of the Go
vernment, baa wisely made provision fort
the relief 0 t distressed seamen in foreign |
countries. No similar provision, however, |
bas hitherto beeu made for the relief of citi-!
zens in distress abroad other than scamoo.
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It is understood to be cuBtomnry with other
Governments to authorize Consuls to ex
tend such relief to their citizens or subjects
in certain cases. A similar authority und
an appropriation to carry it into effect, are
recommended in the case of citizens of the
United States destitute or sick under each,
circumstances. It is well known that such
citizens resort to foreign countries in great
numbers. Though most of them are able
to bear tbe expenses iucident to locomotion,
there are some who, through accident or
otherwise, become penniless, and lmve no
friends at homo to succor them. Persons
in this- situation must either perish, Cast
themselves upon the charity of foreigners,
or be relievhd at tho privgte charge of our
own officerS,.;who usually, even with the
most benevolent disposition, have--nothing
to spare for such purposes. Should tho au
thority and the appropriation asked for, be
granted, care will be taken to carry the be
neficence of Congress into effect, thatTt
shall not be unnecessarily or unworthily be
stowed.
TREASURY.
The moneys received and conveyed into
the national Treasury during tiie fiscal year
ending Jime 30th. 1872, were from customs
#216,370,286 77 ; from sales of public lauds
$2,575,714 19 ; from internal revenue #130,
642,177 72 ; from tax on national bank cir
«Illation #6,523,396 39; from Pacific rail
way companies #749,861 87; from customs,
lines, etc. $1,136,442 34 ; from fees, consu
lar, patent, land, etc. #2.284,095 92 ; from
miSCéllaneops sources #8,412.254 71—total of
ordinary receipts #664,684,229 91; from ance
premium on sales of coin #9,412,637 65 ; ants
total net receipts #374,106,867 50; balance ters
in Treasury June 30th, 1871, #109,935,705 cific
99, including 81,822,835 received from that
unavailable ; total available cash #484,042,
573 15. The net expenditures by warrauts
during the same period were, for civil ex
penses, #16,187,059 20; for foreign inter- an
course #1,839,379 14; for Indians #7,061,
728 82 ; for pensions #2,853,340,276 ; for title
military establishments, including lortifica- cial
lions, river aud harbor improvements and
arsenals #35,372 20 ; for naval establish
rnents, including vessels and machinery and
improvements at navy yards #21,249,809 of
99; for miscellaneous civil, including public
building, light houses and collecting the re- the
venue #429,583,290 08 ; for interest on
the public debt #117,357,6339 72. 'Total,'
exclusive of principal and premium on the tiou
public debt, #270,559.695 91; for premium
OI 1 bonds purchased #6,958,266 7G ; for re
demptiou o) the oublie debt $99,690,256
94, Total, $106,918,52 30. Totalnetdis- cers
bursements $377,478,316 21; balance in
treasury June 30th, 1872. $106,564,359 94. the
Total $484,042,573 16. From the forego
ing statement it appears that the net re
duction of the principal of the debt during
the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1872, was
$99,960253 54. The source of this reduc- able
«on is as follows : Net ordinary receipts
during the year 8sg4,694,229 91; net ordi- of
nary expenditures, including interest on the ted
public debt, $270,559,695 91, leaving sur
plus revenue »94,164,534. * * *
With tiie great acduclion of taxation by a
acU of Congress at its lost session, the
howév<4?3ti»en(*'ture of the Government in collect- the
the revenue will be much reduced dur
a<!g tho fiscal yeur. It is very doubtful, er
copwJhSowever, whether any further reduction of tion
Is'p vexatious a burthen upon any people
ill hg practicable for the present. At all
it „««ts. as a measure of justice to the hold- of
Ä of tho nation's certificates of indebted- der
k 1 touffi recommend that no more lo
our f.itoti be had on this subject unless it be
and it/rert errors of orniesion or commission
a <.g> present laws until sufficient time has
8 '«i t0 prove that it can be done and
a of cave sufficient revenue to meet the
in»expenses of the Government, pay
sub- thnÇ on tho public debt, and provide for
prating fund established bylaw. The
i)ig,»jSon pf our national credit is of tie
this importance ; next iu importance to
tionni«* a solemn, duty to provide a na
froth eotnjnrrency of fixed, unvarying value, as
cable,! with gold, and as soon as practi
the deing due regard for the interests of to
for trade ar class and tho vicissitudes of
«t par. commerce, convertible into gold
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The rep war department.
