Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — Page 2

CHk BcmorraticSentiitcl RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J, V. 1! cEWEN. - - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Because of advances made secretly by President Kina-, the Middlotown (N. r.) National Bank closed its doors. It 3 capital was $200,000, and the surplus $115,01,0, and the statement is made that the depositors will be paid in full. Senator Van Vr'yck, of Nebraska, is one of the directors of the broken bank. Operations have been resumed in the puddling and horseshoe departments of Shoenberger’s rolling-mills at Pittsburgh, Pa. Chess, Cook & Co.’s mills, closed for several weeks, have started up. Three hundred persons have been thrown out of employment by the temporary shut-down of the Homo Sewing Machine Company’s works at Bridgeport, Conn. Two men digging roots at Danville, Pa., dug up $47,000 in coins. The brewing firm of Burr, Son & Co., of New York, filed an assignment, giving preferences to the amount of SIIO,OOO. A gentleman in New York, after witnessing a panic caused by a mad dog, calmly seized the animal by the neck and cut its throat with a penknife. The feeling among the iron men of Pittsburgh is reported as better than for some time. Many of the mills are in receipt cf large orders in the last few days.

WESTERN.

At Huntington, Oregon, last week, connection was made between the Oregon Hailway and Navigation system and the Oregon Short Line, thus completing the fourth line of railroad across the continent. The case of Jane G. White, who recovered $650 damages from the Milwaukee City Railway Company for injuries received, was reversed and remanded by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, on the ground that the plaintiff refused to exhibit her injured leg to physicians appointed by the railway company. At Monmouth, 111., a Texan named H. K. Thompson, who had sustained heavy losses by the failure of the First National Bank, fired five shots at B. T. O. Hubbard, the defaulting cashier, without hitting him. In the County Court, at Angola, Ind., Judge Mcßride instructed the grand jury to indict every person shown to have wagered money on the result of the election. Another invasion of Oklahoma is said to be in preparation. Hunnewell, a town on the border of Kansas and Indian Territory, is to be the rendezvous this time. Rev. John Maxwell, of Sprinfield, Ohio, rendered miserable by poverty, poisoned his four children and himself. The effect was fatal on the little ones, but ho recovered sufficiently to permit of his being lodged In iail. Of six men who undertook to cross the railway track at San Rafael, Calfornia, two were killed, one was fatally injured, and the fourth had an arm broken. Capt. David L. Payne, otherwise and more familiarly known as “Oklahoma” Payne, the famous leader of the Oklahoma boomers, who have several times unsuccessfully attempted to settle In Indian Territory, died very suddenly at Wellington, Kan. In the Circuit Court at Chicago, in the matter of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, Judge Tuley appointed Horace A. Hurlbut receiver of the Timce, with an order that there be no change of policy or of tho business or editorial management. The amount of bond was fixed at $500,000.

SOUTHERN.

In regard to the plague prevalent in Southwest Virginia, a telegram from Lynchburg Bays: “The latest advices concerning the epidemic in Wise, Lee, Dickinson, and Buchanan Counties are heartrending, On Guests River, Wise County, within a radius of four miles are thirty cases of the disease. In one instance the father, mother, and six children died. Many persons die for want Qf attention. Business is suspended, all being concerned with the sick and dying. Six persons were buried in one graveyard in one day. The disease is assuming a milder form in soldo localities. Not less than 175 of the best citizens of Wise County alone have died.” j Frank Casey (colored) who murdered Charlps Watson (white) the Bth of last October, was executed at Little Rock, Ark. He made a full confession, admitting the crime. David Sternberg, a dry-goods merchant of Louisville, has made an assignment to secure liabilities of $60,000. At Bradley County, Ark., the hangman Swung off Abe Frazier, colored, for the murder of Lewis Davis two years ago. Hart’s elevator and Decatle’s wood yard, at Jacksonville, Fla., valued at $60,000, were destroyed by fire. Maryland furnishes the latest lynching, the victim one George Briscoe, colored, charged with robbery, who was captured from a obiistkbte by a mob at New Bridge, and hung without benefit of clergy. He had previously been warned to leave the neighborhood on account of his frequent depredations. Two women named Conway attacked J. Devonshire and Jack Logan, at New ■Orleans, with pistols, growing out- of suspicious relations between them. The latter was seriously wounded. ; . f Near Elizabeth, Ky., seven men were killed by an explosion of a saw-mill boiler. Seven men in jail at Helena, Ark., concealed themselves behind a door, and made their escape by knocking the jailer senseless. Director, General Burke, of the World'B'#ai r at New Orleans, announces that everything will be In readiness for opening The expositiou on the 16th Inst. : • •

WASHINGTON.

