The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-12-12

lied aud commenced Its work, and it is
to be hoped that the claims admissible
under the pi DIVISIONS of the act of Con-
gress may be speedily ascertained and
paid" .. /
a good deal is said about Cuba and
Spain, but on both these subjects the
message does not at s!l come up to The
public expectation, The actual per-
formance falls far short Of the mani
festo. When deeds are wanted we are
turned off with nothing but "words,
words, words"
In respect to the. war which has been
so long going on in Cuba the message
lays down ample premises for interna-
tional interference;'C ut from,these pre-
misses it draws no Legitimate or satisfac-
tory CONCLUSIONS. 1t tells us that some
thing ought to he done by outside ma
tions, but it does not recommend that
the great republic of the West stretch
forth its hand to assist people who
have been for six or eight years strug-
Cling for independence against one of
the etfete powers of the Old World.
Surely II the American Uuion, with all
its prestige, dareS not to recognize the
nationality of Cuba, or at all events her
rights as a belllgerent, pray who will?
Our relations with Spain proper are
admitted to be in a most uasatis factory
condition. But the President, or his
Foreign Secretary, ventures to barely
intimate that when she gets through
fighting at home, Hamilton Fish, or Ca
leb Cushing, or somebody else may sit
down and have long talk with her.
The President gives brief summary
Of the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury. The upshot of the show ing
is that within the current fiscal year our
expenditures in sundry directions are
likely to be several million more than
our receipts. In the light of this rather
depressing fact. Gen. Grant asks the
question "whether revenues should not
be Increased or expenditures diminished
to reach the amount of surplus. -"that
is to say, as we ,unders ia nd it, that we,
IN some way or other, ought to make
up the deficiency, which seems TO be
not merely wise suggestion, but one
abso lutely nece ssary 10 be reduced to
practice. To make up for this deici.
ency Gen. Grant, following the lead OF
his Secretary, hints at restoring the
duty on tea and coffee. and laying al
additional tax on whisley.
Gen. Grant slurs over the army in g
: brief paragraph, but gives Robson o.
: the navy a small puff for fitting up ST
hastily our rather shaky saltwater Graf
; during the scare over the Eirgipips.
: The President goes into an elaborati
statement of his so-called reasons fol
his interference with the bayonet il
. the affairs at Louisiana. and his refusa
to interfere in like manner with the af
fairs of Arkansas. He labors through
long-drawn paragraphs to defn
the difference in the two cases
whereas one line would have sufliced T.
y explain this difference to the satisfaction
of every body cognizant of the facts
: There was brother-in-law mixed u
I In the Louisiana case, and there was II
Z brother-in law involved in the Arkansa
u case.
We suppose that it is for the mer
). look of the thing that the President de
~ votes feeble sentence or two to tn
. subject of Civil Service Reform, whic
he himself sets daily at naught, n
:. which as administered by him people
>, general laugh at and Ben Butler sneel
at.
q Cheap transportation, which, it WI
n understood, was to figure so largely
of the message, is disposed of with da IS
a of the pen, No new railroads and 1
transcontinental ship canals are recor
"a mended to help our farmers of the We
,f to reach the seaboard.
n The affairs Of the District of CoIur
IS, bia are touched very gingerly. Be
in Shepherd and District Attorney Hs
o. rington are not even mentioned in I
r. message. Ceasiag to lean any long
ut on these broken reeds, Giant ia
i'll bac k for support upon the new CO.
ty missioners of the District, whose reco
of mendatlons he thinks ought to be tax
j. Into consideration by Congress, thou
the President himself does not exact
nd say whether in his Judgment they a
e good, bad, or Indifferent.
he So much for the message of the Pre-
mt dent. The people now wait to see wi
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