The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

covered at legations where certificates of natu-
of obtaining passports, or in Claiming the protec-
ton of the legation When the fraud is on the face
of such certificates they taken up by the repre-
sentativcs of the Government and forwarded to the
Court in which they the fraudulent naturalizations.
are secured, remains and duplicates are readily
issue of the passports or on demanding the protec
of the Government the fraud sometimes escapes
of bSne st the eeon and
jury of innocent parties Without placing any adc
citizenship by the worthy and welintentioned for
s eSrnesy Me recom@end further legislation to
punish fraudulent naturalization, and to secure the
remedy call the attention of record of every nat
uralization made in fraud. ri
NEW TREATIES
Since my last annual message the exchange has
dtion ditto Win With Belgium. Ecuador. Peru and Salvador;
also of treaty of commerce and navigation with
With saiSador; a @ u ali Of Which have been duly pro
claimed. has also declaration with Russia with
reference TO trade marks
RECEIPTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS = SINKING
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
which by law is made directly 70 Congress. and
forms part of this message. will show the re-
last fiscal year the amount received from each
of revenue. and the amount paid out for each Of
served from this report that the amount Of receipts
fiscal Year ending June 50, 1874 and that for the
current fiscal year the estimated receipts over
dollars. In view of the large national debt exist
ing, and the obligations to add one per cent per
annum to the sinking Fund. a sum amounting now
to over S34 10000 per annum submit whether the
revenues should not be increased or the expendi
Not 10 proVide for the hes Smiling Fund IS partial
failure comply with the contracts and obligations
gress q very considerable reduction made
in rates Of taxaon ana @ the nn6er Q, srStgS IeH
be asked whcthar wisely or not in some in
venture opinion that the means of collection
of the revenues especially from imports nave oeen
SO % h op py not r are not lost by
failure to collect to the loss of the Treasury and to
ana taSpaYers " The secretary Of the treasury, in
his report favors legislation looking TO these pay
pressed in this message He also recommends
economy in APPROPRIATIONS calls rs attention 70 me
coffee without benefit to the consumer; recommends
further, that no modification be made in the bank.
ing and currency bill passed at the last session of
sary by of the adoption of measures for re-
turning to specie payment In these recommends
tions cordially join.
THE JupIcIous TARIFF.
would suggest to Congress the propriety of ad
justing the tariff to increase the revenue and
upon which duties are levied. Those articles which
enter into our manufactures and are not produced
at home il seems to me, should be entered free !;
those articles of manufacture of which we produce
constituent part but not produce the %hoie i tnat
Also. I will instance fine wools, dyes. etc. These
articles must be imported to form part of the
Chemicals such as dyes, compounded medicines.
under this class. The introduction. free of duties
of such woods We do not produce would stimulate
do produce. and therefore would be a benefit to
home production There are many articles a enter
duce ourselves the tariff upon which increases the
corrections in this regard are in the drection of
bringing labor and capital in harmony with each
other and OF supplying one of the elements properly
THE ARMY.
The report of the Secretary of War herewith at
tached and forming part of this message, gives all
the information concerning the operations, wants
suggestions aud Recommendations which 1 com
mend to your special attention. There is class
than the army officers and men, and none who per-
form their tasks cheerfully and efficiently and
0 is ebe to render
efficient this branch Of the public service All the
as judicious and especially commend to your at
Government arsenais the restoration Of mileage to
officers travelling under orders; the exemption of
ing covered into the Treasury; the use of appro-
priationS for the purchase of subsistence stores
year for which the appropriatien is made; for add-
tional appropriations for the collection of torpedo
ufaeture of arms for relieving the various States
from indebtedness for arms charged to them during
the rebellion for dropping officers from the rolls of
the army without trial for the oiiense of drawing
dscouragement Of the plan to pay soldiers by
checks: and for the establishment of professorhip
The reasons for the Recommendations arc obvious,
and set forth sufficiently i'll the report attached
of the army fixed where this has already been
done 50 that promotions may De made and vac vaean-
duced below the number to be fixed by [lawl. The
es 1n TGe Is 81 in IN 5
department is below the number adequate to per
form the duties required by law.
THE NAVY.
The efficiency of the navy has been largely In
creased during last year under the impulse of the
commenee1nent Of the last session Of Congress
Most of our efficient wooden ships were put in CON
iron-clads were pushed with the utmost vigor. The
onIy to be manned and set in commission to 20 Al
once intoSserHice Some of the new sloops author.
| lied by Congress- already in commission, and
| most Of the remainder are launched and wait only
the completion of their machinery to enable them
Two iron torpedo ships have been completed dur
ing the last year and four of our large double tur
these are finished everything that Is needful ouI
service and with the adtance in the science tor
/ pedo warfare. the American navy, comparatiyely
| the purposes of a peaceful nation.
| SCIENTIFIC AND COMMERCIAL EXPLORATIONS AND OBJ
| sERvATIoNs.
Much has also been accomplished during the year
In aid of science and to increase the of general
| knowledge and further the Interests of commerce
soundings have been made for photographic pnr
poses and to fix the proper routes OF ocean tele
been undertaken and Completed. and two vessels oi
| the navy now employed i'll conjunctiohfs fth
| those OF England, France, Germany and Russia in
observations connected with the transit of Venus
useful and interesting to the scientific world The
estimates for this branch of the public service dc
| not differ materially from those of last year-thC
general support of the service being somewhat less
and those for improvement at the various stations
rather larger than the corresponding estimate made
| a year ago. The regular maintenance and steady
increase in the oficering of this most important
arm and in proportion 70 the growth of our mari
time intercourse and interest. is recommended tc
1 the attention of Congress. The use of the navy
during peace might be further utilized by direct
authorization of .he employment of naval vessels
| in surveys of the supposed navigable waters OF
naonalities in this Continent especially the
tributaries the great rivers of South America
the Orinoco and the Amazon. Nothing prevents
under existing laws such exploration, except that
expenditures must be made in such expeditions be-
yond those usually provided for in the appropria
4 lions. The field designated is unquestionably one
of interest and one capable of large development
of commercial interests advantageous to the people
reached and those who may establish relations with
them.
EDUCATIoN-THE PoSToFFIcE.
The education of the people entitled to exercise
the right of franchise regard essential to general
prosperity everywhere and especially SO in Re
\ public where both education and previous condi
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