* The Administration Church/ after I March 4, says a Washington dispatch. Is to bo the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which the Rev. William Bartlett, formerly of Chicago, is pastor. It is the church which the family of Mr. Blaine has attended, but

because of its rapid growth and great wealth a project was 6t;rtcd a year ago to build a new church in tho West, and the money has partly been raised for it. The last Democratic President attended this church, as did Abraham Lincoln. The pasitor at that time was the Rev. Dr. Gurley, a classmate of Gov. Cleveland’s father in Prinoeton. The present pastor, Dr. Bartlett, was a classmate of Grover Cleveland. The Mexican pension bill is the first unfinished business in tho lower house of Congress, and will probably receive early attention. The Senators In charge of tho bills for the admission of Dakota and Washington Territories will press those measures as rapidly as possible.

POLITICAL.

James L. Pugh, Democrat, has been re-elected United States Senator from Alabama. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, referring to the rumors of an effort to continue Republicans in office after March 4, is reported as saying that tho Senate would act with Mr. Cleveland as President of the United States, not as a partisan, and that he would act with tho Senate without any regard to its political complexion. Revised and official figures of the vote of Indiana show tbatCleveland polled 244,992; Blaine, 238,460; Butler, 8,716; St. John, 3,078; Cleveland's plurality, 6,512. Official figures of the recent election: Virginia—Cleveland. 145,497; Blaine, 139,356; Cleveland’s plurality, 6,141. Nebraska— Blaine, 76,877: Cleveland, 54,314; St, John, 2,859; Blaine’s plurality, 22,533. Kentucky —Cleveland, 152,757 ; Blaine, 118,674 ; Butler, 1,655; St. John, 3,103; plurality for Cleveland, 34,083. New Jersey— Cleveland, 127,784; Blaine, 123,432; St. John, 6,155; Butler, 3,494; Cleveland's plurality, 4,352. lowa Blaine, 197,089; Cleveland, 177,285; St. John, 1,564; plurality for Blaine. 19,803. A dispatch from Indianapolis says, the State Board of Canvassers has not yet completed the work of tabulating the vote of Indiana on President. The returns from Daviess and Warren Counties were returned, the clerks having omitted the seals from them. Without these two counties, whose pluralities about offset each other, Blaine received 233,783 and Cleveland 243,512; Cleveland’s plurality, 9,723. Tho votes for Butler and St. John were not tabulated. The official vote of Wisconsin for the se\eral presidential candidates was as follows: Blaine, 161,147; Cleveland, 146,454; St. John, 7,649; Butler, 4,597; Blaine's plurality, 14,693. As officially declared, the vote of Maine Is as follows: Highest number of votes received by Blaine electors, 72,209; Cleveland, 52,140; Butler, 3,953; St. John, 2,160; Blaine’s plurality, 20,U09. Following is the official vote of Oregon: Blaine, 20,852; Cleveland, 24,593; Butler, 728; St. John, 488; Blaine's plurality, 2,259. Gov. Cleveland declined a grand banquet tendered by prominent Democrats of Philadelphia. Washington dispatch to Chicago Inter Ocean, Hep.: “It is said to-night that three men are certain to form part of the Cleveland Cabinet. These are Senator Bayard, as Secretary of State; Senator Garland, of Arkansas; and W. C. Whitney, of this city. The now President will look to Bayard and Garland to shape his governmental pol Icy, and to Whitney, Gorman, and others of the younger element to manage the political end and to distribute the offices. Bexond the three names mentioned, Cleveland is said to be all at sea on the Cabinet question.” The official vote, of Colorado was’: Blaine, 30,277; Cleveland, 27,6.27; Butler 1,957 and St. John, 759.

MISCELLANEOUS. At a copper camp in Sonora, Mexican police attempted to disarm a number of Americans, and in the affray six men were killed, and many others wounded.. Mrs. Boutel, the Quebec murderess, will not be hanged, her sentence having been commuted to imprisonment for life. Canadian distillers and ultra-temper-ance people will make common cause for once against the proposed importation of the surplus product of American sour-mash makers. The prospect of a flood of cheap United States whisky has raised a stormy protest In Toronto. Small-pox is epidemic near Toronto and its rapid spread has occasioned great alarm. Precautions of the most thorough sort have been taken to prevent the further ravages of the disease. There were 237 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’a during the week, against 351 In the preceding week and 333 and 186 and 158 in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1883, and 1881, respectively. About 85 per cent, were those of small 'traders, whose capital was less than ss,<>oo. The losses on the lakes for the season just closed aggregated $670,000, of whioh $443,000 was paid Dy insurance companies.

FOREIGN.

