Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. [ARTICLE]

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

The Secretary Thereof Submitt His Annual Report. AH of the Work of the Department Well 11 Hand—The Record of a Year Brletly Summarized, The annual report of the Secretary othe Interior was made public Monday. It shows that the General Land Office it nearly abreastof its work; that the Ipdiai bureau is accomplishing the rapid disinte grationof the Indian reservations, the severance of tribal relationsand the educa tiou of the Indian youth: that the Pensioi office is rapidly completing the allowance of all pensions legally passable Under tht Jaws, moving at the rate of about thirtj I thousand amonth: that the Railroad Ba reau is making ready for the maturity o the debts due from the subsidized rail r-ads, the Union Pacific and others that the Bureau of Education, be side having distributed the vast fund al lowed the agricultural colleges for whit* and colored pupils in the different Statei is engaged in new plans for the accumula lion arid distribution of information useftilfor the schools and their better man"ageinent; and that the Patent Office, having celebrated its centennial is still ad' vancing in the variety and volume of its interesting and great investigations anc patents. Regarding pensions, the repqrt stays: The present issue of certificates is about thirty thousand per month, and ii is thought that the Pension Bureau will be able to carefully adjudicate 35O.OO( claims during the present year. The work at this rate will allow all lawful pension claims within the next thirty months, and of course all first payments will then hav< been disposed of. This alone will cause a drop of $30,000,000 in the appropriation! and the list will thence on stpadily dimin-, ishfrom natural causes. It is predicted that the pensions will, when tije highesl point Is reached, not exceed very greatly he present sum. and be subject to a great decrease Immediately after. The estimate for 1893 Is $144,956,000. The Territories of the United States are, all shown to be prosperous and growing. The Secretary advises against the admission of Utah as a State.