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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14

nent political control, but seeks the neutrality
OF Il: the valleys # which have been
opened. Steamboats, placed on the
river and the nuclei Of states established
at twenty Two stations under one flag. which
offers freedom to commerce and prohibits the
slave trade The United States cannot be
Indifferent to this work, nor TO the interests Of
their citizens involved in il. Il may become
advisable for us to cooperate with other COM
merclal powers in promoting the rights CT
trade and residence in the Congo valley free
from the Influence or political control Of any
one nation.
10 view of the frequency of invi-
tations from foreign governments to partici-
pate in social and scientic congresses
for the discussion of important matters
Of general concern, I repeat the
suggestion of mr. last, message, that provision
be made for the exercise of discretionary power
by the executive in appointing delegates to
euch conventions. Specialists are ready to serve
the national interest in such capacity, without
personal profit Or other compensation than the
defrayment OF expenses actually incurred. and
this a comparatively small annual appropria-
ton would suffice TO meet
RESTRICTIONS UPON TRADE.
l have alluded in my previous message to
the Injurious and vexatious restrictions suf-
fered by our trade in the Spanish West Indies
Brazil, whose natural outlet for its great
national trade in coffee is in and
through tho United States, imposes
heavy export duty upon that product A
like narrow policy Is pursued in other Ameri-
can countries. Our petroleum exports are
hampered in Turkey and in other Eastern
ports by restrictions as to storage, and by
oneroas taxation. The free outward movement
of our great food product is in some quarters
clogged with like impediments. For these mis-
chiefs adequate rel,ef is not always provided
by reciprocity treaties like that with Hawaii
or that lately, negotiated with Mexico, and now
awaiting the action of the senate.
1t is advisable to provide some
measure OF equitable relation with
the governments Whicls discriminate
against our own. If, for example, the execu-
tive were empowered to apply to Spanish ves-
sells from Cuba and Porta Rico the same rules
of treatment and scales Of prices for technical
faults which are applied to our vessels aud
carsoes in the Antilles, g. resort to that course
might not be barren Of good results A dis
cretiona:y authority to forbid tho Importation
of articles of consumption injurious to health
might be advantageously exercised in our deal
ing with countries that discriminate against our
food products
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14

II the revenues for the fiscal year which will
end on June 80, 1885. be estimated upon the
basis of existing laws, the secretary is OF the
opinion that for that year the receipts will ex-
coed by 100000, OCe the ordinary expendi-
lures, including the amount devoted to the
sinking fund. Hitherto the surplus, as rapid
" as i has accumulated, has been devoted to
the reduction of the national debL As result
the only bonds now outstanding which aresre-
deemable at the pleasure Of the government age
the 3 per cents, amounting to 5000, 600, 900:
AZ per cents, amounting to $3.50, 600, 600;
and the $737, OOO,O 900 4 per cents are not
payable until 1891 and 1907 respectively. IF
the surpluashall hereafter be as large as the
treasury estimates now indicate the per cent
bonds may all be redeemed at least four years
before any Of the 4l2 per cents can be called
in. The latter at the same rate of accumula-
*tion OF surplus oan be paid at matur-
ity, and the. moneys requisite for
the redemption OF the 4 per cents will
be in the treasury long before these obligations
become payable There are cogent reasons,
however, Hhy the national indebtedness should
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
DEPARTMENT OF JU STICF.
REGULATION OF FEES


The attorney general crincizes ia his report
the provisions Of the existing law fixing the
fees of jurors and witnesses in the federal
courts. The provisions are chiefly contained
in the act of February z6, 1858, though some
Of then, were introduced into the at
from statutes which had been passed
many years previous. II is mani
fest that such compensation as might,
when these laws were enacted, lave
been just and reasonable, would in many in
stances be justly remanded at the present day
as inadequate I concur with the attorney gen
eral in the belief that the statutes should be
revised by which these fees are regulated. So,
too, should he the laws to regulate the CON-
psnsation of district attorneys and marsbals.
They should be paid wholly by salary, instead
of in part by fees, as is now the case. The
change would prove to be q measure Of econ
omy and would discourage tho institution Of
needless and oppressive legal proceedings
which it is to be feared Lave in some instances
been conducted for the mere sake Of personal
gain
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

