The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

best secure the interests of the United States.
l recommended in my last annual message
that commission be appointed to deal With
the question, and renew that recommended
ton and suggest that the commission be given
full power.
He ia entirely satisfied after the most search
ing inquiry that this statement was justified
and that by continuance of the inspection
and quarantine now required of cattle
brought into this country, the disease can be
prevented from again getting any foothold.
The value to the cattle industry of the United
States of this achievement can hardly be es-
timated.
The Civil Service Commission
asks for an increased appropriation for needed
clerical assistance, which | think should be
given. / extended the classified service
March /, 1892, to include physicians, superin-
tendents, assistant superintendents, school
teachers and matrons in the Indian service.
and have had under consideration the subject
of some further extensions, but have not as
yet fully determined the lines upon which cx-
tensions can most properly and usefully be
made.
Subject of Quarantine.
The subject of quarantine regulations, in
spection and control was brought suddenly to
my attention by the arrival at our ports, in
August last, of vessels infected with cholera
Quarantine regulations should be uniform at
all our ports.
within the exclusive federal jurisdiction when
and so far as congress shall legisate. In my
opinion the whole subject should be taken
into national control, and adequate power
given to the executive to protect our people
against plague invasions.
Worlds Fair.
The work preparatory to opening the expo
sition in May next has progressed most salts
factorily and upon n scale of liberality and
r,oan hat will utain tbn
honor of the United States.
Protection of Railroad Employees.
In renewing the recommendation which
have made in three preceding annual mes
sages, that congress should legislate for the
protection of railroad employees against the
dangers incident to the old and inadquate
methods of breaking and coupling which are
still in use upon freight trains, | do so with
the hope that this congress may take action
upon the subject.
District of Columbia.
The District of Columbia is left, by de-
cision of the supreme court of the district,
without any law regulating the liquor traffic.
1t is of urgent importance, therefore, that
congress should supply, either by direct enact
ment or by comforting discretionary powers
upon the commissioners, proper limitation
and restraints upon the liquor traffic In the
district.
Apportionment Evils.
In my last annual message endeavored to
invoke serious attention to the evils of unfair
appointments for congress. cannot close
this message without again calling attention
to these grave and threatening evils. l had
hoped that it was possible to secure a non par
tisan inquiry, by means of a commission, into
evils the existence of which is known to all,
and that out of this might grow legislation
from which all thought of partisan advantage
should be eliminated and only the higher
thought appear of maintaining the freedom
and purity of the ballot and the equality of
the elector, without the guaranty of which
the government could not have been formed
and without the continuance of which it can
not continue 10 exist in peace and prosperity.
1t is time that mutual charges of unfair
ness and fraud between the great parties
should cease, and that the sincerity of those
who profess a desire for pure and honest cleo
lions should be brought to the test of their
willingness to free our legislation and our
election methods from everything that tends
to impair the public confidence. In the an
nounced result the necessity for an inquiry
and for legislation by congress upon this sub
ject is emphasized by the fact that the ten
hency of the legislation in some states in re-
cent years has in some important particulars
been away from and not toward free and fair
elections and equal appointments.
Conclusion.
This exhibit of the work of the executive de-
partments is submitted to congress and to the
public in the hope that there will be found in
It due sense of responsibility and an earnest
purpose to maintain the national honor and to
promote the happiness and prosperity of all
our people.
And this brief exhibit of the growth and
prosperity of the country will give us a level
from which to note the increase of decadence
that new Legislative policies may bring to us.
There is no reason why the national influence,
power and prosperity should not observe the
same rates of increase that have character
lied the past thirty years.
We carry the great impulse and increase of
these years into the future. There Is no rea-
son why In many lines of production we
should not surpass all other nations, rs we
have already done in some There are no near
frontiers TO our possible developments; retro
erosion would be Il crime.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Executive Mansion II o.