The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-12-16
HARRY FRANKS SONS,

Just Complaint, but biames most tsie nat
ural wariike nature of the warriors of the
tribe.
ssThe relation of the five civilized tribes
now occupying the Indian Territory to
the United States Is not, / believe, that
best calculated to promote the highest ad-
vancement of these Indians" They want
independent states for each tribe.
The Pension Office.
The administration of the pension
bureau has been characterized during the
year by great diligence. The total num-
Der Of pensioners upon the roll ON June
30, 1881, was GIG, lG0
The appropriation for the payment OF
pensions for the fiscal year, 1S90-91. was
1927 .6s5, T93. 81, and Tie amount expended
Sis, $50, 649.s0. leaving an unexpendel
surplus OF -, los, l44.64. The commissioner
is quite confident that there will be no
call this year for a deficiency appropria-
ton, Notwithstanding the rapidity with
which the work is being pushed
The estimate for pension expenditures
for the fiscal year ending June so, 1898. Is
1.-The report of the commissioner of rail-
roads shows that the total debt of the sub
sidized railroads to the United States was,
on Dec. 81, 1890, Sis, 5l2, 6i3.06.
Irrigation.
The report of the secretary exhibits.
with interesting fulln-ss the con .ition of
the territories. They Lkve shared with
the states the great in'rcs<e in farm prod
NAtto ART early areas
into cultivation by extending their irri-
eating canals.
The question of irrigation needs atten-
ton.
The Land once.
Business in the general land Office has
made good progress
The Census.
The work of the census bureau is now
far in advance and the great bulk of the
enormous labor involved completed
Poiygamy.
The legislation of congress for the re-
preston of polygamy has after years of
resistance ON the part of the Mormons, at
last brought them TO the conclusion that
resistance is improbable and unavailing.
Alaska.
81 recommend that provision be made
for the organization of simple form of
town government in Alaska, with power
TO regulate such matters as are usually in
the states under municipal control
If the establishment of the department
OF agriculture rs regarded by anyone as a
mere concession to the unenlightened de
mand of a worthy class of people, that
impression has been most effectually re
moved by che great results already at
tanned.
ssThe inspection by this department OF
cattle and Dork products intended for
shipment abroad has been the basis of
the success which has attended our efforts
to secure the removal OF the restrictions
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~ ehc 4@dAopedh AONtEu-
ments.
'sThe grain crop of this year was tho
largest in our history, so per cent. greater
than that OF last year.
Civil Service.
"The report of the civil service crrnmis-
sion should receive the careful attentlC n
of the opponents, as well as the friends of
this reform. The commission invites a
personal inspection by senators and repre-
sentatiyes of the records ON method"
Danger on Railroads.
CT have twice before urgently called the
attention of congress to the necessity OF
legislation for the protection of lives OF
railroad employees, but nothing has yet
been done.
"Gerrymandering.''
The president enters into long discus
sion of the methods of choosing presiden-
tial electors and says, finally:
1t Is no. my purpose to discuss the
question whether n choice by the legisln-
ture or by the voters of equal single dis
tricts is a choice by the state, but only 10
recommend such regulation of this mat
ter by constitutional amendment as will
secure uniformity and prevent that dis
graceful partisan jugglery to which such a
liberty of choice, If it exists, offers a
temptation
Nothing Just now is more important
than to provide every guaranty for the
absolutely fair and free choice bv an
equal suffrage, with the respective states.
of all the officers of the national govern
ment, whether that suffrage is appliel
directly, as in the choice OF members OF
the house of representatives. or indirectly.
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