Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-06


 -ba,r retirement, is one of constantly importance. It seems 10 oe yenerally conceded that the law govern 'na this matter exacts from the banks s1cessIye security, and that upon their present bond deposits, larger circuia, ion than IS now allowed may De grah'eu with safety. u. Greely relies expedition reflects great credi, upon all who contributed to. HIS success. ~
 Tn tbls. the last of the stated mes ,aCes that I shall have the honor to transmit to the Congress Of the Oulteu Stntes. I cannot too strongly urge upon tbeir attention the duty of restoring our nary ns rapidly as possible tO the high state of efficiency which formerly 1t. As the long peace tnat has lullei us into a sense Of tancieu security, may at any tune be dISturDec' it is plain that the policy Of strengthen, ing this arm of the service Is dictated by considerations of a wise economy or the just rrgard for our future tranquility and of true appreciation of the dignity and honor Of the Republic.
 
 anew the enactment of a statute Tor the of crimes committed on indian reservations, and recommends the passage of a bill now pending In the House of Representatives Tor the purchase of a tract of ls,OOO square miles from the Sioux reservation. Both the-e measures are worthy of approval I concur with hlm also m advising the repeal of the pre- emptiOn law; the of statutes resolving the present legal complications touching iapsed grants tp railroad companies and the funding of the debt of the several Pacific railroads under such guaranty AS shail effectualiy insure its ultimate 
 Reference has more than once been made to policy this government as regards the extension of our foreign trade. 1t seems proper to declare the general principles that should m my opinion underlie our national efforts m tbis direction. The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural market of supply and demand. It is from them We should obtain what We do not produce or do not produce in sufficiency, and 1t Is to them that the surplus production of our fields. our mills and workshops should flow and under conditions that will eaualize or favor them m comparison with foreign competition.
 tSigued,) CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
 President.
 Washington. Dec. 1st, 1881.
 SAN FRAScIsCo, Dec. 2-In the police court this morning, +. II. Lloyd. appear ing as counsel for Geo. W. Emerson, who shot X. B. Spreckels in the arm at the time of the latter's recent attack on NJ. II. De YOuuP of the Chronicle. asked that the chaEge of assault tO murder against Emerson be dismissed. He stated that the prosecuting attorney and counsel for Spreckels had agreed to this, knowing that there was no evidence to offer such as would warrant Emerson being committed for trial. The prescott ing attorney said be did not think de- fendant could be held on evidence to be offered. The court took the matter under advisement. As attorney for the Spreckels prosecution Mir. Lloyd, asked a continuance of Spreckels' examination until the llth inst, as M. De Young at present Is not able to appear, and m the opinion of the attending physician will not be for ten days at least. The con- tinuance was granted.
 WnKEsBARRR, Pa. Dec. 3.-An ex- tensive cave-in took place on Slope ,. operated by Linderman, Skeer < Co.,, at Stockton, last Saturday, throwing four hundred miners and laborers out of em- ployment.
 NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-A sporting enter tainment. for the benefit of the Hncking Valley miners fund, took place at Madi- son Square Garden tonight, and about 5000 was netted for the fund.
 WAsHINGroS. Dec. 3.-A Brussels dis patch says: Upon inquiry at the State Department, at Washington, it was learned that no information corrobora- tive of the reported resignation of Minis ter Fish had vet been received.
 SAx FRASCIsCu, Dec. 3.-Itis reported that nearly a thousand men have been discharged during the past three months from the roads under the control of the Central Pacific railroad. Four hundred men have been discharged at Sacra- mento. within the past week. General business depression is given as the cause.
 NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-The committee on the organization of the independent Irish Americans decided tO continue the assembly district organizations under the name of the Irish American Protec- tive Union. and adopted an address re- quiring their fellow-countrymento organ lze an Irish American Protective Union club everywhere in the United Ststes to resist English free trade.
 SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 3.-The cxamis ner's St. Louis special gives an account of a duel between John II. Diggs, edi- tor Of the Marie's County Courier and Thomas NJ. Watkins, editor of the Her ald It was the result of bitter warfare in which the most violent personalities were indulged in. DiSgs attacked with knife. but before he could use it the latter drew a revolver and shot him dead.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The nomina- lions of Hugh McCulloch of Maryland. of the treasury; Frank HattOn of Iowa. postmaster general; General Schuyler Crosby of New York, first as- sistant postmaster general; Jas. Harlan of Iowa, presiding fudge of the court of the Alabama claims; Wm. l.. Scraggs of Georgia, envoy extra ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Inc United States to the United States of John Baker of Illinois. minis Ter resident and consul general of the United States to Venezuela.
 NEW YORK, Dec 3.-The Sun says No president ever proposed more im- portant measures and none has stated his ideas in simpler and clearer style.
 The Herald praises the message as does the Tribune. the World, the Times
 The Sun says: The most important subject referred to in the message of the President. is the treaty with Nicaragua Tor the construction ot an interoceanic canal
 The Herald says: The terms of the treaty are such as will bring the Clayton