The commissioners appointed under the act
Of Jan. Is, 1883, entitled IAN act to regulate
and improve the civil service of the United
States" entered promptly upon the discharge
of their duties. A series of rules framed ia &C
cordance with the spirit of the statute
was approved and promulgated by the
president Ia some particulars where
in they seemed defective those
rules were subsequently amended 1t will ho
perceived that they discountenanced any poEt-
zeal Or religious tests for admission 10 the
offices of the public service TO which the statute
relates. The statute related in it's original form
to the classified clerkships in the several exec
utive departments at Washington, numbering
about 5000, and to similar positions IN the
customs districts and postofices whore as
many as fifty persons arc employed. classl
fcation Of these positions, analogous 10 that ex-
listing in the Washington offices, WAS duly made
before the law went into effect. Eleven customs
districts and twenty three postotices were
thus brought under the immediate operation
of the statute. The annual report OF the civil
service commission, which will 5000 be submit
ted to congress, will doubt'ess afford the Meas
ure of more definite judgment than ! am now
prepared to express as TO the merits of the new
system. 7 am persuaded that it's effects have
thus far proved beneficial. Its practicable
methods appear to be adequate for the ends
proposed, and there has been 10 serious diff
Guilty in CARRYING them into effect Since the
10th Of July last no person, so far l
aware, has been appointed to the public serv-
ice in the classified portions thereof at Any Of
the Departments or at any Of the postottices
and cl1stoms districts above Named except
tent in the basis of the examination held IN
conformity to rules
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14

From the above figures it appears that the
total number of scholars IN the State, enrolled
and entitled to apportionment, is Zoo $40
Hennepin county shows the largest total-l5,-
222-and Lake county the smallest-2O. Ram
sey county has 8, $40. OF those not entitled to
epportionment Hennepin has $50 and Ramsey
80 Lake again brings up the rear, with A.
Enrolled during the winter term in the State,
161, 1903; during the summer term, l39, 49,.
The average daily attendance was 81, O48. Of
teachers employed there were during the win
ter months, 1, $50 males and 2,975 females;
during the summer term, 653 males and
1857 females. Watonwan county paid the
lowest average salary TO male teachers
est-P7 ]. &C. Hubbard county paid the lowest
average salary to female teachers-$2O per
month-and Aitl1en county the highest-$55. s.,
Hennepin county paid an average monthly
salary of $50 so to male and P34 % to female
teachers. Ramsey county paid $53.76 to
males. and 1886. OS to females.
Milan N. Pond, an old and respected citi.
zen of Faribault was shot twice by Mr. s
Mary M. Swartz. One shot proved to be a
flesh wound in the back. The other,
though not necessarily fatal, is considered
veryiser10us, being In the right side of the
abdomen, and the ball has not as yet been
found. In an interview with Mrs. Swartz,
she says Pond has been traducing her
character and had been the cause, through
his vile ISLANDERS, of the separation between
her husband and herself; had robbed her of
her home and happiness, and when he at
tempted to deny it, and lay it to her hus-
band, she became so exasperated that she
drew the weapon and fired. The woman is
in jail.
P. Schleiger, of Grand Meadow, Mimi,
lately made an assignment, with liabilities
of S. 500 and assets 800.
Following are the names of the residents
ana corporations of Lake City who pay
personal property tax of more than $100
G. F. Benson, $25267 J. G. Doughty & Co.,
$1O8.72; Samuel Edes, $145.46; s. K. Gates,
. 1854 90; E. J. Meyroth, $l31 rs; George Pat
ton, $170.13; @. F. Rogers, $141 80; Richard
son Brothers, $102 Sd; J. W. Ray, $119.76.
David Wood, $4172O; Lake City bank, $3.50;
First National bank $749.
A double wedding took place at Worth
ington on the 4th. Milton P. Mann, book
keeper'o the Mobiles County bank, was mar
ried to Miss Nellie A. Montgomery Of Han
cock. N. Y. and Marcellus Webb of Lake
CRYSTAL to Miss Jennie s. Mann. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. II. Fl. Hart,
of St. Paul, secretary of the state board of
corrections and charities.
The wife and four children of Stewart of
Swan River, Morrison county. died within
few hours, of diptheria, and were buried
together.
A company has BEEN formed at slayton
with $4,000 capital, to build Touring
mill.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
NISCELLANEO
THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

