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VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
lUTHoDlßT—Douolasvii lb —First
third and fifth Sundays.
Salt Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTlST—Douglasville —First and
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
VMtor.
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M. meets cn Saturday night before the
first ajid third. Sundays in each month.
J. R. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec
retary,
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
'Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter.
W'aat Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—-W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coror.er—F. M. Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Mon Samson W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—B. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
CQUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and holds until all the cases
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each month.
Judge—Mon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff -D. W. Johns.
ordinary's court.
Meets for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month.
Judge- Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ courts.
Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
jhfcli month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
ffisOsh, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
■ l. C’s.
rfß Wth Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
■N. P., fe, 0. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday-
Franklin Carver, J. P., 0. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. C. James and M. 8. Gore, L.
Dist. G. M. meets third Satur-
M. Hamilton, J. P., M. L.
P., ft. W. Biggers, L. ( .
&OMsan,'L. C.
SHsgui Dist. G. M. meets third Sfifur-
meets first Sntur
Mt ' • UvMMMf II , J- P-, Alberrx
l. <*.
'GF. M. meets fourth Fri-
George W. Smith, J, p (.'. ,j
■■MV-. —, L.
I MG. M. meets third Fi i<bi-,
J.-P., A. .1, Bowen, \
■■HF'.,
Cards.
ROBERT A. MASSEY,
ATTORNEY at law
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Offipo In front room, Dorsett’# BnlhUngj
Will practice anywhere except iu (hu Count?
■ Court of Douglass county.
W. A. JAMES,
AT LAW,
stMtice in
on Court House Square,
GA.
WM?T.ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Comb. All lega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House,
O. ». CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts. All business
►atrusted to him will receive piotupl attention. ,
b. g. griggs,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVn.LK, GA.
Will practice In all the courts, State and
federal.
" "John "mTeoge?
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Wifi nr settee in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business en trusted to his care.
J. WANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of Douglas*.
OampWii. Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
wlFbwi ‘ XHU,Ue * Prompt attention given
j. h. McLarty,
ATTORNEY at law,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will nracike in ah the courts, boils State and
Federal. (MHnatana a spedady.
JOHN V. EDGE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOCLABVILI.S, OS.
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This powder never varies. A marvel of pin i-
W, Strength and wholesomentßs. Mo.e
economics! than the ordinary kinds, and can
not bo sold in competition with the multitude
of low test, short weight alum or phosphate
powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Baking
Powder Co., 106 Wall St., N. Y.
AURANTII
Most of the disoareg whieli a&iet mankind are origin- ;
ally civ, ued byartisrdored condition of the LIVER,
For .ill comnlaiots of this kind, nnc.h as Torpidity of
thoLiver/IlillOftsneßS. jrii'ous Dj'Hpepsix, Indiges
tion, Ir cgularity of tho B > 1 Constipation Flat
lency, Ernctati'nis mid Birr.dng of tho Stnmncll
(amiatimo-j caitM He.wiburn) Miivma, Mnlarii,
Bloody Fins, Chillo end «i,t.wer, Brwkbono Ferri,
Ihh'urdi vi be.'oro t.r after-Fevw.';, Chronic Di ir
rhtva. Los.i ol AppeUta, Hyidueho. F.,nl Ero-th
Irrogut oitieo t-iol ientU to i'emftlos. Boning-d-.-rn
but fX| 6«*,•;* n I ts’r-earo?,. r G ■ LIV.
wffl STOMACH .mJ F DWELL.
I* chaUfftS iUo con>n>eti'.a fn-in a v-axy jett.rr
tinito, t ,n rad Ir..feM’ExtiuiLr.- •' ciittr-'y t ~i-.rc-a
low, gMamy spirits. It> wann <>f the PEST AL* I
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FAWNING TO NONE CIIATUTY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14. 18S6-
I The geological survey at Washington
; is in receipt of numerous letters from
cranks telling how earthquakes may be
predicted and prevented. One method
of prevention suggested is to bore holes
through the earth’s crust order to give
the destructive gasses an outlet. The
New York Commercial Adiertlscr sug
gests that as soon as one of these holes is
bored, the next thing to be done would
be to drop Wiggins into it.
A late issue of a New Zealand paper i
speaks of a peculiar lunar ]>henomenon
—a green moon. Says our informant:
“A bright-green moon is not a common
phenomenon. Yet this was visible in
Willington for about a quarter of an I
hour last evening. There was an ex- l
ceptionally splendid manifestation of the i
‘ ‘afterglow-’’ which is so complete an enig - j
ma to all physicists, and just at the edge i
of the vivid rosy glow, where it merged [
into pink and violet, the crescent moon ;
appeared of the most brilliant yet deli- t
cate green color, presenting a most curi- >
ous and beautiful night.”
