Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-14

been continued and 12,044,O5O head we.o,
inspected during the year at a cost of IN
cents per head, against AZ cents for 1888,
The amount of pork microscopically exc
amined 35,437,937 pounds, against 90
677,410 pounds in the preceding year.
The cost of this inspection has been de
minished from SA cents per head in 1893
to 611a cents in 1904. The Secretary of
Agriculture recommends the law provid-
ing for the microscopic inspection Of ex-
port and interstate meat be so amended
as to compel owners Of the meat inspected
to pay the cost Of such inspection, and I
call attention to the arguments presented
in his report in support of this recommen-
dation. The scientific inquiries of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry have prog
ressed steadily during the year.
Agricultural Experimentation.
The Office of experiment stations, which
is b part of the United States Department
of Agriculture, has during the past year
engaged itself almost wholly in prepar-
ing for publication works based upon the
reports of agricultural experiment sta
lions and other institutions for agiicultu-
raj inquiry in the United States anil other
countries.
Under the appropriation to enable the
Secretary of Agriculture to investigate
and report upon the nutritive value of
various articles and commodities used
for human food, the Department expend-
cd in the fiscal year 1892 $2,345, S09.66;
and out of that sum the total amount
expended in scientific research vas 45.0
per cent. But in the year ending June
80, 1894, out of n total expenditure Of
$1,94S,0SS.3S, the Department applied
E1 y NON nnrt Of %hot C,,p 10 cnson<{Ga
work and investigation.
On the subject of civil service rcform
tho President says: 1.-THE advantages to
the public service of an adhered ace to
the principles CT civil service reform are
constantly more APPARENT; and nothing il
so encouraging to those in official life
who honestly desire good government as
the increasing appreciation by our peo-
pie Of these advantages"
Tariff Needs Amendment,
The tariff net passed at the last session
of the Congress needs important amend
ments IL 1t Is 10 be executed effectively
and with certainty. In addition 10 such
necessary amendments rs will not change
rates of duty, l am still very %decidadly in
favor Of putting coal md iron ulson the
free list. So far as the sugar schedule IL
concerned l would be glnd, under exist
ing n~ggravations, to see every particle of
| difcrential duty in favor of refined sugar
stricken out of our tariff law. If with all
| the favor now accorded the sug%ar-iefning
interest in our tariff laws, 1t still lnn-
| cuisines to the extent of closing reineries
and thousands of discharged workmea,
IL would seem to present n hopeless case
for reasonable legislative aid. Whatcver
| else is lone or omitted, 1 earnestly repeat
that the additional duty of onc-tcnth Of q
cent per pound laid upon sugar imported
from countries paying n bounty upon its
export be abrognted. 1t seems to me
that exceedingly important c%onsidera-
| tons point to the propriety of this amend
ment.
With the advent Of a new tariff policy,
/ not only calculated to relieve the cons1m-
| ers of our land in the cost of their daily
life, but inviting Il better development of
American thrift and creating for US closer
and more profitable commercial relations
with the rest of the world, it follows us
a logical and imperative necessity that we
| should ut once remove the chief IL not
| the only obstacle which has SO long pre-
vented our participation in the foreign
carrying trade of the sea.
Issuing of New Bonds.
During the last month the gold reserve
in the Treasury for the purpose of re-
dceming the notes Of the Government
circulating now in the hands of the peo-
pie became so reduced md its further
depletion in the near future seemed so
certain that In the exercise of proper
care for the public welfare it becama nee
essnry to replenish the reserve and thus
maintain popular faith in the ability and
determination of the Government to meet
rs agreed it's %pecuniary obligations.
It would have been we'll if in this emer-
gency authority had existed to issue the
bonds of the Government bearing a low
rate of interest and maturing within n
short period, but Congress having failed
to confer such authority, resort wls nee
essarily had to the Resumption net of
1876. Nothing could be worse or further
removed from sensible finance than tho
relations existing between the currency
the Government has issued. the gold
held for its redemption and the means
which must be resorted to for the purpose
of leplenishing such redemption when i'm
paired. We have an endless chain in
operation constantly depicting the Trens-
ury's gold and never lear a final rest.
MS if this was not bad enough, VIC hare
l w u blsAtutOAS aSNAdlAtlllOA tull IL ly InC
policy Of the government to maintaia the
parity between gold md silver, aidca the
force and momentum of this exhausting
process and added largely to the cur
rency obligations claiming this peculiar
gold redemption. Our small gold reserve
is thus subject to drain from every side.
The demands that increase our danger
also increase the necessity of protecting
this reserve against depletion, md it is
most unsatisfactory to know that the pro-
lection afforded is only temporary pallia-
ton.
1t is perfectly and palpably plain that
the only way under present conditions by
which this reserve, when dangerously de-
pleted, can be replenished, is through the
issue and sale of the bonds of the govern
ment for gold; and yet Congress has not
only thus far declined to authorize the
issue of bonds best suited to such n pur-
pose but there seems n disposition in some
quarters to deny both the necessity and
power for the issue of bonds at all. 1 can
not for a moment believe that my of our
citizens are deliberately willing that their
government should default in it's pecuni-
ary obligations or that its financial OPP