Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-12-11

includes those Consuls who, residing in Mo-
rocco, Egypt, China and other central coun.
tries, are charged with complications and
extraordinary powers.
TIE TERRITORIES.
The condition of the several organized ter
ritories is generally satisfactory, although the
Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not
been entirely suppressed.
The mineral resources Of Colorodo, New
Mexico, Idaho and Arizona are proving far
richer than heretofore understood. lay be-
fore you communication on this subject,
from the Governor of New Mexico. l again
submit to your consideration the expedency
of establishing system for the encourage
ment of immigration Although this source of
National wealth is again followed with greater
freedom than for several years before the
lnsurrection occurred, there is still q
great deficiency of laborers in every field of
industry, and especially in agriculture and
precious metals. While demand for labor
persons destitute of remunerative occupation
are thronging our foreign Consnlates and
offering to emigrate to the United States if
essential but very cheap assistance could be
afforded them.
1t is easy to see that under the sharp dis
cipline of civil war the nation is beginning
new life. This noble effort demands the
aid and ought to receive the attention and
support Of the government. Injuries unfor-
seen by the government, and unintended, may
in some cases have been inflicted upon the
subjects or citizens Of foreign countries, both
at sea and on land, by persons in the SER
vice of the United States As this govern
ment expects redress from other powers when
such injuries are inflicted by persons in their
service, on citizens of the United States, we
must be prepared to do Justice to foreigners.
If the existing judicial tribunals are made
quate to this purpose, special Court may be
author zed, with power to hear and decide
such claims of the character referred to, as
may have arisen under treaties and public
law. Conventions for adjusting claims by your
commission have been proposed to some
governments, but no definite answers to the
propositions have yet been received from any.
In the course of the session shall prOba-
bly, have occasion to request you to provide
Naturalization to claimants where DEGREES
of restitution have been issued, and damages
have been awarded by the Admiralty Court,
and in other cases where this government
may be acknowledged to be liable in princi-
pie, and when the amount of that liability
has been ascertained by an informal arbitra-
ton.
| The proper officers of the Treasury have
deemed themselves required by the law of the
United States upon the subject to demand a
tax upon the incomes of foreign Consuls in
this country. While such demand may not
be violation of public law, or, perhaps, of
any existing treaty between the United States
and foreign power, the expediency Of so fa:
modifying the act as to exempt from the in
comes of such Consuls as are not citizens Of
ments of their Office or from property not
situated in the United States, is submitted to
your serious consideration. make this sug-
gestion upon the ground that courtesy which
ought to be reciprocated, exempts our Con-
suls IN all other countries from taxations to
the extent that is indicated. The United
States, think, ought not to be exceptionally
illiberal to international trade and commerce.
OPERATIONS OF THE TREASURY.
The operations of the Treasury during the
last year have been successfully conducted
The enactment by Congress of National
Banking Law has proved valuable support
of the public credit, and the general lesisla-
ton in relation to loans has fully answered
the expectations of its favorers. Some
amendments may be required to perfect the
existing laws, but no change in their princi
pies or general scope is believed to be needed.
Since these measures have been in operation
all demands on the Treasury, including pay
Of the army and navy, have been promptly
met and fully satisfied. No considerable
body Of troops, it is believed, were ever more
amply provided and more literally and pune
tually paid and it may be added, that by no
people were the burdens incident to great
war ever more cheerfully and honorably borne.
THE RECEIPTS DURING THE YEAR,
From all sources, including loans and balance
in the Treasury at the years commencement,
were 1901, l25 ,674.s6. The aggregate dis
bursements were 1896, FOG, 63065. Leaving
balance on the 18th Of July, 1868, Of IS, $780,
O4421. OF the receipts, there were derived
from Customs, $50 1859, 6424O from Inter
nal Revenue, $46,764. 1875; from direct
taxes, $14s, 5lO,361 from lands, $167,6l7..
| II; from miscellaneous sources, $3,0i6. 615..
80, and from loans, $7,766, S23.6l; making
the aggregate 1901, 1875. 674.S6.
The disbursements we're: 1922, $780, 20 for
pensions, &C.; $4,2l6,52 for interest on
public debt, and $24, 729, 846.5l for War De-
partment; $500, 29S, 6O0S3 for the Navy De-
partment; $6,321, no. 27; for the payment
of funded and temporary debt, 81, 8lS, $685.
5O7; making an aggregate Of $685., 663, 065,
and leaving balance of 1892 1904, 421 but
the payment of the funded and temporary
debt having been made from monies borrow.
ed during the year, must be regarded as
merely nominal payments, and the monies
borrowed to make them as merely nominal
receipts, and their amount, 1888, 663,5o7,
should, therefore, be deducted both from the
receipts and disbursements. This being
done, there remains, as actual receipts, $714, ).
7O9, 995.5s, leaving the balance as already
stated. The actual receipts and disburse-
ments for the first quarter and the estimated
receipts and disbursements for the remaining
three quarters of the current fiscal year OF
1868 W II be shown in detail by the Secre' airy
of the Treasury, to which invite your at'en
ton. 1t is sufficient to say here that it is not
believed that the actual results wi | exhibit
state of the finances less favorable to the
country than those of that officer heretofore
submitted, while it is confidently expected
that at the close of the year both disbursements
and debts will be found very considerably
less than has been anticipated.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
The report of the Secretary Of War is a
document of great interest. 1t consists in
the first: the military operations Of the year,
detailed in the report Of the General-in. Chief;
second, the organization of colored persons
| IN RI tho wor servica. third tho aYch anOe nj
prisoners fully set forth in the letter of Gen.
Hitchcock the operations under the act for
enrolling and calling out the national forces,
detailed in the report of the Provost Marshal
General; fifth, the organization of the Inval-