2_.-
The office of Aiderman in the Argen- ;
tine Republic is not a sinecure. In the i
Bahia Blanca municipality the Council :
for some days could not get a legal i
quorum owing to the absence-of some of
the members. At last, one day when
the Council was lacking one of a quorum,
two policemen sallied out among the
saloons and found ‘*a prominent Aider
man,” aid, says a Buenos Ayres journal,
“they towed him into the hall and held
him down on his seat while the sitting
lasted.” The public crowded to enjoy
the fun, the more so as His Honor, the
Mayor, was suspended from his functions
on the same occasion for ncgl cting to
preside at the peculiar “sitting.”
TheFrenchscieutilic journal La Nature
describes and illustrates a machine for
making a product which is coming into
favor in various different employments
under the name of woed wool. As its
name implies, this material is simply
wood cut into such fine shavings that
it answers many of the purposes tn which
wool is commonly applied. Although it
was at first intended merely as a packing I
material it was soon found that it hgl i
a much more extended field of osefulnesie. [
It is emp'oyod; for stuffing mattresses, as '
bedding for cattle, for the
liquids, etc. It is clastic
and is beautifully yWu
i wood used by preference is Riga lir, qp.il 1
1 the machine will produe?, without any '
J necessity for skilled hb >r, more than ■
11,500 pounds of “wool” per day of ten :
' hours.
■»y*g*jg»'egß?gßwe''M
The Scientific American says: Accord- i
ing to statistical records, the average {
price of wheat flower exported from the
United States, for periods of eleven .
i months ending with May of this year and j
J twenty years pist, has been as follows:
Price per Frl e per i
Year. l,O.Obbls, Year. I,OOJ bbls, r
188*551,743 187 G *
1885.... 4,897 1875 6,001
1884 4,588 1874 7,146
18885,956 1873 7,565 I
1882 6,149 18T2 7,H1
1881 5,669 1871 6,594 j
1880 SJWW3 1870 6,112 !
1879 5,%>2> 1860 7,735 .
1878 10,0 il ;
TEe steadily down- j
ward since 18‘16, excepting in“s?:VWlffj
years when extraordinary causes checked i
the decrease. The bottom is reached in ,
1880, and now there are signs of an up- ,
ward move that will accomplish a par- :
i tial retrieval of tho loss of the period
■ mentioned
The following table, compiled from ’
“Roors Manual of Railroads” for 1880,
shows the number of locomotives and !
care owned or leased by the principal
I railroads of the country in tBBS. It.
furnishes an intercstin g indication of the j
! rapid extension of the leading Western 1
! systems:
Raids. Loeoinoticcs. Cars.
\ Pennsyh ania. 1,150 49,800
! Reading 944 40,300 ;
Chicago. Milv aukea and St.
Paul «S 4 19.990 :
Northwestern,.... 673 21,0 W
Baltimore and Ohio 603 21,500 |
Ne n York Central 657 25,3 0 |
Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy.• 598 24,6 *0 :
Erie - 5M JO.UO >
The above list in,lud-v all roads using
more than 500 locomotives. Several]
other lines, including tho Union Pacific j
and the Wabash, bare nearly that num
ber emp’oyed. At the close of the la-t
fiscal year ii July, 1885. 685 Pudmau :
cars were in service in this country and
in Europe.
Mr. George B. Loring, tn an address ■
before the New England Agricultural j
Society, of which he is Pre«id nt, made
e :ceptions to thi u-e of the term “thor
oughbred" in conne tiou with any other
animal than the horse. He said: “A
thoroaghbred animnl means a horse. A ,
thoroughbred horse is Just as much a
* specific breed of horse as an Arab,a Hor- j
gan or a Percht roti, or anything - Ise, and j
the use of ‘thoroughbred’ in this connec
tion is entirely unworthy an intelligent ■■
and literary society The term should
be ‘pure brr-d.’ Let us abandon the use >
oftha term. Is you have a purebred
Shorthorn, or a pure bred Devon, or a i
pure bred Morgan, it is not a thorough- •
bred animal. They ta’k about thorough
bred pigs nowi The word never a>qjiies j
to anything except a rare of horses bred ’
Jin England for spoed. So I bo; e the i
f tru terg. when they make up the'r list ;
I another year, will put in ‘pure b ed’ it;. I
’ stead of thoroughbred * ”
ffi PRESIDKm MESSAGE
■! To the Congress of the United States:
In discharge of a ccnstitatlbual duty, and
following a well-estabiisbe.l precedent in th •
executive ofiice, I herewith transmit t > th ■
Congress at its teas etn bl ingee tain intormu
tion concerning the state st the Union, to
i get her with such reoaimeduations fbr legis
' iative consideration as appear necessary and
i expedient. » . * .
i Our government has consistently main
tained its relations of friendship toward nil
| other powers, and of neighborly interest to-
■ ward those whose possessions are contiguous
jto our own. Few quest on ; have arisen dur
i ing the past year with-other government’,
and none of those are beyond tho reach of
settlement in friendly cdimsel.
We are as yet without provision for the
settlement of claims of citizens of the United
States against Chili for injuries during the
i late war with Peru and Bolivia. The mixed
I commissions, organized under claims con ven
| tions, concluded by the Chiiian government
■ with certain European State-,have dev-elo ;>ed
; un amount of friction which we trust < a i* be
: avoided in the convention which our repre
' sentative at Santiago is ' author! ed to ne
! gotiate.
