New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-03

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monthly mail between New York and Rio
Janeiro. Brazil; and the California, Oregon
and Mexico Steamship Company receives
| SIS 900 per annum for conveying monthly
! mail between San Francisco and Honolulu,
| Hawian islands, making the total amount
of mail steamship subsidies at present
! $725, 1000 per annum.
! Cur postal communications with all parts
| of the civilized world have been placed up
on a most advantageous footing by the i'm
| proved postal conventions and arrange
ments recently concluded with the leading
! commercial countries Of Europe and Anne
RIGA, and the gratifying statement is made
that with the conclusion of satisfactory
| convention with France, the details OF
which have been definitely agreed to by the
! head of the French postal department, sub
iect to the approval Of the Minister of
! Finance, little remains 10 be accomplish
ed by treaty for some time to come with
| respect, either to the reduction OF rates or
| improved facilities Of postal intercourse.
Your favorable consideration is respect
| fully invited to the recommendations made
! by the Postmaster General for an increase
| Of service from monthly to semi-monthly
trips on the mail steamship route to Brazil ;
| for subsidy in aid Of the establishment of
an American line Of mail steamers between
| San Francisco. New Zealand and Australia
| for the establishment Of p0st0ttice savings
banks, and for the increase Of the salaries
Of tie heads of bureaus.
ABOLITION OF FRAEEING PRIVILEGE.
| l have heretofore recommended the abo-
! Iition of the franking privilege, and see no
reason now for changing my views on that
! subject 1t not having been favorably re-
! garded by Congress, however, L now sug-
| gest modification of that privilege to cor
rect its glazing and costly abuses.
POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
would recommend also the appointment
! OF committee or commission to take into
! consideration the method equitable to prl-
vate corporations who have invested their
| time and capital in the establishment OF
telegraph lines, Of acquiring the title to all
| telegraph 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 the limits of short
| session of Congress- but it may be initiated,
| so that future action may be lair to the gov
ernme1t and to private parties concerned.
STEAMSHIP SERVICE UNDER OUR FLAG.
| There are but three lines of ocean steam
| ers. ramelv: the Pacific Mail Steamship, be-
| tween San Francisco China and Japan, with
| She provision made for semi-mOnthIy ser
ice after October /, 1873; the United States
| aud Brazil line, monthIy and the Califor-
pis, New Zealand and Australian line,
monthly, plying between the United States
| and foreign ports, and owned and operated
under our flag. | earnestly recommend
that such liberal contracts for carrying the
mails be authorized with these lines as will
insure their continuance. If the eXpedi-
ency OF extending the aid of the govern
ment TO lines of steamers which hi arto
have not received it should be deemed
worthy Of the consideration Of Congress,
political and commercial objects make it
advisable 10 bescow such aid on a line under
our own flag between Panama and the
western South American ports.
BY This means much trade now diverted
70 otheg countries might be brought 20 the
United States 30 the mutual advantage of
| this country and those lying in that quarter
OF the continent Of America.
FALLING OFF IN TIE CARRYING TRADE.
The report o. the Secretary of the Treas
urY vii! show al alarming falling of III our
| carving trade for the last ten or twelve
wears, and then Ior the past year. do not
believe that the public treasure can be bet
! ter expended. IL the interest OF the whole
| people, than in trying to recover this trade
An expenditure OF S3,0eO, 600 per annum tor
! the next I've years, il it would restore to US
our proportion of the carrying trade Of tho
| world. should be probably expended.
The price 03 labor in Europe has so much
! enhanced within the last few years that the
cost Of building and repairing ocean steam
ers in She United States is not so much
greater than il Europe that believe the
proper t!lne las arrived for Congress to
take this sub!ec: into serious consideration.
DEP4a-1sESG % sUsTICE-ENFoRCEMEN
ACES.
Detailed statements Of the disbursements
through The Department OF Justice Will be
furnished by the report OF the Attorney
General. and though these have been some
what increased ny she recent acts of Con
grrss 70 enforce the rights Of citizens of
the United States % vote in the several
States OF the Union, and to enforce the
prDp.ie.ips Ot Che fourteenth amendment to
the constitution Of the United States and
the snactmerts thereto, can not question
the necessity and SaIutary effect OF those
epactmertz on reckless and laWless men,
who, regYe- 20 say. have associated them
selves together IL some localities to deprive
otter citizens 04 those rights guaranteed to
Them 10y the constitution Of the United
States. ana 10 that end have committed
deeds OF blood and violence; but the pro
secution and puni ,hment Of many Of these
persons have tended greatly to the Ve-
preston 81 such disorders
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
do not doubt that CT, al many Of the
peOple in all parts Of the country favor the
full ENJOYMENT By all classes of persons Of
those rights to which they are entitled I'M
der the constitution and laws, and l invoke
the aid and influence Of all good citizens to
prevent organizations whose objects are, by
unlawful means, to interfere with these
rights. I look with confidence to the time,
not far distant. when the obvious advan-
tages Of good order and peace will induce
an abandonment Of all combinations pro
hibited by the acts referred to, and when it
will be unnecessary to carry on the prose
cution from the lawless doings Of such com
SinatiOn8.
PARDON OF KU-KLUX.
Appiications have been made to me 90 par
don persons convicted Of a violation of said
acts upon the ground that clemency in such
cases would tend to tranquiIize the public
mind; and 10 test the virtue OF that policy,
! am disposed, as far as my sense Of justice
will permit, TO give those applications
favorable consideration, but any action
thereon is NOT 10 be construed as indicating
any change in NY determination to enforce
with rigor such acts, so long as the conspi-
racies and com binations therein named dis
turb the peace of this country. 1t is much
to be regretted, and is regretted by no one
more than myself, that a necessity has ever
existed 10 execute the enforcement act. No
one can desire more than | that the neces-
sitg o applying ii may never again be de-
maEdtG.
DEPARTMENT OF TIE INTERIOR.
The Secretary Of the Interior reports sat
isfactory 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
same ii +ha~r7 for some wears has hppn in