their the expli of the Secretary of War shows
ap- for ihe t,ituros of the War Department
be be #35,'m yeas ending June 30,1871, to
ending Ml 82, and for the fiscal year
con- 20, showr 30, 187.2, .to be #35,372,157
one fiscal y«arp reduction in favor of the last
add thoneaiid umr hundred and twenty-seven the
lars and « bund rod and thirty-four dol
in for military-two oeajs. The estimates
cal yea» attvropriations for the next fis
share 801Juuo 30th, 1874, are #33,
Knginew® »Ihe estimates af the Chief of
com- tificutiot»«, ubmitted separately for for
to and for pqbli- and harbor iBiprovetnents.
in the WashiDgqiidiags aud gtouud?, and
part the Freedme-tacqueducb The affairs of
there, ferred to tha uireau have all beeu traus
then tions have be«r Department and régula
ropre- speedy payment, into execution for the
other colored soldier# bounty pay, (etc., due
bureau. All wtyu,^,|_r coining under that
depend property pribf to Snots for money and
natives and transmitted H have been examined
settlement Diirin. Treasury lor final
the hustbeoo paid for tri« fiscal 'year there
$1,300 000, of whiclltrtatieti tiNlilroads
foreign Pacific railroad ; fpr to,857 was over the
ter, #626,373 52, andspyrtattop, by wa
on a and for the purchase 6,t^e #48,075 85,1
De- mala, wagons, hire of .msporUliop ani -1
they 64. About #370,000 tasters. #924,6501
all from Southern rallroai been collected
leaving about #4,<K»,U0 Jn „g the yeRr,
charg Quartermaster has examit ;n Hue. The
ted to the accounting offiohnd transmit
Go- #367,172 72 of claims by ,■ settlement
fort quartermasters' Btorestakenl finzea» fur
foreign | Hubsistence supplies to the .wvg the war.
however, | 048 12 have been issned to no of #89,
citi-! The annual average main »tr.. Indians,
scamoo. army was 24,101 white aud 2 t h of th»
colored
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soldiers. The total deaths for the year re-1
ported were 367 white and 54 colored. The
distribution of the medical and surgical bis
tory of the war iB yet to be ordered by Con
gresB. There exists an absolute necessity
for a medical corps of the lull number es
tablished by act of Congrflss of the 28th Of
JuTy, 1866, there being now fifty-nine vacuu
eie», ami the .number of successful candi
datèJ.raréfy exceeds eight or ten in tiny one
yeur. The river and harbor improvements
haVe been carried oh with eneqiy and econ
omy, though many are only partially com
pletèfl. Tue results huve saved to com
rnerce, with greater depth of channels, great
or security in navigation, and the saving of
time adds millions to the wefthb Of tho
country and increase« tho resources of the
Government. The bridge acttiss tffS*Mis
•sissippi at Rock Island has boen completed,
and the proper site has been doternfiired 1 %
on. for tj|o bridge at Lacrosse. The able
ant! exhaustive report made by the commis
siuat appointed to investigate the Lutro
Tuunol has been submitted to Congress,
Tim observations and report of the .Signal
Office have been maintained at each of the
principal lake, seaport and river cities. Ten
additional stations have been eslabli.-hed
iu the United States, and arrangements
have beeil made for an exchange of reports
with Canada, and a similar exchange of ob
nervations is contemplated with the West
India Islands. '
Tho favorable attention of Congress 13
invited to the following recommendations
of the Secretary of War : A discontinu
ance of the appointment of extra Heute»
ants to serve as adjutants and quartermas
ters ; the adoption of a code providing spe
cific penalties for well-defined offences, so
that the inequality of sentences adjudged by
courts-martial may be adjusted ; the con
solidatiou of accounts under which expend
itures are made, as a measure of economy;
an oppropriation of the money for tlm con
Btruction of a depot at San Antonio, the
title to the site being now perfected ; a spe
cial aot placing tbe cemetery at the city of
Mexico on the same basis as other national
cemeteries ; authority to purchase sites lor