I The cruel treatment of
! has, I regret to say, in some of
: the far We-tern Statd»MaL aS&it<>ri<-s and
acts of violence aga beyond
the power of the local
to prevent, and are re
ported even in di.-tant 3i«mßjßMhv:h of this
viclen.-e can be traeel ami
competition ol labor, howo'. er,
justiiy the opi■ re.sstwhose
safety is guarantee a ’ y with
China e tually with tnations.
In opening our alien ele
ments, the purpose o. was to
invite assimilation, a?s an
arena for endless atafc’ rzSfflßKL'iie para
duty i
defending the inlet people
may require the mlo<:.- i >iO§MaaflLres of re
striction, but they -rate the
oppression of indivi ■ '-fia! race. I
am not without asth® govern
ment of China, fftfJftmyHlisposition to
ward us I am most happy *o recognize, will
! meet us half way in ctevisfng a comprehen
sive remedy, by which an effective limita
tion of Chinese emigration, joined to protec
tion of those Chinese subje- ts who remain in
this country, may be sectored.
THE CANADIAN FISHERIES.
The recommendations contained in xiy iast
annual message in relation to a mode of set
tlement of the fishery righ s In the waters of
British North America—so long a subject
of anxious difference between the Unite I *
States and Great Britain—wa? met by an !
adverse vote of the Senat on April 13 last, '
and thereupon negotiatic is were instituted |
to obtain an agreement with her Britannic !
majesty’s government for the promulgation
of such joint intsrprctatiai and-definition of
the articleof the convention of 1818, relating
to the territorial waterski d inshore fisheries
of the British provinces as should secure
the Canadian rights fronv eucroachment by
United States at the sane
time, insure the the latter of
the piivjleges g'mfhel 1 1 b; ■ u.:!i
convention. * i
The questions inv WfiJEwk Ung
ing, vs <-■<,)) . ■
i' . Ja-.it ' . t:,- affla&L
mi'.'iv.t toobUtm t\
a PgiimHEe
high n
treaty had been iu- '
vested with ]tleua penna- 1
nent sett'ement—with a tem- j
porary arrangemtermination
of which the to the i
stipulations of the 18, as to the j
first article of w hien , ; satis
factory tuboth coy been agreed ‘
i upon. *{.
The progress of growth ol
jtopulation iu the British pJoHnces to which !
the fisheries in quest! otwaro-contiguous, and
i the expansion of coinffierclftl intercourse bc
’ tween them and the Uwslfd State-’, presents
to-day a condition of apairs .scarcely roaliza
ble at the date of the imdtiations of 1818.
New and vast intereits have been brought
into existence; modes .of intercourse between
the respective coimtr|s have Iwen invented
and multiplied; the ;j|> of con lusting
the fisheries have changed: and i -
; all this is ne essar:>“YsWl-< to candid and ■
; careful consideratjfip TgSlte adjqgtrnent of’!
tho terms and coirnm.' and
: commerce b -tweefi States and
their neighbors altteg i tWUcr of more than
This propiuqiufe ®mOdty of language
and occupation, MWWWMPP’ o f jwitierd i
nud so ial msMdMMMBKte the pro
bilitv nnd obv MME.of maintaining
mutually l-enell |^MBMfe ..ly relations.
Whilst I am iiiSMIMBMI» desirous thn'-
sn b r-lations ns and
th? iiina I .hunts yet the action of
th- ir .>:!i- mis -l. q|M|BMyI season towa-.i
■ m ii-herm.-n t > is’y
their
e
of
; ending,
i 5- i;<q-c ■k"|M|Kbe cio-.o of t'.e
pi . -i-nt M-s-i<>n atm iun<-em«i.t ,
may l> made tliMKf’aigM^-ihto conclusion ■
has been rea bei|^™' ,w r s-
As at an early day there may te laid be
fore Congre s the >mftespoßdence of the De- ■
partment of State iu relation 11 this impor
tant subject, so that the historv of the last
i fishing season may j>e fully dis do ed and the ■
action and the attitude of the administration •
, clearly couiprehendtMl. a more extended re
ference is not deem vl uewssarj* in thin com- ■
! munication.
The recommendation, submit-ed la t year, i
that provision be made for a preliminary re ’
connoi.-sance of the conventional bonndary ;
line between Alaska and British Clolumbia & \
renewed.
