The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-11-18
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

Mako IN His Last Aesso0e to Conoress.
lWashington Dispatch to Cincinnati En-
quireF.l
President Hayes will begin tho prepara-
ton of his last message to Congress at an
early day, and has requested tho heads of
all the departments to forward their recon-
mendations ~ soon as they can be prepared.
The message will not be nearly 80 long as
the last, and will contain but few import
ant recommendations. Whatever sugees-
tions may be offered by Secretary Sherman
touching the refunding Of the bonds matur-
ing early in 1881 will be Incorporated in
the message. The probability is that q
365 thirty-year bond will be recon-
mended. With 4 per cent. bonds at pre-
MUM of 100, there is no doubt but that q
3G5 bond would not only be foated at par,
but that q syndicate will gladly give . pre-
MUM to take the entire amount necessary
to refund the outstanding and 6 per cents.
This is evidenced by the fact that the 3.65
bonds Of the District Of Columbis, the in.
terest Of which is guaranteed by the United
States, already rule at . premium.
The President, in view OF the PROSPEROUS
condition Of the country, aud the increasing
receipts Of the United States, together With
the surplus revenues, will: undoubtedly rec
ommend q liberal system of improvements,
and more especially tho improvement of the
Mississippi river. This great artery of in
land navigation would long since have been
more literally provided for had not the un-
fortunate sectional issue been associated
with it. The Southern Representatives
treated the improvement OF tho river and
the building of the levees % . distinctive
Southern measure of relief, and hence suf-
fered by it. President Hayes is heartily in
favor of the improvement of the river and
80 also is his successor-eleot, being Oh record
committed thereto in q speech made in tho
House.
The President will call the attention of
Congress to the fact that there is
NO PROVISION
for the counting Of the electoral vote. He
will urge, in view of there being no dispute
now on the Presidential contest already past,
that Congress pass some law which will
avert any trouble as to disputed count in
the futuee.
OF our foreign policy but little will be said
except to reiterate the oft repeated express
sion that 1--WE are at peace with all nations" :"
A history of the firing upon American mer-
chantmen on the high seas by Spanish men,
of-war will be recited, and the steps already
taken by tho government to secure repars-
ton will be fully set forth.
No recommendation will be made looking
to the reduction of taxation, or any change
in the existing tariff system.
The President will again ask Congress to
appropriate literally for the improvement
of the Washington harbor Of the Potomac,
which is fast filing up with aocretions in.
furious to health.
A detailed account OF the negotiations
with the Ute Indians will he Incorporated in
the message.
Allusion will be made to the contemplated
Interoceanic canal. It is believed the Pres
ident will take the ground that tho canal, if
built, should be under American auspices.
The Chinese question, it is not Thought,
will be alluded to, but will be left to be dealt
with unembarrassed by the incoming ad-
ministraiion.
Congress will be reminded that as yet
there has been no provision made for the
payment of United States deputy niarshals;
and q recommendation that an appropriation
covering past expenditures on this score, and
10 provide for Acknowledgements, WILDE
made.
In closing the message, the President will
take occasion to make Q retrospect Of his
administration. This will not be in the ma
ture Of fulsome eulogy, or q defense of
what may have been it's shortcomings, bu,
will be rather recital of what it has accom-
plished, to rest upon its own laurels.
A SKETCH of the life of the late Mrs.
Lydia Maria Child furnishes this Incl
dent :" After the capture of John Brown
and his accomplices in 1859, Mrs. Child
wrote to Brown Offering to visit Charles
town: tow :, where 1 % he was confined, and purse
ing her that he needed no attention, but
entreating her instead to bestow her
kind Offices upon his family, which she
did faithfully. This letter involved her
in q controversy with Gov. Henry A.
Wise and J. @. Mason, of Virginia. This
correspondence was published in