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prietien for education should neither be over

pration for education should neither be over
The smal mess of the population and the great
distances between the settlements offer seri;
GUS obstacles to the establishment of the usual
| Territorial form OF Government. Perhaps the
organization. of several subdistricts. with a
small muuicipal council Of limited powers for
each. would be safe and useful.
Attention is called in this connection to the
Seiafng To the M est.bishment est Of another port
OF entryin Alaska and of other needed customs
facilities and regulations.
In the administration OF the land laws the
policy. OF facilitating In every proper way the
adjustment OF the honest claims Of individual
sued. The number OF pending cases had dur
ing the preceding Administration, been greatly
increased under the operation OF orders for q
time suspendng final action in q large part OF
the cases originating in the West and North
west. and by the subsequent use of unusual
familiar with the conditions under which our
agricultural lands have been settled can ap
the b End often often ata Sc
title under suspicion or delays the issuance OF
his, patent. While care is taken to prevent
and to expose fraud, it should not be imputed
without reason.
The manifest purpose of the homestead and
pretmption laws was to promote the settlement
OF the public domain by persons having bona
hde intent to make home upon the selected
lands. Where this intent Is we'll established
substantially complied, with. the claimant Is
entitled to PROMPT and friendly consideration
lieve that the claimant is the mere agent OF
another. who Is seeking to eyade the law in
tended t to promote small holdings. and to
timber and other lands. both principal and
agent should not only be thwarted in their
feel the full penalties OF our criminal statutes.
The ,s laws should be SO administered as not to
t., The unsettled state Of the titles to large bod
"a ri hQG nj lV rat n 1nh hn da.
ment Of those Territories. Provision should
be made by law for the prompt trial and final
mission. OF all claims based upon Mexican
grants, 1t Is not lust to An intelligent and en-
disturbed and their prosperity retarded by
these old contentious. l express the hope that
differences OF opin ion as to methods may yield
to the urgency oil the case.
The law now provides a pension for every
soldier and sailor who was mustered into the
war and is now suffering from wounds sol or dis a.
cas-. ease having an origin IN the service and In the
line OF duty. Two OF the three necessary facts
tibe OF easy proof: but the third. origin in the
service Is often difficult. and in many deserv-
many OF those who endured the hardships OF
our most bloody and arduouS campaigns are
now disabled from Diseases that had q real but
not traceable origin In the service / do not
doubt. Besides these there Is another class
composed OF men many OF whom served an
ed veterans who added fourth year of ser
vice. who escaped the casualties of battle md
the assaults Of disease who were always ready
for any detail. who were in every battle line OF
their command. and were mustered out In
sound health. and have. since the close OF the
and Independent spirit the contests OF civil
lie. been overcome by .disease or casualty.
randv % inwnvaa m9I tI % sne pension roll a.
ture, neither am deferred by that fact from
Tecommsnding that C9nGress grant pension
ors OF the civil war as having rendered sub
stantiRl service during the war are now depen-
dent upon their own labor for a maintenance,
from earning It,, Many of the men who would
be included in this form OF relief are now de-
my Judgment, consist with tho national honor
that they sha continue to exist upon the local
stead OF uDon the sreca and generous provs-
ION OF he nation they served SO galantly and
gnsssh!y Our people NIL am sure very
e1ually suro that the survivors ol the Union
army anu navy will ieel a grateful sense OF re-
their comrades Is fairly cared for.
Ihere are some manifest inequalities In the
existing law that should be rowedie.h. TO
called attention.
III gratifying to he able to state that by the
War Department tho calls OF the Pension
Dlnee i2r information as 10 the military and
nTomny 1SIaI Tes0fGs pI penIi9n Gainans mre now
'exations delays that have heretofore oc-
cured arc entirely avoided. This will greatly
'aci iltaie the adjustment of all pending claims.
The advent ol four new states, SOUTH Dako- |
"a. North Dakota Mont ma, and Washington.
INTO the MON under the Constitution, In the !
same month, and the admission, oil their duly !
,hosen representatives TO our National Con- |
sress NJ the same session. is an event as unex-
imped as II ia Interesting
The certiiioaton Of tho votes cast and OF the |
constitutions adopted In each OF the States was /
lied With me as required by the eighth section !
u the act OF Feb. 22. 1882 by the Governors OF |
'atd Territories respectively Having, after a |
'arofnl examination. found that the several |
ana governments were republi- |
IAN In form and not Tepugnant to the Consti- |
utlon OF the United States, that all provisinns
D. tho act OF Congress had been complied |
With. and that majority OF ihe votes cast in |
zach OF said proposed states was in favor Of
he adoption OF the constitution submitted |
herein. did so declare By q separate procla;
nation as to each; an to North Dakota and
IS TO North Dakota and South Dakota on Sat-
lrdsy Nov z; as to Montana on Friday. Nov
Each OF these states has within Il resources
he DEVELOPMENT Of which will employ the en-
o. a great population. The smallest OF these