The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-05
The Vermont Watchman---S supplement.

like cN'cs, N satisfactory settlement Of these
vexatious a. es ions has yet been reached.
The Mora case, referred to in my last annual
message, remains unsettled. This claim, which,
having been long ago adjusted, now only
awaits payment as stipulated, but all efforts to
secure payment of this settled claim have been
unavailing.
Americanized Armenians in Turkey.
In my last annual message adverted to the
claim on the part Of Turkey Of the right to ex-
pei as persons undesirable and dangerous,
Armenians naturaliacd in the United States
and returning to Turkish jurisdiction. While
hls government acquiesces in the asserted
tight of expulsion, it will not consent that
Armenians may be imprisoned or otherwise
punished for no other reason than having
acquired, without imperial consent, American
citizenship. Three of the assailants of Miss
Melton, an Anglican teacher in Mosul have
been convicted, and an appeal against the
acqulttal of the remaining five has been taken
by the Turkish prosecuting officer.
Concerning Venezuela.
Aconvention has been concluded with Vene-
zuela for the arbitration of "A long disputed
claim growing ont Of the seizure of certain
vessels, the property of citizens Of the United
States Although signed, the treaty of ex-
tradition with Venezuela Is not vet in force
owing to the insstence Of that government
that when surrendered, its citizens shall in no
case be liable to capital punishment
Maritime legislation.
The rules for the prevention of collisions at
sea- which We're framed by the maritime con-
ference held in this city in 1880, having been
concurrently Incorporated in the statutes Of
the United States and Great Britain, have been
announced to take fleet March /, 1895, and in
vitations have bHen extended to all maritime
nations to adhere to them. Favorable re-
sponses have thus far been received from
Austria, France Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
samoan Squabbles.
In my last annual message l referred briefly
to the unsatisfactory state OF affairs in Samoa
under the operation of the Berlin treaty as
signally illust rating the impolity of entang-
ling alliances with foreign pow ers and on
May ., 1894, in response to a resolution of the
senate, sent a special mes age and documents
to that body on the same subject, which en-
phasized my previously expressed opinions,
The present government has utterly failed
to correct, If indeed 1t has not aggravated, the
very evils it was intended to prevent. 1t has
not stimulated our commerce with the islands
Our participation in its establishment against
the wishes of the natives was in plain defiance
of the conservative t achings and warnings of
the wise and patriotic men who laid the
foundations of our free institutions and | in
vito an expression of the Judgment of congress
on the propriety Of steps being taken by this
government looking to the withdrawal from
its engagements with the other powers on
some reasonable terms not prejudicial to any
of our existing rights.
Extracts From Carlisle's Report.
The secretary Of the treasury reports that
the receipts of the government from all sources
of revenue during the fiscal year ending June
80 1884, amounted to $o72 5O2, 49S 30 and its OK
pendituros to 1908, 155.S7, leaving a deficit of
S69,oC3 2GO.5S. Thore was a decrease of $15,952-
4 III Of tbo
ment, as compared with the fiscal year 1893
There was collected from customs $13l 49,
53O.62, and from internal revenue $147 16S 4i9 TO-
The balance of the income for the year.
amounting to S93,Sl5,5l7.97, was derived from
the sacs Of land ld other sources.
The value Of our total. dutiable imports
amounted to s!15,09,0S6, being $146 657 ,625 less
than during the preceding year. and the i'm
portations free Of duty amounted to 1878, 1885,
596, being $G4,74S.615 less than during the pre-
ceding year. The receipts from customs were
$13,556 1911 less, and from internal revenue
Sl3,s3j 539.9S less than in 1893.
The total tax collected from distilled spirits
was $S5,250,2JO25; on manufactured tobacco
s2S,6l7 SJS.62, and on fermented liquors, S3l 4l4
7SS.O4.
Our exports of merchandise, domestic and
foreign, amounted during the year to $780,
140,512 being an increase over the preceding
of $44, i95,37S.
The total amount of gold exported during
the fiscal year was S6,S9S, 06l, as against $685.
6SO, A. during the fiscal years 1893
The amount imported was S72, ,1l9, as
against S2l, l743sl, during the previous year.
The imports of silver were $l3, 256, 552 and the
exports We're $50,45l,2o5.
The total bounty paid upon the production
of sugar in the United States for the fiscal year
was $l2, lOO,2OS.89, being an increase of S2,725,-
Uo.Ol, over the payments made during the
preceding year. The amount Of bounty paid
Jlt "a
the time v non further payments ceased by
operation of law, was s0B,lSO.S4. The total ex.
penses incurred in the payment of the bounty
upon sugar during the fiscal year was $l3O,ll0
IS. 1t is estimated that upon the basis Of the
present revenue laws the receipts of the gov
erIment during the current ts cal year ending
June 3d. 1885, VIII he $424, 421 1854 and its ex-
penditures fi4+,4H, 1874, resulting in deficit
of $200O0,0J0.
On the first day of November, 1894, the total
stock of money Of all kinds in the country was
S2,24O,U3,oSS, rs against S2.2J4 ,65l 900 on
Nov l, 1903, and the money Of all kinds in cir
culation, or not included in the treasury hold
ings was 81 ,G'2,O934!2, or $24 q per CAPITA upon
an estimated population Of 6S,SS7 900. AT the
same date there was held in the treasury gold
bullion amounting to $446l5, l77.55, and silver
bullion which was purchased at IL cost of sl27,-
7799Ss.
The purchase of silver bullion under the act
of July H. 1890 ceased on Nov. |, 1898 and up
to that time there had been purchased during
the fiscal year, II ,9l7,G5s.7S fine ounces at a
cost of $S,7l5,02l 81 an average cost of $0.53l3
per fine ounce. The total amount Of silver pur-
chased from tine time the law took effect until
the repeal of its purchasing clause, on the date
last mentioned, was l8S674,6S2.53 fine ounces,
which cost $50 93 ,002.25, the average price per
ounce being SO92i4. The total amount of
standard silver dollars coined at the minis Of
the United States since the passage of the act of
Feb. 49, 1878, is 1921 ,d i03 of which 1913 1865 1g3
were coined under the provisions of that act;
$3S ,53l LAB under the provisions of the act of
July IA, 1899, and S5,O1S, Az under the act pro-
viding for the coinage of trade dollar bullion.
The total coinage of all metals at our mnts
during the last fiscal year consisted OF 90 1885,
220 pieces, valued at $lO6,2l6,13OO6, of which
there were S99414,Gl2a0 in gold coin; S75S in
standard silver dollars, 5000, 1000 in sub
bdiary silver coin, and %l6,9l926 in minor
eon.
Fifty national banks were organized during
the year ending Oct 81, 1894, with capital of
1925 900, and 70 with a capital of Sl0,475OO0,
went into voluntary liquidation. Twenty.one
banks, with capital of $2,1l0000, were placed
In the hands OF receivers. The total number
of national banks In existence on Oct 81 last
was 1856, being % less than ON Oet. 81, 1893 The
capital stock paid in was Sj12,6Il 1856, being
1878 49l less than at the same time in the pre-
vious year. and the surplus fund and undi-
vided profits, less expenses and taxes paid,
amounted to 1884, III ,0s2l0 which was Sl8 1885,
han or tha