I express my unhes fating conviction that
tho intimacy of our relations with Hawaii '
should be em. hast ed. As a resttit of the re- >
ciprocity treaty or 1875. those islands, ou the j
■ highway of oriental and Australasion traffic,
! are virtually an outpost of Ameri -au corn* ■
mere® an i a stepping stem' to the grow ing j
trade of the Da •ifi.x Tie Polyttedan Island
groups have been so atxsurbed by other and
more powerful co-ernments, that the Hawai
ian Islands are Im talmosUdouein theYnjoy. ;
incut of their automony, which it islmi sortaot i
for us sh mild he preserve.!. Our tr. aty is now <
terminable on one vesc's notibut propose I
tions to abrogated would t«. in my judg- i
ment, in<At ill ad vised. The paramonnt in- j
fiuenee we have there a quire!, once r<4in- ;
■ quished, could cnly with difficulty b* re- i
’ gained, and a rahiuble ground of vantage |
for oarsekes might be w-n-ertol into a !
stronghold for our commercial couipetiters, l
I earnestly rwanneal that th- e.isiing ;
treaty stipu'atic.ss be extended fur a further I
term of seven years. A receotiy siguel j
treaty to this ead is now before the Senate, I
The wealuie?. of Liberia and the difficulty
of maintaining effective sovenjigtity over its
outlying di-tricte hare expos’d ri a - , rapnblic
to encroa bmet»L It cannot be forgotten
that this ilistau’. community is Mt offshoot of
; our own sysre i», owing its origin to th“ asso
'■ ciated benevokin e or American cititcn-,
whose prai*?worth}’ efforts te create a nu -le- |
us of civiiizariou in th» dark e«=nt:uent I
have conuuau le.l re-pect and sympathy j
evervwhare. t«p-x'iafty in this country.
Although a fonaal protect -mte over Liberia
is coutrsuy to our trad t.o. a’ po’ioy, the
j moral righ": and duty of tho United States tj
j a.-swt in all prop r wavs in the naaint *uauce
of its integritv is and hss been con-
sistentlv auir-uar • 1 Uiirirgns-ariyha.lt acen
; t «ry. I reroie head that, la ths re rgani a
> troii of our ea’.-y, a small xwssl. an ionger
’ found adertro'e to otir n-rose» be pre sente !to
i Üb-'ria. mpl \red by i ? in the prot»-
| tsoa of
aSriuiTloxa with ue - i n,
- The en develuptnent oi bene flcsal I
* and iatimsui rriatious between the I uited •
States and Mexico, which has been so marked
within tiie last few years, is nt once th- oc
casion of congratulation and of friendly so
lieitucle. i urgently reuew my former rep
resentation ci the nerd of speedy legisla
tion by Congress to carry into effect the Re
ciprocity Commercial Convention of January
.20, 1883.
Onr commercial treaty of 1831 with Me ;ieo
was terminated, according to it', provisions,
in 1881, upou notification given by Mexico in
pursuance of her announce ! policy of recast
ing all her commercial treaties. "Mexico ha'
since concluded with several foreign Govern
mettts new treaties of comm?rce aud navßa
tion, defining alien rights of tiade, property
and residence, treatment of shipping, eonsu
lar privileges and tho like. Our yet unexe
cuted reciprocity convention of 1883 covers
none of these points, the settlement of whirl;
is so ne e-sary to good relationship. I pro
pose to initiate with Mexico negotiations for
a uew and enlarged treaty of commerce and
navigation.
In compliance with a resolution of the
Senate, I communicated to that body on
August 2 last,and also to the House of Repre
sentatives, the correspondence in the case ol
A. K. Cutting, an American citizen then
imprisoned in Mexico,charged with the com
mission of a penal offense iu Texas, of which
a Mexican citizen was the object.
After demand had been made for his re
lease the charge against him was amended sc
as to include a vio’ation of Mexican law
withiu Mexican territory.
This joinder of alleged offences, one within
aud the other exterior to Mexico, induce;]
met j order a special investigation of the
case—pending which Mr. Cutting was re
leased.
This incident has, however, disclosed a
claim of jurisdiction by’ .Mexico, novel mour
history, whereby any offence, committed
anywhere by a foreigner, penal in the place
of its com.uis ion, of which a Mexican is the
object, may, if the offender b ' found iu Mex
ico, bath -re tried and punished in conform
ity with Mexican laws.
This jurisdietibn was sustained by the
courts of Mexico in the Cutting case, and ap
proved by the executive branch of that gov
ernment,"noon the authority of a Mexi an
statute. The appellate court, iu releasing Mr.
Cutting, decided that the abandonment ol
the complaint by th; Mexi.au citizen ag
grieved by the alleged crime (a libellous pub
lication' removed the basis of further prose
■ution, and al o declared justice to have been
satisfied by the enforcement of a small part
of tho ci-iginal sentence.
The admission of such a pretension would
b - attended with serious results, invasive ol
the jurisdiction of this government, ana
highly dangerous to our citizens in foreign
lauds; therefore I have denied it, and pro
tested agaimt its attempted exercise, as un
warranted by the prineiples of law and inter
| national usages.
A sovereign has jurisdiction of offenses
i which take effect within his territory, al
: though concocted or commenced outside of
it; but the right is denied of any foreign sov
ereign to punish a citizen of the United
Stated for an offence consummated on our
soil in violation of our laws, even though ths
offence be against a subject or citizen of such
sovereign. The Mexican ststute in question
makes the claim Broadly, and the principle,
if conceded, would create a dual responsibil
ity iu the citizen, and lead to inextricable
.-onfiu.ion, destructive of that certainty in
law is an essential of liberty.
HglVka of the United States voluo-
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W? „>’? •» - *
« r*' f ■• '■:::•
aE|Bg|g ; . /„• t .