LII fhfoIl'EN1iaL SOCCESSlON.
At the time when the present executive Gu
tered upon his Office, his death, removal, resig-
nation OF inability to discharge his duties would
)tional head. 1t is possible, of course,
that similar contingency may again
|arise, unless the wisdom of congress
shall provide against its recurrence. The sen
ate, at its lastsession, after full consideration
Ipassed act relating to this subject winch will
now, trust, commend itself to the approval of
both houses of congress. The clauses of the
constitution, upon which must depend any law
regulating the presidential succession, presents
also for solution other questions of para
mount Importance. These questions relate to
the proper Interpretation Of the phrase tina
|said office" Our law providing, that when
1.-THE president ehall suffer from such
Inability, the presidential Office shall deyolye
upon the vice president who must himself, un-
der the circumstances, give place to such offer
as congress may by law appoint to act as
and interesting inquiries which are suggested
by these words of the constitution They were
fully stated in my first communication to con-
|gress. and have since been the subject of fire.
Iquent deliberations in that body. 1t is greatly
to be hoped that these momentuous Questions
will find speedy solution, lest an emergency
should ARISE when longer delay will be inpos-
sIble, and any determination, albeit the w1sest
may furnish cause for anxiety and alarm For
the reasons fully stated in my last annual
message, / repeat my Recommendation
that congress propose all amendment to that
provision Of the constitution which prescribed
that the formalites for the enactment of laws.
whereby in respect to bills for the appropris-
ton of public moneys, the executive may be
enabled, while giving his approval to particu-
lar items, to interpose his veto as to such others
as do not commend themselves to his judg~
ment
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
Of the constitution confers the rights of eiti-
zenship upon all persons born or nat,,ralized
in the United States, and subject to the iuris-
diction thereof. It was the special PURPOSE of
this amendment to insure members Of the
colored race the full intsrment Of civil
and political rights. Certain statuatory pro
visions, intended to secure the enforcement: of
those rights, have been recently declared un-
Constitutional by the supreme court ANY legis-
lstion whereby congress may lawfully SUPPLE
ment the guarantees which the constitution
affords for the equal enjoyment by all the citi-
zens OF the United States of every right. priv
lege and immunity of citizenship. viii re.
ceiye my unhesitating approval III 9. :,
tSlgnedI CHESTER a. ARTHuB
WAsH1NaToN, D. O., Dec 8, 1883. ) -.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
Source.
ErOn cuSthmS

From customs. 800. i
From internal reve-l
nue. ..-...-....-.-t
From sales Of publ
lie lands. !
From tax on circu-
lation and deposit
in national banks.
From repayment
of interest and
sinking fund Pa
.cit1c railroad
From customs fees,
etc...........,.
From fees, consular.
letters patent and
lands.
From proceeds OF
sales of govern
ment prOperty....j
From profits, COIN
age, etc.
From deposits for
surveying lands. i
From revenues of
District of Column
bla. ..............
From miscellaneous
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Report OF State Superintendent Kieh1e o.
Scholars Entitled to Apportionment--Aver-
ago Attendance
State Superintendent Of instruction D. L.
;Kiehle has prepared the following table Of Sta
5tistics relating to the public schools of the
State:
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
THE TREASURY.
4 GRATIFYING EXHIRIT.

The report of the secretary of the treasury
gives q full and interesting exhibit of the
financial condition of the country. 1t shows
that the ordinary revenues from all sources for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1888. amounted
to 1898, 2s7, 5S1.95, whereof there was re-
ceiyod from customs, 1914, 7O6, 496. So; from
internal revenue, $l44, 72O, 36S. 95; from sale
of public lands. 81 go, S6A ~; from tax on
circulation and deposits Of national banks,
SO, / !, 00S 50; from profits on coinage of
bullion deposits and assays, 81, 400, 2O5. II;
from other sources, $l7, 1888, 637. SO, Total,
%39S, 28l, 5Sl,95 For the same period the
ordinary expenditures were:
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14

Total ......-.. $247 023.032 97i $95.966, 917 O3
The actual and estimated expenses for the
same period:
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
Total ordinary ex-I
penditures. ..,.l

Total receints. act
ual and estimated. !
Total. expenditures, |
actual and estim't'dl
Total estimated amt
due sinking fund /
Leaving balance Of
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14

.z65,4O8, 1877 81
l32,S79,444 IL
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14
.34,179,256 90
44,s5o,7oo 90
46,556 SO
65.36O,25O 90

Est. for re- Actual for 'S3.
naming three quarter ending
quarters of y'r. Sept. 80.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29
az, F.E.A... rl.r r,l.

