The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-04

regulations, and some others VIII pEopa'
bly, soon be iDelGded.
The report Of tho commission w'll be
submitted to Congress. and l invite at
teution to recommendations it contains.
NATIONAL HEALTH nuashr.
l entirely commend the proposition
that We ought to have a national bureau
OF health or q national health office
charged with no other duties but such
as pertain to the protection OF our
country from the Invasion OF pestilenee
and disease. This would involve in the
establishment OF such bureau or office.
proper quarantine provisions and tho
necessary aid aud council to locate
authority on the subject. The creation
OF such a national health establishment
would greatly aid our standing IN such
conferences and improve our opportu-
nity 10 avail ourselves OF their benefits.
earnestly recommend the Inauguration
OF a national board OF health or similar
national fundamentally. believing the
same to be q needed preCaution against
contagious disease and in the interest
OF the aatety and health OF our people.
THE STRIKE COMMLaNOS'
BY virtue OF a statute Of the United
States passed ia 1885, l appointed in
July last, Hon. John D. Herman, OF the
state OF Now York, and Hon. Mich olas
A. Worthington, OF the state OF Illinois,
TO form with Hon. Carroll d. Wright,
commissioner OF labor, who, as a ma
tional labor commission. made q care
full inquiry into the causes OF the con.
.royersies between certain railroads and
their employees which had resulted IN
extensive destruction OF property and
dangerous disturbances, with consider.
able loss OF lie and great danger to
property. The report OF the commission
has been submitted aud its suggestions
are recommended to your consideration.
BARELY TOUCHES THE TARIFF.
The tariff act passed at the last ses.
sion OF the Congress needs important
amendments If 1t is to be executed Ell.
GENTLY and with certainty. In Addi-
ton to such necessary amendments as
will not change the rates OF duty, 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 existing aGgrava.
tons to sec every particle OF dillerential
duty in favor OF refined sugar stricken
out of our tariff law. If. with all the
favor now accorded the sugar refining
interests in our tariff laws, 1t still
languishea 10 the extent OF closed re.
fneriea and thousands OF discharged
tuNJ,1I n nFnlant q
hopeless case for reasonable legislative
aid. Whatever else is done or omitted,
l earnestly repeat here the recon-
mendation that the additional duty Of
one.tenth OF a cent per pound laid upon
sugar imported from countries paying
o bounty on its export be abrogated.
It seems to me that exceedingly i'm
portant considerations point to the pro-
priety OF this amendment with the adj
vent Of a new tariff policy not only cal
culated to relieve the consumers OF our
land in the cost OF their daily life, but
to invite better DEVELOPMENT Of
American thrift and create for US closer
and more profitable commercial rela-
tons the rest OF the world, it follows as
logical and imperative necessity that
we should at once remove the chief, If
not the only obstacle which has so long
prevented our participation iu the for
eign carrying trade OF the sea. a tariff
built upon the theory that 1t ia well to
check imports, and that home market
should bound the industry and effort Of
American producers, was fifty supple
mented by refusal to allow American
registry to vessels built abroad, though
owned and navigated by our people,
thus exhibiting willingness to abandon
all contests for the advantages OF Amer
lean trans.oceanic carriage. Our new
tariff policy, built upon the theory that
It is we'll to encourage the importations
as our people need, and that our pro-
ducts and manufactures should find
markets in every part Of the habitable
globe, is consistently supplemented by
the greatest possible liberty to our citi-
zens in the ownership and navigation OF
ships in which our products aud manu-
features may be transported. Tho mil
lions now paid to foreigners for carrying
American passengers and products
across the sea should BIO turned into
American hands.
THE BOND ISSUE,
During the las. month the gold re-
served in the treasury for the purpose
OF redeeming notes OF the government
circulating as money in the hands OF the
people became so reduced, and its
further depletion in the near future
seemed so certain, that in the exercise
OF proper care for the public welfare il
became necessary to replenish the re-
serve. and thus maintain popular faith
In the ability and determination OF the
government 70 meet, rs agreed, its
pecuniary obligation. 1t would have
been well II in this emergency authority
had existed to issue the bonds Of the
government bearing a low rate OF inter-
est and maturing within special period.
But the Congress, having failed to con-
ter such authority, resort was necessar-
lily had to the resumption act OF 1875,
and pursuant to its provisions, bonds
were issued drawing interest at the rate
OF per cent per annum and maturing
ten years after their issue, that being
the shortest time authorized by the act.
l am glad to say, however, that on the
sale OF these bonds the premium record
operated to reduce the rate OF interest
to be paid by the government to less
than per cent.
Nothing could BIO worse or further re-
moved from sensible finance than the
relations existing between the currency
the government has secured, the gold
held for its redemption, and the means
which must be resorted to for the pur-
pose OF replenshing such redemption
fund when impaired. Even il the claims
nnnn this fund wnrn cnnfinah az nrini-