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Strawberry Hill Apiary.
JJ. Kloer, Manager.
Some people who know nothing about honey, thins: that honey, which granulates, is adulterated. 1 assert that all pxure honey produced In this section of the country granulates and becomes hard in cold weather, It separated from Ihe'cbmb. I offer
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To any one who can prove my proposition untrue, and the same amount to any one who ean prove that I ever sold a pound of.Impure honey. Try my pure extracted honey,
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No. 426 Gullck street.
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beat quality, low prices and prompt delivery. Chunk Wood for heating sto^a and grates.
IF forth Second St.
J. B. RHODES
Manufacturer of lain and FaiioyJ
Plower Pots.
DRAIN TILE, £530.
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Onii fill your orders promptly with the c&ebrated Wllbesbarre, Lehigh Anthra«te, the best coal that comes to the westtn 'market. The Nlcfcle Plate Block Is tn this market. Ninth and Main its.
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The report of the secretary of the treasury shows a surplus forth present fiscal yearunder the operation of laws passed oti the recommendation of a republican adu^biration^ but an estimated deficient in the first year ot operation of the government under democratic rale. In short, the Cleveland administration asks for an appropriation of $339,000,000 as agairst $290,000,000 expenditures for the present fiscal year. This is retrenchment and reform with a vengeance. When Randall was at the head ol the appropriation committee in 1876- 77 and was making something ol a reputation under the Tilden cry of retrenchment he used to say in the house in defense of the decreased appropriation bills he was bringing in that any administration which asked for more than 3300,000,000 for the yearly expenditures should be turned out of office on a charge more serious than incompetency. What will he, as chairman of the appropriation committee, say as to the estimates for S339..0.000 submitted by Mr. Cleveland's administration
Probably the best comment thai can be made on the death of the railroad magnate ls the fact that there is nowhere to be fonlid. in print a biography of the man. His life has been so devotetl to the one sordid purpose that he has not made hia mark itrthe history of the country except as being the individual possessing a larger amount of wealth than any other single person. With. the exception of the generous action by which he relinquished his claim on the Grant estate he has done no one thing that the general public ifl aware of for which he is entitled to the kindly respect of the rest of mankind. His father, who was a striking character in more respects than his money getting proclivities, is better known as to the details of his life thtL" the son in whom he recognized the ability to make money with money, and therefore gave him the bulk of his fortune, then considered as great comparatively as that of the son is iow rated. The father did and said things that will live long after the son is remembered only as a man with $200. 000,000. The son was a coarse, hard grained man. He gave money to the Vand'erbilt college at Nashville and he defrayed the expense of the removal ot the obeb'sk to this country, but no one thinks of classing him as a philanthropist. He was merciless in crushing out opposition enterprises that he might become richer, anJ cared but little for the respect of his fellow-men, In one way of looking at him he was an intelligent machine set in operation by the elder Vanderbilt to run true to the. purpose of making money, inanimate at all times when natural emotions should have been called forth and with exactness of motion, steadily turning money into money. He may perhaps, be entitled to credit for ability in amassing his forture, but iiis far more likely that the man had only the one nature, and did what he did because he was foreordained to do so.
Gab and Gabble-
New Orleans Picayune. Never suppress an orator. A cackling goose saved Rome.
All But the Gills.
Inter-Ocean. Nearly all St. Louis productions, except her girls, are disappointing.
The Plaoe to Put Cotton-
Courier-Journal. A California man has four ears. He will have a delightful time when his daughter be gins to learn the piano.
Save Time and Honey.
Philadelphia Inquirer. Those who buy their Christmas presents now will have time to lay up money for an other batch two or three weeks hence.
Hot Surprised at Anything.
Texas Sif tings. "St. Paul has arranged a oorner in wheat. After reading this epistle we would not have thought It possible, but this is a very irreligious age.
A Bostonian Puzzle-
Boston Transcript. When a man dies his biography appears and it is usually just too splendid for anything, Wonder why somebody doesn't hare his biography written at the beginning instead of at the end of his life. It might do him some good.