military posts in Texas ; the appointment
of commissary sergeants from non-commis
sioned officers, as a measure for securing
the better care and protection of supplies ;
an'appropriation for the publication uf the
catalogue and tables of tho anatomical sec
tiou of the Army Medical Museum; a re
appropriation of the amount for the manu
facture of breech-loading arms, should the
selection be so delayed by tho board of offi
cers as to leave the former appropriation
unexpended "at the close of the fiscal year;
the sale of such arsenals east of the Missis
sippi as can be spared, and the proceeds ap
plied to the establishment of one large ar
sonal of construction and repair upon the
Atlantic coast, and the purchase of a snit
able site for a proving mid experimental
ground for heavy ordnance ; the abrogation
of laws which deprive inventors m the Unt
ted States service from deriving any benefit
from their inventions ; the repeal of the law
prohibiting promotions from the stuff corne;
a continuance of the work upon coast de
fences ; lira repeal of the seventh section of
the act of July 13, 18G6, taking from en
»near soldiers the per diem granted to oth
er troops : a limitation of Unie for présenta
tion of o d war claims for subsistence sup
plies, under the act of July 4,1864, and a
modification m the mode of the selection
of cadets for
der to enhance
The attention of Congress will bo called
during its present session to various enter
prises for the more certain i;nd cheap
transportation of the constantly increasing
surplus of Western and Southern products
to the Atlantic seaboard. The subject is
one that will force itself upcntholegisla
tive branch of tho Government sooner or
tat**. Md t soggezr, therefore, that tamp..
diate steps be taken tb g^tin all available in
formation to secure equable and just legis
tation. One route to connect the Missis
sippi Valley with the Atlantic at Chorlos
ton, S- 0-, and Savannah, Ga., by water, by
tbe way of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers
and canals, aud slack-water navigation to
the Savannah and Ocmulgee rivers, has
been surveyed and report made by an ac
complished engineer officer of the army,
Second and tWttd, new routes will-be pro
posed for the consideration of Congress,
namely, by an extension of the Kauawah
and James River Canal to the Ohio, and by
extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Cu
nal. I am not prepared to recommemj Go
veriiment aid to these or other enterprises
until it is clearly shown that thM are not
only of national interest, but that when
completed they will bo of a value common
surate with their cost. That production
increaies more rapidiy than the means of
transposition in our country, bus beeu de
monstrafsd by past experience ; that the
unprecedented growth in population und
products of th« whole country wdl require
additional facilities and ebeitp'or ones for
tue more bulky articles of commerce to
reach tide water and a market wifi be de
85,1 itunded in ihe near rutw«„ is equally d«
-1 mo>strablo. 1 would therefore suggest
eithei « committee or commission to be ua
thorizeu t, 0 consider this wholo question,
»«d to repost to Gopplac at some future
day. for it* beater gtfidanceln legislating on
tins important subject. The railroads of
the country have been rapidly extended
fur during the last| ew y V rs to meet the grow
war. ing detnamla ol irddu<*ra, and reflect much
«redit upon t»»e*i|«Jht, »oJ managers en
gaged in their cons-u^y,,. In addition to
th» these a project to '"«sate commerce by the
building ot asuip cu^| aruUm j Niagara
tho Military Academy, in or
e the usefulness of the acade
my, which is impaired by reason of the
lurge amount of tune necessarily expended
in giving new cadetB a thorough knowledge
of tho more elementary branches bf learn
ing which they should acquire before enter
ing the academy ; afso an appropriation for
a philosophical apparatus, an increase in the
number and pay of the Military Academy
band.
