The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-13

Among our pensioners are nine widows
and three daughters of soldiers of the
revolution, and forty-Gve survivors of the
war of 1872.
The barefaced and extensive pension
frauds exposed under the direction of tho
courageous and generous veteran soldier
now at the head of the bureau leave no
room for the claim that no purgation of
our pension rolls was needed. The accu-
sation that an effort to detect pension
frauds is evidence of unfriendliness to-
wards our worthy veterans and q denial
OF their claims to the generosity of the
Government suggests an unfortunate in
difference to the commission of any Of
tense which has for motive the securing
of a pension and indicates n willingness
to be blind to the existence of mean and
treacherous crimes which play upon DEM
agogic fears and make sport of the patri-
otto impulse of a grateful people.
Recommendations of the Secretary of
Agriculture are concurred in, and the adj
mirable work of the Weather Bureaus
and the life-saving service is warmly
praised.
Inspecting Meat Exported.
The appropriation to the Bureau of
Animal Industry was $S5O,OOO and the
expenditures for the year were only
$~495,429.24, thus leaving %unexpended
S3o4,51O.16. The inspection of beef ami
mails for export and interstate trade has
been continued and 12,944,O5G head were
Inspected during the year at q cost of IL
cents per head, against Az cents for 1893.
The amount of pork microscopicalIy ex-
amined 3~5,437,937 pounds, against 90
G17,41O pounds in the preceding year.
The cost of this inspection has been di-
minished from 81 cents per head in 1898
to 61a cents in 1894. The Secretary of
Agriculture recommends the law provid-
ing for the microscopic inspection Of ex-
port and interstate meat be so amended
as to compel owners Of the meat inspected
to pay the cost of such inspection, and I
call attention to the arguments presented
in his report in support of this
dation. The scientific inquiries of the
Bureau of Animal Industry have prog
ressed steadily during the year.
Agricultural Experimentation.
The Office Of experiment stations, which
is a part of the United States Department
of Agriculture, has during the past year
engaged itself almost wholly in prepar-
ing for publication works based upon the
reports of agricultural experiment sta
ions and other institutions for agricultu-
raj inquiry in the United States and other
countries.
Under the appropriation to enable the
Secretary of Agriculture to investigate
and report upon the nutritive value of
various articles and commodities used
for human food, the Department eXpend-
ed in the fiscal year 1892 $2,345, S09.56;
and out of that sun the total amount
expended in scientific research was 45.G
per cent. But in the year ending June
80, 1894, out of a total expenditure of
$1,94S,9SS.3S, the Department applied
51.S per cent. of that sun to scientific
work and investigation.
On the subject of civil service reform
the President says: The advantages to
the public service of IN adherence to
the principles of civil service reform are
constantly more APPARENT; and nothing is
so encouraging to those in official life
who honestly desire good government as
the increasing appreciation by our peo-
pie of these advantages"
Tariff Needs Amendment.
The tariff act passed at the last session
of the Congress needs important amend
ments if it is to be executed effectively
and with certainty. In addition to such
necessary amendments as will not change
rates of duty, 1 am still very decidedly in
favor of putting coal and iron upOn the
free list. SO far as the sugar schedule is
concerned l would be glad, under exist
ing aggravations, to see every particle of
d%ifferential duty in favor of refined sugar
stricken out of our tariff law. If with all
the favor now accorded the sugar-refining
interest in our tariff laws, it still an
cuisines to the extent of closing refneries
and thousands of discharged workmen,
it would seem to present a hopeless case
for reasonable legislative aid. Whatever
else is done or omitted, l earnestly repeat
that the additional duty of one-tenth of a
cent per pound laid upon sugar imported
from countries paying Il bounty upon its
export be %abrogated. 1t seems to me
that exceedingly important considera-
tons point to the propriety of this amend
ment.
With the advent of a new tariff policy,
not only calculated to relieve the consum-
ers of our land in the cost of their daily
life. but inviting a better development OF
American thrift and creating for us closer
and more profitable commercial relations
with the rest of the world, it follows as
a logical and imperative necessity that we
should at once remove the chief ii not
the only obstacle which has so long pre-
vented our participation in the foreign
carrying trade of the sea.
Issuing of New Bonds.
During the last month the gold reserve
in the Treasury for the purpose OF re-
deeming the notes of the Government
circulating now in the hands OF the peo-
ple became so reduced and it's further
depletion in the near future seemed so
certain that in the exercise of proper
care for the public welfare it became nee
essary to replenish the reserve and thus
maintain popular faith in the ability and
determination of the Government to meet
as agreed its p%ecuniary obligations.