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gone abroad: and
Mfhnrge.l with «Tnn© committed in the for
tjffign land a faij and open trial, conducted
MKh decent regard for justice and humanity,
jrigßl be demanded for them. With less than
Uftt thio government will not be content
"W-n the-life or liberty of its citizens is at
stake.
Whatever the degree to which extra-terri
torial criminal jurisdiction may have been
formeriy allowed by’ consent and reciprocal
agreement among certain of the European
States, no su h doctrine or practice was
aver known to the laws of this country or of
that from which our irvtitutions have mainly
been derived.
In the ease of Mexico there are reasons
aqwciaUy strong for perfect harmony in the
mutual exercise of jurisdiction. Nature has
made us irrevocably' neighbors, and wisdom
and kind feeling sh >uld makes us friends.
The overflow of capital and enterprise from
the Uftited States is a patent factor in assist
ing the development of the resources of
Mexico, anti in building up the prosperity of
both countries.
To assist this good work all grounds of ap-
■ prehension for the security of person anc
property should ba removed: aud I trust that
in the interests of good neighborhood the
statute referred to will lie so modified as tc
eliminate the present possibilites of dangei
to the peace of the two countries.
NATURRALIZATIOX AND EXTBADITIOX
I renew the recommendation of my last
annual message, that existing legislation con
eeriilng citizenship and naturalization be re
vised. We have treaties with many States
providing for the renunciation of citia-nship
by naturalize 1 aliens, but no statute is fodnd
to give effect to such engagements, nor any
which provides a neede 1 central bureau for
•the registration of naturalized citizens,
Experien e suggests that our statutes regu
lating extradition might be advantageously
amended by a provision for the transit
across our territory’, now a convenient
thoroughfare of travel from oue foreign
country to another, of fugitives surrendered
by' n foreign government to a third state.
Buch provisions are not unusual in the legis
lation of other countries, and tend to pre
vent the miscarriage of justice. It is also
desirable, inorder to remove present uncer
tainties that authority should be conferred
on the Secretary of State to issue a certifi
cate in ease.of an arrest for the purpose of
extradition, to the officer before whom the
proceeding is pending, showing that a requi
sition for the surrender of the person charge I
ha’s bean duly mad?. Such a certificate, if
re (Hired to be received before the prisoner s
examination, would prevent a long and ex
pensive judi -ial inquiry into a charge which
the foreign government might not desire to
press. I also recosranend that express pro
vtHqn be made for the immediate <lis barge
from custody of persona coinmitte.l forex
tradition where the President is of opinion
that surrender should not be made.
THE CONSULAR RKRVICE.
Pursuant to a provision of the diplomatic
and consular appropriation act, approved
July 1, 1886, the estimate* submitted by the
Mecpftary of Ktate for the maintenance of
the consular rerviee have been recast, on the
l a is of salari rs for all officers to whom such
aUnwnnce is deemed advisable. Advantage
ha* been taken of this to redistribute the sal
aries of the officers now appropriated for,
n a: c.jr-ian- e with the work performed,
of the representative du
ties or; the in -utubent and the cost of
Uv each post The last consideration
has beeatoo often lost sight of in the allow
ance Uznuoforc made. The compensation
whieJFw.v snffice for th* decent mainten
andcMpable officer in a pod*
tM|<MNk»rons an I representative trust at a
post rea-fij v accesAble, and where the ne tess-a
rfes are abnadant aud cheap,
may p#o*re an taa teqSte pittance in dis
tant fea<l- where the bettor part of
a yearia i®v U ecatetmed in reaching
t!>»»‘ po«t of only, aad where the comforts
of ordluarr;civilize I ‘xisteuce can only
br etetaibied with di fl :ity and at exorbitant
cost, t trust that, iu .-onswfcrfbgthesubmit
i r.M eefceifcjfe -. so mfe: -tken theory of economy
wdl 'pefoate asv w.n whi-h in the pa at
has virtesaSy ritwl to deserving talent maar
office* where c-.tpM : y *nd attainments of a
hf<h ordecar • indis ieusa'Me. and In not a
few hatatre; baa rought dis redit on our
nat'emsd enn ,i-ter mod entailed emtarrass
mn>: amlewu ssniO-ing ou tbade deimted to
op&4>l our amd intares's abroad.
rnr. iaxAavßY rxcout.
The rep trios t:» Se retary of the Treasury
'-f tfejiiyeverai brathetass of th *
’ gcYemin-ei# re’ated to'-hi-s denarfanent I
; eag*■■lisSy drect t-.je-Mteutionof tho<S6«gr-w
■ to tile renoaiineu iatioew contained in this
d tary, touching the simplification and amend
:- meut of the laws relating to the collection of
> our rovenues; and iu the interest of economy
i- and justice to the government I hope they
i- m ay bo adopted by appropriate legislation.