LOGAN'S PLAN OF ACTION.
A Rumor That H» Will Fight tbe Ad minis* ration in the Interest of Suspended Ex-Sold lers
WASHINGTON,
D. C., December 8.—
The statement is made by those profess log to knowsomethingof General Logan's motives that he declined the presidency of the senate because of his intention to lead a fight against the administration, and because he thought it would not be beeoming in him to do so from the chair. He has had several of his intimate friends in Illinois and other parts of the country suspended from office and superceded by democrats, and he proposes to prevent the confirmation of their successors. He also intends to make a fight againbt every democrat who has been appointed to succeed a soldier, and will take Up the case of Postmaster Huidekooper, of Philadelphia, as a test. The confirmation of Mr. Kimball, the director of tthe mint, for whom Burchard, of Illinois, was turned out, will be a fair subject lor controversy, he thinks, and there are several other similar cases. It is further stated that General Logan has been making a quiet investigation, and has a list of ttlf the ex-soldiers removed from office by the present administration. The use he will make/f this need not be explained, and his friends say that the speech he made in Baltimore not long ago was the key note of his war song. It is not at all certain that General Logan will find the republican senate willing to gp as far as he does, but it is said he means to make the fight whether he is supported or not.
Amending Its Articles,
Indianapolis Journal. Tht Burlington, Lafayette & Western Railway company, which was organized in 18S3, has filled with the secretary of state amended articles of incorporation, increasing the capita) stock to $2,000,000, and changing the line, which, it is now proposed, shall run through the counties of vf u* igo, Parke, Fountain, Trppecanoe, Carroll, Howard, Grant, Wabash, Huntington, Wells, Adams and Allen, extending from Terr® Haute to Fort Wayne. Additional stock has been subscribed to the number of 4,630 shares, and of these 4,000 are held by George J. Henninger. The total number of shares subscribed is
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tunes), the president tayv they might be reduced by stricter discipline, increasing the penalty for repetition of the ofienaeand by reducing the term of enlistment.
The acting lodge advocate general reports that the number of trials by general court mar.ial daring the year was 2,928, and that 11,851 trials took place before garrison and regimental oonrt martial. Thesnggesti that probably more than half the army have been tried for offenses great and small in one year may well arrest attention. Of some of the proceedings of court martial which I have had occasion to examine present the ideas of justice which generally prevail in these tribunals. 1 am satisfied that they should be much reformed, if the honor and the honesty of the army and navy a by their instrumentality to be vindicated and protected.
Although no appointments to second-lieuten-antcies have been made from civil life, there will not be enough vacancies to employ the next class to pradoa' efr Weet Point. It is uggested that the law be so changed that grad nates may be assigned to positions as vacancies occur and in the meantime be permitted to pursue some civil vocation,
THE HAVT.
The president commends Secretary Whitney for his oourae in the matter of the Dolphin and .the cruisers under corstructkfa by contract with John Roach & Son.
Ail must admit the importance of an effective navy to a nation like'ours, having such an extended sea-coast to protect, yet we have not a single veesel of war that could keep the seas against a first-class vessel of any important power. Snch a condition ought not longer to continue. The nation that can not reemt aggr- saion ig constantly oxpoeed to it. Ira foreign policy is, of necessity, weak, and its negotiations are conducted with disadvantage, because it is not in a condition to enforce the terms dictated by its sense of right and justice. 1 deem ft my duty to especially direct the attention of congress to the cloee of the report of the secretary of the navy, where tbe humiliating weaknet/e of the present organizetio of this department is exhibited and the startling abuses and waste of its present methods are exposed. The conviction is forced upon up with the certainty of mathematical demonstration that before we proceed further in the restoration of a navy we need a thorougly reorganized navy department.
THE POSTAL SKBVIOK.
