The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-12-09

census which must be taken during the year
1870, more complete and perfected than here
tofore, would suggest early action upon any
plan That may be agreed upon. AS Congress,
at the last session, appointed committee to
take into consideration such measures as
might be deemed proper in reference to the
census, and to report plan, I desist from
saying more.
recommend to your favorable consid era.
ton the claims of the Agricultural Bureau
for liberal appropriation. In q couutry so
diversified in climate and soil as ours, and
with a population so largely depende mt upon
agriculture, the benefits that can be confer
red % properly fostering this bureau are in
desire respectfully to call the attention Of
Der of the most important officers of the
government. In, this message will not
enumerate them, but will specify only the
Justices Of fhe Supreme Court. No change
has been made in their salaries tor fifteen
pears. Within that time the labors of the
court haze largely Increased, and the expen-
ses OF living have at least doubled. During
the same time Congress has twice found it
necessary to increase largely the ccmpensa-
ton of it's members, and the duty which it
owes to another department of the govern
ment deserves, and will undoubtedly receive
On the accession of the present administra-
tion, it was found that the Minister for North
Germany had made propositions for the nego-
tiation OF convention for the protection of
emigrant passengers, to which no response
had been given. It was concluded that, to be
eHectual, all the maratime powers engaged
in the trade should join In such measure.
Invitations have been ex tended to the Cabin
cts of London, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Brus-
sells, the Hague, Copenhagen, and Stockholm,
to empower their Representatives at Wash
ington to simultaneously enter into negotia-
a convention identical in form, making uni
form regulations as to the construction of
parts Of vessels to be devoted to the use of i'm
migrant passengers as to the quality and
quantity OF food; as to the medical treatment
of the sick as to the rules to be obseraed
during the voyage, in order to secure ventila-
ton, promote health, and prevent Intrusion,
and to protect the females, and providing for
the establishment of tribunals in the several
countries for enforcing snch regulations by
summary process.
Your attention is respectfully called to the
law regulating to the tariff on Russian hemp,
and to the question whether to fix the charges
on this article higher than they are fixed up
on Manila is not violation of our treaty
with Russia, placing her products upon the
same footing with those Of the most favored
nations.
Our manufactures are increasing with won
derfur rapidity under the encouragement
which they now receive, with the improve
ments iu machinery already effested and
still increasing, causing machinery to take
the place of skilled labor to a large extent.
Our imports OF many articles must fall off large
ly within very few years. Fortunately too,
many manufactures are not confined to few
localities, as formerly, and it is to be hoped
will become more and more diffused, making
the interest in them equal in all sections.
They give employment and support to hum
dreds of thousands of people at home, and
retain with US the means which otherwise
would be shipped abroad. .s., 81 es "a
The extension of railroads in Europe and
the East is bringing into competition with
our agricultural products like products of
other countries. Self-interest, if not self.
preservation, therefore, dictates caution
against disturbing any Industrial interest of
the country. 1t teaches us also the necessity
of looking to other markets for the sale Of
our surplus. Our neighbnrs south of us and
China and Japan should receive our special
attention. 1t will be the endeavor of the ad-
mlnlsLratlon to cultivate such relations with
all these nations as to entitle us to their con-
fdence, and make it their interest as we'll as
ours to establish better commercial relations.
1t having come to my knowledge that a
corporate company, organized under British
laws, proposed to land upon the shores of
the United States, and to operate there, q
submarine cable, under a concession from
His MAJESTY, the Emperor of the French, of
an exclusive right for twenty years, of tele-
graphic communication between the shores
of France and the United States, with tn
very objet tionable feature of subjecting al
messages conveyed thereby to the sovereign
ty and control of the French Government, 1
caused the French and British Legations at
Washington to be made acquainted with the
probable policy Of Congress on the subject,
as foresLadowed by the bill which passed the
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representatives of the company an agreement
to accept as the basis of their operations the
provisions of the bill or of such other enact
ment on the subject as might be passed dur
the approaching session of Congress; also,
to use their influence to secure from the
concession, so as to permit the landing upon
French soil of any cable belonging to any
company incorporated by the authority OIL
the United States, or of any State in the
Union, and on their part not 10 oppose the
establishment of any such cable. In consider
alton Of this agreement, directed the with
drawal of all opposition by the United States
authorities to the landing of the cable and to
the working of it until the meeting of Con
gress. regret to say that there has been no
mobilization made in the company's conces-
sion, nor, SO far as / can learu, have they
attempted to secure one. Their concession
excludes the capital and the citizens of the
United States from CO npetition on the shores
of France. recommend legislation to pro-
tect the rights of citizens of the United States
as well as the dignity and soyereigntyBof the
nation, against such an assumption. 1 shall
also endeavor to secure, by negotiation, an
abandonment ofrthe principle Of monopolies
in ocean Geographic cables. Copies of this
correspondence is herewith furnished.
The unsettled political condition of other
countries, less fortunate than our own. some
times induces their citizens to come to the Uni