Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-12-12

or 20 per cent. over the number in 1871, and
the postage thereon amounts to 81 ,S71 ,257.25.
The total weight of the mails exchanged
with European countries exceeded 800 tons.
Tho cost of the United States transatlantic
mail steamship service was 1920 ,3O1 10.
The total cost Of the United States ocean
steamship service, including the amounts
paid to the subsidized lines of mail steamers
was $1,027,02097. The following are the
only steamship lines now receiving su bsidies
for mail service under special acts of Con-
| gress: The Pacific Mail Steamship Compa-
ny receive $500,000 per annum for carrying
| a monthly mail between San Francisco,
| Japan, and China, which will be increased
| to 81 100000 Der annum, and a semi-monthly
| mail on and after October l, 1873. The United
States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company
receive $I5O,OO0 per annum for carrying a
monthly mail between New York and Rio
| Janeiro, Brazil; and the California, Oregon,
and Mexico Steamship Company receive
$4,000 per annum for carrying monthly
| mail between San Francisco, Honolulu, aud
| Hawayan Islands. Making the total amount
of mail steamship subsidies at present $685.
900 per annpm. Our postal comm un ication
| with all parts of the civilized world have
been placed upon a most advantageous foot
| ing by the improved postal conventions and
arrangements recently concluded with the
| leading commercial countries of Europe and
| America, and the gratifying statement is
| made that, with the conclusion of satisfac-
| tory convention with Franco, the details of
| which have been definitely agreed to by the
1 u
ject to the approval of the Minister of France
little remains to be accomplished by treaty
| for some time to come, in respect to reduc-
tion of rate, or improved facilities for postal
| intercourse.
| l have heretofore commended the abolition
| of the franking privilege, and see no reason
now for changing my views on that subject.
| 1t not having been favorably regarded by
| Congress, however, now suggest modif-
cation of that privilege to correct its glaring
| and costly abuses.
| I would recommend also the appointment
OF a committee commission to take into
| considerations the best method, equitable to
| private corporation who have invested their
| time and capital in the establishment of tel
| egraph lines, of acquiring the title to all tel
| egraph lines now in operation, and of con-
| Meeting this service with the postal service
| of the nation. It is not probable that this
| tion during the limits of a short session in
| Congress, but it may be initiated, 81 that
further action may be fair 10 tho Govern
ment and to private parties concerned.
| The report of the Secretary of the Treasury
| will show an alarming falling off in our car
| rying trade, for the last ten or twelve years,
and even for the past year. 1 do not believe
that the public treasure can be better ex-
| pended in the interest of the whole
| people than in trying to recover this trade.
An expenditure of fve million dollars per
annum for the next five years, if it would
restore to us our proportion of the carrying
| pended. The price of labor in Europe has
| so much enhanced with 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 1 believe the
| time has arrived for Congress to take this
| suhjac into serious consideration.
Detailed statements of the disbursements,
| though the Department of Justice will be
| furnished by the Attorney General, and
| though these have been somewhat increased
| by the recent acts of Congress to enforce the
| right of citizens of the United States to vote
| ia the several States of the Union, and to
| force the provisions of the 18th Amendment to
| the Constitution of the United States and the
! amendment thereto, l cannot question the
necessity and salutary effect of these enact
ments. Reckless and lawless men, regret
| to say, have associated themselves together
| in some localities to deprive other citizens of
the right guaranteed them by the Constitu-
| tion of the United States, and to that end
| have committed deeds of violence, but the
prevention and nishment of many of these
persons have tended greatly to the repression
of such disorders. I do not doubt that
great majority of the people of all parts of
the country favor the lull enjoyment by all
classes of persons of these rights to which
they are entitled under the Constitution.
and the laws, and to invoke aid
| and influence of all good citizens
to prevent organizations whose objects are
| by unlawful means to interfere with those
| rights. l look with confidence to the time
not far distant when the obvious advantages
| of good order and peace will induce aban-
| donment cf all combinations prohibited by
| the acts referred to, and when it will be un-
| necessary to carry on the prosecutions or ia
| hict punishments to protect citizens from
| the lawless doings of such combinations.
| Applications have been made to me to par
| don persons convicted of a violation of said
| acts upon the ground that clemecy in such
cases would tend to tranquiIize the public
| mind, and to test the virtue Of that policy
| l am disposed, es far as my sense of justice
will permit, to give to these applications
| favorable consideration, butts any action there
| on is not to be constructed as indicating any
| change i'll my determination to enforce with
! vigor such act so long as the conspiracies
| and combinations therein named disturb
| the peace of the country. 1t is much to be
than myself that necessity has ever ex-
| listed to execute the enforcement act. No
| ono can desire more than that necessity of
| applying it may never apain be demanded.
! Tho Secretary of the Interior reports salts
factory improvement and progression in each
of the several bu eaus under the control of
the Interior Department They all in
excellent condition. The work which in
some of them for some years has been in
arrears has peen brought down to recent
date, and in all the current business has
been promptly despatched.
The policy which was adopted at the be-
ginning of the Administr alton with regard
to the management of the Indians has been
as successful a3 It's most ardent 1rlenQS an
ticipated within short a time. It has re-
duced the expense of their management,
decreased their forage upon the white settle
ments, tended to give the largest opportunity
to the extension of the great railways through
the public domain and the pushing of set
tlement into the MOI remote distr cts of the
country and at the same time improve the
condition of the Indians.
The policy will be maintained without
any change, excepting such as further expe
rience may show to be necessary to render
it more efficient. The subject of converting
the so-called Iudian Territory, south O
Kansas, into a home for the Indians, anG
entering thereon Territorial form of gov
ernment, is one of great Importance ss
compliment of the existing Indian policy
The question of removal to the Territory ha
l within the past year been presented to man,
of the tribes resident upon otker and les
f favorable portions of the public domain, ant
has generally been received by them as
l preliminary step to the organization of sucl
l a territory will be necessary to confire tn
= Indians now resident tn 5rein to farms O
Q proper size, which should be secured to then
: in fee, the residue to be used for the settle
r ment of other friendly Indians. Efforts vii
j be made In the immediate future to induc
= the removal of as many peaceabie- DISPOSE