The sun., 1893-12-07

/ W submitting estimates Tor Int
next fiscal year less by $904, ,28O than those
for the present year
The amount OF the appropriation for the
bureau OF animal industry for the current
ensuing year Is 100000. The regulations OF
lS92 concerning Texas fever have been ell
forced during the last year, and the large
stock yards OF the country have been kept
free from infection.
The total number of inspections of cattle
Tor export during the past fiscal year was
about - per cent from the preceding year
the decrease occurring entirely in the last
half or the year. This suggests that the
falling on may have been largely due to an
increase In the price of American export
cattle during the year ending June 30 1893
a1xsp dxsp9oirdts p9id OF inspected pork aggregated ~,
| OH,alO pounds, as against 3S, S14 pounds
Tor the preceding year. The falling or IN
this export was not confined, however, ia
Inspected pork, the total quantity exported
1893 IT was only 527 ,30S, ,695 pounds.
The exports of agricultural products from
the United States for the fiscal year ending
| June 30, 1892, attained the enormous fig
ure of $500, 600, 600 in round numbers. being
1871 per GENT Of our total exports. In the
last hscal year this aggregate was greatly
reduced, but, nevertheless, reached $685.
100000, being 75.1 per cent of all American
commodities exported A review of Our
agricultural exports with special reference
most every line the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland absorbs by far
| the largest proportion. OF cattle, the total
Year PGf ending disefeu june 80 o. 1sos E 600 Of
which Great Britain took considerably over
$25 900 900 OF beef prondu@cts @ of Of all kinds, ,ns
Great GGf tG'' bftSn took %fFe o Or ~ pork
| products the total exports were $50, ,0O00 0O0,
| of which Great Britain took 500, 600 600.
In bread stuffs, cotton and minor products
| of like proportions sent to the same destt-
| nation are shown.
In the year 1890 the congress appropri-
ated $1,000 to be, taken from the patent
| office funds, for the purpose OF collecting
| and distributing rare and improved varie-
ties Of seeds and for prosecuting agricuit-
ural investigations and procuring agricnt-
ural statistics. From this small beginning
| the seed division Of the department OF ag-
riculture has grown to its present unwieldy
During the last fiscal year the cost of seeds
| purchased was $66, 54S.G1. The remainder
of an appropriation of $135,O00 was ex-
pended in putting them up and distributing
| them.
In each state and territory an agricultural
experiment station has been established;
These stations. by their very character ana ana
with and test new varieties of seeds, and
yet this lndiscriminate and wasteful dis
tribution by legislation and legislator con
| tinues, answering no purpose unless 1t be to
remind constituents that their representa-
tives are willing to remember them with
| gratuities at public cost
Civil Service Reform.
Ine cOuLlnueu lnCelDBenU eAeCuLlOu VI Luc
civil service law and the increasing ap-
proval by the people of Its operation are
most. gratifying The recent extension Of
ployes at the free delivery postofices, which
| has been honestly and promptly accom-
plished by the commission by the hearty
| cooperation of the postmaster general, IS
an Immensely important advance In the use
| fl lness Of the system.
I am, If possible, more than ever con-
yinced of the incalculable benefits conferred
Inv hn SnrVipp
effect upon the public service, but also,
what Is even more important, in Its effect
in elevating the tone Of political life gen
orally.
Since 1886 congress has at each session
authorized the building of one or more YES
sells, and the secretary of the navy pre-
sents an earnest plea for the continuance
of this plan. He recommends the authori-
zation of at least one battleship and SIX
torpedo boats. While l am distinctly In
favor of consistently pursuing the policy
we have inaugurated in building up thor
ough and efficient navy, can not refrain
from the suggestion that the congress
ber of unfinished vessels on our hands and
the depleted condition Of our treasury in
considering the propriety of an appropria-
ton at this time to begin new work.
The Pension Bureau.
On the Both day of June, 1893, there were
on the pension rolls 966,012 names, an in
crease of S9944 over the number on the
rolls June 30, 1892. OF these there were
seyenteenwidows 81 and daughters of Of revol,
1912, 5,425 widows of soldiers of that war,
q, ,51S survivors and widows Of the Mexican
war. 3,SS2 sS survivors and WIDOWS dG VS. of Indian
and widows and children of deceased
soldiers and sailors Of the War of the Re-
belllion. The latter number represents
those pensioned on account of disabilities
or death resulting from army and navy
service. The number of persons remaining
on the rolls June 80, 1893. who were pen
which include also pensions on account of
death and disabilities not chargeable to
army service, was 459,555. The number
added to the rolls during the year was 123,-
The first payments on pensions allowed dur
Ing the year amounted to 3,576, ,549.9S.
This includes, arrears or the accumulation
between the time from which the allowance
of the pension dates and the time of act
ually granting the certificate. Although
the law Of 1890 permits pensions for disa-
as q requisite to its benefit a disability
must exist in incapacitating applicants
from the performance of manual labor to
earn a support" The execution of this law
In its early stages does not seem to have
been in accord with it's true intention, but
toward the close OF the last administration
an authoritative construction was given to
the statute, and since that time this con-
structiOn has been followed. This has had
the effect of limiting the operations of the
having been made that many names had
been put upon the pension roll by means Of
wholesale and gigantic frauds, the COM
mission suspended payments upon n num-
ber Of pensions which seem to be fraudulent
or unauthorized pending a complete exami-
nation, giving notice to the pensioners in
order that they might have an opportunity
to establish, if possible, the Justice of their
claims, notwithstanding apparent invaidity.
l am unable to understand why frauds in
the pension rolls should not be exposed and
with fhupniJ and Fy-
cry name fraudulently put upon these rolls
is wicked imposition upon the kindly SEN
tijnent in which pensions have their origin.
The Indians.
The condton OF the Indians and their ult-
mate fate are subjects which are related to
a sacred duty of the government. and which
strongly appeal to the sense of justice and
the sympathy of our people. Our Indians
Gated on sixteen reservations containing &c.
1851 acres of Land About 10000 of
these Indians have, to a large degree,
adopted civilized customs. Lands in several
ty have been allotted to many of them
Such allotments nave been made to 10000
individuals during the. last fiscal year,
embracing about 100000. The number of
Indian government schools open during the
year was 195, an increase of II over the pre-
ceding year. Of this total II were on res
ervatiOns, of which 73 were boarding schools
schools and five day schools supported by
the government were not located ON res
eryations. The total number of Indian chill
dren enrolled during the year as attendants
of all schools was 1,13S, an increase of
1921 over the nrolllment for the previous
year.
The law providing that, except in special
cases, army officers shall be detailed as In
dian agents it is hoped will prove a sue
eessful experiment.
There is danger of great abuses creeping
into the prosecution of claims for Indian
depredatiOns and I recommend that every
possible safeguard be provided against the
enforcement OF unjust and fictitious claims
of this description
Tariff Reform
Economy in public expenditure is duty
that cannot innocently be neglected by
those entrusted with the control of money
drawn from the people for public uses.
1t must be. confessed that our apparently
endless resources, the familiarity of our
people with immense accumulltions of
wealth the growing sentiment among them
that the expenditure of public money
should in some manner be to their immedi-
ofo oHu foo 10