>- The ordinary receipts of the government
y for the fiscal year ended June 39, 1886, were
8336.439,727.0i>. Os this amount $192,905,-
o 023.41 was received fro n customs and $ 116,-
i, 805,933.48 from internal revenue. The total
n receipts, as hero stated, were $13,749,020.68
greater than lor the previous year, but the
is increase fromeustoms wa5511,431,084.10 and
j. from internal revenue $4,407,21.94, makiux a
j. gain in these items for the last year of $15,-
y 841,996.04 —a falling off in other resources
i_ reducing the total increase to the smaller
j. amount mentioned.
- s The expense at the different custom houses
I) of colle.ting this increased customs revenue
j. was less than the expense attending the col
lection of such revenue for the preceding
j year by $499,608, and the increased receipts
u of internal revenue were col'ected at a cost
to the iiiternel revenue bureau of $155,944.99
less than the expense of such collection for
, the previous year.
j- 1 he total ordinary’ expenses of the govern
ment for the fiscal year enied June ;.0, 1880,
were $212,483,138.59, being less by §17,785,970
/ than such expenditures for the year preceding,
and leaving a surplus in the treasury at the
close of the last fiscal year of $03,956,588.56,
3 " as against $63,463,771.27 at the close of the
0 previous year, being an increase iu such sur
v plus of $10,492,817.20.
For the current year to end June 30, 1887,
’! the ascertained receipts up to October 1,
-
e mainder of the year, amount to $356,000,000.
The expenditures ascertained and esti
mated for the same period are §266,000,000,
indicating an anticipated surplus at the close
of the year of $96,000,000. -*
e The total value of the exports from ths
United States to foreign countries durng the
; fiscal year is stated and compared with the
’ preceding year as follows;
For the year For the year
end’g JuneHO, end'g June 39.
e ISS6. 18S5.
>• Domestic merchan-
'- di555635,9(51.329 1)0 $723,63?,916 0)
n Foreign merchandise 18,56.>,501 00 15,506.809 00
G01d...... 4-,952,191 00 8,477,852 60
,f Silver 29,511,219 00 33,753,633 00
r, A STAGE OF SUPERFLUOUS REVENUE.
•- In my last annual message to the Congress
(- attention was directed to the fact that the
n revenues of the government exceeded its ac
t tual needs: and it was suggested that legisla
tive action be taken to relieve ths people
d from the unneces ivy burden of taxation
d thus made apparent.
( In view of the pressing importance of the
i subject I deem it my duty to again urge its
consideration.
The income of the government, by its in
creased volume and thorough oeononiies iu
its collection, is now more than ever in excess
i of public necessities. The application of the '
surplus to the payment of such portfon of the
public debt as is now nt our option subject
to uish me it. if continued at the
1 rate which has lately prevailed, would
retire that class o“ indebtedness within
i less than one year from this date,
i Thus a continuation of our present
i ravenuo system would soon result in the re-
< eipt of an annual income much greater
than neces'Uiry to meet go vern meat expenses,
' with no. indebtedness upon which it could be
i applied. We should tkten be confronted with
a vast quantif y of mJaoy th j circulating me
dium of the i copie', awarded in- the Treasury
1 j when ft should baVn their hands, or wo
i should be drawn into iKasteful publicoxtrav •,
■ agan-e with all the corrupting national de-
- moralizafion which follo'Jvs iu its train.
' But it is not the simple existence of this
’ surplus, aud its threatened
which furnish t hQsteq*..
. 1 ■ ■ ...
• th?
Good government, and ost^ial^MrewMwT I''* 1 ''*
eminent of which every American citizen
boasts, has for its objects, the protection of
every parson within its care iu the greatest
liberty consistent with the good order of so
-1 ciety, and his perfect security in the en'oy
[ meat ot’ his earnin ;s, with the least possible
: diminution for public needs. When more of ,-
the people's substance is exaetai throtrjjirtnie
form or taxation than is r e •e^re»f - to meet
1 thj just obligations of the Government and
1 the expense of its economical admiuistra
-1 tion, such exaction becowei ruthless extor
tion aud a vio'at'on of the fundamental prin
ciples of a free, government.
1 The indirect manner in which these exae
, tions ar© made has a tendency to con eal
, their true character and their extent. But
we have arrived at a stage ot superJluous
revenue which has aroused the peoj li- to a
realizati >nof.tho f.ict, that the amount raked
profesmdly for the su -port of the govern
ment, is paid by them as absolutely, if add'd
io the price of the things which supply their
dally wants, as if it was paid affixed periods
into the hand of the tax githeier.
Those who toil for daily wages are begin
ning to understand that capital, tbu.igh
sometimes vaunting, its importance an 1
clamoring for the protection and favor of tho
; government, is dull an 1 slnggi h till, touched
by the magical hand of labor, it spring;
, into activity, furnishing an occasion for I'e t
eral taxation, aud gaimogthe value which
- enables it to bear its burden, and the labor
■ ing man is tnoughtfully in juiring whet - er
in th io -circumstances, and considering the
•tribute he constantly ppys into the puhli •
- treasury as lie supplies his daily wants, he
reeiyesbis fair share of advautagf-A
•There a suspi -ion abroad, that the
urplus or c ur revenu _s Indicates abnormal
and exeeptk-hal business profit , which,‘uu
dec the system which nnkiiices such surplus,
increase with >nt corros;k»ufiug Leiofit to tju
i eople at large, tae vast p.ecumu'atiqjis of a
few among dur citizens whose fortunes, ri
valing the wealth of the most favored in
anti-democratic nations, are not the natural
growth of a steady, plain and industrious re
public.