The True Fissure states that the dag
pole promised to'the candelsrians by
Governor Adams. has not yt, arrived.
all reports to the contrary no,vith-
standing. Well. in vie~ Of al the facts.
that the Governor ha, rriuss d TO &C, in
the matter. Is nat sur rising. Livery
newspaper in the Western rart Of the
State, inimicsl to the Governor. has en-
deavored by petty inuendo and uu-
friend. comment to cast reflections
upon his integrity. hoping by such ex
asperatiog to cosrce him iu'o
Submission to their dict.tes-in order
that they might then impute hi, com
rAsaneo to u want OF moral stamina TO
resist their clamors. rather than 10 tine
voluntary fulhllment OF u promise.
Governor Adams has earned the r.pu-
tatIon Of an honest and honorable mau,
aud had ho not been scurril!ously at
tackled by hostile newspapers, for thr
purposes above mentioned, the prom
Used pole would have been already
planted. That the Governor will make
his promise good, there is no shadow of
doubt. but it will not DO while euvious
political pups are barking at his heels.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29
lizard From nj r.nst.

The Telegraph LAST week announced
that the anous English swimmer,
Captain Matthew Webb. would on Sat
urday yenture the descent of Niagara
Falls in a rubber ball filled with air,
taking the chances Of getting through
the operation alive to enjoy h fruits
of the feat. Nothing further WAS heard
from the Captain, or his alleged rx-
pioit, until receipt of the following dIs-
patch under date Of Tuesday:
Captain Webb persisted in an at
tempt TO swim the Niagara river a,
Whirlpool rapids this afternoon. lie
was Towed out III a sIit TO q point in
the river opposite the old Maid Of The
Mist" landing. 10y John LlcClhy, II fer
ryman at The falls, and lepped from
the boat At two minutes past four. The
daring swimmer passed the bis rapid
all night, keeping in the middle of tue
stream. When he struck the whirlpool
nc vas rushed to the American side.
aN- NV "SSS'9' - N''Ati-NtNi ~
from thirty TO forty feet high, ani the
last seen of him he was throwing Vi
one arm. His intention had been To
pass the whirlpool on the Canada side.
His shoot Of the rapids was extremely
thrilling. Tho refusal of the railroad
hotels TO have any thing to do with
what they termed Ills going to his
DEATH" rendered the affair, financially,
a failure. The river has been searched
for two miles below the whirlpool, but
no trace of Webb was found. Il is gen
orally believed that he was engulfed in
the whirlpool. Webb leaves q wife anu
two children in England. lie va
watched by people in carriages, but
they could not get ahead Of him. Fred
Kyle, manager for Captain Webb, hu,
arrived from the falls, and gives up ali
hope Of his recovery"
The extreme ~gaaziness Of the frs,
proposition is further reduced in text
urs by the entire absence OF cohesive
mss between that and THIS lateI
Munchausenism. The discovery that
Webb hasn't beeu this size the Allan.
tic. lataly. would not be u. all suT.
prising.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29
The Cholera Spreading.

Latest reports from Egypt axe that
the cholcFa is spreading in every di-
recti IL, the mortality hourly increas-
ing. The deaths at CAIRO really mum
beTcd 4SI between 3 n. IN. and 6 p. III.
IN Sunday. besides q fearful mortality
among the Egy ptian artillery. The ma.
tive troops are pauic-stricken and their
British Officers have ID buy the dead.
At Alexandria, a Sanitary Commission
consisting Of General Sir Evelyn Wood.
Baker Pasha and General Stephenson,
will be formed Immediately. The in
Eabilants OF The most infected portion
Of Buiak Lave been s,nt 20 TGrah, ten
miles up the Nile. aud their houses
burned. The officials OF the Depart
meut OF State have been removed to
HeloUan, u few miles further up the
Nile, whrro they are encamped. All
business aud agricultural pursuits are
suspended; customs receipts are de
creasing; two months delay in legal
judgments has been granted. In the in
terror the rinderpest is worse, aud the
LntIves continue to eat diseased meat.
At the town OF Fnreseoor. where there
is neither doctors nor medicines, lcp
rosy has appeared, ani is rapidly
spreading. The Sanitary Commission
has decided that all passengers must
undergo a medical examination before
leaving Egypt. The commission il con-
sideriug permanent sanitary measures
to lie enforced against vessels arriving
at Egyptian ports fem bombay. Sew.
eral doctors. With forty assistants, have
been ordered to proceed from India to
Egypt at orce. Advices from Bombay,
India, ahd from Oaxaca, Mexico, arc
that cholera has broken out at both
those places.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29