The affairs of the postal service are exhibited by the report of- the postmaster general, which will be laid before yon. The postal revenue, whose ratio of gain upon the rising prosperity of 1882 and 1888 oatstripped the increasing expenses of our growing service, was checked by the reduction of the rate of letter postage, which took effect with the beginning of October, in the latter year, and it diminished during the two past fiscal years $2,790,0*0, in about the proportion of $2,270,000 in 1884 to $527,000 in 1885. Natnral growth and development have meantime increased the expenditures, resulting in a deficiency in the revenue to meet the expensee of the department of five and a quarter million dollars for the year 1884 and [eight and a third million in the last fiscal year. The anticipated and natural revival of the revenue has been oppressed- and retarded by the unfavorable business condition of the country, of which" the postal service is a faithful indicator. The gratifying fact is shown, how-
corresponding period of the preceding year. I approve the recommendation of the postmaster general to reduce the charges on domestic money orders of $5 or less from eight to five cents. The letter carrier system should be extended' Last year it returned a profit of $1,300,000 into the department. Postmaster General Vilas' action with respect to the carrying of foreign mails is approved.
Whatever, may be thought of the policy of subsidizing any line of public conveyance or travel, I am satisfied that it should not be done .under cover of an expenditure incident to the administration of a department, nor should there be any uncertainty as to the recipients of the subsidy, or any discretion left to an executive officer as to its distribution,
I approve the recommendation of the postmaster general, that another assistant be provided for his department. •••-'••u
THE JUDIOIABY.
The condition of business- in the courts of the United Statos is such that there seems to be an imperative necessity for remedial legis lation on th% subject. Some of these courts are so overburdened with pending causes that the delays in determining litigation amount often to a denial of justice Among the plans suggested for relief ie one submitted by the attorney general. Its main features are the transfer of |all the original jurisdiction of the Circuit courts to the District courts, and an increase of judges to the Circuit courts, and constituting them exclusively Courts of Appeal, reasonably limiting appeals thereto, further restrictions of the right to remove causes from the state to federal courts, permitting appeals to the Supreme court from the courts of the District of Columbia and the territories only in the same cases as they are allowed from state courts, and guarding against an unnecessary number of appeals from the Circuit courts. I approve the plan thus outlined and recommend the legislation necessary for its application to onr judicial system.
The manner of compensating United States marshals and district attorneys should be changed to giving them a fixed salary. In connection with this subject, I desire to suggest the advisability, if it be found not obnoxious to constitutional objection, of investing United States commissioners with the power to try and determine certain violations of law within the grade of misdemeanors in the inter ests of humanity, justice and economy.
THE INDIAN QUESTION.
In presenting the matters treated In Secretary Lamar's report, the Indian question takes most spaee. The president says the' Indians number 260,000, mainly located in reservations aggregating 184,000,000 of acres. He says that it is generally conceded that they aw the wards of the government, and that the ultfraate object of their treatment should betheL civilization and citizenship. Some progress has been made in this direction. In this view, the message says: "The history of all the progress which has been made in the civilization of the Indian, I think, will disclose the fact that the beginning has been religious teaching, followed by or accompanying secul-ir education, while the Belf-saori-ficing and pious men and women who have aided in this good work by their independent endeavor, have for their reward the beneficent results of their labor and the consciousness of christian duty well Informed. Their valuable services should be I !ully acknowledged by all Who under the law are charged with the control and management of our Indian wards. What has been said indicates that in the present condition of the Indians no attempt should be made to apply a fixed and nnyielding plan of action to their varied and varying needs and circumstances. The Indian bureau, burdened as it is with their general oversight and with the details of the establishment, can hardly possess itself of the minute particulars of cases needing treatment, and thus the propriety of creating an instrumentality auxilary to those already established for the care of the Indians suggests itself, I recommond the passage of a law authorizing the appointment of six commissioners, three of whom shall be detailed from the army, to be charged with the duty of a careful inspection frem time to time of all the Indians upon our reservations or subject to the care
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THE PUBLIC DOJ1AIN.-
It is not for the common benefit of* the United States that a large area of the public lands should be acquired, directly or through fraud, in the hands of a single individual. The nation's strength is in the people. The nation's prosperity is in their prosperity. The nation's glory is in the equality other justice. The nation's perpetuity is in the patriotism of all her people hence, as tar as practicable, the plan adopted in disposal of publio lands should have in View the anginal policy which encouraged many purchases of these kinds for homes, and discouraged the massing of large
8XPS1IS, THITO* **J1Wi imWOWDAY
Exclusive of Alaska, about three-filths
of nstinnsl domain has been sold or subjected to contrast or giant ot the remaining twofifths considerable portion is either moobtain «r desert. A rapidly increasfrig population creates a growing demand for homes and the accumulation at wealth, inspires a larger competition to obtain the public land for speculative purposes. In the futnre this collision of interests will be more marked than in the past, and the execution of the nation's trust in behalf of otir settlers will be more difficult.
