Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-06

work is of acknowledged importance. am
strongly inclined to the opinion that it is mex.
pedent and unnecessary to bestow subsidies
of either description. But should Congress
determine otherwise, earnestly recommend
that the rights of settlers and of the public
lands be more effectually secured and pro-
tected by appropriate legislation.
During the year ending September 80,
1870. there were filed in the Patent Office
19,4ll applications for patents, 1874
caveats, and 60 applications for the extension
OF patents, 1862 patents, including reissues
ard designs, were issued; 100 extended, and
1899 allowed but not issued by reason of the
non payment of the final fees. The receipts OF
the office during the fiscal wear were $l3,630,-
429, in excess of its expenditures.
The work of the Census Bureau has been en-
ergetically prosecuted. The preliminary re-
ports, containing much information of special
value and interest, will be ready for delivery
during the present session. The remaining
volumes will be completed with all the dis
patch consistent with perfect accuracy in
arranging and classifying the returns. We
shall thus. at no distant day, be furnished
with an authentic account of our condition
and resources. 1t will, doubt not, attest the
growing prosperity of the country, although
during the trial that has Just closed, it was
severely tried by the great war waged to MAIN
tain its integrity and to secure and perpetuate
our free institutions. During the last fiscal
year the sum paid to pensioners, including
the cost of disbursement, was S27, $50 Sll | l
and 1853 bounty land warrants were issued.
AT its close 1866 names were on the pen
sion rolls. The labors of the pension office
have been directed to severe scrutiny, of
the evidence submitted in favor of law
claims, and in discovery of fictitious claims
Which have been allowed heretofore. The
appropriation for employment of special
agents for the investigation of frauds has been
judiciousy used and the results obtained
have been of unquestionable benefit to the ser
vice.
The subjects of education and agriculture
are of great interest to the success of our
republican institutions and to our happiness
and grandeur as a nation. In the interest of
one bureau has been established in the In
terror department-the buleau of education
and in the interest of the other a separate
department, that of agriculture. | believe
that great general good is TO flow from the
operations of both of these bureaus if prop
er!y tostered. / cannot commend to your
careful consideration too highly the reports
of the Commissioners of Education and Ag-
riculture, nor urge too strongly such liberal
legislation as to secure their efficiency.
In conclusion | would sum up the policy of
ment of every law; a faithful collection of the
revenue; economy in the disbursement of the
same; prompt payment of the heavy debt of
the nation; a reduction of the taxes as rapid
ly as the requirements of the country will adj
nit, the reduction of the taxation to be so
arranged as to afford the greatest relief to the
greatest number; honest and fair dealings
with all other people, to the end that war with
all its blighting consequences may be averted,
but without surrendering any right or obliga-
ton due u.s. reform in the treatment of In
dams and in the whole civil service Of the
country; and finally, in securing pure I'M
trammelled ballot, where every man who is
entitled to cast vote may do so just once at
each election, without fear of molestation on
account of his political faith. nativity or
color. [Signedl
L. S. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Dec 5, 1870.