A $500,000 “find” has been discovered among the late Duke of Brunswick’s effeots in the shape of an old iron safe which was generally supposed to be empty. Prince Albert Victor, the elder son of the Prince of Wales and tho future King of England, is to make a tour of the United States and Canada next year. He will be 21 years of age the Bth of January next. Vienna is afflicted with an epidemic of hydrophobia. Eighty cases have been reported, eleven of which proved fatal. Small-pox among the natives at Dongola has driven the British troops to Handah, forty miles distant. An epidemic of cholera is said to prevail amoiig sh Mahdi's forces. ' The French Chamber of Deputies voted Tooquin credits aggregating 58,000,000 franca, which will permit the sending of 5,000 fresh troops and several cruisers. During the debate Clemenceau said Bismarck is a most dangerous enemy, but is still more dangerous as a friend. Dynamite was used on the residence of Samuel Hussey, at Tralee, Ireland, with such effect as to shatter the windows and a portion of tho eastern wall. Russia will build a telegraph wire from Askabad to Mery in Central Asia. Twenty lives w§jre lQst by the sinking of the steamer Durango, which collided with the bark Bruoe in tho English Channel. Italy reserves her right to liberty of

action In regard to her Interests In Africa, and her delegate, to Berlin has so Informed the Congo Conference. The French Cabinet Council has decided to increase the duty on grain about 20 cents per bushel. An unusually heavy snow-storm in Northern and Middle England on the Ist of December caused great interruptions to travel. China’s voice is still for war. Recognizing this fact, France is hurrying forward re-enforcemonts to Admiral Courbet and Gen. de l'lsle.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

United States mints coined $4,039,700 in November, of which $2,450,000 were standard silver dollars. Dallas, Tex., seems to be an uncongenial sort of a place for gamblers. One hundred and twenty cases were disposed of, the flues aggregating $6,030. Altogether the gamblers have recently paid the municipality over $30,000 in fines and costs. Knowing, like wise men, when they have had enough, the Dallas gamblers have quit. Judge Wallace of the United States Court at New York, in the great suit of the rival telephone companies which involves about $100,000,009, decided in favor of the American Bell Company. The decision grants a i>erpetualinjunction restrainingthePeople’s Telephone Company from using or disposing of the telephones wbich conflict with Bell’s patent. The case will be appealed. The Italian government has prepared a bi.l devoting $20,000,000 to sanitary works in Naples. The French Senate has passed a bill abolishing public executions. The redistribution bill presented in the British House of Commons by Mr. Gladstone will give Scotland six additional members and the English cities eighty-five. In a street brawl at Vienna, Mo., John H. Diggs, editor of the Courier, shot and killed Thomas M. Watkins, editor of the Hcral'J. The fight grew out of a personal controversy in tho columns of their newspapers.

Science Hall, at Madison, Wis., with its chemical, physical, zoological, and geological appliances and coliections, laboratories, etc., was entirely destroyed by fire. The insurance is $41,000, but the loss can not be estimated, as somo of the materials and collections destroyed can not be replaced. The second session of the Forty-eighth Congress opened at Washington on Monday, Dec. 1. Promptly at noon of that day the President of the Senate called that body to order, prayer was offered, and word was sent over to the House that the upper house was ready to proceed to business. Messrs. Sherman and Garland were appointed a committee to inform tile President that the Senate was ready to receive any communication he might be pleased to make. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill to prohibit distinctions being made in the military service of the United States against any class of American citizens; also, to enable officers of the army, promoted for gallant and distinguished services in the war of the rebellion, to be retired with the rank and full pay of the grade to which they were promoted; Mr. Doldli presented a bill to prevent the obstruction of the navigable waters of the United States and to protect public works against trespass or injury. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution which was agreed to, instructing the Committee on Public Lands to report such legislation as Is necessary to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to summarily remove all fences illegally constructed on the public domain. Tho President’s me.-sage was received and read, after which the Senate adjourned. The Speaker's gavel rapped the House to order promptly at noon. The roll-eaU disclosed the presence of 222 members, and the Clerk was directed to inform the Senate that the House was ready to proceed to business. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Randall and Cox, of New York, a committee to wait upon the President in conjunction with a similar commit ee from the Senate, and inform him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he might be pleased to make. Mr. Holman presented the credentials of Mr. Shevely, member elect of the Thirteenth Indiana District, to succeed Mr. Calkins, resigned, and that gentleman took the oath of office. After listening to the reading of the President's message, the House voted to adjourn.

“Oh, yes,” said Mrs. Parvenu, talking about music at Mrs. Suddenriches’ reception, “I just dote on them sympathy concerts, and my husband insists on our prescribing for the whole series. Ain’t them Beethoven rhapsodies real elegant ?”