G. j.. Thorn, n native of New York,
aged 81 years and PriRcipnI Of the pub,
lie school ut San Lorenzo, Cal, d,lib.
nrntely shot himself to death in hi.
room, Saturday last. There is every
reason to believe that the cause of tine
rash act vas the discovery Of the fac,
that his Huncce was II strurupet, aud
during the period OF his courlship was
tho kept mistress Of another man.
MIR. Thorn, though still n young
msn, evidently entertained some oil.
fashioned notions. Tho typical yOung
mau Of our day would readily recover
from the shock under which Thorn,
sensitive nature sank. aud Immediately
transferring his wounded af ctions to
some other Of the sex. with the clixi,
Of II new love would heal them ~ sound
as u trade dollar, inside Of lyoly,
hours.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29

The Cherry Greek News says the
match race between P. weber's black
col. Charley" and Ben Miler's Fox
hall. for $1,000 . side. came Oh at the
race course Friday afternoon. We were
not present. but learn from those who
were that ''FoIhRlr' got away with the
haif-mile dash in 54n seconds, coming
in fully three lengths ahead Of the
Cherry Greek colt. Betting was rather
slim. Cherry Checkers in some instan'
ces Offering as high as ten to N on
their fayor:te, with no takers. Had
Beu Miller. Capt. Drake. sud WIN. Err
sSine had the confidence in '.Fo1hall'
that the people here backed the home
colt with, they could have broke the
town.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29

Hardy, the Polk City. Iowa, mur.
dvrer, was taken from Jail at Harlan.
aud hung by a party of ubout fifty men
Tuesday morning Mt 3 o'clock. Tn,
mob came from the direction of Marnr
tied their Lors,s in a grove about GA
mile from town, aud came IN rrguiu
order with a rops and armed wiz
s~leiges. They tied caller Wrlkiu-
and made his WHO give W tho keys {
the Jail. They then unlocked the doc
Of the Gel, whcro the prisoner was con
fined. took him out and hung him NJ
While hanging, they shot him, nm.
afterwards took him down and threw
him into tho river. After The mob h
wreaked their vengeance, thy ven.
peaooaGly away.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29

An important mining sale has been
male recently at OsceoIa. in White
Pine county, 10 San Francisco men.
The machinery for u quartz mill is al
ready ut tho terminus Of the Utah
southern raIlfpai. ready for shipment
thither by team. Lumber i being de-
!Ivered on the ground for the building
Jim White j. in chtrge of construction
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29

A BATH moro dispatch Of the eth says:
an accident occurred az North Point
rivoli 10 an eScursou purity on Pataps-
CO Bay, ten miles from this city. about
10 O'Clock last night by which from
sixty to seventy lives Etre lost. The
accident was occasioned by the giving
way II the outer portion of the pier on
which several hundred persons were
cougregate1. awaiting ide arrival Of thu
boat to return to this city. The locality
is ON a small bay, distant about two
miles from tho North Point Light
house.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-07-29
= SCHEME.

A Boston dispatch ssys: 'At a meet
ing of strikers. the proposed establish
meut OF a cooperative telegraph COM
pany was discussed AID favorabIy re-
ceived. rho capital stock will be
twenty millions, in untransferable
shares of five dollars each. Three.
quarters Of the entire capital stock must
De held by operators and members of
labor organizations. IL was stated at
the meeting that bankers snd mer-
chants had already agreed to subscribe
the other five millions, and n committee
was appointed to arrange details"
The carrying out OF this or some sim
liar project, would efFec;ually relieve
the public from the outrageous extor-
tious Of the Western Union; and q com
pany 30 organized as to preclude its
consolidation with, or absorption by
that colossal monopoly, is about the
only scheme by which its robber clutch
can be made 10 relax from the public
throat.