^a-:^
Falls on the United States side, which had
been agitated for many years, will no doubt
bo called tq your attention at this session,
Looking to the great future growth of the
country, and the increasing demabds of
commerce, it might be well, while on this
subject, not only te have examined and re
pot ted upon the various practicable routes
for connecting the Mississippi with tide
water Atlantic, but the feasibility of an
almost continued fund-locked navigation
from Mafne to thé Gulf of Mexico. Such a
route along our coast would be of great va
lue at all times, and of Inestimable value
in case of a foreign war. Nature haspro
vided tho greater part of this toute, and
tho obstacles to be overcome aro easily
within the skill of the engineer. I huve
not alluded to the subject with the view of
having any further expenditure of public
money at this time Ulan may be necessary
to procure and place all the necesaary in for
mation before Congress, in an authentic
form, to enable itffierenfter, if deemed prac
ticable and worthy, to legislate on the sub
ject without delay.
navy defartmbxt.
The report, pf t,he tieorutary of the Navy,
herewith accompanying, explains fully tho
condition of that branch of the public ser
vice, its wants and deficiency, exp
creased during the past year, aud approprie
at ions for the same. It also gives ucOnm
pleto history of the service or the navy for
the past year, in addition to its regular ser
vice. It is evident that unless early steps
are taken to preserve otir gayy, that in a
very few years the United 81 êtes will be the
weakest nation on the ocean of all the
great powers. With an energetic, progres
sive business people like ours, penetrating
and forming business relations With every
part of the known world, a navy strong
enough to command the respect of our flag
abroad, is necessary for tho full
ol our rights. I recommend care
eralion by Congress of the recommenda
tions made by the Secretary of the Navy.
TOST omes DEPARTMENT.
The accompanying report of thé Post»'
master General furnishes a full and satisfac
tory exhibit of the operations of the Post
Office Department during the year. * *
Our postal communications with all parts of
the civilized world have been placed on a
most advantageous footing by tue improved
postal couventions and arrangements re
cently concluded with the leading commer
cial countries of Europe and America, and
a gratifying statement is made that with the
conclusion of a satisfactory convention
with France, the details of which have
been definitely agreed to by the head of tha
French postal department, subject to the
approval ot tho Minister of Finance, iittle
remains to be accomplished by treaties for
some time tp Amte, with respeet either to
reduction of rates) or improved facilities of
postal intercourse Your favorable consul
oration is respecllully invited to the recom
mendation made by the Postmaster General
for an increase of service Irom monthly to
semi-monthly trips! on thetamil steamship
route to Brazil ; loir a subsidy in aid of the
establishment of an American line of moil
Steamers between Sun Francisco, New Zea
land and Australia ; for the establishment
of post office saviogs banks, and for the in
crease of the salaries of the heads of bu
reaus. I have heretofore recommended the
abolition of the franking privilege, and, see
no reason now for changing my views on
that subject. It not having been favorably
regarded by Congress, however, I now sug
gest a modification of that privilege to cor
rect its glaring and costly abuses. I would
recommend, also, the appointment of a com
mittco of commission, to take into consid
eration the method equitable to private cor
porations who have invested their time and
capital in the establishment of télégraphie
lines; of acquiring the title to all telegraph
lines now in operation and of connecting
this servico with the postal service of the
nation. It is not probable that, tliig sub
ject conld receive the proper consideration
during thé limits of a short session of Con
gress, but it may be initiated so that futuro
action may be fair to the government and to
private parties concerned. There are but
three lines of ocean steamers, namely, the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company between
•San Francisco, China and Japan, with pro
vision made for seini-montbly service after
October 1st, 1873; the United States and
1 lirazil line, monthly, and tho Oulifornia, New
Zealand and Australian liue, monthly, ply
ing between the United States and foreign
f orts, and owned and operated under
ag. *•
I earnestly recommend that such liberal
contracts for carrying the mails be author
ized «with those lines as will insure their eon
tmaance. If the expediency of extending
the aid of Government to lincs'oT steamers
whfyh, hitherto, have not received it should
bo deemed worthy of the consideration of
Congress, political and commercial objectB
make it advisable to bestow such aid on a
line, under our own flag, between Panama
and tile western South A meriewt ports. By
this means much trade, now diverted to oth
er countries, might be brought to the United
States, to the mutual advantage of this
country and those lying in that quarter of
the continent of America.