Our farmers, too, aud tlioxe engaged di
rectly and indirectly in suoplying the pro
[ duets of agriculture, -ce that day by day,
' and as often as the daily wants of their Imu e
i bolds recur, they are force Ito my exc&’Mve
- and needless taxation, while their produc s
i struggle in foreign markets with the eoni;»eli-
• tion of nations, whi-h, by allowing a freer
■ exchange of productions than wa permit,
i enable their people to sell for prices wh ■ii
distress the American farmer.
i As every pa riot!: citizen e; iu thj
constantly increasing pride of our jieopto in
American citizenship and in the gl ry of our
national achieromenta a id progress, a senti
’ ment prevails that tho leading string; useful
1 to a nation in its infancy, may wed lie to a
J great extent discarded in the present stage of
; Ameri an ingenuity, courage and fearless
• self-reliance. Aud for the privilege of in
-1 dulging tais icntiment with true American
’ enthusiasm, our citheii me quite willing to
forego an idle surplus in the juiblic Treasury.
' And all the people know that tho aver are
' rate of Federal taxation upon imports is to
, day, in time of pea re, but little 1-zes, white
L uven some art teles of ne essary ‘ orjmnpt on
1 it is actually more, than wa; imposed by tba
grievous bur len v. ill ngly bsrne. at a time
1 when the government needed millions to
maintain by war the safety and integrity of
’ the Union.'
1 It has l orn the poU'y of tho government tc
' collect the prinripai part of its revenues by
a tax upon imports, and no change in this
; policv is desirable. But the present condition
[ of affairs constrains oar people to demand
> that by a revision of our revenue laws the
’ receipts oft he government shall be reduced
. to tho necessary expense of its economi-.-al
administration, and this demand should be
re ogniiu d and obeyed by the people s rep
. resentat’ves in tbs legislative branch of ths
Gm men t*.
In readjusting the burdens of Federal tax
‘ ation, sound public policy require? that such
1 of our citizens as ha ve built up large aid i:n
--~ portent industries under present con lit ous,
‘ should not be sud ieulv a;>d to their in jury
3 deprived of advantages to which they hat
adapted their business; hut if th-? pubii ' goefi
requires it. they should l.e ont ut with such
r consideration as shall deal fairiv ant! rau
’ tionsly with their interests, while the jute
s demand of the people for relief from need-
I less taxation is honestly answered.
s A reawoabte and timely siibmL-wioo to |
» su< b a demand should certainly be possible 1
- without disastrous shock to any interest; and
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NUMBER 45.
a careful concession sometime; averts abrupt
' and heedless action, often the outgrowth of
impatience and delayed justica.
THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN LABOR.
Due regard should be also accorded in any
i proposed readjustment to the interests of
American labor so lar as they ar? involved.
We congratulate ourselves that there is
among us no laboring class, fuel with un
I yielding bounds and doomed under all condi
tions to the inexorable fate of daily - toil.
We recognize in labor a chief factor in the
wealth of the republic, and we treat
those who have it in their
keeping as citizens entitled to the
' most careful regard and thoughtful atten
tion. This regard and attention should be
awarded them, not only 1 ecause labor Is the
’ capital of our workingmen, justly entitled to
its share of government favor, but for the
further and not less importaut reason that
the laboring man surrounded by his family
. in his humble home as a consumer is vitally
( interested iu all that theapens the cost of
living and enables him to bring within his
domestic circle additional-comfort; and ad
vantages.
This relation of the workingman to the
revenue laws of the country, and the manner
' in which it palpably influences the question
; of wages, should not be forgotten in the jus
tifiable proniaienre given to the proper
maintenance of the supply and the protection
of well-paid labor. And these considerations
suggest such an arrangement of government
revenues as shall reduce the expense of liv
ing, while it doA not durtail the opportunity
for work nor reduce the compensation of
American labor, and injuriously affect its
condition aud the dignified pla. eit holds in
the
But our
who from
sumed by ?}£■
I'lainiy .'i j
a jmt '
taxation/
nxn- remotely - jrasftSteIgPF w
work number iieiiltßpgiii
tion. None -nw-Wrore continu-
ously thau limit
their hours of toll, aud no interposition of
the government enhances to any great ex
tent the value of their products. And yet
for many of the necessaries and comforts of
life, which the most scrupulous economy ena
bles them to bring into their homes, aud for
their implements of husbandry, they art
obliged to pay a price largely increased by
an unnatural profit which, by the action of
the government, Is given to the more favored
manufacturer.
I recommend that, keeping in view all
these considerations, the in reusing and un
necessary surplus o£ national income annual
ly accumulating be released to the people, bv
an amendment to our revenue laws which
shall cheapen the price of the necessaries oi
lite and give freer entrance to such imported
materials ,-is by American labor may be man
ufactured into marketable commodities.
