The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-08

Interior, submitted with this, will
give you information collected and
prepared for publication in regard to
the census taken during the year
1870.
The operations of the Bureau of
Education for the year; the Patent
Office; the Pension Office; the Land
Once; and the Indian Bureau.
The report ofthe Commissioner Of
Agriculture gives the operations of
this department for the year. As
agriculture is the groundwork of
our prosperity, too much Importance
cannot be attached to the labors of
this department, which is in the
hands of an able head, with able as
slstants, all zealously devoted to in
Producing the agricultural pro-
duction to any of the various eli
mates and soils of our vast territory,
and to giving all useful information
as to the methods of cultivation of
the plants, cereals or other products
adapted to particular localities.
Quietly, but surely, the Agricultural
Bureau is working a great national
good, and if literally supported, the
more widely its influence will be ex-
tended, and the less dependent we
shall be upon the products of foreign
countries.
COMPENSATION OF HEADS OF BUREAUS.
The subject of compensation to
the heads Of Bureaus and officials
holding positions of responsibility
and requiring ability and charater to
to fill properly, is one to which your
attention is invited. But few of the
officials receive compensation equal
to the respectable support of fam
lily, while their duties are such as to
involve millions of interest. In pri-
vate life, services demand compen-
satiOn equal to the services rendered; !;
a wise economy would dictate the
same rule in the government ser
vice.
have not given the estimates for
the support of the Government for
the ensuing year, nor the compara-
tive statement between the expendi-
lures for the year lust past and the
one just preceding, because all these
figures are contained in the accom-
panying reports, as in those presen-
ted directly to Congress. These es-
Inmates have my approval.
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
More than six years have elapsed
since the last hostile gun was fired
between the armies then arrayed
against each other-the one for the
prepetuation and the other for the
destruction, of the Union. 1t may
well be considered whether it is not
now time that the disabilities impos-
ed by the 14th amendment should
be removed. That amendment does
not exclude the ballot, but only re
quires the disability to hold Office of
certain classes. When the purity of
the ballot is secure, the majorities
are sure to elect officers rejecting
the views of the majority. 1 do not
see the advantage or propriety of
excluding from Office merely they
who were before the rebellion of
standing and character sufficient to
be elected to positions requiring
them to take the oath to support the
Constitution, and admitting those
entertaining precisely the same
views, but of less standing in their
communities. 1t may be said, that
the former violated an oath, while
the latter did not have it in their
power to do so. If they had taken
this oath, it cannot be doubted they
would have broken it, as did the
former class. Ifthere are any great
criminals, distinguished above all
others for the part they took in op-
position to the government, they
might, in the judgment of Congress
be excluded from such an amnesty.
This subject is submitted for your
careful consideration.
KU-KLUx.
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