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Indians.
Tho policy which wasadc 'od at the bo
ginning of this administration, which, in re
gard to the management of Indians, has
been as succcasfnl as its most ardent friends
anticipated, within eo abort *,t#tge. It has
reducatrm expense of the management,
decreased their forays upon tbe white set
tlements, lend«! to give-tbe largest oppor
tuuity for the extension of the great ra»f
wnys through the public domain, pushing of
of settlements into remote districts vt the
country, and, and at tho same time, improved
the condition of the Indians. Vite policy
will be maintained, without change, oxc.qit
ing such as further experience may be nec
to essnry to render it more efficient Tho sob
ject of converting the so «ailed Indian Ter
ritory .outh of Kansas, into u borne for the
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Indians, and crcatiog therein' a territorial
form of goverumont, is one of great impor
lance, as a complement of the existing in
diau policy. The question of removal to
that territory has, within tho past year, been
presented to many of the tribes, resident
upon other and less desirable portious oi
tbe public domain, and lias generally been
received by them with favor, ns a prelimina
ry step to the organization of such a terri
tory. It will ho necessary to rtinfino the
Indians, now resident therein, oil turmB of
proper size, which should be secured to
them in fee simple; the residue to be used
for the settlement of other friendly Indians.
Efforts will be made, in the immediate fu
ture, to induce the removal of as ninny
peaceably disposed Indians to Iudiao Terri
tory, as can tie settled properly without dis
turbing the harmony ol those already there.
There is no otiior location, now available,
where a people who aro endeavoring to .ac
quire a knowledge of pastoral and agricul
tural pursaits, can bo us well uccominoduled
as upon tbe Indian Territory lauds. In
dian Territory territorial government should,
however, protect tho Indians from tho in
road of whites, for a. term of years, until
they become sufficiently advanced in the
arts of civil service to guard their own
rights, and from tho disposal of the lands
held by them for the Bamc period.
LANDS.
During the last fiscal year there wero dis
posed of, Out of the public lands, 11,864 975
acres, a quantity greater by 1,099,270 acres
than was disposed of the previous year—
Of this amount 1,370,320 acres were sold
for cash, 389,160 acres located with military
warrants, 467,332 acres taken for home
steads, 693,613 acres located with college
scrip, 554,887 acres granted to railroads,
465,347 granted to wagon roads, 714,255
Ï tiven to State as swamp lands, 5.7G0 acres
ocated by Indians. The cash receipts, from
all sources, in the Laid Office amounted to
#3,218,190. During the same period 22,
016,608 acres of the public lands were sur
veyed, which, added to tho quantity beforo
surveyed, amounts to 583,364,780 acres,
leaving 1,257,633,628 acies of the public
lands still nnsurveyod. The reports from
tho subordinates of tile I-and Uffico contain
interesting information in regard to their
respective districts, by uniform mention of
the fruitfulness of the soil, during the sea
son, and the increase yield of all kinds of
produce. Even in those States and Terri
tories where mining is the principal busi
ness, agricultural products bavo exceeded
the local demand, and liberal shipments
have been made to distant points.'
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patents.
Daring the year ending September 30
1872, there were issued from the Patent
Office 13,626 patents, 233 extensions and
556 certificates und registers of trade marks.
