Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-12-08

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eating these titles be not established, that
there should be additional legislation, de-
fning the powers of the Department and
Bureau of Public Lands in such cases"
The following are the statistics of the
Patent Office:
During the year ending September 81,
1870, there were filed in the Patent Office
1,941 applications for patents, including
reissues and designs; 1874 caveats, and
100 applications for extension of patents.
Thirteen thousand six hundred and
twenty-five patents, including reissues,
were issued, 101 extended, n 1859 al
lowed, but not issued by reason of non
payment of the final fee. On the LIST day
of October, 1869, the unexpended balance
of appropriations was $416,S04.58. APP
preparations for the special year ending
June 80, 1871, $539, 100, making an aggre-
gate of 1856, 904.58; expenditures since
that date, $541, 79S. 09-leaving IN unex-
pended balance of $414, 108.49 available for
the remainder of the present fiscal year.
Fees received during said year amounted
to $136, 304.29 in excess of the expendi-
lures, The appropriation asked for b
next fiscal year iss$575,570. The number
of patents during the past year is less than
that issued during the preceding year.
This fact is no proof hat the enterprise
of the country has diminished, or of a de-
ficiency in the application of their imita-
tive genius and scientific attainments to
industrial pursuits and arts. The result is
due to the increased labor which has been
bestowed by the Office upon applications,
whereby frivolous and worthless contriv-
ances a been rejected. l recommended
last year the abolition of the right to ap-
peal from the decision of the Commits
sioner to one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the District. This appeal from
an executive to a judicial officer, is a
strange anomaly unknown in h practice
of any other bureau, has worked only evil,
and hat continually. 1t can now only be
taken in &c pGTte cases to the court. Even
this limited change in the ~pre-existing law
has been attended with the best practical
results" .
The Secretary of State speaks at length
of the beneficial effects of the visit of Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail to Washington.
He says: "At the time of their visit very
little hope was entertained That war could
be avoided; but a simple, clear, and per-
fectly rank statement of the attitude of
your administration was made to them both
by yourself and the officers of this depart
ment. No attempt was made to hide from
them the gravity of the situation or abso-
lutte necessity of their accepting the new
condition of things. They were made to
understand the hopelessness- of continued
conflict with the United States, through
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Upper Missouri to the capital,
and urged to trust implicitly and peacefully
to the good will of the government and
people of the United States, and to accept
then necessity of looking, in the future, to
agriculture rather than to hunting for sub
sistence. The visit made a favorable, and,
l sincerely trust, an enduring impression on
their minds. Impending war, with all its un-
numbered horrors, its waste of blood and
treasure, has been arrested. The influence
of the leading Sioux hieftains continues
to be on the side of peace, and this exam
pie has been followed by all the principal
warlike tribes, which last year were threat
ening our frontier settlements. To perpet-
uate our friendly relations with the Sioux,
much, however, remains to be done. The
reservation assigned by the Peace Commits
sion of 1868 has not been absolutely Sc
cured, and / am aware of no reason why
the right of the Indiaas to it should not be
respected and confirmed by positive act.
Until this is lone they cannot be perma-
nently located or indaced to.giVe up their
wandering habits and adopt a new mode
of life. Our delay in taking action on this
important question has already excited the
distrust of our good faith, and, if longer
continued, will, Ifear, render their disaf-
fiction complete. / earnestly recommend
that the attention of Congress be called to
the subject. - ss i-
"The consent of the Osages to remove
from Kansas TO the Indian Territory, hap
PLY, ends a difficulty which once foreboded
serious trouble. The wrongs inflicted on
these Indians, by Entertainments on their
reserves, were of the most atrocious char
acter." aE E-
The speedy completion of the Cherokee
treaty now before Congress, is recommend
ed. The survey of the lands of the Choc-
laws and Chicaksaws is in progress. The
Secretary recommends that, before the
Land Office is established, the allotments
made to certain supposed spectators by
statute n treaty, of which the Choctaws
complain, be investigated and r~econciled. r.
The statistics of business in the Pension
Bureau during the past year, were made
public some time ago. Secretary Cox, in.
treating of this branch of this department,
says 1.-The committee has devoted special
attention and energetic %eff"rts, first, to a
thorough examination of the evidence pre-
sented in support of pension claims, thus
causing the rejection of such as are fcti-
tious and unfounded; second, to a search
ing inquiry Il regard to the present list of
invaded pensioners, with a view to a more
just and Uniform graduation of the existing
rates and, third, to the a-scertainment and
cancellation of fraudulent claims hereto
fore allowed. The actual amount saved by
the disallowance of unjust claims cannot
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forms l have mentioned a reduction of 81,
100000 has been made in the amount re-
quired to pay pensions allowed prior. to
the current year. The amount of invalid
pensions stopped under the last bien-
NAL examinations was $44,584; of those
reduced, $S3, 1884; Of those stopped dur
ing the year by order of the bureau, $21,-
S8S; of those so reduced, $5,3f6; and of
other pensions so stopped, $1O,92o; aggre-
eating annually $167,062. During the
same year the sum of 500, 103.44 was fraud
ulently drawn by women who had remar-
RED, nearly the whole of which has been
recovered. The sum OF, $6,122.56 was re-
ported as retained by attorneys in excess of
legal fees, a large proportion of which has
been restored to the pensioners. Forty at
torneys were arrested for violations of the
statutes, of whom eighteen were convicted,
eleven acquitted, three escaped, and the
cases of eight were pending at the close of
the year. Sixty-ive pensioners were arrested
for fraud, of whom twenty-five were con-
victed, nine acquitted, four escaped, and
the cases of thirty were pending at the
close of the year
"1n view of the actual and attempted