A modern writer thus defines honor: Standing fire well, and shooting a friend whom you love, in order to gain the praise of a few others whom you despise. A young lady is said to be “of age” only when she is married.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Breves *4.55 @6.00 BOSS. 4.25 @4.75 Flour—Extra. 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 80 @ .82 No. 2 Red si @ .82 O. No. 2 50 @ .51 Oats—White 33 @ .88 PORK —New Mess 13.00 @13.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @7.00 Good Shipping 5.50 @ 6.00 Common to Fair 4.00 @6.00 Hons 4.2.5 @ 4.75 Flour—FancyWhite Winter Ex. 4.00 @4.50 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.25 @3.75 Wheat—No. 2Spring 73 @ .74 No. 2 Red Winter. .74 @ .75 U Corn—No. 2 .39 @ .40 Oat-—No. 2 25 @ .26 WE—No. 2 50 @ .52 Bareev—No. 2.. 57 & .53 Better —Choice Creamery 25 @ .27 Fine Dairy .18 @ .20 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13 Skimmed Flat--. 'K.OB @ .0914 Eggs—Fresh * . .21 @ .22 " Potatoes—New, per bu ■ .30 @ .33 Pork—Mess........ 10.75 @11.25 TOLEDO. W heat—No. 2 Red ' .go @ .70 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .39 Cats—No, 2 27 @ .29 MILWAUKEE. ‘ Wheat-No. 2 72 @ .73 Corn—No. 2 34 & .36 Oats—No. 2 .! .27 @ .28’4 BaRLEXj—No. 2....... 51 @ ,62;$* P. Mess 10.75 @11.26 Lard...... y. 5,75* @ 7.25 „ ST. LOUIS. JP * 47 <g) .48 Pork-Moss..'. ■- ©lieo® BARD ~ 0694@ .07 „ DETROIT. Flour. .......... 5.00 & 5.60 Wheat— No. 1 White. 76 @ .77 Coßn—Mixed...' 3a @ 39 Oats—No. 2 White. ” .28 @ ‘.29 Poke—Family n.OO @12.50 Wheat—No. 2Red, .71 @ .73 CoRN-Mixed .... 83 @ 34 Oats—Mixed ' 25 @ '27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.25 &t 75 Pair l: 6.59 @6.00 Common 4.00 @ 4.60 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 SHEEP.... 4.26 @ 5.00 <• V a

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

Secretary Teller's Annnal Report—The Indians and Man-ual-Labor Schools. ; The Homestead Question Discussed— Be peal of Pre-emption Laws Becommended. Needs of the Pension Bureau—The Indebtedness of the Pacific Railroads. In submitting hi* third and last annnal report of the operations of the department,' the Secretary of the Interior renews recommendations of former reports, so far as there may be necessity therefor, and makes each suggestions as experience and observation have shown that the public interest demands. In viewing the Indian question, he maintains that judicious treatment of the Indian question will prevent the recurrence of hostilities between the rod and the white men. In support of thl. opinion, he cites the fact that there have been no recent outbreaks. In the face of lnadeanate appropriations the work of educating the Indians has been poshed vigorously. live boarding schools and twelve day schools were erected during the year, making the total number eighty-one boardingschools, seventy-six day-schools, and six schools of industrial labor. These find a strong auxiliary in sectarian schools. All the institutions are doing good work, bat they will not be able to obtain tbeir full efficiency until some system is devised by which the educated Indians can put to use the intelligence they have gained, Instead of allowing it to fall into disuse while they lapse into their former modes of life. Speaking of this defect, the Secretary says: "It has been the great object of the department in dealing with the Indian to make him selfsupporting. When an Indian yonth has been taught to labor he is self-supporting, if an opportunity is presented to him to secure employment. One great difficulty met with is, that when the young of both sexes return to the agency there is no remunerative employment for them. They lack capital to open and cultivate a farm, and if they have acquired a troft, they find no employment of that character. It is as necessary that some employment should be secured for them as it is to teach them to labor. An Indian educated at Government expense should not be allowed rations, but should receive encouragement to labor by donations of stook, implements of agriculture, etc., and then be compelled to take care of himself. He has the knowledge that enables him to make his living. Give him an opportunity, and if he fails, let him give way to those of his race who will work and lire. If, however, the Indian boy or girl prefer to go out among the whites as a laborer, the Government should encourage and aid them so to do. A little money expended in that way will save a large amount that otherwise must be expended in their support. It ought to be the primary object of our dealing with the Indian to make him dependent on himself, and not on the Government; throw him on his own resources, with such aid only as is occasionally needed and a 3 honesty and good faith on our part demands. All educated Indians should be citizens of the United States, and I suggest that those who shall complete the regular course at the several manual-labor schools be given citizenship without their incurring the risk of a forfeiture of their interest in either tribal lands dr tribal funds."