During the same time, 19,587 applications
for patents, including reissues nnd dcsie
lia ve been received and 3,100 caveats fill
'The Tees received daring the same period
amount to #800,921 86, and the Intel ex
penditures to #623,553 90, making the net
receipts, over tho expenditures, 877,400 96.
Since 1836, 200,000 applications for patents
have been filed, ant] about 133,000 patents
issued. 'Tile office is being conducted un
der the same laws and general organization
as were adopted at its inauguration, when
only 100 to 500 applications were mode per
annum.
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tub census.
The uintii census is about completed. Its
early completion is a subject of congratula
tion, inasmuch os the nse to be made or
the statistics therein contained depends
very greatly on the promptitude ol publica
tion. 'The Secretary of the Ulterior recom
mend that a census be taken in 1875, which
recommendation should receive the early
attention of Congress. Tho interval at
present established between tbe Federal
census is so long that the information ob
tained at tile decennial period as to tho ma
terial condilion, wants and resources of tiie
nstion is of little practical value after the
expiration of tbe first half of that period.
It would probably obviate the constitution
al provison regarding tho decennial census,
if a census taken in 1875 should be divested
off political character, and no renpportion
meut of Uottgressional representation be
mad« under it ; such a census, coming, as it
would, in the last year of the centufy of our
national existence, would furnish a novel
monument of tho progress of the United
States during the century.
EDUCATION.
The rapidiy increasing interest in educa
tion is a most encouraging feature in the
current history of the country, and tt is no
doubt true that this is due, in a great meas
ure, to the «Hurts of the Bureau of Educa
tion, that its officers aro continually receiv
ing evidences which abundantly proved its
efficiency from the various institutions of
learning, and educators of ull kinds through
out tire country. The report of the Com
missioner contains a vast atsonut of educa
tional details of great iuteiost. A bill now
pendiog before Gongresr', providing for the
appropriation of the iiet proceeds of the
sale ot public lands fir educational purposes,
to aid the Zitates ih tho general education ot
their riaing generation, is a measure of such
great impurtisice to our real progress, and
is so unaur.nuusly approved by the loading
friends </ education, that I commend it to
tbe favorable attention of Congress.
TERRITORIES.
Affairs ill the Territories are generally
satisfactory. 'The energy and business ca
pacity of the pioneers, who are settling up
the vast domains not incorporated into
.States, are keeping puce in internal improve
ments and civil gov,-mm,>nt with the older
communities. In lint olio of thou. Utah,
is the condition of affiirs unsotitit'octorj', ex
cept so far as the quiet of the eitiz»n may
tie disturbed by real or imaginary danger of
Indian hostilities. It has seemed to be the
policy of ihe Legislature of Utah to evade
all risponsibility to the Government of the
United States, und uven to hold a position
in hostility to it. 1 recommend a careful
revision of the present laws of the Territory
by Congress, and ibo enactment of such u
law as tho one proposed in Congress at its
last session for instance, orsqinolhing simi
lar to it, os will secure the peace and equal
ity of all citizens before tho law, and tho
ultimate extinguishment of polygamy.
f-iuce tbe establishment of a territorial
government for the District of Columbia,
tho inytrovt.sent of the condition of thn
city or Washington and surroundings, and
the increased prosperity Af the citizens, is
observuble to the must casual visitor. Tbe
nation being an owner of properly in this city
Blioald boar, with the citizens of the Districi,
a just proportion of tint expense ol tlieso
improvements. I recommend, therefore, an
appropriation to reimburse
tho work done by them along aud iu trout
of the public grouuds, duriug the past year,
aud liberal appropriations iu order that the
improvement and einbullishinontof the pub
lic bnildings and grounds may keep pace
with the improvements made by the Terri
torial authorities.
