Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-12-13

rates or improved facilities of postal inter-
course. Your favorable consideration Is
respectfully invited TO the rccommenda-
tions made by the Postmaster-Gen for
an increase of service: From monthly TO
scmi-monthly trips on the mail steamship
route to Brazil for subsidy in aid Of the
establishment Of an American line ofsteam-
ers between San Francisco, New-Iealand
and Australia; for the establishment of
post-oflice savings banks, and for tho in
crease of the salaries tho heads ofbureaus.
! have heretofore recommended the abol
tion of the Granking privilege, and see no
reason now for changing my views on that
subject. II not having been favorably re-
gardcd by Congress, however, / now sug-
gcst modification of that privilege to cor
rect its glaring and costly abuses. / would
recommend, also, tho appointment of
Committee or Commission to take into con-
sidcration the best method, equitable to
private corporations who have invested
their time and capital in tho establishment
of telegraph lines, of acquiring the title to
all telegraph lines now in operation, and of
connecting this service with the postal SER
vice of the nation. 1t is not probable that
this subject could receive the proper con-
sideratiOn during the limits of "A short ses-
sion of Congress but it may be initiated,
so that further action may be fair to the
Government and TO private parties concern
ed. There are but three lines of ocean
steamers namely the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company between San francisco and
Japan, with provision made for semi
monthly service after October /, 1873, the
United States and Brazil line monthly, and
the California, NewZealand, and Austral-
ian line monthly, plying between the Uni
ted States and foreign ports, and owned
and operated under our flag. | earnestly
recommend that such liberal contracts for
= M a IN ~ thogp
lines as will insure their continuance. If
the cXpcdicncy of extending the aid of
Government to lines of steamers which
hitherto have not received it, should be
doomed worthy of the consideration of
Congress, political and commercial object
make ii advisable to bestow such aid on n
line under our flag between Panama and
the Western South American parts. BY
this meaus much trade now diverted to
other countries might be brought to us 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 fall
ing Off in our carrying trade for the last
ten or twelve years, and even for the past
year. | do not believe that public treasure
eau be better expended in the interest Of
the whole people than in trying TO recover
this trade. An expenditure of S5,000O00
per annum for the next five years, ifit
carrying trade of the world would be prof.
tably invested. The price of laborin Europe
has so much enhanced within the last few
years that the cost of building and operat-
ing ocean steamers in the United State, is
not 50 much greater than in Europe as for
merly, and believe the time has arrived
for Congress to take this subject into seri-
Gus consideration.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
nntailal OF ,f tIo
through the Department of Justice will be
furnished by the Report of the Attorney
General, and though these have been some
what increased by the 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 Consttu-
ton of the United States and the amend
mcnt thereto, cannot question the necess-
ity and salutary effect of these enactments.
Reckless and lawless men, | regret to saw
have associated themselves together in
some localities to deprive other citizens of
the rights guaranteed to them by the Con-
stitution of the United States, and to that
end have committed deeds of blood and
violence but, the prosecution and pun
ishment of many of these persons have
tended greatly to the repression of such
disorders. I do not doubt that a great ma
iority of the people in all parts of the coun-
try favor the full enjoyment by all classes
of persons of these rights to which they are
entitled under the Constitution and laws,
and | invoke the aid and influence of all
good citizens to prevent organizations
whose objects are, by unlawful means. to
interfere with those rights. | look with
confidence to the time, not far distant, when
the obvious advantages of good order and
peace will induce an abandonment of all
combinations prohibited blythe acts referred
to, and when it will be unnecessary to car
ry on prosecutions or inlict punishments
to protect citizens from the lawless doings
of such combinations. Applications have
been made TO me TO pardon persons con-
victcd of Il 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 disposed, =,
as far as my sense of Justice will permit, to
give to those applications favorable con-
sideration. But any action thereon is not
to be constructed as indicating any change
in my determination TO enforce with vigor
such acts, as long as the conspiracos and
combinations therein named disturb the
peace of the country. II is much to be re-
GREETED, and is regretted by no one more
than myself, that Il necessity has ever cX-
listed TO execute the Enforcement Act No
one can desire more than that the neccss-
ity of applying it may never again arise.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIoR-THE
INDIANS.
The Secretary of the Interior reports sat.
islactory improvement and progress in
each of the several Bureaus under the con
troll of the Interior Department.. They arc
all in excellent condition. The work
which in some of them for some years la,
been in arrears has been brought down tC
Il recent date, and all the current business
has been promptly dispatched. The policy
| which was adopted at the beginning of this
| Administration with regard to the manage
ment of the Indians has been as successful
| as its most ardent friends anticipated with
in so short time. 1t has reduced the ex
penses of their management, decreased
their forays upon the white settlements
| tended to give the largest opportunity tC
| the extension of the great railways through
| the public domain, and the pushing of set
| Elements into more remote districts o
country and at the same time improved Tho
| condition of the Indians. The policy will
be maintained without any changes, ex'
cepting such as further experience may
show to be necessary to render ii more eff
ficient. The subject of converting the so
| called Indian Territory, south of Kansas
into the home of the Indians, and erectn.
| therein territorial form of government. /,
|
of the existing Indian policy. The question
of removal to the territory has within the
past year been presented TO many Of TN
| tribes resident upon other and less desira
bic portions of the public domain, and ha
generally been received by them with IA
vor as preliminary step to the organiza
| ton OF such territory. 1t will be neces
sary TO contine the Indians now resden
therein TO farms of proper size which shoult
be secured to them In fee the residue TO b.
used for the settlement of other friendly
| Indians. Efforts will be made in the i'm
mediate future TO induce the removal of n
many peaceably disposed Indians only t
the Indian Territory as can be settled prop
erly without disturbing the harmony o
those already there. There is no other 10
cation now available where n people VIII,
are endeavoring TO acquire knowledge o
PASTORAL aud agricultural pursuits can b.
MS well accommodated rs upon the unoccu
pied lands in the Indian Territory. a ter
rtorial government should, however, pro
| fhp Indians trnp1 thp inrna1 al NNhitn