In reviewing the wort: of the General Land Office the Secretary repeats much of the data given by the Land Commissioner in his report recently published. He accepts the Commissioner’s opinion that the pre-emption and timber culture laws should be repealed. The Secretary deplores the waste of the public domain and its absorption by syndicates, and accepts the views of the Land Commissioner as follows: “It is my opinion that the time has fully arrived when wastefnlness in the disposal of public lands shall cedse, and the portion still remaining should be economized for the use of actual settlers only. An act reserving the public lands, except mineral lands and timber reserves, for entry exclusively under the homestead laws, and amending the homestead laws so as to prevent the present easy evasion of wise restrictions and essential requirements, would be a measure meeting this end, and answering a pronounced public demand.” The Secretary urges a severe overhauling of the laws in relation to the taxation on railroad lands. He says: “I again call attention to the necessity for some legislation to compel the railroad companies having earned the land granted to them to take a patent therefor, so that the States or Territories in which such lands lie may have the benefits derived from taxing the lands within their boundaries. By the failure of the companies to pay the costs of surveying, transfer, eta, and apply for patents, a large amount of lands granted to and held by railroad companies under the rulings and decisions of the Supreme Court are substantially relieved from State taxation and contribute nothing to the fair support of the burden and revenue of the local governments, and at the same time deny to the General Government the due’eompensation provided by law for the surveys already extended over a portion of the lands and the benefit of the enlarged appropriations intended to secure further surveys along the line of the roads: Experience has shown that Instead of aiding the Government and facilitating the survey and sale of the publio lands along the routes, and the consequent settlement of the- country, the provision has operated to retard such laudable results, and also has served to enable the companies to obtain such valuable parcels of land as they may find speedy profit in selling, thus imposing the full burden of taxation upon their grantees and other settlets who purchase lands in the same neighborhood, while refusing to take the patents for the larger body of less valuable lands upon which such burden would fall in the hands of the companies themselves. It to earnestly to be desired that some means of adjustment of these grants, as a whole, be provided, or some method devised which shall under cover of legislative authority, not qnly remedythe evil suagested.but enable this department to reach a finality as to the titles to be conveyed to these corporations at the earliest practicle moment, and thus relieve an anxious and excited public feeling, already sufficiently aroused, upon the various difficult and complicated questions connected with the administration of this momentous and important brafech of public affairs. To this end, I most urgently recommend that the prompt and serious attention of Congress be invited to the foregoing suggestions, and that the several companies be compelled to take patents for the lands earned, and to pay for the surveys made in accordance with the provisions of the statutes heretofore cited.” In support of his position, the Secretary submits the following statement of the estimated number of acres of land granted to railroad companies by the acts of July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864, the number of acres on which the cost of surveying has been paid to Nov. 11, 1884, the estimated cost of the survey of the remainder of the grants, and the number of acres patented to the companies named np to June 30, 1884:

Estimated ” Acres in Cost of snr“ Name of Company. acres - ' Acres Cost of remainder veying re- Acres patgranted. surveyed, surveying, of grants, .maiiider. ented. Union Pacifio 13,222,40 3 2,302,817] $51,842.39 10,019,583 $370,905.79 2,305,024.64 Kansas Pacific, sue. 2 , . to Kas. Pacific... 6,000,000 1,530,537 31,041.07 4,469,463 ~ 127,626. 64 963,714.03 Union Pacific, sue. Denver Pacific... 1,024,000 221,942 9,304.67 802,058 1 84,50100 164,721.51 Central Branch of Union Pacific... 1,160,000 265,684 5,196.97 894,316 1 17,492.58 187,444.99 Central Pacific.... 9,248,200 1,006,881 68,787.23 8,241,319 * 411,732.37 814,344.08 Central Pacific.suo. , - ' Western Pacigc.. 1,676,448 , 44§£387 f } 17,397.17 1,128,061 . 43,631.25 446,230.65 Burlington & Mo. • ■ * I *• Riv. in Nebraska 2,882,208 2,378,556 50,515.79 2.878 290 77 Sioux City and Pa- . cifio 45,000 41,398 680.13 3,602 77.80 41,398.23 Totals 34,658,256 8,196,203 « $219,715.32 26,458,402 $1,005,968.48 7,296,1 7L 90