Nothing can be accomplished, h uwever*
the direction of this mueb-peerkri wferm. un
less the subject is approa.hed in a patriotic
spirit of devotion to the interests of th? en
tire country, and w.th a wilhiigm -s t:»
i something for the pfibllc good.
J THE PUBLIC nXIST.
i The sum ].mid upo.; tho public, debt during
She fee,-J year tended dune 39, -1886, was $44,-
551,043 36.
During the twelve months ending October
31, 1886, three per cent- boa Is were called for
redemption amounting to $127 283,100, of
which $89,613,240 was so calle 1 to answerjfca
. re juirements of the law relating to the sink’
ing fund, and $46,639,900 for tho purpose of
reducing the public debt by application of a
-i-fart of the surplus
Igtobject. Os the’b-oftds thus called ?. 10
subject under :wi 'h calls-U? rettem**-
> t - tte - -
uW, under tlio compulsory
silver coinage act of 1878, 29,888,000 silver
dollars, aud the cost of the silver used in
such coinage was There had
i>-.--n coined ui>tottaflSßffHßwhe precious
fiscal provptec.r 'oEtUVYIyy v
liJ’,flfn silver dollars,
of December, 1886, tho tot*l.Abj&upt oufflifiU
coinage was $247,131,519.
The director of the
time of the passage of the law of 1878
ing this coinage, the intrinsic value of the
dollar; thus coined was ninety four and one
fourth cents each, and that on the 31st day
of July, 188<\ the price of stive ’ reached the
lowest sta~o ever kuowu, so that tho intrin
sic or bullion price of our staiidarl silver
dollar at that date wa; less than sevety-two
c ents. The price'of silver on the Wth day of
November last was such as to make these
dollars intrinsically worth seventy-eight
cents each.
These; differences in value of the coins rep
resent the fluctuations in the price of silver,
aud they certainly do not indicate that com
pulsory coinage by the government enhances
the price of that comntodity, or secures uni
formity in its value.
Every fair aud legal effort has keen made
hv fhn 1’- m-v I'4»■ tn distribute
this currency aniouz the people. Ttte with
drawal of United States Treasury note ; of
small denominations ant the issuing of
j nail silver certificates ban been retorted
to iu the endeavor to accompfeh
this resu't, in obedtenez* to the will and
geutiinents of the repi’esentatives of the
people in the C m resw. Ou the
27tfiday of November, 18Sfi, the people held
of the 6 coins, or certifl ntes representing
them, the nominal sum of $|1i6,813/>4l. ami
we still-bad $79,464,-415 in the Treasury—as
against about .*'1423114,'>55 so in the hands of
the | eople, nn<l s72.B(ls,remaining in lh.»
Treasury one year ago. The director;A
mint again urges the uecessity of
room the purpose of storing
flollais whi h are not needed for
by the 'pcopte.
SUSPEmB THE COINAGE toF *
I have seen no reason to change the views
expressed in my last annual message on the
subject of this compulsory tofuage; and I
again urge its suspension on all the ground;
contained in my former re-commendation,
reinforced by the significant increase
of our gold exportation during the
last year, as appears by the comparative
statement herewith presmted, and for the
further reasons that the more this currency
is distributed among the people the greater
becomes our duty to proto t it from disaster:
that wo now have abundance for all our
needs; and that there saems but little pro
priety in’building vaults to store such cur
rency when the only p etence for it; coinage
is the necessity of it; use by the people as a
circulating medium.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
Tiie report of ths Secretary of War kjvw
a detailed a count of the administratuiteior
his department, and contains sundry
mendations for ths improvement of
vice winch I fully approva
The army consisted at the date of tfes
ccnolirlated return, df 2,103 officers and 24,-
9-Pt enlisted men.
The erpeuses of the department for the
last fiscs! year were $36,990,901.38, including
$6,291,30 >.43 for public works and river au l
harbor Improvera eta.
I especially dirert the attention of the
Congress to the re -ommeudation that officers
be required to submit to an examination as »
preliminary to their pnrnotion. I see nc
objection but many arb anta jes in adopting
thi; feature, wh'ch has operated eo tene
ficwlly in our Navy Department, as -wellro
in some branches of the army.
The subject of th • coast defenre; aud fort!-
fi- ations has been fully and rarefnHytreated
by the Board oi Tort I fixations, whose report
was submitted at the last session of Congre*
but no eo rstru 'tion work of the kind reeonj
mended hy the Boar I has been possible dur
ing the iatt year Iron the lack of appr jr ta
tions for su h purpose.
The deteucele&s condition of our sea -ca-t
and lake frontier is perfectly
e- aminations made must con inoe
certain of cur cities named iu the :
the B-ard should Iw fort.!> >i. aud
on -h nv-st in-.portautof ti.e-e
should be commenced at ■ -n-e
been thoroughly c-onridero-l
S?crf-tarv of War r-'.oiu WK' AfetJwfi
| in default of