The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-07
The NATIONAL CAPITAL
Legislators Now Settling Down
to Hard Work.
THE PRESIDENTS FINAL MESSAGE

of the United States Civil Service Com
nission-Anti- option Fight TO Go On
General Roseorans' Condition Preoarioui
WASHINGTON, Dec Tn marked con.
trast with the bustling scenes of the
opening day was the meeting of the
House yesterday. Few persons were in the
galleries, and upon the floor the members
seemed to have settled into the old rou.
tine
Mr. Rayner, of Maryland introduced
bill for the better protection Of commerce
and to establish national quarantine
Referred.
At 1918 Mr.. Pruden, one of the Presi.
dents secretaries, was announced, and
presented the annual message, which
Clerk Kerr Immediately commenced to
read
In the Senate as soon as the secretary
finished the reading Of the journal Mr..
Pruden appeared and delivered the Presi-
dents annual message, which was there
upon laid before the Senate and read by
Secretary McCook.
The Message.
President Harrison's last annual mes.
tion Of the country and its progress dur
ing the last four years. In it he points
out that the national wealth has in
creased from S15, 1873, 6l6,06S in 1860 to
tG2, 610, ,009 600 in 1890 He details
number Of most important and interest
ing statistics, which support his state
ment that $50 high a degree of prosperity
and so general diffusion of the comforts
of life were never before enjoyed by our
people"
The official returns of the Eleventh
Census and those of the Tenth Census for
70 leading cities furnish the basis for
the following comparisons:
In 1850 the capital invested in manufacture
ing was l,23 ,S39 $40.
In 1890 the capital invested i'm mauufac tur-
ing was $4,000, ,735 1854.
In 1880 the number Of employees was 1,3O1,-
In 1890 the number of employees was 2,25l,-
134.
In 1880 the wages earned were $50, 1865, ,77s.
In 1880 the wages earned were Sl,22l,17O, 454.
In 1850 the value of the product was SILL
51gS99.
In 1890 the value of the product was $780,
2S6,S37.
He then quotes figures from other
sources showing the industrial growth of
the country under the influence of the
Mckinley tariff.
Figures are given to show the extent
and value of our foreign trade, and that
our coastwise trade is developing great
ly. The value of our exports during the fis-
cal year 1892 reached the highest figure in
the history of the Government, amounting
to 81 ,O30, 27S, 14S, exceeding by Sl45 197,
1913 the exports of 1891 and exceeding the
value of the imports by $202, S15, $50,
During the fiscal year 1892 the value of
imports free of duty amounted to $451,-
999, 65S, the largest aggregate in the his
tory Of our commerce.
The President says that ''thOse who have
advocated "A protective tariff can well
afford to have their disastrous forecasts of
change of policy disappointed. If
system of customs duties can be framed
that will set the idle wheels and looms of
Europe in motion and crowd our ware
houses with foreign-made goods, and at
the same time keep our own mills busy;
that will enable the American manufac-
turer to pay to his workmen from fifty to
3 hundred per cent. more in wages than is
paid in the foreign mill and yet to COM
pete in our market and in foreig markets
with the foreign producer; that will fur
ther reduce the cost of articles of wear
and food without reducing the wages of
those who produce them; that can be cele-
brated, after its effects have been realized
IS its expectation has been, in European
as well as in American cities, tie authors
and promoters OF it will be entitled to the
highest praise
The advantages of reciprocity are fully
stated, Detailed statements of our rela-
tions with foreign powers follow. II is
recommended that support be given to the
Nicaragua Ship Canal company The
President says it is too early to predict
what results may be accomplished by
the International Monetary Conference" "
Attention is then directed TO "a sum
mary Of the work of the administration
and to the fact that ''public revenues
amounting to Sl,414, O19, 292 2S have been
collected and disbursed without loss from
misappruprutOn, without single defal-
cation of such importance as 70 attract
the public attention "and at a diminished
cost for collection" " The President saws
the revenues for the fiscal year ending
June 30 1892, from all sources were S425,-
S65, 26O22, and the expenditures for all
purposes were $4l5, 053, S06. 56, leaving a
balance Of S9,9l4, 4j36 &C. There We're paid
during the year upon the public debt
$40, 90 48I9S. The surplus in the Treas
ury and the bank redemption fund, passed
by the act Of July II, 1890, to the general
fund, furnished in large part the cash
available and used for the payments made
upon the public debt. Compared with the
year 1891, our receipts from customs
duties fell off S42, OG9, 41.0S, while our
receipts from internal revenue increased
81, 2S4, S93 l3, leaving the net loss of
revenue from these principal sources S33,
S4,4lI05. The net loss of revenue from
all sources was $32, 615, ,912.S1
Special attention is called to Treasury
Secretary Fosters report, "in view Of the
many misleading statements that have
been made as to the state of the public
revenues, and detailed figures are given.
The revenues, estimated and actual, for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, are
placed by the Secretary at S463 1856 85O,44
and the expenditures at S4Gl, 336, 3j044, |
showing suplus Of receipts over eXpendi-
lures of 81, OOO,OOO. The cash balance in
the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year
it is estimated viii be S2O, 892, 3lLO3
The work Of the other executive depart !
ments Of the government is reviewed at !
length
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