The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-04
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER A. 1894.

I culture expresses the opinion that every
person employed IN gathering statistics
under the chief Of that division should
be admitted TO that service only after
[ a thorough. exhaustive and standard ex-
animation at the hands Of the United
states civil service commission. This led
him 10 call for such examination Of can
didates for the position Of assistant sta
ustician. and also OF candidates for chiefs
I OF sections in that division.
The work done by the department Of
hsr4culture is very specifically dealt
with in this communication and l COM
/ mend the report Of the secretary and the
I very important interests with. which il
deals TO the careful attention OF the con-
gress.
me advantages TO the public service
] OF an adherence to the principles of the
/ civil service are constantly made more
/ apparent, and nothing is so encouraging
I 10 those IN official life who honestly de-
/ sire good government as the increasing
/ appreciation BY our people Of these advan-
j tages- 4 vast majority of the voters of
I the land are ready TO insist that the time
I ana attention of those they select to per
form the important public duties should
I not be distracted by doing out minor
offices and they are growing to be unani-
I nous in regarding party organization as
/ something that should be used IN estab-
fishing party principles instead Of dlctat-
I ing the distribution of public places as
I rewards Of partisan activity. Numerous
. additional offices and places have lately
been brought within civil service rules
/ ana regulations, and some others will
| probably soon be included. The report Of
/ the commissioners will be submitted to
/ congress, and / invite careful attention
| TO the recommendations il contains.
I am entirely convinced that we ought
/ not to be longer without a national board
Z OF healtn or national health officer charged
| with no other duties than such as pertain
| 10 the protection of our country from the
! invasion of pestilence and disease. This
/ would involve the establishment by such
board or officer of proper quarantine pre-
1 cautions or the necessary aid and cOun-
| ell to local authorities on the subject,
| prompt advice and assistance to local
| boards of health or health officers in the
! suppression of contagious disease and in
| cases where there are no such local
| boards or officers the immediate direction
| by the national board or officers of meas
ures of suppression; constant and authen-
tic information concerning the health of
| foreign countries and all parts of our
own country as related to contagious dis
eases, and consideration of regulations to
be enforced in foreign ports to prevent the
| introduction of contagion into our cities,
| and the measures which should be
adopted to secure their enforcement.
There seems to be at this time a de-
| cided inclination to discuss measures of
| protection against contagious diseases in
| international conference with a view of
| adopting means of mutual assistance
The creation of such a national health
| establishment would greatly aid our
standing in such conference and improve
| our opportunities to avail ourselves of
their benefits. I earnestly recommend
| the Inauguration of a national board of
health or similar national instrumental
| ty, believing the same TO be a needed pre-
caution against contagious disease, and
! in the interest of the safety and health
Of our people
BY virtue of a statute of the United
States passed in 1888, l appointed in July
last Hon. John D. Herman of the state
of New York and Hon. Nicholas r. Worth
ingtOn of the state of Illinois to form with
Hon. Carroll d. Wright, commissioner
of labor who was designated by said
statute q commission for the purpose of
making careful inquiry into the causes of
the controversies between certain rail-
roads and their employees, which had re-
suited in an extensive and destructive
strike, accompanied by much violence and
dangerous disturbance. with consider
able loss of life and great destruction
of property. The report of the commits
sioners has been submitted to me and
will be transmitted to congress with the
evidence taken upon their Investigation
Their work has been well done and their
standing and intelligence gives assur-
ance that the report and suggestions they
make are worthy of careful consideration.
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
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 eX-
listing aggravations, to see every particle
of differential duty in favor of refined
sugar stricken out of our tariff law. If
with all the favor now accorded the SUI
gar refining interests in our tariff laws
it still languishes to the extent of closed
refineries and thousands of discharged
workmen, it would seem to present a hope
less case for reasonable legislative aid.
Whatever else is done or omitted, I earn
estly repeat here the recommendation 1
have made in another portion of this com
munication, that the additional duty of
one-tenth of a cent per pound, laid upon
sugar imported from countries paying a
bounty on its sugar exports, must be alb
rogated. 1t seems to me the most impor-
tant considerations point to the proprety
of this amendment.
With the advent of a new tariff policy,
not only calculated to relieve the con-
sumers of our land in the cost of their
daily life, but to invite a better develop
ment of American thrift and create for us
lations with the rest of the world, it fol-
lows as a logical imperative necessity that
We should at once remove the chief, if not
the only obstacle, which has so long pre-
vented our participation in the foreign
carrying trade Of the sea. A tariff built
upon the theory that it is well 20 check i'm
ports, and that a home market should
bound the industry and effort of American
producers, was htly supplemented by a
refusal to allow American registry to YES
gated by our people, thus exhibiting Z will
lngness to abandon all contest for the adj
vantages of American trans-oceanic car
riage Our new tariff policy built upon
the theory that it is well to encourage
such impoTtations as our own people need,
and that our products and manufactures
should find markets in every port of the
habitable globe. is consistently supple
mented by the greatest possible liberty to
our citizens in the ownership and naviga-
ton of ships in which our products and
manufactures may be transported The
millions now paid foreigners for carrying
4 a American am nrod11ots