Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-03
Gbs 9alp spn: domest GuesOag Mornnq, december 8, 1872

for a subsidy for the establishment
of an American line of mail steamers
between San Francisco New Zealand and
Australia, for the establishment of post
office savings banks and for the in
/ crease of the salaries of the heads OF
bureaus. have heretofore recommended the
/ abolition of the franking privilege, and see no
reason now for changing my views on that SUBJ
( iect. it not having been favo ably regarded by
/ congress, however, | now suggest modification
of that privilege TO correct its glowing and cost
| " abuses. l would recommend also the ap-
/ pOintment of Il committee or commission TO take
/ into consideration the best method, equitable TO
| private corporations who have invested their
! time and capital in the establishment of tee-
/ graph lines, of acquiring the title to all tee-
/ graph lines now in operation, and OF connecting
/ this service with the postal service of the
nation. 1t is not probable that this subject
could receive the proper consideration during
tue limits OF a short session OF congress, but il
may be initiated so that further action may be
1 fair to the government and TO private
! parties concerned. There arc but three
lines of ocean steamers, namely, the
Pacific Mail steamship company between
| San Francisco, China and Japan, with
| provision made for Semi-monthly service after
| Oct. 1, 1873; the United States and Brazil line,
monthly; aud the California, New Zealand and
Australian, monthly; plying between the
| United States and foreign ports, and owned and
operated under our flag. | earnestly recon-
mend that such liberal contracts for carrying
the mails be authorized with these lines as will
ensurctheir continuance, il the cXDedency OF eX-
tending the aid of government to lines of steam.
ers which hitherto have not received it should be
deemed worthy of the consideration of congress.
Political and commercial objects make it adviS-
able to beStow such aid on line under our flag
between Panama and the western South Amer
lean ports. By this means much trade now
diverted to other countries might be brought to
us TO the mutual advantage of this country and
those lying in that part of the continent OF
America.
The report of the secretary of the treasury
will show an alarming falling off in our carry
inc trade for the last ten or twelve years, and
even for the past year. | do not believe that
public treasure can be better expended in the
interest of the whole people than in trying to
recover this trade An expenditure OF S5,000,-
600 per annum for the next five years, if it
ing trade Of the lword, would be proftably cX-
pended.
The price of labor in Europe has so much en-
HANGED within the last few years that the cost of
building and operating ocean steamers in the
United States is not SO much greater than in Eu-
rope. believe the time has arrived for congress
to take the suhiectnto serious consideration.
Detailed statements of the disbursements
through the department of justice will be fur
nished by the report of the attorney general !;
and though these have been somewhat increased
by the recent acts of congress to enforce the
rights oil citizens ofthe United States, to vote in
the several states of the Union, to enforce the
provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States and the
amendments thereto, cannot question the ne
ceSsity and Salutary effect OF these enactmentS.
Reckless and lawless men, | regret to say, have
associated themselves in some localities to de-
prive other citizens of the rights guaranteed to
them by the constitution oil the United States,
and to that end have committed deeds of blood
and violence; but the prosecution and
punishment of many of those persons have
tended greatly to the repression of such
disorders. | do not doubt that great
majority of the people in all parts of the
country favor the full enjoyment by all
classes of persons of these rights, to which they
| are entitled under the constitution and laws. |
invoke the aid and influence of all good citizens
to prevent organizations whose objects are, by
unlawful means, TO interfere with those rights,
aud look with confidence TO the time, not far
distant, when the obvious advantages OF good
order and peace will induce an abandon
| ment of the combinations prohibited by
the acts referred to, and when it will be
unnecessary to carry on prosecutions and in
| t1lct puniShments to protect citizens from the
| ltWeSs dolngS OF such combinations. Appca-
| tiOnS have been made to me to pardon persons
convicted Of a violation of the said acts upon
| the ground that clemency in such cases would
| tend to tranquili2e the public mind; and to test
the virtue of that policy am disposed, so far as
my sense of justice will permit, to give these
| applications favorable considerations but any
action thereon is not to be construed as indicating
any change in my determ'nationlto enforce with
yigor, so long as there are conspiracics and COM
| OinaiiOnS to disturb the peace, the laws of the
| country. 1t is much 10 be regretted, by no one
| more than myself, that necessity has ever ex-
| lSted to execute the enforcement act. No one
| can desire more than that the necessity of APP
| plying it may never again be demanded.
| The secretary Of the interior reports satsfac-
| tory improvement and progress in each of the
several bureaus under the control Of the interior
| department They are all in excellent condition
| The work, which in some of them for years has
! been in arrears, has been brought down to a
| recent date, and in all the current business has
| been promptly dispatched
The policy which was adopted at the begin
| ming of this administration with regard to the
| management Of the Indians, has been as sue
CeSStul as its most ardent friends anticipated.
| Within so short a time it has reduced the eX-
| pense of their management, decreased their for
| ages upon the white settlements, tended to give
| the greater opportunity to the extension of the
| treat railways through the public domain, and
| the pushing of settlements into more remote
districts of the country, and at the same time
| improved the condition of the Indians. The
| policy will be maintained, without any change
| excepting such as further experience may show
| to be necessary to render 1t more efficient.
The subject of converting the so-called Indian
| territory, south of Kansas, into a home for the
| Indians, and erecting therein a territorial form
| Of government, is of too great importance as an
| implement of the existing Indian policy. The
| question Of removal TO the territory has within
| the past year been presented to many Of the
| MISREPRESENTATION other and less desirable por-
| tons OF the public domain, and has been gener-
| ally received by them with favOr,as preliminary
| StpD tn the organization Of Supb a tnrritnrV
| will be necessary to COnfne the Indians now
| resident therein to farms of proper size, which
| should be secured to them in fee, the residue to
be used for the settlement Of other friendly Ind.
| tans. Efforts will be made, in the immediate
| future, TO induce the removal of a. many peace.
| ably disposed Indians only to the indian terri
| tory as can be settled properly, without disturb
| ing the harmony of those already there. There
| is no other location now available where PEG.
pie who are endeayorng to acquire knowledge
| of pastoral and agricultural pursuits can be as
| well accommodated as upon the unoccupied
ands in the Indian territory A territorial gov.
| eminent should, however, protect the Indians
| from the inroadS of whites for term of years
until they became sufficiently advanced in the
| arts and civilization to guard their own rights
aud from The disposal of lands held by them fol
| the same period.
During the last fiscal year there were disposed
of, out of the public lands, lis, 700 acres,
| quantity greater by 1099270 acres than was
disposed Of the previous year. OF this amount
10000 acres were sold for cash. $3.50 ,46O acres
| located with military warrant, 4671 1872 acres
taken for homesteads 693,G13 acres located will
college Scrip, 3,554,SS7 acres granted to rail.
roads, 46j,847 acres granted to wagon roads
| $3.50 acres given to states as swamp land
$3.50 acres located by Indian scrip. The cash
receipts from all sources in the land office
amounted to S3,21S,1 0O During the same pc
Rod 22O16,G0S acres of the public land were
surveyed which, added lod TO- D. TIE quantity before
| 1881 ,633 62S acres of the public lands still un
surveyed. The reports from the subordinates
Of the land Office contain interesting informa
ton in regard to their respective districts. They
uniformly mention the lruitfulness of the sol
| during the past season, and the increased yielC
| Of produce, even in those states and territorie.
where mining is the principal business Agri
| cultural products have exceeded the local de
mand, and liberal shipments have been made t.
distant points.
During the year ending September 80, 1872