The Winchester weekly appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-12-17

10 tsan WI require but aeompsrayev srH T oe great
pseful One as much larger vessels and tey vi
maintain aDd oe at every station y.
Auan.ic and Pacific coasts Eean oe Constant
able Ten these small them aos, indpea.
construction men naval service, the vho. cos,
lhTasand dollars, s2suoOo each 0h three hundrs,
grave consder. secretary of the is worthy
trussd n 6Tanehe. of domestic %Port.a
the public lands our relation, Hh most pIouinen
mating With the eo6 ,hs Of the public lands.
as experience pointed the way and rrsSnT improve
Territor;a ana settlement of Western stas.s S
q. ,b Sta1es and seven Territories have hsn
49, s, Ianos, and still than thonsand se9 90
nressn,s aan unsod What boundless nTo,1 mi!,el
70 our country of future prosneT,. PosPect Tn
public and heretofore disposed of ss aeIe M
| The public expenditures fo, tn.
saa rs0n .1e united to seventy icn s., sndna soa
dollars and S thousand seven hundred and
dred @ a'ne hundred and fhoussna t nse
500 s] W.1s dollars and ninetyone cents Is
sPpiled to the redemption Of the npbc S.S
treasurs interest and premium, eavrps in ~,
the Is uiv IS, commencement. Of the year On
ten ieor seventeen million seven hundred ~
one 5pndred and fourteen dollars and txents
ty m;o a year commencing LIST July, 1851 we're tven
Syd n,ne hundred and twenty Thousand s;sa,
szssis sly and the estimated receipt: of DE w.
quarters to the SOth June 1885, are thirty 81. r
S6.lsl lA
g with the balance before stated an aesreeste os
~; nre million three hundred and eighty nine thons,s
Us. for the service of the present fiscal wear
me actual expenditure during the hrst qusrter o,tn
dred and fourteen thousand ave hundred and ,.
collars and thirty seven cents (sa87I SIS sfl y
sand two hundred and thrty-two dollar. ana th noa
ts ~ $40 ZS2 ss we're applied the redemption ~
probable expenditures Of the remaining three onsr,
oy June 1883 are millions Two hundreS - 49,,
cents, 0O) including interest on tn. upbI; dS
sng an aggregate of seventy millions nine bnn
~ having an ass5s and forty
~ ne close Of the present fscs year Of four
enIyvs dollars and SIXTY cents szssS1s s
the present c1 me Paoe debt at the CO
200 cs e 0ndred and eightysr dollars nnty cent?
The amount redeemed since the I,, Of J,,x ,,
s eieht hundred and ninety Eve thousand two hun
sas ssS a .ny two dollars and thirtynne (ss $685.
leaving balance uni redeemed at This tire n
twenty-five milIo hundred and sixty five tsonS.nd
s nunared and efty four dollars and cents Isss
Inc amount of estimated expenditures forhe remain,ps
quarters OF the Present fiscal year wl in all proba
oty De increased from the useset forth in the rsnox
OF the Secretary his suggestion, therefore that aubori
the su. Of to supply any temporary By
ca, ana accordingly recommend tie passage OF spcS
law. e-ee VI sosa
As stated in the report the Secretary the term .,
march 81 lSo:. has been in operation for nor. rd
OF lime and under circumstances lust
deSeioPmens OF its result, measure thsrI
should regard nexp=dent least The
transmit herewith the reports made to me by the Seer.
oi az ana OF the Navy of the Interior and
porant information and which commend ~
the favorable consideration of Congress
honRl regiments and the report Of the Secr.arv of We
strong reasons proving this of the army.
under the existing circumstances, be Indispensable
Whist the pubic lands a source of revenue are of
great Importance their Importance greater as for
nsng homes for hardy and independent race of bones,
iuu1StIious citizens, who
vate the SOIL They ought be administered .nJy win
en Gt Promoting thr wise and benevolent policy In
appropratng them for other purpose to
even greater economy than if they been
treasury 10 squander away this richest noblest in
herance which anypeope have enjoyed upo objecs
oi doubtful c9nsutiOnalty or expedency would be
Foiate one OF the most important committed
to peole Whilst deny to Congress the pov-
Mnon acting bona fde as p'opre,or to give away
porons OF them for the purpose nf increasing
OF the remainder yet considering the great temptat
abuse this power, its exercise
Actual settlers under existing protected against
other purchasers at the public their right pre-
land The remainder may then disposed of at public
or entered at private sale in unlimited quantities.
in the public lands has been that large
OF them have become the property oil individuals
and companies and thus the price greatly enhanced
those who wish to purchase for actual SETTLE ment In or
DER limit the area Of speculation much possible the
emigration.
