Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-14

VI OAO SlOdO ldhCo boI"OSu GuO OuAGSO
States and Canada should be marked
All differences between Nicaragua and
Costa Rica arising from the progress of
the Nicaraguan canal have been settled
All governments of the American con.
tinent represented in the Pan-American
congress-its browning object an alliance
in favor of American peace.
The assault upon United States Judge
Field suggests that legal provisions be
made for the protection of federal officers,
as well as witnesses in the courts.
Twenty nations represented in the
maratime congress in session at Wash
ington, and great hopes are expressed of
the results of their efforts in revising the
code of maratime rules and regulations.
Government protection and encourage
ment of our mercantile marine is recon-
mended, and appropriations especially in
aid of Central and South American, Chi
nese and japanese steamship lines.
Aggregate treasury receipts, last fiscal
year, 1897, $50, 058.S4; ordinary expendi-
lures, 1921, 9O6. 1880; total expendi-
lures, 1929, OOO,O 900; including the sink
ing fund, $341, POI, 1869; surplus,
$43,678,8 83.O1.
A system of coast defenses should be
commenced and perfected; important
rivers and harbors should be improved,
and appropriations should be continuous.
in order that work accomplished should
not be decorated.
Congressional legislation is recon-
mended for the protection of brakemen
on railroads, by the use of automatic
brakes and couplings. During the las4
fiscal year over 1000 employees were
killed and more than 10000 injured.
The civil service reform system is dis
cussed at length; national aid for the ed
ucation of the colored race in the south
is suggested, the difficulties of the race
question acknowledged, and congress
urged to protect the colored voter in the
exercise of his rights of suffrage.
The treasury surplus is too large, and
a revision of the tariff as well as its ad-
justment is recommended, the protective
feature being carefully maintained and
applied to the products of the farms as
well as the shops, putting upon the free
list articles that do not offer injurious
competition to our domestic products.
While our supreme interests demand
the exclusion of laboring element (the
Chinese) which experience has shown to
be incompatible with our social life, all
steps to compass this imperative need
should be accompanied with recogni-
ton of the claim of these strangers now
living among us to humane and just
treatment.
The amount of national bank note
circulation diminished last year $751;
1929. While this contraction has
been going on, there has been no great
increase in other descriptions of money.
On March l, 1878, there was in circula-
ton money of all kinds to the amount of
1906, 1913, 807, in October, 1889, the total
wos $1,450, 100000, or an increase of
about SIS per capita.
The salary of the United States dis
trict judges should be increased to S.
900 year; trust corporations should re-
ceive legislative attention; the naturali-
cation laws should be revised to prevent
improper or dangerous persons from be-
coming citizens; national bankrupt
law is needed; rapid mail transit is rec
ommended; the construction Of eight
armored ships, three gunboats and five
torpedo boats is recommended; the In
dams must be pushed upward to become
self-supporting citizens; land laws are
needed in Alaska, and another port of
entry; a good word is said in favor OF a
liberal construction of the land laws af-
fecting the homesteader and pre-emptor
who in good faith strive to secure a
| home.
Silver has been purchased during the
year to the amount of 100000 a
month. On November /, 1889, $343,-
638, 001 was stored in the treasury vaults,
and 6O,098, 4S0 silver dollars were in cir
culation. The price of silver in the
market has fallen since 1878 from ss1.20
40 per ounce to 91.2 cents per ounce,
reducing the value of the silver dollar to
1875 cents on November LIST, last. The
evil anticipations which have accomPan-
led the coinage and use of the silver dol
lar have not been realized. 1t has been
stored in the treasury because its paper
representative is convenient. The pres
ident fears that increased coinage of sill
yer dollars would create increased de-
probation of silver compared with gold,
and that an equilibrium between the two
metals must be maintained. The secre-
tary of the treasury recommends the IS
sue of silver certificates at the market
value of silver deposited in the treasury