Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-12-08

ldlc Message, SO Tar q!
wa a disentangle it from the COR,
fusion In which the telegraph give;
IL to us, seems to be a more creditablC
document that any of president
Grants previous Communications
1t is more methodical than any o
his former deliverances, and contains
none of those enigmatical passages
which COMPOUNDED the learned anc
the unlearned alike, in his last annu
al and in many OF his special mes,
sages.
The message begins with a proper
and graceful acknowledgment of the
remarkable manifestations of charity
both in our own and i'm foreign lands,
which sprang forward to relieve the
suffering caused by the great fires oil
October.
The treaty for the settlement of the
Alabama claims, and other matters
Of dispute with Great Britain and
her North American Possessions, is
then alluded to as q subject for con
graduation. The President thinks
that the example thus set for the adj
justment OF international controver-
sizes may be advantageously followed
hereafter, and by other nations; and
may lead to the disbandment of ar
mics whose enormous expense entails
so heavy a burden upon nearly all
civilized nations. This is a consum.
nation devoutly to be wished.
After noticing a gratifying increase
in the receipts of the Pest Office De-
partment, the President recommends
quite warmly the project heretofore
mooted for uniting the telegraph to
the postal service. No particular
plan for effecting this end Is suggest
ed, but the benefits to be derived
from it are set forth ct considerable
length: 1t is supposed that the de-
tails Of the proposed system are Pet
forth in the report of the Postmaster
General.
The action taken by the Executive
under the Ku-Klux law is the next
subject discussed. sOn the 18th of
October q proclamation was issued,
commanding the members of this
unlawful combination to deliver
I'D their arms to the United States
Marshals of their respective districts,
and dispense. The proclamation not
having been needed, a second pro.
clamation was issued on the 18th of
the same month ~suspending the writ
of habeas corpus in nine counties i'm
the State of South Carolina. Arrests
were made to the number of 1885,
These persons are now In custody,
and are to be tried in the courts of
the United States. The report of the
Attorney General is referred to for
further Information upon this SUBJ
ject.
The recent attempts of the Terrific.
rial officials in Utah to enforce the
laws against poiygamy, are COM
mended. lit Is not" says the
President, with the religion of the
self.styled.saints that we are dealing,
but with their practices"
The redemption Of the public debt
during the last year has reached the
large sum of $50 ,000, 600, or at the
rate of more than seven millions per
month. The President thinks it is
no longer desirable that the reduction
should continue at so rapid a pace,
but that a breathing spell should be
allowed, and that taxes should be re-
duced. To this end. he recommends
that all internal taxes be repealed,
except those on spirituous, vinous,
and fermented liquors, tobacco and
stamps, AS regards the tariff, he
makes no specific recommendation,
except that the duties upon "many
articles not produced at home" from
which very little revenue is derived,
should be repealed. If any further
reduction Is advisable-that is, any
reduction on articles produced at
home-he thinks it should he made
upon those articles which q bear
it without disturbing home produc-
tions or reducing the wages of Amer.
lean labor" Nc suggestion is made
as to the kind of articles which can
bear it, but as it is minated that
possibly some of them can bear it,
we presume that Congress will now
find no difficulty in completing the
legislation begun last spring to re-
peal the duties OH coal and salt, and
perhaps add lumber and pig iron to
the list.
On the subject of Civil Service Re-
form, the President is a little sarcas.
tic in his allusion to the loose way in
which Members of Congress sign
recommendations for the appoint
ment Of unworthy persons to office.
If the signers of such papers were
held to the same responsibility as
those who, in mercantile circles, rec
ommend insolvent persons as worthy
of credit, he thinks that this in itself
would be an important step toward
Civil Service Reform. All the bad
men who have been appointed to Of
Gnn hn ~ hnNrn Vnt In thpnr1Nh fh q
recommendations of persons not hav-
ing a proper u of the responsible
tiles attached to their recommended
tons. This means that the Presi-
dent has not appointed any unworthy
persons To- office on his own motion.
This averment may be open to ques-
ton, but we think that he has good
reason to complain of the irresponsi-
BILE endorsement of the papers of of.
fee seekers by members of Congress.
The fact remains, however, that the
constitution vests the appointing
power in the President and not in
any Member of Congress, nor in all
of them. If their recommendations
are deceptive, he should disregard
them. The constitution does not
make any provision by which he can
fall back on them or divide the re-
sponsibility with them.
Ia conclusion, the President rec
ommends an immediate appropria-
ton for the purchase of the square on
which the Chicago Custom House
and Post-O Office stood, the same to be
effected as soon as the Legislature of
Illinois shall pass a law for the con-
domination of the land, also, an APP
preparation of whatever sum III be
advantageously used during the next
fiscal year, in the replacement Of the
government buildings. This recon-
mendatian will be thankfully re-
ceived by our citizens Chicago 1ri-