The nation has made princely grants and subsidies to a system of railroads, projected as great national highways to conncct the Pacific states with the east. It has been charged that these donations from the people have been rivertod to private gain and corrupt usee, and thus public indignation has been aroused and suspicion engendered. Our great nation does not begrudge its generosity, but it abhors peculation and baud, and the favorable regard of our people for the great corporations to which theee grants were made can only be revived by a restoration of confidence!, to be secured by their constant, unequivocal and clearly manifested, faithful application of the undiminished proceeds of the grants to the construction and perfection of their roads, an honest discharge of their obligations and satire justice to all the people in the enjoyment of all their rights on theee highways of travel is all the public asks aad it will be conte&t with no leee. To secure theee tilings should be the common purpose of the officers of the government as well as of the corporations. With this accomplishment prosperity would be permanently secured to the reads aad national pride would take the plaice of national complaint.
THE MORMON QUESTION.
In discussing the Mormon question President Cleveland says: "The strength, perpetuity and the deetiny of the nation rests Upon onr homes, established by the law of God, guarded by pairental cure, regulated bv-parental authority and sanctified by parental love."
There should be no relaxation in tha firm, but just execution of the law now in operation, and I should be glad to approve sush farther discried legislation as will rid the country of this blot upon its fair fame.
AOBICULTUEAI, FUBSBITS.
The agricultural interest of the country demands just recognition and encouragement. It sustains, with certainty and unfailing strength, our nation's prosperity by the products of its steady toil, and bears its full share of the burden of taxation without complaint. The instrumentality established in aid of the farmers of the land should not only be well equipped for their accomplishment of their purposes, but those for whoee benefit it has been adopted should be encouraged to avail themselves fnlly of its advantages.
The passage of laws necessary to secure the cattle of the country against infectious diseases is recommended.
CIVIL SEBVICE 8EF0BM.
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I am Inclined to think that there is ~no sentiment more general in the minds «.f the people of our country than a conviction of the oorrectness of the principle upon which law enforcing oivil service reform is based. In its present condition the law regulates .only apart of the subordinate public positions throughout the country. It applies the test of fitness to applicants for these places by means ef a competitive examination and gives large discretion to the commissioners as to the charaoter of the examination and many. other matters cdhnected with its execution.
Thus the rulee and regulations adopted by the commission have much to do with the practical usefulness of the statute and with the reeults of its application the people may well trust the commission to execute the law with perfect fairness and with as little irritation as is possible. But, of course, ne relaxation of the principle which underlies it, and no wakening of the safeguards which surround it, can be expected. Experience in its adminis tration will probably snegest amendment of the methods of its execution, but I venture to hope that we shall never again bo remitted to the systsm which distributes public positions purely as reward for partisan service. While partisanship continues bitter and pronounced, and supplies sr mueh of motive to sentiment and aotion, it" not fair to hold public officials in charge of importent trusts responsible for the best results in the performance of their duties and yet insist that they ehali -rely in confidential and important places upon the work of those not only opposed to them in political affiliation, but so steeped in partisan prejudice and rancor that they have no loyalty to their ohiefs and no desire for their success. Civil service reform does not exact this, nor does 'it require that those in subordinate positions who fail in yielding their beet services, or who are incompetent, should be retained simply because they are in place. The whining of a olerk discharged for indolence and incompetency who, though he gained his place by the worst possible operation of the spoils system, suddenly discovers that he is entitled to protection under the sanction of civil service reform represent an idea no less absurd than the clamor of the applicant who claims the vacant position as his compensation for the most questionable party work.