II Conbess hereafter should grant alternate se.tious TO
States or compones they have done heretofore
mend that the intermediate sections by gov
tiers
1t ought be policy to reserve the
public lands uay for settlers and this
at moderate prices We shall thus only promote
the prosperity of the States and Territories
power of the Unon but shall homes poster.
The extension our limits has brought within our ju-
a larger proportion Wild untractabIe, and
difficult to control Predatory and warke in their dspo-
sition and habits impossible altogether to restrain
them from committing aggressons on each other well
distant States and Territories Hence, expensive military
expeditions frequently necessary to and chas
tise the more 1awless and hostile.
The present system of making them valuable presents
to influence them to remain at has proved neectu
localities they receive the rudments
of education and be gradually induced adopt habits Of
ed well in practice, and will doubtless prove be
pensive than the present system.
The whole number of Indians within territorial lin
its believed to he from The best data in the Interior de-
partment, about 3Z5,f 10.
The tribes of Cherokees, Choctaws Chickasaws, and
Creeks settled in the territory set apart for them west Of
Arkansas rapidly advancing in education and in all
the arts Of civilization and and
indulge agreeable anticipation very
day they be into the Union as of the
sovereign States
It will be from the of the Postmaster General
thst the PosUfce Department still continues to depend
the Treasury i, has been compelled to for
ers past for important portion Of the means Of
sustaining and extending its operations Their rapid
growth expansion shown by decennal statement
of the number Of post Offices and The length oil post roads,
with the year In that yssT aseTe geie
1Ss9 tbsv nGbsr as & In This wear 3s;
established 7O4 discontinued, leaving net
of llE4 The posmasters of S65 offices ap
pointed by the President
The length of post roads in 1927 los sS6 miles in
1851 242 Sol miles of pest road, including $50
miles of railroad, which the mails transported
ending on the 31h June 1851 adjusted by the Audi
tor amounted to sl1 so To defray these expend
the credit Of the department, the LIST
July 1885, of s1S95S9, the gross Of the
year. including the annual allowances for the transports
mainder supplied the appropriation from the treas
ury Of granted by the of Congress approved
by the act of March S. 1885, leaving s2s
the department in the accounts of the cur
overland mail route from the Mississippi river to San
Francisco California The Tsues selected with my
full the in judgment best calculated
ATTAIN the important objects contemplated by Congress
The late disastr monetary revuson may have one
good effect both the government and the
70 bo in public and e1pendures
wing treasury has led to habits OF Prodigahy
and extraragance legislation. 1t has induced Com
eTess 10 make large appropriations objects for which
they never provided had been necessary to
creased tsIssion or By loans We
pause and to scruinize our eaPendIores
with the utmost vigilance and in performing this duty
pledge nv cooperation the extent of constitutional
competency.
1t ought to be observed time that true public
does consist in Withholding the means neces
sary to accomplish important natioal intrusted 70
US By the and especially such may neees
country duty conne appropriations to oo
ects unless in cases where justice 70 m
diyduals NAV demand different course In all cases
care ought taken that the mocey granted oy Con
eress shall be faithfully and economically applied
Under the Constitution, severy bill which sha
have House of Representatives and the Senate
shall before law, be approved and signed oy
the President; and, if not approved 'he shall return
with his objections that house in phich originated In
order 10 high and responsible duty, suciens
time mus: be the President to read and examine
every presented to him for approval Unless tins o
Afforded the Constitution becomes dead letter in this
particular- and even becomes means OF deceP-
sion Our constituents seeing the Presidents approval
and Congress- induced
to believe has actually performed this duty when
fn truth, nothing is, in many cases, more unfoundeo
From the practice of Congress- such al examination OF
each bill as constitution requires has been rendered
impossible The important business OF each session
generally wded in its last hours, and the alternative
presented to the either violate the consu
duty which he to the people, and approve p
which for it is impossible he should have e1
anned or by refusal to do this, subject the county
and individuals O great loss and Inconvenience.
Besides practice has grown up OF late years TO eg
appropriation bills at the last hours OF the
on important subjects This practice constrsin
the suffer measures to become 1sus