, 1888-12-06

| Durlnx tne nrsC perlOu OF tnree years
there were disbursed on account of pen.
sons SlS3, 500 ,2l6 81. and during the last
period $2l9, ,045, ,903.47, being an increase
Of $35 SAG, ,6S7l6.
The financial condition and material
facts concerning the several railroads which
have received aid from the government are
shown by the report of the commissioner
of railroads, which is made an appendix
to the report.
In regard to the Northern Pacific it
| says:
This company operates 1903 miles Of
road. 1t owns 423 locomotives, 2S5 pas.
senger and 97O6 freight cars. It had re-
ceived to December 81, 1887, by patent
and certificates, 1928, ,959. 80 acres of
| land and had sold 6,329, l4061 acres for
| $22, GA ,405 81. There remains outstand-
ing on account of time sales the sum Of
4,0S4 .0023 80. The total debt amounted
to $95, ,39S. .966. IA, and its capital stock was
SS6, ,634, 169 20.
Total stock and debt .,......... Isl, ,OS3,i35 "a
surplus ........................ 1.O71Ol2 65
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
| The work under the direction of the
commissioner of education for the year
ended June 30, 1888, is shown by his re-
pOTU W nave Dtcn upou
the lines indicated in the last report of my
predecessor.
The correspondence of the Office is stated
to comprise more than 100000 pieces of
mail matter, and to have received careful
and prompt attention. The bureau Ii.
brary has been increased by the addition
of 1900 volumes and $4,000 pamphlets,
and short-title CO talogue of the whole
Collection, now numbering 81 900 volumes
\ kaa do
ready for publication.
BUREAU OF LABOR.
by the act of the 18th of June last, the
department of labor was created, and the
bureau of labor merged in it, This action
disconnects for the future this department
from any further relations with that
bureau, and its reports hereafter will be
made directly to the president and con.
gress as required by law.
No report has been made since the Oath
of December. 1887. but the commissioner
submits the following account of the oper-
ations of that bureau aud the results of
its Investigations during the past year,
more particularly y with relation to the in
it entire in this report as necessary to a
proper understanding of what has been
done.
The feld-work of the report on strikes
was begun early in the summer of 1886,
and closed late during the past summer.
The report is divided into five chapters, as
follows Chatter l, analysis of the tables;
| Chapter H. the general tables of strikes
and lockouts; Chapter III. the summary
tables of strikes and lockouts; Chapter Nv,
strikes and lockouts occurring in the Uni.
ted States prior to 1881, or the beginning
Of the present investigation; Chapter V,
decisions Of courts and legislation concern
ing strikes, combinations, conspiracies,
boycotts, etc.
The industrial distur Dances which have
been SO frequent in this country since 1877
constitute the period as one of strikes and
lockouts.
in making the report the commissioner
states that he has been aided materially
by the various labor organizations,
knights Of Labor, trades unions, and
others, with lists of strikes occurring dur
ing the years involved in the investigation
The relative number of strikes, using
the establishment as the basis, and treat.
ing therefrom what might be termed the
number of group strikes, and the EN-.
ployes who struck and who were involved
in the various strikes, is as follows:
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