The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-10

Latin union mentioned in our coinage
act, embarrassed with their silver
currency, have Just completed ~
agreement among themselves that NJ
more silver shall be coined by theiI
respective governments, and thai
such as has been already coined and
In circulation. shall be redeemed In
gold by the country of It's coinage
The resort to this cxpedient by those
countries may well arrest the atten-
ton of those who suppose that we
can succeed, without shock or injury,
In the attempt to circulate, upon its
merits, all the silver we
may coin under the provis-
ions of our silver coinage act.
The condition in which our treas
ury may be placed by persistence In
our present course, is a matter of cou-
Germ to every patriotic citizen, who
does not desire his government to
pay In silver such of its obligations.
Nor should our condition be such as
to oblige us in a prudent MANAGE
ment Of our affairs, to stop calling in
the payment of interest bearing obli-
cations which we have the right to
discharge and thus avoid payment of
further interest thereon. The So
called debtor class, for whose benefit
the confirmed compulsory coinage of
silver is insisted upon, are not dis
honest because they are debtors, and
they should not be suspected Of a de-
sire to jeopadize the financial safety
of the country, in order that they
may cancel their present debts, by
paying the same Ia deprecated dol
lars: nor should IL be forgotten that
IL 10 not the rich or the money lender
alone that must submit TO such re-
adjustment, which II enforced by the
government and the debtors, the pit
lance of the widow and the orphan,
aud the incomes ofth helpless bene-
ticiaries of all kinds would be dis.
astrously reduced.
The dapositors in savings-banks and
other institutions which hold in trust
savings of the poor, when their little
accumulations are scaled down to
meet the order of things. would IN
their distress, painfully realize the
delnsion of promise made to them
that plentiful money would improve
their condition. We have now on
hand all the silver dollars necessary 10
supply the present needs of the people
aud to satisfy those who, from senti-
ment. wish to see thu IN in circulation:
and if their coinage is suspended,
they can be readily obtained by all
who desire them, as, # the need of
more Is at ally time apparent, their
coinage may be renewed.
capital timidly shriuks from trade
and investors are unwilling to take
the chauae of the questionable shape
in which their money will be returned
to them; while enterprise that is at
risk against which care and sagaciOus
management do not protect them, aud
as a consequence lacks employ mont,
and suffering and distress are visited
upon a portion of our fellow citizens,
especially entitled to the careful con-
sideration Of those charged with the
duties oflegislation and who now ap-
peal to us so strongly for a good aud
stable currency, rs the vase army of
unemployed and recommend the
suspension of the compulsory coinage
of silver dollars directed by
the law passed in February, 1878.
The steamboat inspection service
on the 30th day June 1885; was COM
posed of one hundred and forty per-
sons, including officers, clerks and
messengers, the expenses of the SER
vice over the receipts were S3S, 1922 %.
During the fiscal year, the special in-
spector of foreign steam vessels or
ganized under the law passed in 1882,
was maintained during the year at
an expense of $3,66i,I6 Since the
close of the fiscal year reductions
have been made in the force employed,
which will result in the saving during
the yea. of $1,000, without affecting
the efficiency of the service.
The supervising surgeon-general
reports that during the fiscal year A.
ia patients have received relief
through the marine hospital service,
of whom 12,803 were treated In hos
pitsls, and 2s,9l1 at dispensaries. Ac-
tive and effective efforts have been
made through the medium of this
source to protect the country against
an invasion of cholera, which has
prevailed in Spain and France, and
smallpox, which recently broke out
in Canada.
The most gratifying results have
attended the operations of the life
saving service during the last fiscal
year. The observance of the pro-
vision of the law, requiring that the
appointment OF the force employed
in the service, be made solely with
reference to their fitness. and withoui
reference to their political or party
afiiliBtion, has secured tho result
which may confidently be expected in
any brach of public employment,
where such rule is applied, and, as a
consequence, this service Is composed
of men well qualified Tor the
performance of their dangerous
and:cxceptionally important duties,
of whom 2,i2S were saved and only
ITO lost, other lives which were i'm
perilled, though not by disasters to
shipping, were also rescued and a
large amount o. property was saved
through the aid of this service. The
cost of its maintainance during the
year was $S3S,47i43.
The work of the coast aud geodetiC
survey was, during the last fiscal year
carried on within the boundaries and
ON the coasts of thirty two states, two
territories and the District of Column
bia. In July last, certain irregulari-
ties were found to exist in the man
sgement of this bureau, which led "a
prompt investigation of its method
the abuses ofwhich were brought Il
light by this examination, also thu
reckless disregard of duty and In thu
Interests of the government devel
oped on, the part OF some of thos
connected with the service
made change of superintendent!
aud other officers necessary
Since the bureau has been in new
hands an introduction of economic
and the application OF business meth
, DDS have produced an an importau
service to the government, and prom
: Use more satisfactory results. Thi
: service has, never been regulated b,
| anything but the H. ost indefinite legH
: enactments and the most unsatisfac