Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-12-14
OTHER MATTERS.

the soil still remain with US. To d.
rect the employment of these is prob
lem deserving the most serious attention
of Congress. If employment can be CIV
en- to all labor offering itself prosperity
necessarily follows | have expressed
the opinion and repeat it, that the first
requisite to the accomplishment of this
end is the substitution of sound cur
rency in place of one of fuctuating
| value. This secured, there are many
interests that might be fostered to the
/ great profit of both labor and capital.
How to induce capital to employ labor
| is the question. The subject of cheap
transportation has occupied the atten-
ton of Congress Much new light on
this question will without doubt, he
given by the committee appointed by the
last Congress to investigate and report
upon this subject y revival of ship
building and particularly of iron steam
ship building. is Of vast Importance to
our national prosperity. The United
States Is now paying over $1,000 100000
per annum for freights aud passage on
foreign ships, to be carried abroad and
expended in the employment and sup
port Of other peoples, beyond a fair per-
centage of what should go to foreign
vessels, estimating on the tonnage and
travel of each respectively. 1t is to be
regretted that this disparity in the car
would be willing to see a great depar-
ture frou the usual course of the Gov
eminent III supporting what might usu-
ally be termed a private enterprise. |
would not suggest as q remedy direct
subsidy to American steamship lines
but | would suggest Il direct offer of am
Pile compensation for carrying the mails
between the Atlantic seaboard cities and
the Continent on American owned and
American built steamers, and would ex-
tend this liberality to vessels carrying
the mails to the South American States,
and to Central America and Mexico, and
would pursue the same policy from our
seaports on the Pacific. 1t might be de
manded that vessels built for this SER
vice should come to standard fixed by
legislation in tonnage, speed and ali 9TH
er qualities looking to the possibility of
the Government requiring them at the
same time for war purposes the right
) also of taking possession of them in such
: emergency should be guarded. l offer
these suggestions, believing them worthy
of consideration, in all seriousness, af-
fecting all sections and all quarters
alike If anything better can be done
to direct the country into a course of
general prosperity, no one will be more
ready than to second the plan.
THE CENTENNIAL.
! The report of the Commissioner of
t Agriculture. submitted herewith con-
tains suggestions of much interest to the
general public. and refers to the APP
4 preaching Centennial and the part his
department is ready to take in it. ] feel
| that the nation at large is interested in
having this exposition success. and
commend to Congress such action as will
: secure greater general interest in it.
Already many foreign nations have sig
+ nifed their intention to be represented
: at it, and it may be expected that every
f civilized nation will be represented.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
o The rules adopted to improve the civ
e il service of the Government have been
: adhered to as closely as have been prac.
J ticable with the opposition with which
L they meet. The effect, / believe, ha:
: been beneficial on the whole. and has
d tended to the elevation of the service
d but it is impracticable to maintain then
e without direct and positive support Of
Congress. Generally, the support which
+ this reform receives is from those who
: give 1t their support only to find faul
when the rules are apparently departed
0 from. The removal from Office, withou
t preferring charges against the parties re
: moved, are frequently cited as depar
: ture from the rules adopted, and the re
/ tentlOn Of those against whom charge
d are made by irresponsible persons anc
{ without good grounds is also often con
/ demned as violation of them. Unde
/ these circumstances, therefore, | an
e nounce that. if Congress adjourns with
u out positive legislation on the subject 0
IL civil service REFORM ! will reeart
J such action as a disapproval Of the sys
/ TEN, and will abandon 1t except so ia
T. as to require examination for certain ap
j. polntees to determine their fitness. Com
II petltive examinations will be abandoned
/ The gentlemen who have given their ser
IL vices without compensation as member
n of the Board to devise rules and regula
- tons for the government Of the civil ser
&c vice of the country have shown mucl
l. zeal and earnestness in this work, anC
II to them, as well as to myself. it will b.
u source of modification if it Is to b
I thrown AWAY. .Rnt [ rnnoat lit l. !;