Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-12-08

annum, and the decrease of deficien-
cy in the same revenues has been
at the rate of nearly 2 per cent per
annum.
AGRIBUITURAL BUREAU.
The report Of the Commissioner of Az
riculturc, accompanying this message, will
be found one OF great interest. marking
as it does the great progress of the last
century in the variety of the products of
the soil, the increase of knowledge and
skilled labor, of producing, saving and
manufacturing the same to prepare them
for the use of man, in the Improvements
of machinery to aid the agriculturist in
his labor, and in knowledge of scientific
subjects necessary TO thorough system
in economy III agricultural production
namely, chemistry, botany, ethnology etc.
A study of this report by those interested
in agriculture and deriving their support
from it, will find it of value in pointing
out those articles which are raised in
greater quantity than the needs of the
world require and which must sell for
less than the cost of production, and of
those which command q profit over the
cost of production, because there is not
an over production. l call special atten-
ton to the needs of the Department for a
new gallery for the reception of the exhi-
bits returned from the Centennial Exhibi-
ton, including the exhibits donated by
very many foreign nations; also to the
recommendations of the Commissioner of
Agriculture generally.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
held in Philadelphia this year III COM
memoration of the one hundreth anniver-
sary of American Independence has pro-
ven great success, and will no doubt be
of enduring advantage to the country 1t
has shown the great progress in the arts,
sciences and mechanical skill, made in a
single century. and demonstrated that we
are but little behind the older nations in
any one branch, while in some we scarce
ly have Il rival. 1t has served too, not
only to bring the people and products of
skill and labor from all parts of the world
together, but in bringing together people
from all sections of our own country,
which must prove great benefit on ac-
count OF the information impaired and
the pride OF country engendered. 1t has
been suggested by scientists interested in
and connected with the Smithsonian In
stitute, in communication herewith
transmitted, that the government exhibit
be remved to the capital, and suitable
building be erected or purchased for its
accommodation as a pertinent exhibition.
| earnestly commend this, and believing
that Congress would second this view, |
directed that all the Government exhibits
at the Centennial should remain where
they are, except such as might be injured
by remaining in building not intended
as Il protection in inclement weather, or
such as may not be wanted by the depart
ment furnishing them, until the question
of a permanent exhibition is acted on. Al
though the moneys appropriated by Con-
gress to enable the participation of the
several executive departments in the In
ternational Exhibition of 1876, were not
sufficient to carry out the undertaking 10
the full extent at first contemplated, i,
gives pleasure to refer to the very efficient
and creditable manner in which the Board
appointed from these several departments
to provide an exhibition on the part of
the government, have discharged their du-
ties with the funds at their command.
without a precedent to guide them in the
preparation of such display The sue.
cess of their labors was amply attcsted
by the sustained attention which the con
tents of the government building attracted
during the period Of the exhibition, from
/ both foreign ani native people. | am
strongly impressed with the value of the
collection made by the government for
the purposes of the exhibition, illustrat-
ing as it does the general resources of the
country, the statistical and practical evil
dences of our growth as nation and the
uses of the mercantile arts, and the appli-
cation of applied sciences in the admins
tration of the affairs of the government
Many nations have voluntarily contrlbut-
ed their exhibits 10 the United States, to
increase the interest in any permanent ex-
hibition Congress may provide. For this
act of generosity, they should secure the
thanks of the people. and | respectfully
suggest that resolution of Congress to
that effect be adopted.
NODE OF ELECTING PRESIDENT.
The attention of Congress cannot be
too earnestly called to the necessities of
throwing some greater safeguard over the
method of choosing and declaring the
election Of President. Under the pres
ent system there seems TO be no proviso
or remedy for contrasting the election in
any one State. The remedy is partially,
no doubt, in the enlightenment of elect
ors. The compulsory support of free
schools, and the acknowledgements of all
WHO CANNOT READ OR WRITE
the English language after /. fixed proba-
ton would meet my hearty approval. l
would not make this apply to those al
ready voters, but to all becoming of vo.
ting age after the expiration of the period
of probation fixed upon. Foreigners
coming to the country to become citizens,
who are educated in their own language,
would acquire the requisite knowledge of
ours during the necessary residence to OBJ
tam naturalization. If they did not take
enough interest in our language to acquire
sufficient knowledge of it to enable them
to study the institutions and laws of the
country intelligentiy, would not confer
upon them the right to make our laws,
nor to select those who do.
append to this message for convenient
reference a synopsis of administrative
events and of all recommendations to
Congress made by me during the last sew |
en- years. Time may show some of these |!
recommendations not to have been wisely !
conceived, but believe the larger part !
Will be no discredit to the administration, /
One of these recommendations met with |
united opposition by one political party !
in the Senate, and with strong opposi- !
ton from the other namely, the treaty .
for the
ANNEXATION or SAN DOMINGO |
to the United States-to which l shall ,
speclally refer, maintaining, rs do, that
if my views had been concurred in, the
country would be in q more prosperous
condition to-day, both politically and
Santo Domingo is very fer
tile, and upon its soil may he gown just
those tropical fruits of which the Uuited
States use SO much, and which are provi-
ded or prepared for market now by slave
labor almost exclusively-namely, sugar,
coffee, dye woods, mahogany, tropical
fruits, tobacco, etc. About IS per cent
Of the exports of Cuba are consumed in
the United States, and large per cent Of
the exports of Brazil find the same mar
ket. These are paid for almost cxclus-
lively in coin legislation, particularly in
Cuba, being unfayorable to a mutual ex-
change of the products OF each country.
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