The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-12-06


year and have proved very beneficial
through the views exchanged and methods
discussed particularly applicable to Indian
education. Efforts are being made in the
direction of q gradual reduction of the
number of Indian contract schools so
that in a comparatively short time they
may give way altogether to government
schools and it is hoped the change may
be so gradual as to be perfected without
undue disregard of investments made by
those who have established and are
maintaining such contract schools.
The appropriation for the current year
ending June 80, 1895, applicable to ordi-
nary expenses of Indian service amounts
to Sc, 733, OO3.1S, being by 1868, $40. GA
more than the sum appropriated on the
same account for the previous year.
OUR PENSIONS.
At the close of the fiscal year on the
Both day of June 1894, there were 969, 544
persons on the pension rolls, being a net
increase of 1852 over the number re-
ported at the end of the previous year.
The pensioners may be classified as fol
lows: Soldiers and sailors, survivors of
all wars 1853, S6S; widows and relatives of
deceased soldiers, 215, 162; army nurses in
the war of the rebellion, Al. Of these
pensioners, 32,039 are surviving soldiers
of Indian and other wars prior to the
late civil war and the widows of such
soldiers. The remainder, numbering
937 800, are receiving pensions on ac-
count of the war of the rebellion, and OF
those, 69,344 are on the rolls under the
authority of the act of June u, 1880,
sometimes called the dependent pension
law. The total amount of pensions for
six months during the year was Sl39,OSO,-
461 .05. leaving an uneXpended balance
from the sum appropriated of S2o,2Oo,-
1926. The sum necessary to meet pen
sion expenditures for the year ending
June 80, 1896. is estimated ut Sl4O,OOO,-
600.
The commissioner of pensions is of the
opinion that the year 1879, being the
Both after the close of the war of the re-
bellion, must, according to sensible human
see the highest limit of the
pension roll and that after that year 1t
must begin to decline.
The claims pending in the bureau have
decreased more than 5000 during the year;
A large proportion of the new claims nleu
are for increase of pension by those on
the rolls. The number of certlhcates Is
Sned was SO.213. The names dropped
from the rolls for all causes during the
year numbered 1851. Among our pen
ult liliiN "AO''
ters of soldiers.
The, horefaced and extensive pension
fro,,ds eynosed under the direction OF
the courageous and generous veteran
soldier now at the head of the Dureuu
leaves no room for the claim that no pul
yot;on of our pension rolls was heeueu
ar hat continued vigilance ana pronlp'
action are not necessary TO the SAINT eiiu
Tho accusation that an effort to uetect
oansion frauds is evidence OF untrleh9ll
ness towards our worthy veterans anu u
lenial of their claims to the gelereoet.s
If the government suggests an unIoltu
nate indifference to the COMMISSION VI any
1ffense which has for its motive the secur'
,n of nension and indicates Willingness
10 he hind to the existence of mean ana
-reacherons crimes which play upon uelL-
,oogic fears and make sport or the PAT
lotto impulse of q grateful people;
~ CENSUS DEPARTMENT.,
Tho commissioner of the eleventh cen
,rs is now in charge of the commissioner
If labor. The total disbursement on &C
count of the work for the fiscal year 1 end
ing June 80, 1894, amounted TO Slo,ooo,
1861. At the close of the year the nun
Der of persons employed In the census
office was 6l9. At present thel rnI-
about 400. The whole number OF Nol-
mes necessary to comprehend the eley,
nth census will be %, and three VIII
contain 22,27O printed pages. The assur-
,nce is confidently made that Detore
he close of the present calendar year tIle
material still incomplete VIII De prucll-
ally in hand and the census can certain
v he closed by the 4th of March, 1922
/ fter that the revision and proof reading
necessary to bring out the volumes VIII
still be required. The text Oh the census ,
volumes has been limited as far as pos
sible to the analysis of the statistlcs pre-
;ented. This method, which IS IN acc9rI-
,nnp with law, has caused more or less
friction and Ill some ihs'"hce9 i'ui iO"''l
,.>,r,,,>-ur
HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
Germany received from the United
States during the nine months endlhS
Sentember 80, 1894, 305,91O live oee1
cattle valued at S26,50O,OO0 as against
1S2 Gil cattle valued at Sl6,634.oOo
hiring the same period for 1898 Dur
nr the first six months of 1871 the Uht-
ed Kingdom took also 1l2OO0,ooO p0unos
Of dressed beef from the United states
valued at S10,000,000. The report SHOWS
that during the. nine months lm mime
ly preceding September 30, 1871, me
United States exported to Great Britain
DOS, CTS, 900 pounds of pork. ~ apples
/ 900 600 bushels valued at S2.oOU,Oop
and of horses 2S11 at an average value
nf S13O per head. There was falling on
in American wheat exports OF l5;ooO,'uo
bushels, and the secretary is inclined 10
believe that wheat may not i'll the future
be the staple export cereal product OF our
but that corn will continue to adj
vance in importance as an export on ac-
count of the new uses to which 1t is con-
being applied. The export OF ag,
ricultnral products from the United
States for the fiscal year ending June So
1894. amounted to $62S.363,O3S, beng
.2S per cent of American exports OF
every description, and the United hlng,
dom of Great Britain took more than Oh
per cent of all farm products finding for
eign markets.
The department of agriculture has un,
derta ken during the year two new ana
important lines of research. The hrst re-
lates to grasses and forage plants, with
the purpose of instructing and familiar
izing the people as to the distinctive
grasses of the United States, teaching
them how to introduce valuable foreign
forage plants which may be. adapted 10
this country. The second relates to ag-
ricultural soils and crop production IN
volving the analysis of samples OF soils
from all sections of the American Union
to demonstrate their adaptability to par
ticular plants.
Foremost in the new line of agricult-
ural research the secretary recommends
that a division having it in charge be per-