Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-03

definite provision be- made by law, not only
for the protec ton of Federal otlicers, but for
full trial of such cases in the Udited states
Courts; alec the propriety of extending iul'
Ter protection to those who nav be called DC
witnesses in the courts of the United States.
He advocates IN intermediate court 10 re-
Iieye the Supreme Court OF the immense
amount of BUSINESS before IL aud also recon
mends an increase in the salaries Of tho clB-
trict judges.
Combinations OF capital commonly called
trusts, should, he says. be made the sub
act of prohibltory and even penal legls
lation.
Our naturalization laws, he says, shou d
he so revised as to make the inquiry into
the moral character and good disposition
towarla our government of the persons ap-
plying for citizenship more thorough.
The enactment Of a national bankrupt
law is suggested.
He fayors q more rapid increase in the
number of servicea5le ships of thu navy and
concurs in the Recommendation Of the secre
tary for the construction Of additional war
ships. He recommends that Congress grant
pension to such honorably discharged sol
diers and sailors of the civil war as are
dependent upon their own labor for main
tenance, and who by disease or casualty are
10 capacited from earning it. Many of the
men who would be included In this form OF
relief are now dependent upon public aid,
and il does not, in bis Judgment, comport
with the national honor that they shall csn.
tinue to subsist upon the local relief given
to paupers.
rs recommends that The weather service
be separated from the War Department and
established as bureau in the Department
of Agriculture. He favors laws regulating
the sale OF intoxicating dtinks 10 the Dis
trict, and suggess that they be revised with
view to bringing the traffic under slrin
gent limitations aud control.
He fevors the proposition to obserye the
four huudredth anniversary ofthe discovery
Of America by the opening OF worlds ex-
position in sCme one OF our great cities.
In reference to the civil service law he
says it will be bis pleasure, as it is his duty,
TO see that the law is executed with firm
meas and impartiality. II some Of its pro.
visions have been freudulently evaded our
reseul ment should not suggest the repeal
Of the Law, but reform in it's administration.
Instead ofland grants for educational pur'
poses he recommends an appropriation for
lhis purpose but limited 10 annual amount
aud az TO the time over which it is to eT-
tend, n will, on the one hand give the local
school authorities opportunity to make the
psst use Of the first years allowance, and Cd
the other deliver them from the tenn ptaLlon
TO unduiy postpone the assumption OF the
whole burden themselves"
He says that in many parts OF the country
where the colored population is large the
people OF tbet race are deprived Of effective
exercise of their political rights and many
Of their civil rights. The Co nred man. he
says, should be protected In all Of his ree
| lions to the federal government, whether
a. litigant, juror, or witness In our courts, as
an elector idr members of Congress-, or as
peaceful traveller upon our interstate rail
WAYS. He invokes the attention OF Con
gress TO the consideration ofsuch measures
as will secure to all orr people free exer
cise of the right o. suffrage and every other
civil right under the Constitution.
The power to take the whole control OF
tho election of members of the House
of Repr eseutatiVes is, he says, clearly given
to tho general government. qualified
supervision Of these elections, in his opinion,
would secure better resu Is than can be at
tanned by law taking all the processes into
federal contro.
There is nothing, he says, more bumiiat-
ing than the inferiority of our merchant ma
rire as compared with that of othe. nations,
and recommends that appropriations be
made for mail service, in American steam
ships, between our ports and those of Cen
trail and South America, China, Japan, aDd
the important islands Ia both oceans. The
enlargement OF our merchant marine, the
development of sufficient body of trained
American seamen, and the adaptation Of
large and swift American steamships to
naval uses, in time OF war, are, ne says, pub
lie purposes OF the highest concern.