The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-10-19

its enlargement. the additional SUI
required for the payment OF the extra
force could be provided in due time
1t would be unjust to the troops now
ia service, and whose pay Is already
largely in arrears, IL the payment to
them should be further postponed IN
til after Congress shall have considered
all the questions likely to arise in the
effort TO arise in the effort to fix the
proper limit of the strength of the
army. The estimate of the appropri-
ations of the military establishment
for the fiscal year ending June Both,
/ 1873, were transmitted to Congress by
the former Secretary of the Treasury
at the opening Of its session in Decem-
| Der last These esti mates, modified by
the present Secretary so as TO conform
to present requirements, are now re-
newed amounting to S32, 436, 764 9S,
and having been transmitted 10 both
Houses of Congress are submitted for
your consideration. There is also re-
quired for the Navy Department g,
003, SCI q. This fun is made up Of
81. 446. SSS. 16 due to the officers and
enlisted men for the last quarter Of the
last fiscal year; s311, 953. so due for ad-
vances made by the fiscal agent OF the
Government in London for the support
of the foreign service; $50, 900 due to
the naval hospital fund; $50, 600 due
for arrearases of pay to officers, and
S45, 219.58 for the support OF the ma
rine corps.
There viii also be needed an appro
priation of 1862. 535 % to defray the
unsettled expenses of the United States
Courts for the fiscal year ending June
30th last. now due to attorneys, clerks,
commissioners, and marshals, and for
the rent of the court rooms, the sup
port of prisoners, and other deficien
cies. A part of the building of the In
terror Department was destroyed by
fire on the oath of last month. Some
immediate repairs and temporary
structures have. in consequence, be
come necessary, the estimates for
which will be transmitted to Congress
Immediately, and an appropriation Of
the requisite funds is respectfully rec
commended. The Secretary of the
Treasury will communicate to Con-
Rress, In connection with the estimates
for the appropriations for the support
of the army for the current fiscal year,
estimates for such other deficiencies in
the different branches of the public
service as require immediate action
and cannot, without inconvenience,
be postponed until the regular session.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
take this isopportunity to invite your
attention to the propriety of adopting
at your present session the nesessary
legislation to enable the people of the
United States to participate in the ad-
vantages of the International Exhibi-
ton of the agriculture, industry, and
the fine arts which is to be held at
Paris in 1873, and in which this Gov
ernment has been invited to take part.
This invitation was communicated to
this Government in May, 1876, by the
Minister of France at this capital, and
copy thereof was submitted to the
proper committees of Congress at its
last session, but no action was taken
upon the subject. The Department of
State has received many letters from
various parts of the country expressing
desire to participate in the exhibition,
and numerous applications of a similar
nature have also been made at the
United States Legation at Paris. The
Department of State has also received
official advice of the strong desire on
the part of the French Government
that the United States should partici-
pate in this enterprise, and space has
hitherto been, and still is, reserved in
the Exhibition buildings for the use of
exhibitors from the United States, to
the exclusion Of other parties who have
been applicants therefor In order
that cur industries may be properly
represented at the Exhibition, an ap-
preparation will be needed for the pay
ment of salaries and expenses of the
commissioners, for the transportation
of goods, and for other purposes in
connection with the object in view,
and, as May next is the time fixed for
the opening of the exhibition, if our
citizens are to share the advantages of
this international competition for the
trade of other nations the necessity of
immediate action is apparent. To en-
able the United States to cooperate in
the international exhibition which was
held at Vienna in 1878, Congress then
passed joint resolution making an
appropriation Of $500, 900 and author
iZing the President to appoint certain
number of practical artisans aud scien
tific men who should attend the exhi
bitiou and report their proceedings and
observations to him. Provision was
also made for the appointment of
number of honorary commissioners. l
have felt that prompt action by Con
gress in accepting the invitation of
France is of so much interest to the
people cf this country, and so suitable
to the cordial relations between the
Governments of the two countries, that
the subject might properly be present
ed for the attention of your present
session.
THE PRISON CONGRESS IN STOCKHOLM.
The Government of Sweden and
has addressed an official in
to this Government to take
part in the International Prison Con-
gress to be held at Stockholm next
year. The problem which the Con-
gress proposes to study-"How to Di-
minish Crime"-is one in which all
civilized nations have an interest in
and the Congress of Stock
holm seem likely to prove the most i'm
portant convention ever held for the
study of this grave question. Under
the authority of joint resolution of
Congress, approved February 18th,
1875, commissioner was appointed
by my predecessor to represent the
United States upon the occasion, and
the Prison Congress having been at
the earnest desire of the Swedish Gov
ernment postponed to 1873, his COM
was renewed by me. An ap-
preparation of s., 900 was made in the
sundry civil service act of 1875 to meet
the expensts of the commissioner. l
recommend the reappropriation of that
of that sum for the same purpose, the
former appropriation having been cov-
cred into the Treasury and being no
longer available for the purpose with
out further action by Congress. The
object is brought to your attention at
this time in view of circumstances
which render it highly desirable that
the commissioner should proceed to
the discharge of his important duties
AS the several acts of
Congress providing for detailed reports
from the different departments of the
require their submission
1t the beginning of the regular session,
defer, until that time, any futher re-
ference to subjects of public interest. |
fSignedl r. B. HAYES.
WASHINGTON, Oct, Is, 1877.
CONGRESSIONAL. |
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