Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-12-06


co. New Zealand and Australia; for the es-
adjustment of Post-Office savings-banks,
and for the increase of the salaries of the
heads of bureaus. t.,
I have heretofore commended the aboli
tion of the franking privilege, and know no
subject. 1t not having been favorably re-
garded by Congress, however, | now sug-
/ gest modification of that privilege, to cor
rect its glazing and costly abuses.
wosld 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 &C
quiring 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
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 1, 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
mend that such liberal contracts for carry
ing the mails be authorized with these lines
as will insure their continuance. If
the expediency of extending the
aid of the Government to lines of
steamers which hitherto have not
received it should be deemed worthy of the
consideration of Congress-, political and
commercial objects make 1t advisable to be-
stow such aid on line, under our flag, be-
tween Panama and thewestern South Ameri-
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 ia 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
of $5,OOO,o0o per annum, for the
next five years, if it would restore to
us our proportion of the carrying
trade of the world, would be proftably 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 l 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
Info off nf Qnfn
less and lawless men, I 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
the conviction and 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-
ton and the laws, and to invoke the aid of
all good citizens to prevent organizations
whose objects are by unla wful means to in
terfere with those rights. l 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
to, and when it will be unnecessary to carry
on prosecutions or infict 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 tranquiliZc 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 a favorable
consideration, bat any action thereon is not
to be construed as indicating any change in
Io+o ,iy1of ion O xUit VII G11p
act so long as the conspiracies and combina-
lions therein named disturb the peace of the
country. 1t is much to be regretted, and is
regretted by no one more than myself, that
q necessity has ever existed to execute the
enforcement act. No one can desire more
than that the necessity of applying it may
never again be demanded.
The Secretary of the Interior reports sat
isfactory improvement and progression in
each of the several bureaus under the con-
troll of the Interior Department. They are
all in excellent condition. The work, which
in some of them for some years has been in
arrears, has been b. ought down to a recent
date, and in all the current business has
been promptly dispatched.
The policy which was adopted at the
beginning of the Administration with
regard to the management of the
Indians has been as successful as lbs most
ardent friends anticipated within so short Ia
management, decreased their forages upon
the white settlements. tended to give the
largest opportunity to the extension of the
great railways through the public domain,
and the pushing of settlements into more
remote districts of the country, and at the
same time improve the condition of the In
dams. The policy will be maintained with
out any change, excepting such as further
experience may show to be necessary to rem
der it more efficient.
The subject of converting the so-called In
dian Territory south of Kansas into home
for the Indians, and erecting thereon Ter
riterial form of government, is one of great
Importance as complement of the existing
Indian policy. The question of removal to
the Territory has within the past year been
presented to many of the tribes resident
upon other and less desirable portions OF
the public domain, and has generally
been received by them with
favor. AS preliminary u,t step
it 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 Oh
other friendly Indians. Efforts will be maze
in the immediate future to induce the re-
moval of as many -peaceably- disposed In
dams only to the Indian Territory as can
he settled properly without disturbing
the harmony of those already there.
| There is no other location now availaoie
where people who are endeavoring to ac-
Guire knowledge of pastoral and agricul,
tIlrai pursuits can be as well accommodated
as upon the unoccupied lands in the Indian
Territory. ATerritorial government shouio'
however, protect the Indians from the IN
! roads of the whites for term of years, I'M
til they become sufficiently advanced In the
arts and civilization to guard their own
rights, and from the disposal OF lands helo
by them tor the same period. :,
During the last fiscal year there were dis