Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-05
UPPER sANDUsKY, OHIO, THURSDAY DECEMBER

their rights. l recommend careful consid-
Grafton by Congress of the recommendations
made by the Secretary of the Navy.
The accompanying report of the Postmas
ter General furnishes full and satisfactory
exhibit of the operations of the Post Office
Department during the year. The ordinary
revenues Of the department for the fiscal
wear ending June 30, 1872, amounted to $2l,-
115, 1861, and the expenditures, 26,65S,-
lg3 81. Compared with the previous fiscal
year, the increase OF revenue was Sl,S7S,-
$50 a5, or 9.37 per cent, and the increase OF
expenditures 81, ,26S, ,OSS %, or 9.29 per cent.
Adding to the ordinary revenues the an
nuai authorization of 500, 900 fer free mat
fer. and the amou1...s paid, in subsidies on
mail steamship lines from sr~eei approprla,
tious, the deficiency paid out Of the general
treasury was 81, ,3l7, 165. 94-an excess OF
$3.50, ,TOf .2S over the deficiency for the year
Isft. Gther Interesting statistical informa-
tion relating to cut RAPIDLY extending postal
service, is furnished in tiii5 report. The to-
tai length of railroad mail routes on the
30th of June, 1872, was 51,9l1 miles, SUI
additional miles of such service having been
put into operation during the year eight
new lines Of railway postotflces have been
established, with an aggregate length OF
2 ,909 miles. The number of letters ex-
changed in the mails with foreign countries
was p, ,362, 500, an increase OF 4,O6o, ,5U!, or
twenty per cent. over the Number IN lsl,
1928. The total weight of the mails ex-
changed with European countries exceeded
SO tons. The cost of the United States
transatlantic mall steamship service was
$500, ,30l.70. The total cost of the United
States ocean steamship service, including
the amounts paid to the subsidized lines OF
mail steamers, was 81 or ,020.97. The follow
ing are the only steamship lines now Ireceiv-
ing subsidies for mail service under special
acts of Congress: The Pacific NAL Steam
ship Company receive 100000 per annum
for carrying a monthly mail between San
Francisco, Japan and China, which will be
increased to 81 100000 per annum, and q
scmimonthly mail on and after October /,
1878. The United States and Brazil Mail
Steamship Company receive S150,00o per
annum for carrying monthly mail
between New York and Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, and the California, Oregon
and Mexico Steamship Company re-
ceive S15, 1000 per annum for carrying
monthly mail between San Francisco, Homo
lulu and Hawaiian Islands-making the
total amount of mail steamship subsidies
at present S725, 200 per annum. Our
postal communication with all parts of
the civilized world have been placed upon
a most advantageous footing by the i'm
prved postal conventions and arrangements
recently concluded with the leading CONNER
cial countries of Europe and America, and
the gratifying statement is made that, with
the conclusion OF q satisfactory convention
with France, the details of which have been
definitely agreed to by the head of the
French Postal Department, subject to the
approval of the Minister of Finance, little
remains to be accomplished by treaty for
some time to come, in respect to reduction
of rate, or improved facilities for postal in
tcrcourse.
Your favorable consideration is re-
speetfully invited to the recommen-
dot hN- h.
General for an increase of service
from monthly to semi monthly trips on the
mail steamship route to Brazil for a subsidy,
in aid of the establishment of an American
line of steamers between San Francis
co, New Zealand and Australia; for the es-
tablishment of Post-Office savings-banks,
and for the increase of the salaries of the
heads of bureaus.
l have heretofore commended the aboli-
tion of the franking privilege, and know no
reason now for changing my views on that
subject. 1t not having eeen favorably re-
garded by Congress, however, ! now sug-
gest modification of that privilege, to cor
rect its glaring and costly abuses.
IwoNld recommend, also, the appoint
ment of committee or a commission to
take into consideration the best method
equitable to private corporations who have
invested their time and capital in
the establishment of telegraph lines of ac-
in operation, and of connecting this service
with the postal service of the nation. 1t is
not probable that this subject could receive
proper consideration during the limits of a
short session of Congress, but it may be in
itiated so that further action may be fair to
the Government and to private parties con-
cerned. There are but three lines of ocean
steamers namely, the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, between San Francisco, China and
Japan, with provision made for semi-month-
ly service after October l, 1873, the
United States and Brazil line, monthly, and
the California, New Zealand and Australian
line, monthly, plying between the United
States ana foreign ports, and owned and
operated under our flag. l earnestly recon-
mend that such liberal contracts for carry
ing the mails be authorized with these lines
as will insure their continuance. If
the expedieney of extending the
steamers which hitherto have not
received it should be deemed worthy of the
consideration of Congress, political and
commercial objects make it advisable to be-
stow such aid on line, under our flag, be-
can ports. By this means much trade, now
diverted to other countries, might be brought
to the United States, to the mutual advantage
of this country and those lying in that quarter
of the continent of America. The report OF
the Secretary of the Treasury will show an
alarming falling off in our carrying trade
for the last ten or twelve years, or even for
the past year. do not believe that public
treasure can be better expended in the in.
terest of the whole people than in trying to
recover this trade, by an expenditure
of S5,O00,0OO per annum, for the
next five years, if it would restore to
US our proportion of the carrying
trade of the world, would be profitably ex-
pended. The price of labor in Europe has so
much enhanced 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 Europe, that / believe the
time has arrived for Congress to take this
subject into serious consideration.
Detailed statements of the disbursements
through the department of justice will be
furnished by the report of the Attorney Gen
eral, and though these have been somewhat
increased by the recent acts of Congress to
enforce the rights of citizens of the United
States to vote in the several States of the
Union, and to enforce the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, and the amendments
thereto, cannot question the necessity and
salutary effect of these enactments. Reck-
less and lawless men, regret to say, have
associated themselves together in some To-
calities to deprive other citizens of the
rights guaranteed them by the Con-
stitution of the United States, and to that
end have committed deeds of violence, but
Guc cOnNlctlOn anu punishment OF many
of these 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 full enjoyment
by all classes of persons of these rights to
which they are entitled under the constitu-
tion and the laws, and to invoke the aid of
all good citizens to prevent organizations
whose objects are by unlawful means to in
terfere with those rights. look with con-
fidence to the time not far distant when
the obvious advantages of good order and
peace will induce an abandonment of all
combinations prohibited by the acts referred
to, and when it will be unnecessary to carry
on prosecutions or inflict punishments
to protect citizens for the lawless do
ings of such combinations. Applica-
tions have been made to me to pardon
persons convicted of violation of said acts,
upon the ground that clemency In such cases
would tend to tranquilize the public mind,
and to test the virtue Of that policy am dis
posed, as far as my sense OF justice will per-
nit, to give to these applications favorable
consideration, but any action thereon is not
to be construed as indicating any change in
my determination to enforce with vigor such
act so long as the conspiracies and combina-
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