Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-12-04

previous by about $54,OOO,OO0. The falling
off in revenue from customs made nearly
$40, ,OOO, 900 of this deficiency, and about$ $23,-
600, 900 of the remainder was due to the di-
minished receipts from the internal taxa
tiQp.
The President concurs with the Secretary
of the Treasury in recommending the inn
mediate suspension of the coinage OF silver
dollars and the issuance of silver certificates.
He discusses his reasons at length, and then
refers to the excise taxes as follows:
In my annual message of 1882, l recon-
mended the abolition of all excise taxes eX-
cept those relating to distilled spirits. This
recommendation is now renewed. In case
these taxes shall be abolished, revenues that
will remain to the Government Will, IN my
opinion, not only suffice to meet its reason
able expenditures, but will afford surplus
large enough to permit such tarlrt reductloh
as may seem advisable when the results
of recent revenue laws ana cominercial
treaties shall have shown in what quarters
these reductions can be most judiciously
effected.
After reviewing our shipping interests
and devoting considerable space to the War
and Navy Departments, he refers to the
Postoffice Department as follows:
The report of the Postmaster General &C.
quaints you with the present condition and
needs of the postal service. 1tdiscloses the
gratifying fact that the loss Of revenue from
the reduction in the rate of letter postage
recommended in my message of December
4, 1882, and effected by the act of March, 3,
1883, has been much less than was general
ly anticipated.
NV recommendation of this reduction
was based upon the belief that the actual
falling off in receipts from letter postage for
the year Immediately succeeding the change
of rate would be S3,0O0,0O0. Ithas proved to
be only 81, ,275, 900. This is trustworthy in
dication that the revenue will soon be re-
stored to its former volume by the natural
increase of sealed correspondence. l con-
fidently repeat therefore, the recommenda-
tion of nv last annual message, that the sim
gle rate postage upon drop letters be re-
duced to one cent wherever the payment Of
two cents is now required by law. The
double rate is now only required at offices
where the carrier system is in operation,
and it appears that at all these offices the
increase in the tax upon local letters defrays
the cost not only of its own collection and
delivery but of the collection and delivery
of all other mail matter. This is an inc
quality that ought no longer to exist. l
approve the recommendation of the Post
rating of first class matter should be one
ounce instead of one-half ounce, as it now is.
| In view of the statistics furnished by the
Department, it may we'll be considered
whether the change would result in any
loss of revenue. That it would greatly pro-
mote the convenience of the public, is be-
yond. dispute.
OF the department of justice the Presi-
ident says:
The Attorney General renews the recon-
mendation contained in his report Of last
year touching the fees of witnesses and ju-
rors. He favors radical change in the fee
bill, the adoption of system by which at
torneys and marshals Of the United States
shall be compensated solely by salaries, and
the erection by the government Of penl-
tentiary for the confinement Of offenders
against the laws:
In reviewing the Department of the In
terror for the past year, in which is in
cluded the Territorial governments in the
Union, he makes the following reference
to the Mormon question:
The report of the Utah Commission will
be read with interest. 1t discloses the re-
suit of the recent legislation looking to the
prevention and punishment of poligamy in
that Territory. | still believe that if that
abominable practice can be suppressed by
law, it can only be by the most radical leg
islation consistent with the restraint of the
Constitution. again recommend, there
fore, that Congress assume absolute polite
al control Of the Territory of Utah, and
provide for the appointment of Commis-
sion with governmental powers as in its
Judgment may justly and wisely be put
into their hands.
mil ri 10 ni1 CVStpm
recommending the early enactment of a
bankrupt law by Congress, and also recon-
fnending that Congress confer upon Gen.
Grant suitable pension, the message con-
cludes as follows:
Certain of the measures that seem to me
necessary and expedient, l have now, in
obedience to the Constitution, recommend
ed for your adoption. AS respects others OF
no less Importance, l shall content myself
with renewing the recommendations al
ready made to the Congress, without re-
lating the grounds upon which such recon-
mendations were based. The preservation
of forests on the public domain, the grant
ing of Government aid for popular educa-
ton, the amendment of the Federal Consti-
tuition so as to make effective the disap-
proval by the President of particular items
in appropriation bills, the enactment of
Statutes in regard to the filling of vacan-
cies in the Presidential Office and the deter
mining of vexed questions respecting Pres
idential inability, are measures which may
Justly receive your serious consideration.
AS the time draws nigh when am to re-
tire from public service, I cannot refrain
from expressing to the members of the
National Legislature with whom l have
been brought into personal and official in
tercourse, my sincere appreciation OF their
unfailing courtesy and of their harmonious
cooperation with the Executive in so
many measures calculated to promote the
best interests of the nation'; and to my fel-
low citizens generally 1 acknowledge deep
sense of obligation for the support which
they have accorded me in my administra-
ton of the Executive Department of this
Government.
DEATH OF Mr.. RICHARD TOZER.-The
many friends of Mr.. Richard Tozer will
learn with exceeding sorrow Of his untimely
death, which occurred about o'clock last
evening. Some five or six weeks ago Mr.
Tozer met with very serious accident in
being thrown from a wagon by runaway
horse, and he never entirely recovered from
his injuries, though the immediate cause
of his death was pneumonia, after ten days