the citizeus for
f ! AGMOCLTURE*
Tiie report of tho Commissioner of Ag
riculture gives a very full ami interesting
nccouat of the several divisions of that de
partment—-the horticultural, thengriciiltnr
ul, statistical, entomological ami chemical—
and tho benefits conferred by each on tho
agricultural interests of the country. The
wholo report is a complete history, ia de
tail, of tho workings of the department, iu
al- its brances, showing the manner in which
tho farmer, merchant and miner is informed
and the extent to whioli be isfnided in his
pursuits. The Commissioner makes one
recommendation —that measures be taken
by Congress to protect aod induce the plant
ing of forests, and suggests that no part of
the publiu lands should be disposed of with
out. the condition that ooe-tentb of it be re
Screvd in timber where it existé and whero
it does not exist, inducement« should bo
dffered for planting it.
department of justice.
Detailed statements of tho disburse
ments through the Department of Justice
will be furnished by the report of the At
torney General ; and 'though these have
been Bomewhat increased by tbe recent
acts of Congress to enforce Ihn rights of
citizens of the United States to vote in
the several States of tho Union, and to en
force the properties of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the Uni
ted States, and the enactment thereto, 1
cannot question the necossily and salutary
effect of those enactments. Reckless and
lawtess men, I regret to say, have associa
ted themselves together in aom« loer' lias
to deprive other citizeUB of th isr rm'.ta
guaranteed to them by the constitution of
the United States, and to that end bave
committed deeds ot blood and violence :
but the prosecution and punishment of
ot many of these persons has tended great
ly to tho repression of such disorders. I
do not donbt that n great many uf the peo
plo in all parts of tho country favor tho
full eujoyment by all classes ot persons of
those right« to which they aro entitled un
der the constitution and laws, and I invoke
tho aid and influence of all good citizeus to
prevent organizations whose pbjects are by
unlawful means to interlero with these -
rights, I look with confidenco to the time,
not far distant, when the obvious advanta
ges of good order aud peace will indnge an
abandonment of all combinations prohibi
ted by the acte referred to, and when it
wil| bo unnecessary to carry on proseecu
tions from the lawless doings of such cotn
. Applications have been made
to me to pardon persons convicted of a
violation ot said uclB, upon tho ground that
clemeneucy in such cases would tend to
tranquilize the public miud ; aud to test
the virtue of that policy. I am disposed,
as far ns my sonse of justice will permit,
to give these applications a favorable con
sideration, but any action thereon is not to
be construed os indicating any change in my
determination to force with vigor Bitch nets
so long os the conspiracies and combina
tions therein named disturb the peace of
tho country, it is much to be regretted,
nnd is regretted by none more than myself,
that a necessity has ever existed to exe
cute tho enforcement act. No one can de
sire more than I that thn necessity of ap
plying it may never be demanded.
department of the interior.
Tho Secretary of the Interior reports
satisfactory improvements and progress in
eaclt of the several bureaus under the con
trol ol the Interior Department. They are
all in excellent condition. Tho work which
in some of them for Borne y»ars has been
in arrears, has brought down to a recent
date, and all the current business lias beeu
promptly dispatched.
binations
CIVIL SERVICE.
Under the authority of Congress rules
have been established to regulate the ten
ure of office and the mode uf uppointmeot.
It cannot be expected that nuy sy
rules car. be entirely affec ivc and
perfect remedy fur tho existitlng evils
til they-hare been thoronhly tested by
tual practice and amended Recordin'; to the
requiremeDts of the service. During my
terra of office it shall be my onrneet en
deavor to so apply thn mles ns to secure
the greatest possible reform in tho civil
service of the Government. Bnt it will ro
3 uire the direct uction of Congres to ron
er the -enforcement of tho system bind
ing upon my successor, uud ( hope Chat
tho experience of the past year, together
with appropriate logi-lat on by Congress,
may reach a satisfactory's, Julien ol tliioa
question and secure to to tho r>nblicseruec71y.
for ait time a practical met lied of o*
ir,g faithful and efficient officer«
ployeta
stent of
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U. tri. GRAN