Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-10
NICARAGUA CANAL,

Ths president next spesks of the Nicaragua Canal, snd expresses .be hope shat the present congress may take some action which will result in the early completion of that enterprise.
 Relating to the monetary conference iD Bru sells the president says he has IO d"ubi toat free coinage of silver up- on eu agreed international ratio would probably promote the interest of our people with those of other nations. Speaking of the secretary of the treas- 1rers report, the President says there have been many misleading statements ss to condition of public revenue and he mentioned three preliminary facts to 5s borne ID mind. First, shas the public debt has been reduced since Msrth 4tb, 1892, over S259. 1000, 1000. Second, shat nearly S433, 900, ,000, has beeu expended during t0is administration for pension; snd, third, that under the present tariff law $95. .500,O00 has been withdrawn from tne revenue by removing the duty on Sugar.
 Spes king of the navy the presi lent ssys: 'I earnestly express the hope that 1 the work which has made such noble progress may rot be stayed" CATTLE NEGOTIATIONS. He refers to the agricultural depart menu in the inspection of ca;tls shipped to foreign countries and says that ex- portation was largely promoted by the careful exclusion of diseased live stock. Pleuro pneumonia DO longer exists in the United States. The agricultural products constituted I'll per cent of our unprecedented exports tor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892. | Promising work for the benefit of the | American farmers has begun through the agency of the agricultural depart | ment in efforts to introduce various products of Indian corn there ss food. The suggestions of the secretary ot agriculture for the eplsrs of the depsrtmept's work are recommended to the favorable consideration of congress.
 Concerning the quarantine against cholera ID August the president says the whole subject of quarantine should bs taken into the national control and adequate power gwen, for execution, to the executive to protect the people against plague invssions. Tue presi- dent recommends liberal appropriation at this session 70 prosecute work guard ing against the recurrence of the plague next spring.
 The construction and preparation for the opening of the Worlds Columbian exposition in May next has progressed most satisfactorily and upon a scale of libsrslity and msgni6cencs shst will wortbily sustain the honor of the United States.
 The president recommends legisls- tion for better protection to railroad employees.
 IMMIGRATION.
 The president holds it is the duty to the people, especially to the working classes, not only to keep out vicious, Ignorant pauper and contract-labor immigration, but to check the too great A flow of immigration by further re- =srictiOns.
 Tue appropriation asked by the civil ssrv,cs commission is recommended. The president says he has in three annual messages called attention to the evils snd dangers connected with the election methods as related Go the choice of the national government snd says he cannot close this message without -sgsin calling attention to these grave and threatening evils.
 | It is tims mutual charges of unfair ness and fraud between the great parties should cease and that sincerity to those who profess & desire for pure and honest elections should be broughs to the test of then willingness to free our legisls- ton nDd election methods from every. thing tazt tends to impsre public con- fjeDcs in the announced result. The necessity for inquiry for Legislation by congress upon this subject IS emphs- sized by the fsct that the tendency to Legislation in some cases in Tecsnt years hssSin some important particulars been away from and not toward free and fair elections and equal apportionments. The message closes as follows:
 "This brief exhibit of growth and prosperity of the country will give us ievsl from which to note increase OF decsdsnce that new legislative politics may bring to the United States, There is no reason why national influence, power and prosperity should not ob- serve the same rates in increase that characterised the past thirty years. We carry the great impulse Gnd increase Of these years into the future. There IS no reason why in many lines of pro- duction we should not surpess all other nations as we have already done in some. There are no near frontiers to our possible development and retro sression would be crime" | (Signed.)
 | BENJAMIN HARRISON, | Executive Msnsion, | Docenoher 6 1892