The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-18

hat the c0nrs0 Of the gov
Dent expSehSsoe = silver coinage would be
eminent IN tes2Fa - an OF congress. Pros
speedily changed by RFse hreshold. because Of
periiy hesitates trpofl gRfs rounding this
dangers and uncertainties ~. srom trade.
question. Capital tii1fdly shYfa&s = ,ancas
aud investors are unwilling 20 take tass "
OF the questionable shape in Which their Iaops-
Will be returned to them, White enterprise Raats
at a risk against which care and Saeacious ffaE-
agement do not protect. As a necessary tchsps
quence, labor lacks employment, ara suffering
and distress are visited upon a por5ica or our
fellow citizens especially entitled to the careful,
consideration OF those charged with duties of
LEGISLATION. No interest appeals to US so strongly
Tor a safe and stable currency as the vast army
OF the employed, / recommend the SUSPENSION
OF the compulsory coinage of silver dollars,
directed by the law passed in February, 1878.
THE STEAMBOAT INSPECTION
serving on the Both of June, 1885. was COM
posed OF l40 persons, including officers, clerks
and messengers. The expenses OF the services
over the receipts were $13S, S22.2 p. During the
hscal year the special inspection of foreign
steam vessels was organized undert the law passed
In 1882, and maintained during the year at an
expense of 1856, Gal .63. Since the close of the
nscal year reductions have been made on the
force employed which will result in q saving
during the current year of $4,000 without
afecling the efficiency or the service. The
supervising surgeon general reports that during
the fiscal year Al, TIA patients have received
relief through marine hospital service. OF whom
l2,SO5 We're treated in hospitals and 2S,9l1 at
dispensaries. Active and effective efforts have
been made through the medium of TINS
service to protect the country against
an invasion Of cholera, which has pre-
vailed In Spain and France, and the
smallpox which recently brcks out in Canada.
The most gratifying results have attended the
operations OF the life-saving service during the
last fiscal year. TIL observance OF the provis-
ion of law requiring the appointment of the
force employed in the service to be made solely
with reference to their fitness, and without ref
erence to their political or party utilization" has
secured the result which may confidently be ex-
pected In any branch OF public employment
where such q rule is applied. AS a consequence,
this service Is composed of men well qualified
tor the performance of their dangerous and ex-
cepttonally important duties. The number of
g. atoms in commission at the close of the year
was BOZ. The number OF disasters To vessels
and crafts OF all kind within their field OF ac-
ton was All. The number OF persons endan-
gered in such disasters was 2,439, OF whom
2,42s were saved, and only 1lo lost. Other lives
which were imperiled, though not by disasters
TO shipping, were also rescued, ana a large
amount OF property was saved through the aid
or this service. The amounts OF maintenance
during the year were $~S2S,474.43. The work or
phe
COAST AND SURVEY
was during the last fiscal year carried on within
the boundaries and of the coasts of thirty-two
states, two { e :ritories and the District of Column
bia. In July last ceriain irregularities were
found to exist In the management of this bureau
which led to a prompt Investigation of its meth
DDS. The abuses which were brought to light by
this examination, and the reckless disregard of
duty and the interests of the government de-
VSlDpcu Oh INC pdTb OF sOLle Vi those cOUleCJeu
with the service made a change OF supeIintend-
ency and a few or it's other officers necessary.
Since the bureau has been in new hands an intro
duction of economies and application OF busl-
ness methods have produced an important saw
ing to the government, and a promise of more
useful results. This service has never been reg
ulated by anything but the most Indefinite legal
e1actmentsa and the most unsatisfactory rules.
It was many years ago sanctioned. apparently
for a purpose regarded as temporary and related
to a survey Of our coast; but now, having gained a
place on the appropri atoms made by congress, 1t
has gradually taken to itself power and object not
contemplated in its creation, and extended It's
operations until IL sadly needs legislative atten-
ton. So far as a further survey Of our coast is
concerned there seems to be a propriety In trans
ferring that work to the navy department The
other duties now in charge of this establishment,
il they cannot he profitably attached to some
existing department or bureau, should be prose-
cuted under q law exactly defining their scope,
andwith a careful discrimination between the SCI
entific inquiries which may properly be assumed
by the government and those which should be
undertaken by state authority or by individual
enterprise. 1t is hoped that the report OF the
congressional committee, heretofore appointed
TO investigate this and other like matters, will
aid in the accomplishment OF proper legislation
on this subject.