Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12

| taken to prevent and expose fraud, 4
| should not be imputed without reason
The manifest purpose of the homestead and
1nent Of the public domain by persons hav.
ing bonafide intent to make home upor
| established and the requirements of the law
have been substantially complied with the
claimant is entitled to prompt and friendly
consideration of his case; but where there is
reason to believe that the claimant is the
mere agent of another who is seeking to
shisnt m naa large tracts of ra sim
a and AGENT shond not ONLY PRIZE
thwarted in their fraudulent purpose but
shouldibe made to feel the full penalties OF
SO administered as not to confound these two
classes, and to visit penalties only upon the
The unsettled state of the titles to large
bodies of lands in the Territories of New
snd has
tories. Provision should be made by
law for the prompt trial and final adjust
sion of all claims based upon Mexican grants.
1t is not just to an intelligent and enterpris-
turbed and their prosperity retarded by
these old contentious. 1 express the hope
that difference of opinion as to methods
| may yield to the urgency of the case.
THE PUBLIC PENSIONERS.
| Inc law now provinces q pension lot every
| soldier and sailor who was mustered into the
| service of the United States during the civil
| war and is now suffering from wounds or
| the line of duty. Two of these necessary
| facts-muster and disabilty-are usually sus-
ceptble of easy proof, but the third-origin
| in the services often difficult, and in many
| deserving cases impossible to establish. That
| very many of those who endured the hard
| ships of our most bloody and arduouS cam
paigns are now disabled from diseases that
| had a real if not traceable origin in serv
another class composed of men, many of
whom served an enlistment of the three full
| years, and of re enlisted veterans, who added
a fourth year Of service, Who escaped the
| casualties OF battles and the assaults of dis
| ease, who were always ready for any detail,
| who were in every battle line of their com.
| mand, and were mustered out in sound
health and have, since the close of the war,
while lighting with the same indomitable
and independent spirit the contests CT civil
life, been overcome by disease casualty.
| am not unaware that the pension roll al
| ture, neither am deferred by that fact from
recommending that Congress grant pen
sion to such honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors of the civil war as, having rem
dered substantial service during the war, are
now dependent upon their own labor for a
| maintenance, and, by disease or casualty,
are incapacitated from earning it, Many of
the men who would be included in this form
of relief are now dependent upon public aid,
and it does not in my Judgment, comport
with the National honor that they
shall continue to subsist on the local relief
|
upon the special and generous provision of
the Nation they served so gallantly and I'M
generaiy apprdV go Such ton and fs a
equally sure that the survivors of the Union
army and navy viii feel a grateful sense of
relief when this worthy and suffering class
of their comrades is fairly cared for. There
are some manifest inequalities in the exist
ing law that should be remedied. To some
of these the Secretary of the Interior has
called attention.
THE FOUR NEW STATES.
The advent of four new States, South Da-
kota, North Dakota, Montana and Washing
ton, into the Union under the Constitution in
the same month and the admission of their
duly chosen representatives to our National
Congress at the same session, is an event as
unexampled as it is interesting. The cert
tcation of the votes CAST and of the Const-
tuition adopted in each of the States was filed
with me as required by the eighth section Of
OF of sad ey
nation, found that the several Consti-
buttons and governments were republican in
form, and not repugnant to the Constitution
OF the United States; that all the provisions
with, and that majority of votes cast in
each of said proposed States was in favor of
adopting the Constitution submitted therein,
l did SO declare by a separate proclamation
as to each, as to North Dakota and South |
Dakota on saturday. November, q, as to
washington on Monday, November nhe Ii.
Each of these States has within it resources |
energies of and yield a comfortable subsist- |
ence to great population, The smallest of |
twelfth, and the largestMMontanas |
among the forty two in area. The people |
of these States are already well trained, in |
having com mon interests and sympathies |
with those of the older States, and "a common |
purpose to defend the integrity and of up |
holding the honor of the Nation.
INTER STATE COMMERCE.
The attention OF the Inter State Com |
merce Commission has been called to the |
urgent need of Congressional IouiSlatinn |
the better protection of the lives and limbs |
of those engaged in operating the great in
ter State freight lines of the country and es-
pecially of the yardmen and brakemen.. A |
petition signed by nearly ten thousand rail
mission asking that steps might be taken to
bring about the use of automatic brakes and |
couplers on freight cars.
During the year ending June 30, 1883, over
?, 900 railroad employees We're killed in service,
and more than 10000 injured. 1t is COM
petent, l think, for Congress to require
ears used in inter state commerce, and the
use of improved safety appliances upon such
trains. Time will be necessary to make the
needed changes, but an earnest and in
telligent beginning should be made at once.
1t is reproach to our civilization that any
class of American workmen should, in the
pursuit of a necessary and useful vocation,
great as that of a soldier in time of war.
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
The creation of an executive department
to be known as the Department of Agricult-
Ire by the act of February last, was a wise
and timely response to q request which had
long been respectfully urged by the farm
ers of the country; but much remains to be
lone to perfect the organization of the de-
partment so that it may fairly realize the
expectations which it's creation excited
In this connection attention is
jailed to suggestions contained in the
report of the Secretary of Agriculture, which
s herewith submitted. The need of a law
officer for the department, such as is proyid-
ID for the other executive departments, is
manifest. The failure of the last Congress to |
make the usual provision for the publication
IF the annual report should be promptly
The public interest in the report
I'm sure, will not be dimi q she'd under the
sew organization of the department.
THE WEATHER SERVICE.
1 recommend that the weather service be
separated from the War Department and es-
aDlished as a bureau in the Department of
agriculture. This will involve an entire re-
organization both of Weather Bureau and of
he Signal Corps, making of the first purely
,ivil organization and of the other purely
military staff corps. The report of the Chief
signal Officer shows that the work of the
corps on it's military side has been deterorat-
ng.
THE WORLDS FAIR.
The proposition to observe the four hum
lredth anniversary of the discovery of Amer |
ca by the opening of Worlds Fair tx
position in some one of our great cities will I
,e presented for the consideration of Con- |
position may well claim the promotion of
he General Government.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
On the 4th of March last the Civil Service !
had but a single member. The |
acancies were filled on the eth day of May, | ,
though with inadequate |
engaged in executing the ,