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strength, he the equal of two of the


boats and five torpedo boats be an
thorizcd.
The policy to be pursued towards
the aboriginal tribes is treated in de-
tail. The plan now on trial of dis
handing the tribal relation, and OF
forcing the red man forward to assume
the duties OF a self-supporting citizen,
is endorsed.
In referring to the land policy of
the Administration, the President
says: Where bona fde intent ex-
listed to make such a settlement and
the requirements Of the law have been
substantially complied with, the claim
ant is entitled to prompt and friend
ly consideration of his case; but when
there is reason to believe that the
claimant is the mere agent OF another
who is seeking by the law intended to
promote small holdings to secure by
fraudulent methods large tracts of
timber and other lands, both the prin-
cipal and agents should not only be
thwarted in their fraudulent purpose
but should be made to feel the full
penalties of our criminal statutes.
The law should be so administered as
not to cOnfound these two classes and
to visit penalties only upon the latter.
In regard to pensions, the recon-
mendation is made that the lists in
clude all honorably discharged sailors
and soldiers of the civil war who, having
rendered substantial service and are
now dependent upon their own labors
for maintenance and by disease or casu-
atty are incapacitated from earning it.
This recommendation will, if it is adop-
ted by Congress, obviate the necessity
for proof OF wounds or injury received
In war.
In alluding to the advent of four
new States to the Union during the
memorable month of November, he
has this to say of their capabilities
Each of these States has within it re-
sources the development of which will
employ the energies and yield COM
Portable subsistence to great popula-
ton. The smallest of these new
States is Washington, which is twelfth,
and the largest Montana, which is
third among the forty-two States in
area. The people of these States are
already we'll trained, intelligent and
patriotic American citizens, having
common interests and .sympathies
with those of the older States and o
common purpose to defend the integ-
rity and uphold the honor OF the ma
ton.
The President calls the attention OF
Congress to the necessity of better pro-
lection of railroad employees. At n
meeting of the State Railroad Com
missioners and their accredited repre-
sentatives held at Washington in
March last upon the invitation of the
interstate commission, a resolution
was unanimously adopted urging the
commissioners to consider what can
be done to prevent the loss of limb in
the coupling and uncoupling of freight
cars and in handling the brakes of
such cars. During the year ending
June 30, 1883, over 1900 railroad EN-.
ployes were killed in the service and
more than 10000 injured. 1t is COM
petent, he thinks, for Congress to re-
quire uniformity in construction of
cars used in interstate commerce, and
the use of the improved safety appli- |
ance upon trains. Time will be neces-
sary to make the needed changes, but
an earnest and intelligent beginning
should be made at once. 1t is a re-
proach to our civilization that any
class OF American workmen in the
pursuit OF a necessary and useful avo-
cation should be subjected to a peril
to life and limb as great as that of a
soldier in time of war.
Public education is topic on which
the President becomes earnest and elo-
quent, but It Is the education of the
negro that inspires his zeal. He
claims that the descendants Of the
emancipated slaves have Lcen deprived
Of their civil and political rights SIM
ply because they have not been able to
acquire that education which would
enable them to contend for those
rights. The power to take the whole
direction of the election of members of
the popular branch of Congress, he
contends, is clearly given to the Gen.
eral Government.
Mr.. Harrison alludes to the decline
of American shipping in the past 30
years, As "humiliating to the national
PRIDE" He declares that it is not pos
sible to discuss the causes of the de-
cay, and he might have added that it
would not be profitable to his party for
him to do so. He recommends that
such appropriations be made by Con-
gress for ocean mail service in Ameri-
can steamships, as will be literally re-
munerative and encourage the estab-
lishment OF channels Of trade that
may compete with the facilities af-
forded by other powers. He declares
that everything is propitious for an in
auguration Of liberal policy in this
matter.
An OFy-CoLoR-The New York
Worlds Washington special says that
Minister Fred Douglass has been snub-
bed by President Hippolite, of Hayti,
who is dissatisfied because the United
States government does not send q
white man to represent it. The send
ing OF black man is considered as q
slight. The chief reason for Hayti's