The Cecil Whig., 1885-12-12
PR RESIDENTIAL MESSAGE
What President Cleveland Says of
National Questions.
EXPENSES OF TIE GOVERNMENT.

dians -Ti,i Service Reform-rubIc
Lands The Mormon Question. Fees of
MarshaIs, Etc.
The Presidents first annual mes
sage was presented to Congress at
noon on Tuesday last. The following
are its salient features. After referring
to the death Of Vice President Hen
bricks, the President says: The consti-
tuition, which requires those chosen to
legisiate for the people to annually
meet in the discharge of their solemn
trust, also requires the President to
give to Congress information of the
state of the Union and recommend to
their consideration such measures as
he shall deem necessary and expe-
dient. The President then has a great
deal to say about our relations with the
foreign powers. Stating his happiness
to announce that the relations of the
United States with all foreign powers
continues to be friendly He speaks
of the complication between the Ar
gentine Confederation and the Falk-
land Islands and states that this gov
ernment considers the claim of the
argentine power for indemnity from
this nation as groundless. In consid-
ering the foreign relationships he goes
on to speak of Mr.. keilley's late ven
ture with the Austrian government the
treaty made by his predecessor with
the Nlcara5an government for the con-
struction Of canal through Nicaragan
territory by and at the sole cost of the
American government; the harmony
with the Chinese government and the
condition of the question with the
Chinese in the west ; the attitude of
Germany towards the existing treaties
of naturalization remarking that the
temperate and just attitude taken by
this government with regard to this
class of question will doubtless lead to
a satisfactory understanding of the
question of North American fisheries of
which he says he recommended that
congress provide for the appointment
of commission in which the govern
ments of the United States and Great
Britain shall be respectively repre-
sented to settle upon an equitable and
honorable basis the question of the
fishing rights of the two governments
and their respective citizens on the
coast of the United States and British
North America of the question con-
corning our citizens in Turkey, stating
that no statuary provision exists pro
vldlnS means for renouncing citizen
| ship by an American citizen native
born or naturalized nor for terminating
and vacating an improper acquisition
of.cltizenship; Of the Spanish treaty
and the question of duties with that
country and of the Diplomatic service
which he thinks should be given more
careful attention by congress and at
every post where representative is
necessary the salary should be SO
graded as to permit him to live with
comfort. The President has taken
great care with his treatment of these
foreign subjects. The remaining por-
ton of his address we will give in brief
synopsis as the nature and impor-
tance Of the subjects treated permit:
TARIFF ON ART WORKS.
Past Congresses have had under
consideration the advisability of abol-
ishing the discrimination made by the
tariff law in favor of the works of
American artists. The odium of the
policy which subjects to high rate of
duty the paintings of foreign artists and
eXempts the productions of American
artists residing abroad, and who re
ceive sratuitously advantages and in
struction, is visited upon our citizens
engaged IN art culture in Europe, and
has caused them with practical unanl-
nifty to favor the abolition OF such an
ungracious distinction and iii their in
terest, and for other obvious reasons
strongly recommend it.
THE FINANCES OF THE NATION.
The ordinary receipts from all
sources for the fiscal year ended Tune
80 1855, were S3e2, 600, 7o6, ,sS. OF
this sum SISI,47I,9S9,,34 was received
from customs and SII2,4oS,7o5,54
from internal revenue. The total re-
celpts were S24,S29,I63,5d less than
those ioT the year ended June 30,
1884. This dimunition embraces a
falling of s15,595,s5o,4a in the re-
cenpts from customs, and se,G87,3+6.-
81 in the receipts from internal rev
enue. The total ordinary expenditures
of the government for the fiscal year
were $500, o,226,935.5o, leaving a sur
plus in the treasury at the close of the
yesf o. SG5,465,77I.27. This is $780,
929,854.3e less than the surplus re-
ported at the Close of TIE previous
year. The amount paid on the p..b,ic
debt during the fiscal wear ended June
30, 1855, was S45,995,255.45, and
the.e LIS been paid since that date
and up to y el,,ter I, 1885, the sum
of S569,S2S, leaving ills 4gount of
the debt at the last named date s.,-I
5I4.475, ,S6o.47. There was however,
.. that time in the treasury applicable
to the aeLetl! purposes of the govern
ment the SUM OF s1b,efS,eo2.sS. The
total receipts for the current Escai ySa,,
enting June 80. 1880, ascertained to
October 1, 1885, aud estimated for the
remainder Of the year, afe SsI. ,aoo,-
900. The expenditures, ascertained
and estimated, for the same time are
s224 S, 100000, leaving surplus at the
close ot Iaa year estimated at $780,
GGG, ,OCA.
THE 4Ah4eF.
Alter summary statement of the rev.
enues and expenditures of the goyera-
!:22ent aud of some of the principal sources
Of Icven,.gc. the message continues:
fhe fact that OIL -eveuues are in ex-
cess oi the actual needs Of al e.1nomical
administration of the government JUST.
fes Il reduction in the amount exacted
from the pcot.!0 for its support. Our
government is but the nae&rs established
by the will of a free people, by wltcI !
CERTAIN principles are applied which they |
have adopted fog ii.eir benefit and pro- |
lection; and it is nave. Lc4ter admins
tered and its true spirit is never beue. !
observed than when the peoples taxa |
ton for its support is scrupulously limi- |
ted to the actual necessity of expendi-
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