Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-12-16

Brussels the Hague, Copenhagen and
Stockholm, u empower their repre-
sentatives at Washington to simultan-
eOusly enter the negotiations, and to
conclude with the United States con-
ventiOns identical in form, making
regulations as to the construction Of
the parts of vessels to be devoted to
the use of emigrant passengers, as to
the quality and quantity of food, as to
medical treatment of the sick, and as
to the rules to be observed during the
voyage, and in order to secure venti-
lation, to promote health, to prevent
| intrusion, to protect the females, and
| pOviding for the establishments of
tribunals in the several countries, for
enforcing such regulations by summa-
ry process.
Your attention is respectfully called
to the law regulating the tariff on
Russian hemp, and the question
whether to fix the charges on Russian
hemp higher than they are fixed upon
MANILA is not violation of our trea-
ty with Russia, placing her products
upon the same footing with those of
the most favored nations.
Our manufactures are increasing
"ADA uDOCA guC
encouragement which they now re-
ceive with the improvements in. ma
chinery already effected and still in
creasing, causing machinery to take
the place of skilled labor to a large
extent. Our imports of many articles
must fall off largely within a very
few years. Fortunately, too many
manufactures are not confined to a
few localities, as formerly, and is to be
hoped will become more diffused, ma
king the interest in them equal in all
sections. They give employment and
support to hundreds of thousands of
people at home, aid retain with us
the means which otherwise would be
shipped abroad. The extensions of
railroads in Europe and the East is
Pbringing into competition with our
agricultural products like products of
other countries self-inteTest, If not
preservation, therefore dictates
caution against disturbing any indus
trial interest of the country. It
teaches us, also, the necessity of look
ing to other markets for the sale of
our surplus. Our neighbOrs south of
the United States and China and Ja-
pan should receive our special atten-
| ton. 1t will be the endeavOr of the
administration to cultivate such rela-
lations with all these nations as to en-
| title us to their confidence and make
| it to their interest as well as ours to
establish better commercial relations
through the agency of a more en-
| lightened policy than that heretofore
pursued toward China. Largely due
to the sagacity and efforts of one of
our own distinguished citizens, the
world is about to commence largely
increased relations with that pOpulOus
and hitherto exclusive nation. AS
the United States have been the ini-
| tiatOry in the new policy, so they
should be the most earnestin showing
their good faith in making it a sue
cess. In this connection / advise
such legislation as will forever pre-
clude the enslavement or the Chinese
upon our soil under the name of Cool
! les, and also prevent American vessels
from engaging in the transportation
of Coolies to any country tOlerating
the system. / also recommend that
the mission to China be raised to one
of the first class.
Onmy assuming the responsibilities
of the Chief Magistrate of the United
States it was with the conviction that
three things were essential to our
peace, prosperity and the fullest de-
velopment. First among these is
strict integrity in fulfilling all our OBJ
legations. Second, To secure prOtec-
tiOn to the person and property of the
citizen of our common country, " her
ever he may choose to move, without
reference to original nationality, re-
! ligiOn, color or politics. demanding of
| him only obedience to the laws, and
proper respect for the rights of others.
| Third, Union of all the States with
equal rights, indestructible by any
unconstitutional means. To secure
the first of these, Congress has taken
two essential steps; first, in declaring
by Joint resolution, tina the public
debt should be paid, principle and in
| terest, in coin /; and second, the means,
! however, could not secure the object
| desired with proper administration of
the laws for the collection of the Teve-
nues and economical disbursement of
them. To this subject the admins
| tratiOn has most earnestly addressed
itself with results l believe satisfactO-
ry to the country. There has been
no hesitation in changing officials i'll
order to secure efficient execution of
the laws. Sometimes, too, wherein a
mere party view, undesirable political
results were likely to follow. For any
| hesitation in sustaining efficient Offi-
cials against remOnstrances, wholly
political, it may be well to mention
| here the embarrassment possibly to
arise from leaving OH the statue books
| the so-called tenure of office act, and
earnestly recommend its total repeal.
It could have not been the intention
of the trainers of the Constitution,
when providing that appointments
made by the President should receive
| the consent of the Senate, that the
latter should have the power to retain
in office persons placed there by Fed
eral appointment against the Will OF
| the President. The law is incOnsis-
tent with faithful and efficient ad-
ministratiOn of the Government.
What faith can the Executive put in
officials forced upon him; and those,
too, whom he has suspended for rea-
sons? How will such officials be
likely to. serve an administration
which they know does not trust them?
| For the secO,. d requisite to our growth
and prosperity, time and a firm but
| humane administration of existing
laws, amended from time to time as
they may prove Ineffective Or prove
| harsh and unnecessary, are probably
all that are required. The third can
not be attained by special legislation,
/ but must be regarded as fixed by the
| Constitution itself, and gradually ac-
quiesced in by force of public opinion
| from the foundation of the Govern
ment to the present. The manage
ment of the original inhabitants of
this continent, the Indians, has been
subject of embarrassment and ex-
pense, and has been attended with
continuous experience up on the from
! tiers and the Indian countries. l do
not hold either legislation or the con-
duct of the whites, who come most in
contact with the Indians, blameless
for those hostilities. The past, how
ever; cannot be undOne, and the ques-