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D0MEsTIC NEWS.

D0MEsTIC NEWS.
Garfield Makes speech 10 fIIe Ohio Elect.
Ors.
MENTOR (O), December 2l.-The Ohio
Electors called on President Garfield to-day,
and after al interchange OF courtesies the
latter said:
Electors-I am deeply grateful to you for this
call and these personal and public congratulations
If were TO look upon the lale campaign and its
suits merely in the light of personal struggle and
personal success, it would probably be as crafty
ing as anything that could be in the history of pol
itics. Ii my own conduct during the campaign has
in any way oeen help and strength to our cause,
am glad. II, under trying circumstances, my
behavior as a candidate for the Presidency has
met your approval, l am greatly gratified; but
larger subject for your congratulations to me
is on the triumph OF the Republican party,
which opens a subject too vast for me to enter
upon now. l venture, however, to mention re-
Election which has occurred TO me in reference
to the election of yesterday. suppose that no
political event has happened in all the course of the
contest since the early spring. which caused little
excitement and indeed SO little public observation
as the Presidential election, which was held yester
day at midday. The American people paid but
little attention TO the details of the real Presidential
election and for the very significant reason, though
YOU and all the members OF Electoral Colleges have
the absolute constitutional and technical right to
vote for body you choose. and though written
law directed nor suggested your choice, and every
American knew the august sovereign of the Repub-
lie, the 100000 voters early in November had pro-
nounced the omnipotent feat OF choice, and that
the sovereign assuming done that which
he had ordered to be done, entertained no
doubt his will would be implicitly obeyed by all the
Colleges in all the States, and that is the reason
why the people were so quiet yesterday. They
have never yet found American who had failed to
ia rat AZ a Presidential Elartnr
Report OF the Secretary of the Navy.
WASHINGTON, December 2d-In his report,
after calling attention to the growing COM
mercial Importance of the Central and South
American States, whose trade is likely to
pass entirely out of our hands, if prompt and
vigorous measures are not taken to secure it,
the Secretary OF the Navy continues: I" All
that the Navy Department can properly do
to this end has been done. l have deemed it
an imperative public duty to send our ships
of war into as many of their ports as possible,
with view to enabling the authorities and
people of those countries to understand that
it is our desire to cultivate with them the
most amicable commercial relations that both
their own interests and ours would be thereby
promoted. The products of South America
which reach the Pacific Coast can only
reach this coast by way of San Francisco
or the Isthmus OF Panama /; consequently I
have also felt it my duty to inaugurate such
steps as were calculated to establish more init
mate relations with States and people on each
side of the Isthmus The authority of the Sec
retary of the Navy is limited on this subject,
and does not extend beyond the location of
stations at points where our vessels touch, or
may be induced to touch in order to promote
commercial intercourse where it is already es-
tablished, or to invite it where it is not.
1rkn, 80 h. Al e.
the establishment of coaling stations upon
each side of the Isthmus at point eminent
ly suitable both as regards naval uses and
the commerce of that region. The one Of
the east side is located at Chiriqui Lagoon,
in the caribbean Sea, and in the immediate
vicinity of veins Of coal already opened, and
that on the west coast at the bay of Golfito,
a port of the Gulf of Dulce on the Pacific
The distance between them is less than one
hundred miles. The only two safe and suffi-
GENTLY cemmodious harbors on the Isthmus
are at these points, and although the Depart
ment did not, before making deposits of
coal acquire title to the lands occupied, yet
it assured itself that no difficulty would be
likely to arise ON that score, although it was
not anticipated that any political objection
would be made TO preliminary examination
and survey of those waters. Yet careful
instructions were given to the COM
manders of vessels assigned to the per-
formance of the duty, and that if
either Government interposed any objection
to the movement, they should Immediately
suspend operations. and report the matter to
the Department, that it might be made a
subject of diplomatic negotiations. IEas-
much, however, as no obstacle of this kind
was encountered. either at Chiriqui Lagoon
or Gol6to,. coal in sufficient quantities was
deposited at each harbor, and now remains
there, for future use by our vessels whenever
it may be needed. The question of acquir-
ing title to a sufficient quantity of land upon
these harbors is necessarily left for the subse-
quent action of Government. Initiatory
steps have also been taken to establish like
station at Punta Arenas, in Costa Rica, and
it is believed the Department will be enabled
to accomplish this before the expiration of
many months. 1t would be greatly to the
advantage of the United States, and con-
tribute much toward the ecocomical manage
ment Of the Navy Department, if acquisi-
tions similar to those / have mentioned were
made in other parts of the world. The
strong maritime powers of Europe employ
great vigil ince in this particular and we
should not be behind them in doing what we
legitimstely and probably can to extend our
maritime influence over the world. The
Navy is closely allied TO the commerce Of the
country, and should be extended to protect it
everywhere.
COMMERCE OF THE PACIFIC.
He also says: The Pacific ocean opens to
our future commerce its broadcast and most
profitable field. On the Atlantic it encoun-
ters such formidable European rivalry as can
only be overcome, If at all, by the most per-
sistent and vigorous measures of protection
on the part of the Government; but our ac-
QUESTION of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands,
and our treaty relations with Japan, the
Sandwich Islands and Samoa, together with
our present commercial intercourse with
China and the East Indies, place us on such
equsl terms on the Pacific with other Powers
that it will be our own fault if the advan-
tsges now promised cur commerce be lost
An exchange of our products for those of the
East Is fast becoming q necessity to the ORR
entail people, and their interests, as well as
ours, suggest the adoption of the most eff
cient measures ON our part to increase our
trade with them. Even in Corea our manu-
factured goods are preferred to those of En-
gland, but they find their way there through
the japanese, with whom the Coreans have q
treaty Of amity and commerce. The benefits
to be derived in this way, however indirect,
would be greatly Increased if the ports OF
that country were opened to our merchant
vessels. Our relations with the Japanese
Government are such that there is no reason
to doubt its friendly agency in bringing about
this result, and it is confidently believed that
IL will be accomplished in short time. Af-
ter detailing all that is known of
THE JEANETTE EXPEDITION,
In which he takes strong ground that that
steamer is safe, the Secretary proceeds to
the consideration of the unsettled condition
Of affairs in Alaska. He reviews Com
mander Beardslee's work in that field, and
adds: SIN the opinion of Beardslee, If the
jamestown is withdrawn without the substi-
tntion of some authority with proper de-
cree of strength to maintain order, it is more
fban probable acts viii be committed by
some Of the lawless whites who viii be drawn
to Alaska by the very fact of there being an
s,t;re absence of law. This would undoubt-
sJlv tend to undo all the progress thus far ac-
co1nnlished. and throw the community again
info anarchy. While citizens are now being
dawn to the southeastern part OF the Terri
torv by hopes of future wealth, which they
eyrsct to derive from its great natural re-
soT,rcss of timber, furs, fish and minerals, the
Territory needs only the protecting hand OF
the Government, and security TO capital, lie
sn M oydsr which local laws and suitable ju-
dicial tribunals would give it, to advance
rapidly in value"
Hewetf's Defense.
NEW YoRK. December 2d.-Abrsm ).
usa;tt in a letter to the editor OF the Ma
- defends himself against what be terms
! the extra judicial attack OF Judge DAVIS
md says bs halisyed tie Morsy letter genu-