The oivil service law does not prevent the discharge of the indolent or incompetent clerk, but doee provent supplying his place with the unfit party workers. Thus in both the phases is seen benefit of the public service and the people who desire good government having secured this statute will not reliquuish its benefits without protest, nor are they unmindful of the fact that its full advantages can only be gained through the complete good faith of having its execution in charge, and this they will insist upon. I recommend that the salaries of the civil service commissioners be in creased to a sum more nearly commensurate to their important duties.
THE PBSSIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. The present condition of the law relating to the succession to the presidency, in the event of the death, disability, or removal of both the president and vice president is such as to require immediite amendment. This subject has repeatedly been considered by congress, but no result has been reached The recent lamentable death of the vice president and vacancies at the same time in all other offioes, the incumbents of which might immediately exercise the functions of the presidential office has caused public anxiety and a just demand that a recurrence of such a con dition of affairs should not be permitted.
VABIOUS MATTERS.
The president recommends a repeal of the discrimination in the tariff against the work of foreign artists in favor of Americans reeiding abroad that the coast survey be trans ferred to the navy department, and that the entire bureau be made the subject of strict legislation that the signal service should be separate established that a general law be prohibiting the building of bridges across navigable streams that provision be made for continuing the snrveys of Indian reservations, so that when allotment of lands in severalty is deemed expedient, it may be carriad out expeditiously that stepe should be taken to purge the pen sion roll of all unworthy names,.and that meritorious claims should be speedily adjusted: that the library of congress be provided suit able and safe quarters other matters discussed formally or referred to the message without speoial recommendation are the steamboat inspection servioe, the Marine hoepital service life saving service? board of fortification ant other defenses, pensions.
The recommendations of the commissioners Of the District of Columbia in favor of a new district government bnilding and the undertaking of a general system of sewerage are approved.
THE TREASURY REPORT.
and control of the government, with a view of S4sretary Manning Submits the Accounts discovering their exact conditions and needs{ and determining what stepe shall be taken on behalf of the government to improve their sit-1 nation in the direction of their self-support and complete civilization that they ascertain from such inspection, what if any of the reservations may be reduced in area in such cases what part not needed for Indian occupation may be purchased by the government from the Indians and disposed of for their benefit. The powers and functions of the commissioners in regard to these subjects should be clearly defined, though they should in conjunction with the secretary of tbe interior be given all the authority to deal definitely with the questions rasentod, deemed safe and consistent. This plan contemplateB the selection of persons for commissioners who are interested in the Indian question, and who have practical ideas on the subject of their treatment.
and Slakes Recommendations.
TBEASUBT DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON,
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D. C., December 7,1885.
have the honor to submit the follow-
in? report: RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. "V Fiscal Year 1885.
