The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-06

SOW aud reap In Ignorance OF the
| aggregate production of the year, and is
peculiarly subject TO the depreciation
when follows over-proluctiou. But
While the facts have stated Is true as to
the crops mentioned. the general average
OF pricrs has been such as To give To ny
rlculture n fair participation in the gen
eral prosperity. The value of our total
farm pro .uct mas increased from 81 .363,-
646, 500 in 1860 To a, 5D0. 100000 in 1891, AS
estimated by statisticians, AN increase of
23O per cent. The number OF hogs Jan. I,
1891 was 80 625. l06 and their value S2lO,-
1887 80. On Jan. l, 1892, the number was
o.. 2.39S.Ol9 aud the value sal. .O3l AIS On
Jan. |, 1891, the number of cat 10 was 81,
SS5, GAS and the value S544, 127, ,908 On Jan.
i, 1892 tue number was 81 ,6jl, 239 and the
value s57O, ,749, l55. Ii any are discomfort
Ell with their s ate here, IL any believe
that wages are inadequate, they should
not fail To remember that there is no
otner country in the world where the
conditions that seem TO them hard would
not be accepted as highly prosperous.
The Work of the Administration.
The reports of the heads OF the several
executive departments, which are here
with submitted, have very naturally in
cluded n resume OF the whole work of the
administration, with the transactions Of
the last fiscal wear. The attention not
only of congress, but of the country, is
again invited TO the methods Of admins
tration which have been pursued, and To
the Results which have been attained
Public revenues amounting to $l,4l4079,-
.y2.2S have been collected and dish lrssd
without loss from misrepresentation
without single defalcation OF such lm-
por, r,auce as to attract the public atten-
tioD, aud at a diminished per cent of &C st
Tor collection. The public business has
been trans icted Lot only with fidelity,
I.taH Dtss.al 80
giving to the people in the fullest possi-
bic degree the benefits OF service estab-
lished and maintained Tor their protec
tion aud comfort. Our relations with
other nations are now undisturbed by
any serious controversy. The compli-
Gated and threatening differences with
Germany and England relating TO
Samoan affairs with England in relation
to the seal fisheries in the Bering sea aud
with Chile. growing out OF the Baltimore
affair, have been adjusted.
Reciprocity.
There have been negotiated and con-
cluded, under section Is of the tariff law,
commercial agreements relating to reci-
procial trade with the following coun-
tries: Brazil, Dominican Republic. Spain
(for Cuba and Porto Rico), Guatemala.
ga vador, the German Empire, Great
Britain (for certain West Indian colonies
ana Brltlsh Gulna), Nicaragua, Hondu-
ras and Austro- Hungary. Or these, those
with Guatemala, Salvador, the German
Empire, Great Britain, Nicaragua, Hon
duras and Austro-Hungary have been
since my last annual MESSAGE
Under these trade arrangements a free
or favored admission has been secured in
every case for an important list OF Amer
lean products. Especial care has been
taken to secure markets for farm prod
ucts in order TO relieve that great under
lying Industry of the dep: ession lwhicn
the lack of an adequate foreign market
for our surplus often brings. An open
ing has also been made for manufactured
products that will undoubtedly, if this
policy is maintained, greatly augment
our export trade.
The Bering Sea Matter.
A treaty providing for the arbitration
Of the dispute between Great Britain and |
the United Ststes as to the killing of |
seals in Bering sea, was concluded on the |
10Th OF February last. This treaty was |
accompanied bv an agreement prohibiting |
pelagic seanng pending the arbitration, |
aud vigorous effort was made during |
Ibis season TO drive out all poaching seal
PRS. Six naval vessels, three revenue cut
,ers and one vessel from the fish commls-
non, all under the command of Com
nander Evans. were sent into tue sen
which WAS systemat ically patrolled.
Seizures were made and IL is believed
hat the catch in the Behring sea by
'oachers amounted 10 less than 500
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