Connecticut western news., 1875-12-17

i of pretended naturalization, but that the,
 have never resided in the United States
 in others the certificate and record of tn,
 court show on their face that the persoi
 claiming to be naturalized has not resided the required time in the United States; il others, it is admitted upon. examination that the requirements of law had not beer complied with; in some cases even sr1cl certificates have been matter of purchase The evil has become so great and of sucl frequent occurrence that cannot too earn estly recommend, that some effective meas ures be adopted to provide proper remedy and means for. the vacating of any recort thus fraudulentfy made, and of punishns the guilty parties to the transaction.
 sExPATRATIoN.a
 Instances are brought to@the attention | Of the government where citizens of fsa% | United States, either naturaliged or ma 'J.
 born, have formally become citizens or .s' jects of foreign powers, but who, when, -.. volved in difficulties or when itsBeems to be their interest to, clainto be citizens of the United States, and demand the interven tionof a government which they have long since abandoned, and to which~fo years they have rendered nor service nor held themselves in any way annenable. Tn other cases naturalized9 citizens, immedi ately after naturalization, have returned tc their native country, have become engaged in business, have accepted offices or pur. suits inconsistent with American citizen. ship and evidence no intent to return to the United States until called upon to dis charge some duty to the country where they are residing, when at once they as- sert stheir citizenship and call upon the representatives of the government to aid them in their unjust pretentions. It is but justice to all bona fde citizens that nc doubt should exist on such questions, and that Congress should determine by enact ntgof law how repatriation may be ac- comglished and change of citizenship be established. ga f
 zs THE WOMAN QUESTION:
 sIinvite your attention; to the necessity of regulating byalaw the status'of Ameri- can women who may marry foreigners and of defining more fully that of children born in aforeign country of American parents whosmay reside abroad, and also of some furtier provision regulating or giving legal effect to marriages of American citizens contracted in foreign countries.
 THE sTREAsU URY.
 The report of the secret tary of the treas urysshows the receipts from customs for the fiscal year ending Junez3O, 1874, to have been $163, 103, ,833B9 j.. and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, to have been $157 ,167 ,72235-a decrease for the last fiscal year of $5, ,936, ,111.34. Receipts from internal revenue for the year ending 3Oth of June, 1874, were s102, ,409, ,7S4.9O, and for the year ending 3Oth of June, 1875, were $1100o7, ,493. 93.5S-increase$7 ,597, ,7Os.68.
 s~9 sPFc1E' PAYMENTS.
 hope Congress may be induced, at the earhest>day practicable, to insure the con summation of the act of the last Congress at it's last session to bring about specie resump- tionaon and after s.the first day of January, 1879, at furthest.,x-zs G@
 1tawould be great blessing if this could be censummated even at. an earlier day. Nothing seems to me more certain than that full, healthy and permanent reaction can not take place in favor of the industries and financial welfare of the country until we re- turn to a measure of values recognized throughout the civilized world. While we use 3 currency notequivalent to this stand ard -the world's,5 recognized standard- specie becomes a commodity like the pro ducts4of the soil, the surplus seeking mar ket wherever there is demand for it. Un- der our!present system we should want none, nor would we have any were it not that cus- toms dues must be- paid in coin, and be- cause of the pledge to pay interest of the public, debt in coins The yield of precious metals would flow out for the purchase of foreign productions, and leave the United States hewers of wood and drawers of water, because of wiser legislation on the subject of finance by the nations with whom we have dealings. l am not prepared to say that can suggest the best legislation to secure the end most hartily commended.
 RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
 It will be a source of great qualification to meto be able to approve any measure of Congress looking effectively toward secur- ing resumption. Unlimited inf ation would probably bring aboat specie payments more speedilE than any legislation looking to the redemption of legal tenders in coin. But it would be at the expense @of honor The legal tenders would have no value beyond settling present liabilities, or, properly speaking, repudiating themJ They would buy nothing after debts were all settled. There are a few measures which seem to me important in this connection, and which I comfnend to your earnest consideration. A repea15of so much of the legal tender act as makes these notes receivable for. debts con- tracted after date. to be fixed in the act itself, say not later than the first of. Janu- ary, 1877. We should then haveSeuotations at realvalues,not fictitious ones. Gold would no longer be at premium, but currency at discount. A healthy reaction would set in at once and with it desire to make the currencyi equal to what it purportso to be. The merchants, manufacturers and lrades- men of every calling could do business on fair margin of profit, the'money to.be re- ceived having an unvarying value. Labor CTS and all others who work for stipul ated pay or salary would receive moresfor their income, because extra profits would no long CT be charged by sthe. capitalist to. compen- sate for the risk of saadownward Auctuation in the value of the currency &
 l recommend that the .secretaryaof the treasury be authorized to redeem saysnot to exceed $2,O0O,0Q0 monthlyof legal, fender notes by issuing in their stead long bond bearing interest at the rate, of three and sixty-fve hundredth per cent. petsanrf,lm of denominations ranging from fifty dollars to one thousand dollars. each. si@This would in time reduce the legal tender notesto3a vol ume that could be kept a4oat without de- manding redemptionin large sums sudden ly, and thus additional power would be given to the secretaFysof theAtreasqry to ac- cumulate gold for final redemption either by increasing revenue, curtailing expenses, or both. It is preferable to do both, and I recommend that reduction of expenditures be made wherever it can be done without impairing government obligations or crip- bling thesdue execution thereofs
 s Ss WAR CLAIMS.
 Nothing is more certain, says the Presi- dent, than that very large percentage of the amounts passed and paid on claims growing out off the late war are either wholly fraudulent or. are3far in sexcess of the real losses sustained, s36ses %
 \ THE DUTY ON TEA AND COFFEE.
 { One measure for increasing the%revenue, and the only one think of is fhe restnra