The ordinary revenues ef the government from all seurces for the fiscal year ended Jnne 80, 1885, were From customs $181,471,989 84 From internal revenue 112,498,725 54 From salss of publio lands 5,705,986 44 From tax on'nationalbanks... 2,914,222 25 From profits on coinage, bullion deposits and assays. 6,051,284 96 From customs fees, fines, penalties, etc 907,464 27 From fees—consular, letterspatent, and lands. 8,714,618 58 From repayment of interest by
Pacific Railway companies.. 1,608,071 58 From «i riVing fond for Pacific railway companies 2,476,707 78 From deposits by individuals
for surveying public lands From proceeds or sales of government property From Tnriian tnst funds From immigrant fund From Soldiers' Home, permanent fund
694,414 84
802,882 07 76,942 08 177,003 60
888,786 05
From sale of condemned naval
vessels 55,541 801 Pro31 tax on tonnage 400,842 46 From revenue* of the District of Columbia.. j,929,298 It' From miBcellrneoos sources.. ®,471,582 23
Totalordinary receipts. ....It28,690,706 SS
The Ordinary expenditures for the Bame period were: For civil expenses ..» 88,826,943 11 For foreign intereour*. 5,489,609 11 For Indians 6,662,494 63 For pensions 56^102,267 49 For the military ''establishment, including rivers and harbors and arsenals 42,670,578 47 For the naval establishment, including vessels, machinery and improvements at navy yards 16,021,079 67 For miscellaneous expenditures, including pablio buildings, light houses, and collecting tbe revenue 54,728,066 21 For expenditures on account of the District of Columbia, 8,499,650 95 For interest on the public debt 51,386,256 47 For the sinking fund. 45,604,035 48
Total ordinary expendit'ree. 1805,830,970 54
Leaving a surplus of $ 17,859,785*84 Which was applied to the redemption— Of Oregon war debt .$ 2,800 00 Of loan of July and August 1861 58,800 00 Of five-twentiee of 1862 15,400 00 Of fivo-twenties of 1864...... 750 00 Of five-twenties of 1865....... 22,800 00 Of loan of 1868 86,600 00 Of ten-forties of 1864 79,500 00 Of consols of 1865 48,8 iO 00 Of 000801*011867 74,100 00 Of consols of 1868 10,850 00 Of funded loan of 1881 85,000 00 Of loan of February, 1861 1,000 00 Of old demand, compound interest, and other notes .8,260 CO And to the increase of cash in the treasury... 17,471,025 84
Total 17,859,735 84
As compared with the fiscal year 1884, the receipts for 1885 have decreased $24,829,163.54. The heavy itarns of decrease aere: Customs revenue, 113,695,550.42 internal revenue, $9,087,846.97, and sales of publio lands $4,104,718.57. The only considerable item of increase was $1,800,675.86, repayment of interest by Pacifio ^railroads. There was a net increase of expenditures of $16,100,690.78. This increase was made up of war department $8,240,975.11, Indian bureau $76,495.34, pensions $673,039.48, civil and miscellaneous $16,578,824.68—total $20,564,884.56, from whioh is to be deducted a decrease of $1,271,521.77 in the navy department and $S,192,122.01 interest on the publio debt—total $4,408,643.78, leaving the net increase of $16,100,690.78.
For the present fiscal year, actual for the first quarter ending September 80, 1885, and eeiimated for the remaining three-quarters of the year, the receipts are $315,000,000. The expenditures for the same year, aotual and estimated, are put at $290,750,000. For tbe fiseal year ending June 80, 1887, for which the present session of congress will make appropriations, the receipts are estimated at $315,000,000, and the expendituree at $889,589,552.84, or a deficit of $24,589,562.84.
CUBRENOT REFORM—TAXATION REFORM. A review of 4he several groups of laws whioh it is the duty of the secretary of the treasury to administer, manifests, as inquiry into the business of the country does, the the grave need of reform in the state of our currency and in the present scheme of our taxation. Both are legaciee of war. They are unaccountable except by the light of the events which afforded their origin and their exouse. Their continuance for so long a time since, though discreditable, is perhaps explained by that degree of prospority continuing despite them whioh is so far beyond the prosperity possible wherever large standing armies and costly war fleets are an annnal expense, and where more restricted freedom of activity and trade entails heavior burdens. To many our prosperity might well Beom satisfactory, although in fact, ever since the war it has been intolerably abridged by an unwise financial policy. But the continuing depression univer sal in varying degreee over the world obliges us all now to consider and undertake Bome reforms which our surplus revenues make feasible.
