Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-16

| Grereticn ct fEe Pension BercaH curing tie
! iast fiseai bear and to heosi6ii matters gener.
| bliS, the President says the usefulness and tho
/ justice of any system fbr the distribution OF
| pensions depea1s upon the equality and uni
for1nity ot It's operation. and as long Us we adj
here to the principle OF granting pensions fer
scrfice and disability as the result of the serv-
| ice. the allowance Of pensions should be TO
str1cted 10 cases presenting these features.
Every patriotic heart" he says, RESPONDS
! to a tender consideration for those who having
| served their country long and well, are reduced
TO restitution and dependence. not as an Incl
dent Of their service, but with advancing age or
tempiatio. Of such condition to supply relief,
81 public duty. Yielding "a no one
in the desire to indulge this feeling of consider
alton. L can not rid myself Of the conviction
that if these ex-soldierS to be relieved. they
and their cause are entitled to the benefit of
an enactment under which relief should be
claimed right. and that such relief may be
granted under the sanction, not the invasion,
Of it: dor should such worthy
objects of care all equally entitled. be RENTED
10 the unequal operation Of sympathy, or the
tea der inef5iss o. social aad political influence
With their Unjust discrimination.
OF the Pacific railroad debt extension propo-
sition; he, SAYS that it considering the plan
suggested Gy The Sseretart Hf the Interior and
indsised ny the board OF Government directors,
the sole matters which should be taken into
account are: THE situation of the Gorera-
tnent as creditor and the sureSt way t. &c.
on It's debt
OF interstate commerce. be Says that BY
recent decision of the Supreme Court OF sn5
United States it has been adjudged that me
laws of the several States are lnOperatlvs to
regulate rates of transportation upon railroads,
If such regulation interferes with the rate OF
carriage from one State into another. This I'M
portaHt tield of control and regulation having
been left thus lnoccupied. the expediency OF
F'r,.tra' actiu" upon the subject Is worthy OF
consideration.
OF the relations Of labor to capital. the Presi-
dent thinks that when these differences be-
tween employer and employed reach such
stage as to result in the interruption of com.
merce between the States, the application OF
arbitration by the General Government might
be regarded as entirely within its constitutional
f6Tets mid he thinks we might reasonably
hope that such arbiirat6fs If carefully selected,
and If entitled to the confidence OF the parties
to De affected; would be voluntarily called to
fte sett1sment OF controversies of less extent
p,1d hot ,lecesssfils Within the domain OF Fed
eral regulation.
The President recommends, as plaih duty
on the part of the Government, the payment OF
n million and quarter dollars still due 20 the
Freedman Savings Bank depcsitors.
Civil-Service reform is the last important topic
diseased in the message The continued
h3s added the most convincing proof Of its
necessity bid usefulness. Every public
piicer VINO has .,st.si "st -, idea Of Of
this reform. It's staunchest friends are founc
b,Iian. those who understand it best, and ia
tgarInGat siiyp6ftGta are those who are -
strained and protected by IFS requirements.
The meaning of such restfaitt arid protection
is not appreciated Ey those who Want rla-rS
under the Government, regardless of merit sd
efficiency, nor by those who insist that the -
lection for such places should rest upc1
proper credental showing active partierH
work. They mean to public officers. If M.
their lives the only opportunity afforded the:h
to- attend the public business, and they me,H
n tho pund nj the country The better DerfOr'S--
ancs of the work Of their Government. 1t "a
exceedingly strange, the President thinks, tS%S
tbs Scope sytd nature OF this reform are SO llt-r
understood aid that so many things not -
cluded within its p!an are called by its narA.
When cavil yields more juiiS to eXaminatf.".
The system will hare large additions to the
number of its friends.
Gtir EivilSServce reform, the President says,
mat be iin!ieffeet in some of its details: 1t may
be misunderstood bpd opposed. it may not al
ways be faithfully applied; its designs may
sometimes miscarry through mistake or wllful
intent it may sometimes trembe under the as
the misguided zeal OF impracticable
friends: but if the people OF this country ever
submit to the Punishment OF its underlying
principle from the operation OF their Govern
ment, they will abandon the Surest guarantee
of the safety and success Of American institu-
tious."
II conclusion. he inyokes for this reform the
cheerful and unErudging support OF Congress,
urges an increase Of the salaries of the Com
nlissoners. and expresses the hope that such
reasonable appropriations may be made rs Will
enable them to increase the usefulness OF tho
cause they have in charge.