The Secretary speaks of the necessity for. some legislation in reference to lapsed land grants, and says: “The department Is not at liberty to declare a

grant forfeited because the road is sot completed within the time fised in the grant. The Supreme Court of the United States declared in the case of Schoenberg vs. Harr him that a failure to complete the road within the Httm» fixed in the grant did not forfeit the grant. Under this decision the department cannot treat the land so granted to the railroad companies, or to the States for the benefit of such corporations, as public lands; and to all intents and purposes, so far as the public is co cerned, the grants are private property, notwithstanding that the companies In some instances have not even attempted to comply with the conditions of the grant. Complaint to made »■»««■* grants made more than a quarter of a oentury ago are still treated as valid subsisting grants and the settler forbidden to go thereon, although nothing has been done toward the building of the road, which must be built before the railroad company can receive the evidence of the title Riven to it by the Government po many years before. If the grants are not forfeit/ d when there has not been a full compliance with the conditions of the grant, it seems to be just and proper that some provision should be made by which the settlers, who, through ignorance or because they believed such grants had been or would be forfeited, have made settlement on such railroad lands can secure a title through ffcerkiiro&d company or from the Government.” The figures given in Commissioner Dudley’! recent report are repeated, and In oonclnsion the Secretary says: “P erßonß applying for pension prior to July 1, 1880, are entitled to pension from the time of discharge or the death of the person on whose aooount the claim is made, unless the disability occurred after discharge. In all claims made snbsequent to that date the pension must commence from the time of the filing of the application. No good reasons can be given whv the claimants who tile their claims after July 1, 1880, ought not to receive their pensions time of discharge if such disability then existed, or if not then «vriat4n<r from the time such disability originated. I.um? .} nß * tija*«U persons who are' able to establish the right to receive a pension should be treated alike with reference to time of the commencement thereof. It has been urged in favor of this limitation that the large amount of arrears is an inducement to applicants to apply and secure a pension, and that the large amount to be realized is a temptation to commit fraud on the Government by means of false witnesses. The Government has the means of attempted, and Injustice should not be done to the deserving and needy soldier for fear the Government may in some few instances be imposed upon and compelled to pay a pension to which the soldier to not justly entitled. It is impossible for a soldier to secure a pension for disabilities not* existing; b° w e v er, a question whether such disability is or to not the result of service in the line of duty. The rules of the Pension Office for the determination of this question are sufficiently strict, and, with a proper administration of the affairs of that office, verv few pensions will be allowed parties not entitled to receive the same.” The relations of the land-grant railroads to the Government are given in detail, and are comprised in the following summaries. The accounts with the Pacific roads as to monevs actually covered in to their credit, but taking no account of the moneys in the sinking fund held by the United States Treasurer or of the compensation for services not settled at the time, are as follows:

Interest repaid by com♦lnterest panies to credit of bond accrued and Interest paid and interest account. Balance of Name of railway.. Princip’l out- notyetpaid by the United interest paid standing, by the Unit’d States. By transpor- By cash by the United States. tation serv- pay 15 $ ct States. ices. net eam’gs Central Pacific.... $26,885,120.00 $776,533.60 $24,229,108.87 $4,784,617.43 $648,271.96 $18,796,219.48 Westem Pacific... 1,970,660.00 69,116.80 1,727,365.74 9,367.00 1,717,998.74 Union Pacific 27,236,612.00 817,095.36 25,774,945.77 10.006,107.79 v ,,.. 16,768,837.98 Kansas Pacific.... 6,303,000.00 189,090.00 6,318,423.09 8,056,291.60 8,263,131.49 Central Branch, Union Pacific.... 1,600,000.00 48,000.00 1,697,808,26 162,401.27 6,926,91 1,428.480.08 Sioux City and Pacifio 1,628,320.00 48,849.60 1,513,147.09 131,138.32 1,382,008.77 Totals. $64,623,512.00 $1,93,8705.361 $61,160,798.82 $18,148,923,41 $655,198.87 $42,356,6'. 6.54

♦Due July 1,1884. The total net indebtedness of the subsidized railroad companies to the Government to as follows: Due from Union Pacific $50,142,090.49 Due from Central Pacific 46,557,045.14 Due from Sioux City and Pacific... 8,159,178.37 Due from Central Branch Union Pacifio 3,076,480.08 Total $102,934,794.08 The sinking-fund accounts of the Union and Central Pacific Companies under the aot of May 7, 1878, amounted on June 30,1884, to $6,084,099.82, the Union Pacifio having to its credit $3,435,576.34 and the Central Pacific $2,648,523.48 Investments have been made in the funded-loan bonds and currency sixes as follows: “Union Pacific, principal, $2,270,000; premium paid, $172,990.43; total, $2,443,090.43. Central Pacific, principal, $1,379,800; premium paid, $179,663.73; total, $1,559,863.73.” There remains uninvested to the credit of the Central Pacific, $1,089,160.75; Union Pacifio, $902,485.91; total, $2,081,643.06, which the Secretary reoommends be Invested at once, so that the several sinking funds may earn a reasonable rate of interest.