These reforms invite and exact the best efforts of American statesmanship. Neither party has escaped the danger of defending, as good, evils which both parties were merely getting used to. Men of both parties, public men conversant with publio affairs, aad men absorbed in earning their livelinood, have been liable to influence from the great force of example which all governments carry and so the belief has spread that the 'disorder of our ourrency is a kind of order, that the mixture of private jobs and past public needs in our tariff, is a system of protection to American labor.
CURRENCY REFORM.
Currency reform is first in the order of importance and of time, and fitly precedes other reforms, even taxation reform, because it will facilitate all other reforms, and becanse it can not safely be deferred. The coinage act of 1878, is overloading the mints with unissued, the sub-treasuries with returned silver dollars, and will unavoidably convert tho funds of the treasury into "those depreciated and depreciating coins.
The disorders of our currenoy chiefly arise from the operation of two enactments: 1. The act of February 28, 1878, which has been construed as a permanent appropriation for perpetual treasury purchases of at least $24,009,000 worth of Bilver per annunt, although from causes mostly foreign that metal is now of mutable and falling value, which must be manufactured into coins of unlimited legal tender and issued to the people of the United States as equivalents of our monetary unit. 2. The act of May 81,1878, which indefinitely postponed fulfilment of the solemn pledge (March 18, 1869) not only of '"redemption" but also of "payment" of all the obligations of the United States not bearing intereet, legalized as $846,000,Q00 paper money of unlimited legal tender, and required the poetredemption issue and reissue of these promises to pay dollars, as equivalents of our monetary unit.
But thase.two evils, which are each a separate menace to the pnblic tranquility and injurious to the public morals and the publio faith, do not double the difficulties of a reform of the currency. Tneir concurrence may even assist congress to provide th^people of the United States with a bettsr currency than the best now possessed by .any nation a currency in which every dollar note shall be the representative certificate of a coin dollar actually in the treasury and payable on cW maud a currency in which our monetary unit coined in gold ($550,000,000) and its equivalent coined in silver ($215,000,000) shall not be suffered to part company,
Such a reform of the whole carrency of the United States (setting aside the national bank notes, which are diminishing and well secured) can be undertaken and finished subject to the following conditions
THE CONDITIONS OF OUBRENOT BEFOBM.' 1. Without shock or disturbance to the in dustriee, the business enterprise, the domestic trade, or foreign commeece of the country. 2. Without degrading the United States monetary unit of value toja cheaper dtllar, and without raising the United States monetary unit of value to a costlier dollar.
Without loes to any who now hold the promises of the United States to pay a dollar. 4. Without reduction of the present volume of the currency, or hindrance to its free increase hereafter when every dollar note shall be the certificate of a coin dollar in the treasury payable on demand. 5. Without pause in the redaction of the public debt, but paying more than throe-fifths of all that part of the debt now payable at the option of the United States prior to September, 1891, 6. Without increase of taxation. 7. Without the sale of any silver bought and coined since February, 1878. 8. Without thedisase of the 215,000,000 coined silver dollars of unlimited legal tender, or any fall or discount in their present received value and' without the disuse of the 550,000,000 coined gold dollars of unlimited legal tender, or any rise or premium on their present reoeived value. 9. Without prejudice to the adoption hereafter of an international bimetallic union, with free coinage of both metals for all comers, at a fixed ratio of weights, into coins of unlimited legal tender. 10. Without the coins of the two metals parting company from each other,
may be the temporary fall, if any, in the market price of silver bullion after stopping treasury purchases.
I would most respectfully oommend to the consideration of congress the question whether such a reform of the currency unght not now to be endeavored, whether these are not among the prudent and just oonditioos of its reform and whsthersuch a reform might not be promoted, with immediate advantage to all our industries and trade, by repeal of the clause requiring treasury purchases of silver [CONCLUDED ON THIRD PAGE.]
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OBITUARY.
Mrs. A. O. Porter.
