Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-07
enabling the office to turn into the Treasury,
,ver and above all expenditures about $685.

enabling the Office to turn into the Treasury,
over and above all expenditures, about $685.
7OI TO-
The number of patents granted during the
last fiscal year. including reissues trademarks,
designs and labels, was q, 619-a number also
quite largely in excess of that of any preceding
year. The report of the Commissioner shows
the Office to be in prosperous condition and
constantly increasing in its business. No in
crease of the force is asked for. The amount
estimated forthe year ending June 80, 1857, was
S-53 900, and the amount estimated for the fiscal
year ending June 20, 1855, is SIS, 40.
The Secretary of the Interior suggests
change in the plan of payment for the indebt-
edness of the Pacific subsidized roads to the
Government His suggestion has the unanl-
nous Endorsement of the persons selected by
the Government to act as Directors of those
roads, and protect the interests of the United
States in the Board of Directors In consider
ing the plan proposed. the sole matters which
should be taken into account in my opinion,
are the situation of the Government as a cred
itor, and the surest way to secure the payment
of the principal and interest of its debt. By
recent decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States. it has been adjudged that the laws
of the several States are imperative to regulate
rates OF transportation upon railroads If such
regulation interferes with the rate of carriage
from one State into another. This important
field of control and regulation having been
thus left entirely unoccupied, the expediency of
Federal action upon the subject is worthy of
consideration.
The relation of labor to capital and of the
laboring men to their employers is of the utmost
concern to every patriotic citizen. When these
are strained and distorted unjustifiahle claims
are apt to be insisted upon by both interested,
and in the controversy which results the welfare
of all and the prosperity of the country are
ieopardiZed. Any Intervention of the Gene raj
Government within the limits of its consttu-
tional authority to avert such n condition
should be willingly accorded. In a special
message, transmitted to Congress at its last ses-
sion, suggested the enlargement of our pres
ent Labor Bureau, and adding to its present
functions the power of arbitration in cases
where differences arise between employees and
employers When these differences reach such
a stage as TO result in the interruption of COM
merce between the States, the application of
this remedy by the General Government might
be regarded as entirely within its constitutional
power, and think we might reasonablyAhope
that such arbitration, if carefully selected, and
II entitled to the confidence of the parties to be
effected, would. be voluntarily called to the
settlement ofcontroversies of less extent and not
necessarily within the domain of Federal regu-
lation am of opinion that this suggestion is
worthy the attention of Congress- but after all
has been done by the passage of laws, either
Federal or State to relieve a situation full of
S0licitude, much more remains TO be accom-
plished by the reinstatement and cultivation of
a true American sentiment, which recognizes
the equality of American citizenship. This, in
the light of our traditions and in LOYALTY to the
spirit of our institutions, would teach that a
hearty cooperation on the part of all interests is
the surest path to national greatness and the
happiness OF allour people; that capital should,
in recognition of the brotherhood of our citizen
ship and in a spirit of American fairness, gener-
ousy accord to labor its just compensation and
consideration, and that contented labor is capt.
tails best protection and faithful ally. 1t would
teach, too, that the diverse situations of our
people are inseparabie from our civilization;
that every citizen should, III his sphere, be
contributor to the general good; that capital
does not necessarily tend to the oppression of
labor and that violent disturbances and disor-
ders ALLEVIATE from the promoters true American
sympathy and kindly feeling.