The Secretary invites attention to the Bubject of funding the debts of the several Pacific roads, and renews his suggestion that the present mode of payment, being uncertain, be commuted to one of fixed obligations having the same lien. He says: “It is manifest that the act of May 7, 1878, has not adequately accomplished its purpose. It would seem of the highest importance th t Congress take Immediate and final action looking to the ultimate payment of this indebtedness. Under existing laws the debt to steadily 'increasing at the rate of $1,000,000 per annum. I am of opinion that the best method of dealing with this indebtedness would be to authorize the founding of the debt on an extension of time, and to require the payment of fixed amounts at stated periods. In consideration of this extension, the companies should be r quired to file assignments of all earnings already accrued for Government transportation over non-alded portions of their roads. All future earnings for like services over all roads owned, leased, or operated by these companies should be pledged by the terms of the act to the payment of the accruing installments of the debt as they mature. If it be not deemed by Congress expedient to. thus fund the debt, the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury as to the investment of the sinking fund whioh to now confined £o 6 per cent. United States bonds should be enlarged, as the interest of the whole investment thus far made has not yet equaled the premiunto paid for the bonds.”

The Secretary expresses confidence In the civil-sorvioe act,, and says that the experience of one and a half years has shown the system to be a valuable one, wd .one that, should have the support of - both; the- legislative . and the executive departments of the Government. The clerks selected do their wort well, showing that the examinations have been businesslike and practical, and disproving the belief that prevailed to some extent when the act was passed that it would be too technical to be practical. thSjftE* Depart UMnt, census to geological survey, the Bureau of the Yellowstone National Park, the Hot Springs, the Freer,man’s Hospital, the Columbia Institution foe thobeaf jmd l?rtmb, the Hospital for the Insane, tße Arcultecturai Department of the CapKol, the'new Penjsnn .Building, and the reconstruction of the Interior Department MSS***

The cane which President' Lipcon carried on the night of his assassination is now the property of Colonel W. H. Harris, of Cleveland, who was with the President on that fateful night The cane haß a bent top, a dog’s head of ivory, and a narrow gold band on which is engraved "Abraham Lincoln, 1865.”

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Extracts from the Annnal Report of the Controller of the Currency. Statistics of the Business Performed by the National Banks*—Becommendations. Bonds and Their Payment as They Become Due—lnteresting Information. The annnal report of the Comptroller of th» ® h ° w * during the year ended Nov. 1, 1884, 191 banks have been organized, with an aggregate capital of Circulating notes have been issued to these new association*, amounting to $3,866,230. These banks allocated by geographical divisions as foUows; Eastern States 10 banks, with a capital of SBIO - 000; Middle States 25, capital $312,250; Southern States 30, capital $2,991,100; Western States ion capital $8 905,880; Pacific States 5, capital $380.°°°t Territories 19, capital $1,143,000. Since theestablishment of the national banking system* leb. 25, 1863, there have been organized 3,261 national banka. The total number in existence Nov. 1. 1884, was 2,67 l—the largest number in operation at any one time. Eleven national banks, with an aggregate capital of $1,285,000* have failed and been placed in the hands of receivers during the year. The different items of resources and liabilities* as tabulated, indicate that the business of thenational banks daring the last eleven years has. generally Increased. The items of United States bonds and circulation thereon decreased duringthe last two years. The aggregate liabilities of national banks to depositors and correspondents were reduced during the year upward of $94,000 000. This reduction of liabilities and thogeneral reduction of loans by banks, which amounted to over $63,000,000 during the year* the Comptroller says was doubtless occasioned by the financial troubles of Hay and general depression of business. During the same period national banks increased their cash resources* by about $21,000,000 specie and $11,000,000 legal tenders and United States certificates of deposit for the same.

The total number of banks still in operation, organized under the act of June 3, 1864, and the provisions of the Revised Statutes, in periods of succession, which will terminate unless hereafter renewed during the years previous to 1900, is 1,488, with a capital of $321,461,145. and a circulation of $194,745^05. The banks held Nov. 1, 1884, $166,604,400 3 per cent, bonds, payable at the pleasure of the Government, of which $9,586,21-0 have been called for payment, interest ceasing Nov. 1, 1864. If these bonds are not replaced by others bearing interest, there will be an Immediate reduction in circulation of 90 per cent of their amount. Nov. 1 there were $194,190,600 3 percent. bonds payable at the pleasure of the Government These bonds will prbbably bepaid within the next two veara. even if considerable changes are made In the tariff; and: from 1887 to 1891, when $260,000,000 of 416 per cents mature, there will be no bonds which the Government can call in for redemption. N<v doubt the accumulation of surplus revenue, if it continues to accrue At the present rate duringthe four years between 1887 and 1891, togetherwith the revenues of 1892, will be more than, sufficient to pay off the 4fe per cents, and from. 1892 until 1907 it will be impossible for the Government to use any-of its su-plus revenues for the payment of its bonds, except at .the option/ of tbeir holders. It is apparent that the Government cannot accumulate and hold its surplus revenues, even during the short period from 1887 to 1892, without great disturbances tothe business interests of the country, add much less can it do so during the longer period from--1892 to 1907.