Mre. Porter, wife of ex-goveraor A. G. G. Porter, died at hbr home in Indianat 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. ei lormer name was Cornelia Stone. She became acquainted with Governor Porter in Washington, while lie was first comptroller of the treasury, and they were married about Ave yean ago, just previous to his inauguration aa governor. The marriage occnrredin New York city, at the home of the bride's brother, General Stone. The Indianapolis Journal says: "Mr. and Mrs. Porters short union was characterized by the tenderest ties, her fine business ability and high literary acquirements brin^ingher into tha closest relationship with his affairs. The loveliness of Mrs. Holler's womanhood, het brightness of manner and many accomplishments of mind won for the lady tributes of love and esteem from all who came within her presence. In her own social circle she was the center of an influence that gave to thought and purpose the highest motive. She was always in step with* events, and through the force of clear judgment measured accurately the importance of political and social incidents. Her acquirements were enriched by an acnteness of critical observation, the value of which she has given her husband in his literary work. "Mrs.Porter's sickness manifested Its serious symptoms in August last, and a few wefeks later her husband took her to the sanitarium in Dansville, N. Y„ for treatment. Two weeks ago he received the sad message that her recovery was almost impossible, and a week ago Saturday evening last he brought the beloved wife home. Since then sne rapidly declined, the immediate cause of death being impoverishment of the blood. Mrs. Porter was about lorty-five years of age, and had her childhood home arid that of early womanhood in Jamestown, N. Y. In the high social circles of New York and Washington she reigned as she did here, a lady of worth and varied accomplishments. The funeral will take place on Thursday, the hour to depend upon the arrival of friends and relatives from the east."
THE KNIGHT TEMPLARS.
The Triennial Meeting of the Grand Commander? at St. Louis. Dr. Bobert Van Valzah and Mr. F. C. Crawford have just returned from St Louis. These gentlemen, as a committee of the Terre Haute oommandery of Knight Templars, engaged rooms for eighty of this commanderv for the Grand Triennial Commandery ol Knight Templara of the United States meeting in St. Louis September 21,1886.
This meeting of the grand commandery will be a vast affair. In the parade 30,(|00 men will he in line. The grand band, organized and directed by Gilmore, will consist of 2,500 pieces, -the bass to be of cannon. Gilmore in this intenda. Jo surpass his great rival, Thomas.
Figures in Last Year's Crops. The reports from the different counties on the acreage and yield of -crops have just been compiled by State Statistician Peelle. They show that there was an area of 2,732,250 acres of wheat, from which was produced 31,640,086 bushels, making an average of 11.5 bushels to the acre. In 1884 the yield was 40,531,200. The largest production was in Elkhart county, where there was a crop of 855,577 bushels, but the best average was made by 8t. Joseph county, where the yieH was 19.8 bushels per acre. There were 3,216,997 acres of corn, with a yield of 115,433,914 bushels, or an average of 35.8 bushels to the acre. The crop was the largeft ever raised in the state. The yield iD 1884 was 89,159,799 bushels. The county oe,
having the largest yield was Tippecan which produced 2,994,096 bushels. 1 Decatur Ifad the bushels to the acre.
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been mutterings among the cred itors of Archbishop Purcell since the statement of the assignee, John B. Mannix, was filed in the Probate court, and many have insisted there should be distribution of the wealth shown to be on hand. It is learned that if a settlement is demanded at onoe there will be missing no't lees than $200,00T, the result of unfortunate speculations in stocks. The creditore will not, however, be at any loss, as they are amply secured by wealthy bondsmen. Mr. Mannix said to a reporter: "If any money has been lost, the investments were made by order of court, and not on my own account, was ordered to do so, and am not Accountable."
"Histories make men wise, Poets witty." But what in the world does a man want with either when he has sprained his ankle. No sir, not these, not these 1 Give him but one bottle of Salvation Oil. The greatest cure on earth for pain.
It is said to be impossible to shii wheat from Oiegon to New York wit! profit at the present price for transportation.
My little girl waB cured of rheumatism, after having suffered about three months, by the use of Athlophoros. I have laith in the remedy and am glad to recommend it to all suffering with the disease. Warn, of Merchants' National Toledo, O.
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