Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-12-11

The legal-tender clause to the law au-
thoriZing the issue of currency by
the national Government should be repealed,
to take effect as to all contracts entered into
after day fixed in the repeating act, not to
| apply, however, to payments of salaries by
| the Government or for other expenses now
provided by law to be paid in
| currency. In the interval pending between
| the repeal and final resumption, provision
| should be made by which the Secretary of the
| Treasury can obtain gold, as it may become
| necessary from time to time, from the date
| when specie resumption commences. To this
| might and should be added a revenue suffi-
clently in excess of expenses to insure an ac-
eumula ton of gold in the Treasury to sustain
| redemption.
commend this subject toyour careful con-
| sideration, believing that a favorable solution
| is attainable, and that if reached bythis Con-
gress the present and future generations will
| ever gratefully remember it as their deliFerer
from a thralldom of evil and disgrace. With
| resumption free banking may be authorized
with safety, giving full protection to billhold-
| ers, which they have II t under .he existing
laws. Indeed, woltld regard free banking
as essential 1t would give aproper elasticity
to the currency. AS more currency should
| be required for the transaction of legiti-
| mate business, new banks would be
started, and in turn banks would
wind up their business when it
was found there was a superabundance of
currency. The experience and Judgment of
the people can best decide just how much
| currency is required for the transaction of
the business of the country. 1t is unsafe to
leave the settlement of the question to Con-
gress, the Secretary of the Treasury, or the
Executive. Congress should make the regula-
tions under which banks may exist, but
should not make banking a monopoly by
| limiting the amount of redeemable paper cur
| rency th at shall be authorized Such impor-
| do I of tO md o6
nestly do commend it to your attention, that
| give itprominence it by introducing it at the
beginning of this message.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
| During the past year nothing has occurred
to disturb the genial, friendly and cordial re-
lations of the United States with other pow
| ers '..
The correspondence submitted herewith be-
| tween this Government and its diplomatic
representatives in other countries shows a
! satisfactory condition of all questions be-
| tween the United States and most of those
countries, and with few exceptions, to which
reference is hereafter made, the absence of
any points of difference to be adjusted
The notice directed by the resolution of
Congress of June IL, 1874, to be given to
| terminate the convention of July II, 1858,
between the United States and Belgium has
been given, and the treaty will accordingly
| terminate on the 1st day of July, 1875 This
| entering the ports of the United States ex-
| ceptional privileges which are not accorded
| to our own vessels. The other features of
the convention have proved satisfactory and
| have tended to the cultivation Of beneficial
| commercial intercourse and friendly rela-
| tions between the two countries. | hope that
| the negotiations which have been invited will
! result in the celebration of another treaty
| which may tend to the interests of both coun-
| tries.
| Our relations with China continue to be
| friendly. During the past year the fear of
| hostilities between China and Japan, growing
out of the landing of an armed force upon the
island of Formosa by the latter, has occa-
| stoned uneasness. 1t is earnestly hoped,
however, that the difficulties arising from this
| cause will be adjusted and that the advance
of civilization in these Empires may not be
| retarded by state of war; In con-
sequence of the part taken by GER
tain citizens of the United States in this
| expedition our representatives i'll those cOun-
tries have been instructed to impress upon
| the Governments of China and Japan the firm
intention of this country to maintain strict
neutrality in the event Of hOstilities and care
| fully prevent any infraction of the law on the
| part of our citizens. In connection with this
| subject call the attention of Congress to a
| generally conceded fact that the great proper
tion of Chinese immigrants who come to our
| shores do not come voluntarily to make
their homes with us and their labor pro-
| ductive of general prosperity, but they come
| under contract with head men, who own them
almost absolutely. In worse form does this
apply to the Chinese women. Hardly per-
| ceptible percentage of them perform any
honorable labor. They are brought for
| shameful purposes, to the disgrace of the
communities where they have settled and to
the great Generalization of the youths of
those localities. If this evil practice can he
legislated against it will be my pleasure as
| well as duty to enforce any regulation to Sc
cure so desirable an end.
1t is hoped that negotiations between the
! Government of Japan and the treaty powers,
| looking to the further opening of the Empire
and the removal of various restrictions upon
trade and travel, may soon produce
| the result desired, which cannot fail
! to inure to the benefit of all the parties
| Having on previous occasions submitted to
| the consideration of Congress the propriety
| of the release of the Japanese Government
| from the further payment of indemnity un-
| der the convention of Oct. %, 1864, and
| as no action had been taken therein, it be-
| comes my duty to regard the obligations of
| the convention as in force, and as the other
powers interested have obtained their portion
| of the indemnity in full the Minister of the
| United States in Japan has, in behalf of this
| Government, received the remainder of the
amount due to the United States under the
! Convention of Simouseky. | submit the pro-
priety of applying the income of part, if not
the WHOLE of this fund to the education in the
japanese language of a number of young
men, to be under obligations to serve the
Government for specified time as interpret
ers at the legation and the consulates in
| Japan. A limited number of Japanese youths
might at the same time be educated in our
| own vernacular, and mutual benefit would re-
| suit to both Governments. The importance
| OF having our own citizens competent and ia
| milar with the language of Japan, to act as
| inf tarc n6 in nt
| with the legation and consulates in that coun-
| try, cannot readily be over estimated.
The amount awarded to the Government of
| Great Britain by the commission organized
under the provisions OF the Treaty OF Wash
| mgton, in settlement of the claims of British
subjects arising from acts committed between
| April IS, 1861, aad April 9, 1865, became pay
| able under terms of the treaty within the past
year, and was paid upon the 2lst day of Sep
| tember, 1874.
ALIEN CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.
| 3 In this connection Irenew my recommends
| ton, made at the opening of the last session
| of Congress, that special court oe created
| to hear and report all claims of aliens against
the United States arising from acts COM
mitted against their persons or property
during the insurrection. 1t appears equi-
table that opportunity should be of
fered to citizens of other States to
present their claims, as well as
those British subjects whose claims were not
admissible under the late commission, to the
| early decision of some competent tribunal.
| To this end | recommend the necessary legis-
lation to organize court to dispose of those
claims of aliens of the nature referred to in
| an equitable and satisfactory manner, and to
relieve Congress and the departments from
the consideration of these questions.
1 - THE COLONY OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
+ The legislation necessary to extend to the
4 colony OF newfoundland certain articles of
the Treaty of Washington of the Sth of May,
I12H1 having hepf1 had "a hot