The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-12-07
friendly aid for the honorable termi-
nation of hostilities would be accept
able to both belligerents.
,. HAWAIIAN MATTERS.

Of the Hawaiian question the pres
ident says: Since communicating The
voluminouS correspondence in regard
to Hawaii and the action taken Dy
the senate and house of representa-
tives on certain questions submitted
to the Judgment and wider discretion
of congress, the organization of a
government in place of the provisional
arrangement which followed the depo
sition of the queen, has been an
nounced with evidence of it's effective
operation. The recognition usual in
such cases has been accorded the new
government
REVENUES REPORTED.
Continuing, the message says: The
secretary of the treasury reports that
the receipts of the government, from
all sources Of revenue during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1894,
amounted to $372. .SO2, ,49S.29 and it's
expenditures to $442,6O5, ,75S.S7, leav-
/ ing a deficit of $69, ,SO3, ,26O.5S. There
: was a decrease of $15,952, ,67466 in
! the ordinary expenses of the govern
| ment as compared with the fiscal
year '93.
| The valuesof our total dutiable i'm
ports amounted to S275.199,OS6. being
$lf6, ,657 ,625 less than during the pre-
| ceding year and the importdions, free
! of duty, amounted to $379, 795, ,536,
being S64, 1865 less than during the
preceding year. Our exports of mer-
chandise, domestic and foreign,
amounted during the year. to $780,
140,572, being an increase over the
preceding year of $44, 4,495.37S. The
total amount of gold exported during
the fiscal year was $76,S9S,O61, as
against $1OS,6SO,444 during the fiscal
year 1892. The amount imported was
$72.4ia.l19 as against S1.174.3S1 dur
ing The previous fiscal year 1893.
The imports Of silver We're S13,2S6-
500 aud tie exports We're $50, 451 265.
The total bounty paid upon the pro-
ductiOn of sugar in the Unitefl States
for the fiscal year was SO, 2,100,2 ,20S.
1t is estimated that upon the basis
of our present revenue laws, the re-
ceipts of the government during the
current fiscal year ending j; ne 80,
1895 will be $424, 427, ,746 and it's ex-
penditures $444, ,427, ,72S, resulting in
a deficit Of $20,OOO.O0O.
On the first day of November, 1894,
the total stock of money, of all kinds,
in the country was $2,24O, ia. .SSS as
Oll Tile uISL VI
November 1893, and the money of all
kinds in circulation, not included in
treasury holdings, was $1,672, ,093, ,422.
or $24.73 per capita upon an esti-
mated population of $6S,SS7 900.
THE ARMY SERVICE.
Speaking of the army, the president
says: While no considerable increase
in the army is, in my judgment, de-
manded by recent events, the policy
of sea coast Notifications in prosecu-
ton of which we have been steadily
engaged for some years, has so far
developed as to suggest that the eff
fective strength Of the army be now
made, at least, equal to its
legal strength. 1t is hardly
necessary to recall the fact
that, in obedience to the COM
mands of the constitution and the
laws, and for the purpose of protect
ing the property of the United States,
aiding the process Of the federal
courts and removing lawless obstruc-
tIons to the performance by the gov
ernment of it's legitimate functions,
it became necessary in various locali-
ties during the year to employ con-
siderable portion of the regular troops.
The duty was discharged promptlL
courageously, and with marked dis
cretiOn by the officers and men, and
the the most gratifying proof was
thus afforded that the army deserves
that complete confidence in it's eff
cheney and discipline, which the coun-
try has at all times manifested.
Referring to the natior al guard, the
president says the reports of militia
inspections by regular army officers
show a marked increase in interest
and efficiency in state organizations
and strongly recommends continu-
ance of the policy of affording every
practical encouragement possible to
this important auxiliary of our mill
tary establishment. In regard to the
distinguished military service of
Major-Genaral Schofield, commanding
the army, the president says it is sug
gested to congress that the temporary
revival of the grade of lieutenant
general in his behalf would be a just
and gracious act, and would permit
his retirement, now near at hand,
with rank beitting his merits.
UNION PACIFIC AFFAIRS.
Another subject of pressing moment,
says the president, referrd to him by
the attorney-general, is the re-organ-
iZation of the Union Pacific railway
company on a basis equitable as re-
CARDS all private interest, and as fa-
yorable to the government as existing
conditions will permit. The operation
of a railroad by court through
receiver is an anamOlous state of
things which should be terminated on
all grounds, public and private, at the
earliest possible moment. Besides not
to enact the needed enabling legisla-
ton at the present session postpones
the whole matter until the assembling
OF new congress and Inevitably in
creases all the complications of the
situation, and could not but be re-
garded as a signal failure to solve a
problem which has practically been
before the present congress ever since
it's organization.
FEDERAL PRISONS.
The president renews his recon-
mendation for the location and con-
struction of two prisons for the con-
fnement of United States prisoners.
THAT P. o. DEFICIENCY.
To obviate the efficiency existing
in 4. the postOffice appropriation the