It appears, therefore, that the foregoing considerations should be given due weight in any plan for funding the 4 per cent, bonds in 1307, and the Controller therefore Buggeststhat the principal difficulties of the situation, may. perhaps, be obviated as well as a reduction of Interest effeoted by funding these bondsinto others which shall mature in proportionate amounts at certain fixed intervals. Thus the $738,000,000 4 per cents might be funded into an equal amount of 3 or 2>6 j er cent, bonds, onefifth of which, or $147,600,n00, to mature at intervals of five years, the first installment due July 1, 1897, and the remaining Installments of $147,600,000 each of the Ist of July Hi the last, year each succeeding period of five years, viz.; 1902, 1907, 1912, and 1017. The average maturity of these five classes of bonds would be* the same as that of the present 4 per cents—viz.: July 1,1907. Whatever course may be deemed expedient by Congress in regard to the funding or futurepayment of the publio debt, the Controller to of opinion that it is pen ectly safe and will afford great benefit to the publio to permit an issueby the national banks of circulation to the ex*tent of 100 per cent—par value—of bonds deposited, instead of 90 per oent. Even admitting that bonds representing the public debt, when funded at lower rates might at times in, the future be belew par in the market, the Government would, if forced to redeem the notes of insolvent national banks, always have a right to cancel bonds on deposit securing the same, and thus extinguish an amount of its debt equal, dollar for dollar, to ihe notes redeemed. It tofurther submitted that the profit on circulation may be increased to a point which will inducebanks to keep np their circulation to the maximum, and stop contraction of their circulation, which to now occurring, by repelaina the law taxing such circulation at the rate of one-half of 1 per cent., semi-annually/ The expenses of keeping up the national banking system by the. Government are at present paid in part from the. proceeds of this tax and in part by assessment on banks. If this tax be abolished all these ex- » penses should bo paid by the last named method. In concluding this subject the Comptroller wishes to have it distinctly understood that he is not in favor of any measure which will causeinflation. He to of opinion that the present aggregate paper circulation, made up of legaltender and national-bank notes and gold and: silver certificates, to ample for all the needs of business. He believes, however, that a sudden, contraction of national-bank circulation, which without appropriate legislation is Imminent, wilt seriously embarrass the business of the country,/ and that if this contraction to permitted to go. on it may result in the entire discontinuance of the issue of notes by national banks. TheComptroller believes that this form of ourrency, which can be increased or diminished in accordance with natuial laws which control business* should be continued in preference to any other now permitted by law. In regard to the circulation based on silver* the Controllef says the peoplo of the United States now hold paper circulation based upon, silver dollars in amount equal to more than onethird the national-bank circulation. If it 1» for the best interests of the United Statesto issue circulation based upon silver, the Controller ”, Believes circulation should be issued upon coiiribr bullion which contains a sufficient, number of grains of silver to have intrinsic value equakin the markets of the world to its nominal value. Some writers have suggested that the circulating medium might be based upon, bullion, both gold and silver, and the Controller to of opinion that under oertain restrictions and regulation A it would be far more correct in principle tor issue silver certificates based upon, the deposit of bullion, to be valned in exact proportion of silver to gold, tnan to continue the Issue of certificates under the present law. If this were done, silver bars might be stamped at their market value and held lit the Treasury for the redemption of certificates whio i would call an amount of silver equal in value to their nominator face value expressed in gold. The bullion represented by certificates should be periodically valued at its market prioe in gold* and a certain proportionate amount of silver so held might perhaps be coined to provide means* for the redemption of certificates, If redemption was required for business purposes. The Controller believes that the use of allv. r as money in this manner; and Its periodical valuation would have more influence In appreciating the marketvalue of silver among the nations of the world rency based upon silver should not, however, be unlimlted, and the present laws making thepurchase and coinage of a fixed amount oljilver bullion mandatory are very pertil lons In their effect, as the unlimited and continued issuance of full legal-tender silver coin, and certificates based thereon, of Intrinsic value less than their face, has already caused the hoarding of gold* andLarlli eventually drive it from the channqjs of trade, thereby causing a practical suspension of gold payments. There are many Indicationsof this, notably the uneasiness in fiaaaf;iil,.ctr,oles in Jude and July last, causedby the reserve of -geld in the Treasury f all n* so nfcar to a point at which under the law the issuance of gold certificates ceases. It will also be observed that during the present year national banks SSI j&Ep&atKsftns sum of $19,615,350. The Comptroller concludes hto report with a discussion of the subjeet of 01 ¥* A medical export thinks that the large-/ Increase in rheumatism in New England is the result of the disuse of eider. In cider-drinking countries there is very littlerheumatism. ,